I am a 5th-year Phd student in Economics at Bocconi University. Before that, I was as a honors student at Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies in Pisa, where I earned my Master’s degree in Economics.
In Winter and Spring 2025 I will be visiting professor Ufuk Akcigit at the University of Chicago.

In my research so far, I tried to understand how high skilled workers’ mobility can help knowledge diffuse. I approached this question in two separate cases.
The first one pertains to the field of Economics of Science. In particular, I studied the careers of Italian nuclear scientists, whose field of studies was defunded after the Chernobyl disaster. I found that these scientists were not successful in transferring their skills to other fields, as their human capital was too specific.
In a second project, with Angelo D’Andrea (Bank of Italy), I consider a different population of movers: bank managers. Combining Italian data on bank managers’careers with data on bank lending, I find that when a bank manager moves to a new bank, 5% of their previous bank’s clients follow them.
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