Hello and welcome! I am a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy at the University of Toronto. I specialize in international and comparative political economy, using a range of quantitative and qualitative approaches. My current research focuses on three main areas:

• Media and the economy: How does the media describe the economy? How does media framing affect agents' perception of the economy? Under what conditions does media framing affect financial investors?
  
  
• Political economy of money and finance: What factors influence individuals' currency preferences? How and why do social groups lobby for changes to currency and monetary policy? Under what conditions do they do so and through which channels?
  
  
• Leaders in political economy: Do individual characteristics of leaders matter for economic policy? How does variation in ascriptive characteristics (e.g. gender, race) and/or acquired characteristics (e.g. occupation, education) explain leaders' preferences?

Some of my work is published or forthcoming at International Studies Quarterly, New Political Economy, Business & Politics and European Union Politics. I received my PhD in Political Science from the University of Virginia in 2023. I hold a M.Sc. in International Political Economy from the London School of Economics and Political Science and a M.A. in International Relations from the University of Bologna. Prior to pursuing graduate studies, I received a B.A. in International Studies from the University of Bologna.

​I am on the 2024-2025 academic job market!

Please feel free to contact me at:
+1 437 660 1866
+39 348 562 2728
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