Work in progress

• “Revisiting Granular Models of Firm Growth” with J. Moran and Jean-Philippe Bouchaud. [arXiv] (submitted)
• “Rethinking Volatility Scaling in Firm Growth” with L. Fontanelli and M. Napoletano. [ssrn] (submitted)
• “On the origins of aggregate product diversification” with I. Iodice and L. Fontagné.

Publications

Second half

• “Predictive AI and productivity growth dynamics: evidence from French firms” with Luca Fontanelli, Mattia Guerini, Raffaele Miniaci, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, forthcoming, 2025.

First half

• “Exchange rate pass-through and the role of expectations” with C. Tomasi and A. Fracasso, Journal of Comparative Economics, 50, 135-152, 2022.
• “Aggregate fluctuations and the distribution of firm growth rates” with G. Bottazzi and L. Li, Industrial and Corporate Change,28, 635–656, 2019.
• “Exporters’ product vectors across markets” with L. Fontagne’ and C. Tomasi, European Economic Review, 110, 150-180, 2018.
• “Growth volatility and size: a firm-level study” with F. Calvino, C. Criscuolo and C. Menon, Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control,90, 390-407, 2018.
• “Export price adjustments under financial constraints” with F. Tamagni and C. Tomasi, Canadian Journal of Economics, 49, 1057-1085, 2016.
• “Financial constraints and firm exports: accounting for heterogeneity, self-selection and endogeneity” with F. Tamagni and C. Tomasi, Industrial and Corporate Change, 25, 813-827, 2015.
• “The micro patterns of export diversification under financial constraints” with F. Tamagni and C. Tomasi, Industrial and Corporate Change, 23, 1595-1622, 2014.
• “Financial constraints and firm Dynamics” (2014) with G. Bottazzi and F. Tamagni, Small Business Economics, 42, 99-116, 2014.
• “Productivity, profitability and growth: the empirics of firm dynamics (2012) with G. Bottazzi, Structural Change and Economic Dynamics, 23, 325–328, 2012.
• “Financial and Economic Determinants of Firm Default (2011) with G. Bottazzi, M. Grazzi and F. Tamagni, Journal of Evolutionary Economics, 21, 373-406, 2011.
• “A New Class of Asymmetric Exponential Power Densities with Applications to Economics and Finance” (2011) with G. Bottazzi, Industrial and Corporate Change, 20, 991-1030, 2011.
• “Corporate growth and industrial dynamics: evidence from French manufacturing” (2011) with G. Bottazzi, A. Coad and N. Jacoby, Applied Economics, 43, 103-116, 2011.
• “Interfirm heterogeneity: nature, sources and consequences for industrial dynamics. An introduction” (2010) with G. Dosi and S. Lechevalier, Industrial and Corporate Change, 19, 1867-1890, 2010.
• “Corporate performances and market selection. Some comparative evidence” (2010) with G. Bottazzi, G. Dosi, N. Jacoby and Tamagni F., Industrial and Corporate Change, 19, 1953-1996, 2010.
• “Productivity, profitability and financial performance” (2008) with G. Bottazzi and F. Tamagni, Industrial and Corporate Change, 17, 711-751, 2008.
• “Sectoral and geographical specificities in the spatial structure of economic activities”(2008) with G. Bottazzi, G. Dosi and G. Fagiolo, Structural Change and Economic Dynamics, 19, 189-202, 2008.
• “Modeling industrial evolution in geographical space”(2007) with G. Bottazzi, G. Dosi and G. Fagiolo, Journal of Economic Geography, 7, 651-672, 2007.
• “Invariances and diversities in the evolution of Italian manufacturing industry”(2006) with G. Bottazzi, E. Cefis and G. Dosi, Small Business Economics, 29, 137-159, 2006.
• “Gibrat’s Law and diversification”(2006) with G. Bottazzi, Industrial and Corporate Change, 15, 847-875, 2006.
• “Scale and technological factors in the diversification structure of business firms”(2006) with C. Castaldi and M. Milakovic, Economics Letters, 91, 117-121, 2006.
• “Explaining the distribution of firms growth rates”(2006) with G. Bottazzi, The RAND Journal of Economics, 37, 235-256, 2006.
• “Characterizing the production process: a disaggregated analysis of italian manufacturing firms”(2005) with G. Bottazzi and M. Grazzi, Rivista di Politica Economica, I-II, 243-270, 2005.
• “Growth and diversification patterns of the worldwide pharmaceutical industry”(2005) with G. Bottazzi, Review of Industrial Organization, 26, 195-216, 2005.
• “Input output scaling relations in italian manufacturing firms”(2005) with G. Bottazzi and M.Grazzi, Physica A, 355, 95-102, 2005.
• “Some statistical investigations on the nature and dynamics of electricity prices”(2005) with G. Bottazzi and S. Sapio, Physica A, 355, 54-61, 2005.
• “Why are distributions of firm growth rates tent-shaped ?”(2003) with G. Bottazzi, Economics Letters, 80, 415-420, 2003.
• “A stochastic model of firm growth”(2003) with G. Bottazzi, Physica A, 324, 213-219, 2003.
• “Common properties and sectoral specificities in the dynamics of U.S. manufacturing firms”(2003) with G. Bottazzi, Review of Industrial Organization, 23, 217-232, 2003.