I am professor of Economics and Fellow of IGIER research center at Università Bocconi in Milano (I have been IGIER director from 2011 to 2019).

I have been President of the European Economic Association in 2023. Currently I am Vice-President (for apppintments) and Fellow of CEPR. 

I am the recipient of a CAREER grant from the National Science Foundation (2000-2004), an Alfred P. Sloan research fellowship (2002-2004), and an Advanced ERC research grant from the European Research Council (2012-2018).

I earned the Laurea degree in Economics at Università Bocconi in 1990 and the PhD in Economics at Northwestern University in the United States in 1997.