Latest research activity

• "Persistent Global Growth Differences and Euro Area Adjustment: Real Activity, Trade and the Real Exchange Rate", (with Kollmann, R., Pfeiffer, P., Ratto, M., Roeger, W.) CEPR Discussion Paper DP20476, Journal of International Economics, 2026

• "Learning to Be Rich: How Expectations Amplify Wealth Inequality" presented at NBER Summer Institute, Inequality and Macroeconomics slides 

• Conferences and presentations 2026: NBER SI, Barcelona Summer Forum, CEPR European Economic Policy RPN Annual Conference on Global Imbalances, Competitiveness and Innovation, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore Seminar, ERMAS, Dynare Workshop for Advanced Users (organizer) 

2025

•  The Macroeconomic effects of Deglobalization (with Buelens, C., Coutinho, L., Ratto, M.) ECFIN Discussion Paper 227.(October 2025)

•  ERMAS Association Prize for the paper Heterogenous Expectations and Wealth Inequality,  slides

• Persistent Global Growth Differences and Euro Area Adjustment: Real Activity, Trade, and the Real Exchange Rate, (with Kollmann, R., Pfeiffer, P., Ratto, M., Roeger, W.) CEPR Discussion Paper DP20476 (July 2025) 

• Update of the paper Heterogenous Expectations and Wealth Inequality (with Belda, P., Heineken, J.) coming soon

• Conferences and Presentations

  • • Global Shocks, Macroeconomic Spillovers and Geopolitical Risks: Policy Challenges, jointly organized by the European Commission, the Journal of International Economics, and CEPR. 

    • European Winter Meeting of the Econometric Society

    • Quantitative Methods Workshop, Smart Diaspora 2025

    • Barcelona Summer Forum, AI and Learning the Macroeconomy Workshop

    • Annual Scientific Conference of Romanian Academic Economists from Abroad, ERMAS

2024

• November 2024, research visit at CREi-UPF Barcelona

• Scheduled Presentations: 

  • • RCEA International Conference in Economics, Econometrics, and Finance (20-22 May, London)
    • MNB Institute, Central Bank of Hungary (30 May)
    • 31ST FINANCE FORUM (4-5 July, Spain)
    • Annual Scientific Conference of Romanian Academic Economists from Abroad, ERMAS (24-26 July, Romania) 

• January 2024, research visit at CREi-UPF Barcelona

• new working paper (jointly with Stefan Hohberger, Beatrice Pataracchia and Marco Ratto) : Myopic behavior in macroeconomic models: empirical evidence from the US

• updated version (and name) of the paper Expectation-driven Wealth effects

• updated draft of Sentimental Discount Rate Shocks

2023

• 2nd Dynare Workshop for Advanced Users, 6-8 September, European Commission, JRC (Organizer)
• Annual Scientific Conference of Romanian Academic Economists from Abroad, 26-28 July, National Bank of Romania (scheduled)
• Barcelona Summer Forum, Expectations in Dynamic Macroeconomic Models, June 19-20 (scheduled)

2022

• 1st Dynare Workshop for Advanced Users, 23-25 November, European Commission, JRC 
• New position:  Research Economist at the European Commission, JRC, September 2022
• Presenting at European Economic Association Congress, Milano, August 2022
• Presenting at BSE Summer Forum Workshop on Expectations in Dynamic Macroeconomic Models,  Barcelona, June 2022
• Defended PhD Thesis, June 15, 2022, cum Laude

• Presenting at Symposium of the Spanish Economic Association (SAEe), December 2021
• Presenting at National Bank of Romania, November, 2021
• Presenting  at European Central Bank Forum on Central Banking, September, 2021