I am a Senior Economist at Banca d'Italia.
My research interests are in International Finance, International Trade, and Networks.
Here's my Curriculum Vitae.
Working Papers
- The Impact of Trade Wars on Firms in Third Countries (submitted) [VoxEU]
- Beyond Firm Size: Network Position and Shock Transmission in Firm-to-Firm Production Networks across Five Economies
- Make or Buy? Allocative Energy Efficiency in Production Networks
Presented by Carole at the University of Zurich, Yale University, Sciences Po, the SAEE Student Workshop, the Swiss Macro Workshop, the UZH Environmental Policy for the Green Transition Workshop, the 2025 CEPR Paris Symposium, the 2026 STEG Annual Conference, the PSE-CEPR Policy Forum, the FNRS Namur Summer School, the 2026 Workshop on International Economic Networks (WIEN), the CEPR Climate Change and the Environment Symposium, the Banca d'Italia/CEPR/EIEF/World Bank Conference on Firm Dynamics, Investment and Aggregate Growth and the Applied Young Economists' Webinar - Global Financial Chains (new draft coming soon)
Presented at the 2024 Bank of Italy–EIEF Financial Intermediation Workshop; NBER Summer Institute 2024; Luiss Business School; the 2024 ECB–Federal Reserve Board–Federal Reserve Bank of New York Global Research Forum on International Macroeconomics and Finance; the EEA 2025 Congress; and CEPR–IMF 2025.
Publications
Work in Progress
- Bank Portfolios and Trade Exposure
- How firms finance dominant-currency trade
- Energy efficiency within firm boundaries
Discussions
- Trade, Multinationals and Corporate Taxation
- Beyond Bilateral Flows: Indirect Connections and Exchange Rates
- Trade Intermediation and Resilience in Global Sourcing
- The Ripple Effect: Supply Chain Reconfigurations and Cross-Border Credit Dynamics
- A Sufficient Statistics Approach for Endogenous Production Networks: Theory and Evidence from Ukraine’s War
Policy Work
- The Effects of US Tariffs on Italian Firms: An Ex-Ante Micro-Level Perspective (2025) [paper]
