Senior Economist at the Economic Outlook Division of the Bank of Italy. He holds a Master of Sciences in Quantitative Economics from ECARES, UlB and a PhD in Economics from the Sapienza University of Rome. His main research interests focus on inflation dynamics, monetary policy, financial stability and the role of confidence in macroeconomic fluctuations. He has also authored articles related to industrial production dynamics and money demand, and published in international Journals such as Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics and Economics Letters.