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I am an Economist by training and I work at UBS in New York as Equity Researcher, Associate Director. Previously, I worked as Economist and Policy Advisor at the OECD in Paris, France, where I was involved in research projects on market concentration and business dynamism, as Finance Postdoctoral Researcher at the Institute for Financial Management at the University of Bern, Switzerland, and as Visiting Researcher at Tepper School of Business at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, USA, where I performed quantitative research in corporate finance, macroeconomics, monetary policy, and machine learning, with a focus on financially distressed companies. I was also Senior Researcher at the Einaudi Research Center (Centro Einaudi) where I led projects in economics and finance and carried out data analyses for the public and private sector. Views expressed are my own.
- Invited to present “Are You a Zombie Firm? An Early Warning System Based on Machine Learning Methods” at the 2024 International Conference in Banking and Financial Studies in Catania, Italy.
- Invited to talk about “Zombie Lending and the Macroeconomy” at the 2024 IBEFA Summer Meeting at the Western Economic Association International in Seattle.
- Invited to talk about “Corporate Distress As Financial Conditions Tighten” at the Swiss National Bank/University of St. Gallen Workshop in Zurich, Switzerland.
- Invited to present “How Does Competition Affect Zombie Firms?” at the Workshop “Financial Frictions, Zombie Firms and the Macroeconomy” of the Bank of England, University of Oxford, in Oxford.