In: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2018, vol. 16, no. 2, p. 316-352
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In: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2017, vol. 15, no. 5, p. 1056-1100
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In: Networks and Spatial Economics, 2015, vol. 15, no. 1, p. 149-181
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In: Journal of the European Economic Association, ///-
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In: Journal of economic geography, 2020, vol. 20, no. 4, p. 969-1001
Are cross-border workers responsive to changes in the exchange rate between the home and host countries' currencies? I answer this question by examining the effects of appreciation in the Swiss franc (CHF) relative to the euro (EUR) on labour supply decisions of Italian cross-border workers. I use hourly data on traffic flows in Ticino, the southernmost canton of Switzerland, together with...
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The adoption of labor-replacing technologies has already displaced thousands of workers in the US. In this paper, I analyze how the adverse effects of the implementation of robots in firms’ production processes are spreading among the population and how they are shaping the composition of labor markets. Exploiting exogenous variation in robot exposure across local labor markets and over time,...
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Thèse de doctorat : Università della Svizzera italiana, 2021 ; 2021ECO004.
My dissertation consists of three chapters, each of which focuses on how institutional investors trade, impact price efficiency in secondary financial markets and influence the allocation of resources in the real economy. Using a novel approach based on hurricanes, the first chapter, Mutual Funds’ Fire Sales and the Real Economy: Evidence from Hurricanes, contributes to the recent debate on...
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Thèse de doctorat : Università della Svizzera italiana, 2021 ; 2021ECO002.
I use empirical methods to study the effect of institutional investors on financial markets. My studies provide novel evidence on the commonality in liquidity of fixed-income securities, the liquidity provision of hedge funds and mutual funds in equity markets, and the information diffusion from credit default swaps to equities.
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In: Oxford Economic Papers, 2014, vol. 66, no. 2, p. 443-464
We analyse the influence of institutional restrictions on bureaucratic rents. As a measure for these rents, we propose subjective well-being differentials between workers in the public administration and workers in other industries. Based on data for the US states, we estimate the extent to which institutional efforts to strengthen bureaucratic accountability affect differences in well-being....
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In: Journal of Business and Economic Statistics, 2019, vol. 37, no. 4, p. 736-748
This article proposes a fully nonparametric kernel method to account for observed covariates in regression discontinuity designs (RDD), which may increase precision of treatment effect estimation. It is shown that conditioning on covariates reduces the asymptotic variance and allows estimating the treatment effect at the rate of one- dimensional nonparametric regression, irrespective of the...
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