Social Sciences, University of Southampton

Alessandro holds a PhD in economics from the University of Southampton, and recently returned from EUI, where he was a Max Weber Fellow. His research, in the field of macroeconomics, is divided in three parts: the study of optimal fiscal policy over the business cycle; the study of the links between the composition of the labour force and aggregate business cycle fluctuations; and the development of a computational technique which consists of applying perturbation methods at several points over the transition path. This methodology breaks the curse of dimensionality and enables one to solve large-scale models with accuracy over all the relevant part of the state space.

Academic qualifications

PhD in economics
MPhil Economics, 2009
University of Southampton

Visiting PhD student in economics
University of Pennsylvania, 2008

BSc Econometrics
University of Rome 'La Sapienza'

Quantitative and theoretical macroeconomics

PhD research topic
Aggregate and disaggregated fluctuations

Supervisor
Martin Gervais