He has been a research fellow at
IDEGA University of Santiago de Compostela,
Spain (2004-2006) and a visiting professor at University of
Wisconsin, Milwaukee (2006/07).
He is currently affiliated to
the Centre for Studies in Economics and Finance of the University of Salerno and
to the Center for Research on International Economics of University of
Wisconsin, Milwaukee. He is also a fellow of the Institute for Studies on Mediterranean Societies of the Italian
National Research Council. His fields of interest are economic growth,
contract theory, monetary economics and theory of financial intermediation.
His latest research focuses on the interrelationship between criminal
activity, corruption and growth and on the role of the underground economy
in economic development.
These are some of his latest
publications:
“Financial Markets Development and
Economic Growth: Tales of Informational Asymmetries”, in the Journal of
Economic Surveys and Threshold Effects of Corruption: Theory and
Evidence”, World Development,
forthcoming, (with Niloy Bose and Antu Murshid).
