About

I am a PhD candidate from UCLouvain (IRES/LIDAM) and KU Leuven (Research Unit of Early Modern History).

Currently, I am developing an interdisciplinary project bridging economics, history and digital humanities funded by a Global Fellowship between KU Leuven and UCLouvain, titled "Bridging Data Science and Intellectual History: Computing the Nodes and Edges in the Old University of Louvain (1425-1797)". The project aims at providing a data-driven answer to the question of how academic networks were configured around the Old University of Louvain, a crucial hub for the transfer of knowledge in late medieval and early modern Europe.

You can find my full CV here.

Research

My research interest include: economic history, digital humanities, economics of crime, and economics of religion.

Works in Progress

• Salvation, Flora, and the Cosmos: Pre-modern Academic Institutions and the Spread of Ideas (with David de la Croix and Chiara Zanardello)
• Integrating library and prosopographical data in the publication network of the Old University of Louvain (with Margherita Fantoli)
• Empirical evidence on the impact of the Catholic Church on political participation in Italy

Publications

• Mafia doesn't live here anymore: Antimafia policies and housing prices, Journal of Regional Science, 63, 1001–1025, 2023 (with Francesca Calamunci, Livio Ferrante and Gianpiero Torrisi)
• Closed for Mafia: Evidence from the removal of mafia firms on commercial property values, Journal of Regional Science, 62, 1487–1511, 2022 (with Francesca Calamunci and Livio Ferrante)