Working Papers

AI Unbound: Digital Infrastructure, AI Adoption, and Firm Performance
with Gianmarco Ottaviano

We exploit Turkey's gas pipeline expansion as an instrument for broadband connectivity to identify how digital infrastructure shapes AI adoption and firm performance—with divergent effects for SMEs versus large firms.

 CEPR Discussion Paper No. 21385 — PDF

Technology Spillovers, Diffusion and Rivalry in Firm Networks
with Ester Faia and Gianmarco Ottaviano

We show how robot adoption by one firm improves productivity, wages, and adoption probability at connected firms in the supply chain—unless they share the same customers.

 CEPR Discussion Paper No. 19804 — PDF |  VoxEU Column

Under Review

Forced Reshoring: Supply Chain Disruptions, Prices and Firm-to-Firm Networks
PDF

Production Networks and Propagation of Supply and Demand Shocks
with Kamil Yilmaz
PDF

Trademarks and Expansion in Production Networks
with Nevine El-Mallakh

Environmental Regulations, Selection and Trade
with Francesco Devicienti, Elena Grinza, Alessandro Manello and Davide Vannoni
SSRN

Circular Economy Investments, MNEs, and Internationalization: Firm-Level Evidence from Italy
with Francesco Devicienti, Elena Grinza, Alessandro Manello and Davide Vannoni
R&R Journal of Cleaner Production

Publications

Inflation Diffusion through Supply Chains
International Economics, December 2025 — Paper

Policy

Country Economic Memorandum: Leveraging Global Value Chains for Growth in Turkey
World Bank — Report