My research interests involve macroeconomic policy and theory and, in particular, dynamic quantitative macroeconomics. I have been working on economics methodology, labor market, business cycles, inventory cycles, time-series and econometric modeling, fiscal policy, Italy's and European economic policy issues. Current research projects deal with providing a measure of discretionary government spending in Europe and with investigating the role of recessions in business cycle analysis. Other projects involve building fiscal risk indicators for the EMU economies and estimating aggregate labor supply elasticities to evaluate the role of fiscal policy in Europe and in the US.