Working Papers:
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Credit Supply and Green Investments, with Antonio Accetturo, Michele Cascarano, Emilia Garcia-Appendini, and Marco Tomasi
Revise and Resubmit, Journal of the European Economic Association
Advantage Magazine (CAGE, University of Warwick) VoxEu Blog Post
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Rural Banks Can Reduce Poverty: Experimental Evidence from 870 Indian Villages, with Patrick Agte, Erica Field, and Rohini Pande
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Perceived Social Acceptance and Migrants' Financial Inclusion, with Nicolás de Roux and Santiago Perez-Cardona
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Scaling Up, Splitting Apart: The Network Cost of Production Scale, with Ayah Bohsali and Elisa Giannone
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Hold the Phone: The Short and Long-Run Impacts of Connecting Indian Women to Digital Technology, with Anwesha Bhattacharya, Erica Field, Rohini Pande, Natalia Rigol, Simone Schaner, and Aruj Shukla, and Charity Troyer Moore.
Yale Economic Growth Center Discussion Paper 1109. September 2024.
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​​Creative against the Pandemic: Using mixed methods to measure creativity in rural India, with Elisa Giannone and Karmini Sharma
CEPR Discussion Paper 16915
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Accepted, Forthcoming and Published Articles:
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How do flexible microfinance contracts improve repayment rates and business outcomes? Experimental Evidence from India, with Parul Agarwal (IFMR-LEAD)
Accepted, Journal of Finance
IGC Blog Post IGC Project Webpage AEA RCT Registry VoxDev Blog Post
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Behavioral Messages and Debt Repayment, with Juan Camilo Cárdenas Campo (Universidad de Los Andes) and Nicolás de Roux (Universidad de Los Andes)
Review of Finance (2026)
VoxDev Blog Post The Banker AEA RCT Registry
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Innovations in the repayment structure of microcredit contracts
Oxford Review of Economic Policy (2024) 1;40(1):129-38
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The role of culture in firm-bank matching, with Antonio Accetturo (Bank of Italy), Michele Cascarano (Bank of Italy) and Emilia Garcia-Appendini (University of Zurich)
Journal of Financial Intermediation (2023), n. 53, 101018
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Does your neighbour know you better? The supportive role of local banks in the financial crisis
with Carlotta Rossi (Bank of Italy)
Journal of Banking and Finance (2019), n. 206, pp. 514-526.
Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization (2017), n. 142, pp. 425-450.
Financial Inclusion in a Developed Country: an Experiment about Formal Savings in Italy
with Alessandra Cassar (USF) and Timothée Demont (University of Marseille)
Journal of Behavioral Economics for Policy (2017), n. 1, pp. 39-49.
with Alessandra Cassar (USF), Arturo Rodriguez Trejo (USF) and Bruce Wydick (USF)
Journal of Economics and Management (2013), n. 9, pp. 153-184.
University of Chicago Special Issue on Field Experiments in Economics and Management, Guest Editors: John List, Micheal Price, Anya Samek
Signalling through Joint-Liability: an Adverse Selection Model
Rivista Italiana degli Economisti (2013), n. 18, pp. 299-318.
Special Issue on Social Cohesion and Financial Exclusion, Guest Editors: Leonardo Becchetti, Arnold W. Boot, Robert Lensink, Alberto Zazzaro
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Selected Work-in-Progress
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Open Finance, Privacy, Trust and Financial Inclusion: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment in Brazil, with Lucas Argentieri Mariani (ERSA-Bocconi University), José Renato Ornelas (Central Bank of Brazil) and Bernardo Ricca (INSPER)
AEA RCT Registry JPAL Project Webpage IPA Project Webpage IPA Blog Post
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Hold the Phone? Social and Economic Implications of Improving Women's Agency and Control over Smartphones, with Erica Field (Duke University), Rohini Pande (Yale University), Natalia Rigol (Harvard University), Simone Schaner (University of Southern California) and Charity Troyer Moore (Ohio State University).
"A Tough Call" report Ideas4India Blog Post
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Bank presence, green lending, and firms’ technology adoption, with Emilia Garcia-Appendini (Norges Bank and University of Zurich) and Nirupama Kulkarni (CAFRAL)
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