Research

Institutional Investors and House Prices 

with Giorgia De Nora, Margherita Giuzio, Ellen Ryan, and Manuela Storz (all ECB)

SSRN draft (most recent draft) | ECB Working Paper 

• • Submitted to a journal.

  • Media coverage and outreach: The Guardian, ECB Blog, SUERF, European Parliament

  • Part of ESCB ChaMP network production.

  • Presentations: ECB Financial Stability Seminar (2023), Central Bank of Ireland Economics & Statistics Seminar (2023), Narodowy Bank Polsky and SGH Warsaw School of Economics "Recent Trends in the Real Estate Market and Its Analysis" Conference (2023)*, New York Fed/ECB Non-Bank Financial Intermediation Workshop (2023)*, Irish Postgraduate and Early Career Economics Workshop (2024), International Association of Applied Econometrics Annual Conference (2024), EEA-ESEM Congress (2024)*, Zurich Tri-City Bridge Workshop (2025), Naples International Conference in Financial Sciences (2025), University College Dublin (2025), AFA Annual Meeting PhD Poster Session (2026) and University of Zurich (2026).

Mortgage Loan Rates and the Defaults of Variable Rate Mortgages 

with Friederike Fourné and Barbara Jarmulska

ECB Working Paper

• • New version coming soon.

  • Awards: ESRB Ieke van den Burg Prize Runner-Up.

  • Presentations: ifo Institute Internal Seminar (2024)*, Bavarian Macro Day (2024)*, Central Bank of Ireland Financial Stability Research Session (2024), Young Irish Economists Seminar (2024), ECB Financial Stability Seminar (2024), International Association of Applied Econometrics Annual Conference (2025) and International Conference on Macroeconomic Analysis and International Finance (2026)*.

Health Disasters and Life Cycle Risk-Taking 

with Carolina Fugazza

Collegio Carlo Alberto Notebook

• • Expanded version coming soon.

  • Presentations: NETSPAR International Pension Workshop (2024).