Biography
Biography
Federico is an Assistant Professor of Economics at IMT School for Advanced Studies Lucca, working at the intersection of Empirical IO applied to the pharmaceutical markets and healthcare, and causal machine learning.
His research asks how market design and regulation can (1) shape access and affordability while preserving incentives for R&D, (2) affect competition through demand substitution and insurance distortions, and (3) translate safety shocks into innovation and welfare outcomes.
In 2024, he was a Visiting Scholar at the MIT Sloan School of Management and he is currently visiting Toulouse School of Economics under the supervision of Professor Pierre Dubois for the Academic year 2025-2026. Here he attended courses on Empirical and Theoretical IO.