Damiano Di Francesco

I am a fourth-year PhD student at Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies. During April-September 2024 I visited the School of Economics and Finance of Queen Mary University of London.

From June to September 2025, I will be in Frankfurt doing a PhD internship in the Fiscal Policies Division at the European Central Bank (ECB).

My main research interests lie in the field of Applied Macroeconomics, primarily in three research areas:

• The macroeconomic effects of aggregate demand dynamics in the medium- and   long-run (hysteresis effects), with particular attention on nonlinear transmission   mechanisms.
• The macroeconomic impacts of climate change, particularly how climate-induced shocks affect tail risks in GDP growth
• Evaluating the empirical performance of macroeconomic models using time series techniques, with a focus on both macro Agent-based and DSGE models.