Domenico is a postdoctoral researcher at CeNDEF, University of Amsterdam (UvA), working on the EU-FP7 project “Complexity Research Initiatives for Systemic Instabilities” (CRISIS), from 2012 to 2015. He is a TI alumnus and obtained his PhD in Economics (cum laude) entitled ‘Bounded Rationality and Heterogeneous Expectations in Macroeconomics’ from the UvA in March 2012, under the supervision of TI fellow Cars Hommes. The dissertation focuses on introducing individual bounded rationality and heterogeneous expectations in dynamic macroeconomic models.
Domenico published on ‘PQ strategies in monopolistic competition: some insights from the lab’ (2015) and on ‘Heterogeneous Expectations in Monetary DSGE Models’ (2013) in the Journal of Economic Dynamics & Control, and with Anufriev, Assenza, and Hommes on ‘Interest Rate Rules and Macroeconomic Stability under Heterogeneous Expectations’ in Macroeconomic Dynamics (2013). Domenico won the competition for best PhD Thesis Award of the Unicredit & Universities Foundation, in August 2013.
As of 25 September 2015, Domenico will start working on his new project at the Catholic University of Milan.