Damiano Di Francesco

Hi, welcome to my page!

I am a fourth-year PhD student at Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies. 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).

During April-September 2024 I visited the School of Economics and Finance of Queen Mary University of London.

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), placing particular attention on nonlinear
transmission mechanisms.
The macroeconomic impacts of climate change, particularly how climate-induced
shocks affect tail risks in GDP growth.
Evaluation of the empirical performance of macroeconomic models using time-
series techniques, with a focus on both Agent-based and DSGE models .