She has been teaching and doing applied research in industrial organization, micro foundations, financial time series and econometrics since 1985. She has an undergraduate degree in economics and social sciences from Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi, and an MA in economics from the University of Pennsylvania. Her main contributions focus on the analysis of banks' and manufacturing firms' behaviour using latent variable models and discrete data, on regional growth econometric modelling, and on nonlinear time series models. She is a member of the Italian Econometrics Society (SIDE).