Lautaro's research lies at the intersection of financial economics, macroeconomics, and industrial organization, with a focus on firm dynamics and policy-relevant questions.

In his "Undercover Economist" column (August 12, 2026), Tim Harford discussed a new working paper by John List, Matthias Rodemeier, Sutanuka Roy, and Gregory Sun, which reviews more than 600 studies of behaviourally informed public policies to ask how significant "nudges" really are.

SONOMA is a small open economy model in which domestic corporate debt and equities coexist and are affected by shocks to both external credit and equity markets.

We study how corporate clients' behavior on both sides of bank balance sheet shapes bank distress. Exploiting the 2017 regional bank failures in Italy, we show that corporate clients withdraw their deposits and that creditworthy firms switch to healthier banks at the first signs of weakness.

Max Croce was invited as one of two keynote speakers at the 13th Asset Pricing Workshop, alongside Greg Duffee (Johns Hopkins University).