Marco’s main research interests are in the fields of Macroeconomics, Fiscal and Monetary Policy, Energy Economics and Defence Economics. As a result, Marco has developed skills in formulating and estimating DSGE models using Bayesian techniques. Moreover, he has dealt with macroeconometric models such as VARs, TVP-VARs and Markov-Switching VARs. At the moment, Marco is focusing on the response of government policy to oil price changes in oil exporter countries.