Tommaso Di Francesco

About Me

I am a postdoctoral researcher in the Finance group of the Department of Economics at the University of Bonn. I hold a double PhD in Economics from the University of Amsterdam and Ca’ Foscari University of Venice.

Research Interests

Behavioral Macro and Financial models, with a particular interest in expectation formation and heterogeneous agent modelling.

I am trying to mantain a reading list of recent papers in topics that interest me. Find the February list in this Reading list.

News

[Oct. 2025] “(Mis)information Diffusion and the Financial Market” was published in the Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization!
[Sep. 2025] Joining the Finance group at the University of Bonn as a Postdoctoral researcher!

Publications

JEDC

Sentiment-Driven Speculation in Financial Markets with Heterogeneous Beliefs: A Machine Learning Approach

Tommaso Di Francesco, Cars Hommes

Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, 2025.

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JEBO

(Mis)information Diffusion and the Financial Market

Tommaso Di Francesco, Daniel Torren Peraire

Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2025.

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Work in Progress

Sticky Information across the Wealth Distribution
Tommaso Di Francesco —
Sparse Learning and Endogenous Pockets of Predictability
Tommaso Di Francesco, Stafanie Huber, and Jonathan Seim —