The second call for the PhD in Economics at Tuscan Universities (Florence, Pisa, and Siena) is now open! 📚✨ Apply for one of the 5 scholarship positions before July 16th! 🗓️ Don't miss this opportunity! 🔗 phdeconomics.unisi.it/admission-proc…

Remember the Monti government and the ramifications of austerity in 🇮🇹 during the Euro Crisis? To meet reformed EU fiscal rules, Italy will have to deliver fiscal consolidation from 2025 onwards that may be even larger than over 2011-2014. Critical discussions required?!

📖 📷 Happy to share an article published in Technological Forecasting and Social Change. We dealt with the issue of secular stagnation in connection with the progressive retreat of the public sector from investing in innovation. sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

"What Explains Global Inflation" is published online at the IMF Economic Review: rdcu.be/dNy0E

Earlier this year, JoES editors resigned en masse after Wiley imposed conditions undermining the integrity of the journal. Good news is they are opening a new journal: *Reviews of Economic Literature* Fully controlled by academics, supported by Stanford Press & Public Knowledge Project (PKP). [1/2]

Twice a year, the World Bank updates its Macro Poverty Outlook providing country-by-country economic analysis and forecasts of major macroeconomic variables and poverty. The 2024-2026 series was recently released. An interactive dashboard allows data on poverty, national

What drives green innovation? 👉 new evidence VoxEU “findings suggest that standards were the main policy driver behind clean innovation in the car market” 🔗 cepr.org/voxeu/columns/…

It is of course an irony of economics that the production of things that are destined to kill people and destroy means of their welfare is considered an increase in GDP.

Our latest LUHNIP Monthly Brief on EU Industrial Policy Brief is out! Featuring  insights on EU investigations into the Chinese #BEV and the  acquisition of PPF Group by e&, the last #EuropeanCouncil meeting & the financing of #EU start/scale-ups. 👉🏻bit.ly/3zCm522

A much updated and shorter version of my paper on elite hiring, "fit", and discrimination now on my website! Paper shows how personnel practices at major multinationals, such as interviews, often afford employers the opportunity to discriminate against minorities. Links:

In Italy, a woman is killed every three days. Costanza Giannantoni, Marco Letta, gabriele pinto and I investigate the territorial patterns of this phenomenon by studying the targeting and evaluation of policies to reduce violence against women Link twtr.to/y62Sv A thread (1/5)

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This brand-new publication in the Journal of International Money and Finance reveals an interesting finding: less open economies benefit more from trade. Check out the study here: doi.org/10.1016/j.jimo…

Hi #EconTwitter!📈 You interested in causal inference in #macroeconomics, and wonder if local projections might be useful? Check out this new survey by Oscar Jorda (San Francisco Fed) and Alan M. Taylor (Columbia University). Nicely written and very clear. Don't miss out! ⭐️ Link:

The 2024 version of my Lecture notes in Micro economics: The "Economic Agent" for a MA or PHD course, is now available for downloading (as always FREE). The main change: more exercises. Teachers -- (only): you can ask for an updated solution manual. Downloading the book and

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🤔How vulnerable are #EU countries to energy shocks? 🆕📰Dario Guarascio, Jelena Reljic & Francesco Zezza shed light on differences in energy dependency & #resilience as well as the effectiveness of policy measures in the new ÖFSE Working Paper. 👉shorturl.at/uplGu #EnergyPolicy

In Jackson Hole, Chair Powell announced the start of a new cycle of rate cuts, putting an end to the inflation episode since 2021. It is, therefore, time to draw some lessons for economics, economists and monetary policy. 1/

I've made 7 free online courses to help you read Karl Marx: Reading Marx's Capital v1 (2019 & 2007 eds) Reading Marx's Capital v2 Reading Marx's Grundrisse (2023 & 2020 eds) Marx, Capital, & the Madness of Economic Reason The ABC of Contemporary Capital davidharvey.org/reading-capital