We are happy to announce that the application for the PhD in Economics at the University of Siena (in partnership with the Universities of Florence and Pisa) is now open! 🗓 Deadline: June 29, 2026, 2:00 PM (CEST) 📍 Website: phdeconomics.unisi.it 📑 Application portal: www.unisi.it/ricerca/dott...

🧨 🧨 Delighted to host Prof. Alan Manning (LSE) at @deps-siena.bsky.social as part of our Distinguished Scholar Visiting Program. He delivered outstanding lectures on monopsony and immigration policy. A great start for this new initiative! 🚀

Forthcoming events in May at @deps-siena.bsky.social: May 14 – Prof. Alan Manning (LSE), Open Lecture 👉 “Why Immigration Policy Is Hard” May 26 – Nobel Laureate Prof. James Robinson (University of Chicago), Hahn Lecture 2026 👉 “Why I Am Not a Monetarist”

Il Governo senza una strategia industriale: ancorati ai combustibili fossili e nessuna visione. Il mio commento su Il Manifesto 👉 ilmanifesto.it/transizione-...

Segnaliamo questo contributo del nostro Professore e Direttore @filippobelloc.bsky.social sul ruolo dell’Emissions Trading Scheme (#ETS) nel contesto della politica economica e climatica @mm-ilmanifesto-bot.bsky.social #TerzaMissione ilmanifesto.it/lets-fa-risp...

📢SAVE THE DATE 26 May 2026 Our department @deps-siena.bsky.social is honoured to announce that Nobel Laureate Prof. James Robinson (@UChicago) will deliver the 9th Hahn Lecture. www.deps.unisi.it/en/research/...

📢 May 2026 We are delighted to announce that leading labour economist Prof. Alan Manning from @cep-lse.bsky.social will be visiting @deps-siena.bsky.social next May as part of our Distinguished Visiting Scholar Program

Antonio Minniti, Klaus Prettner, Francesco Venturini, & David Bloom find that European regions with more intense #AI patenting tend to experience a decline in the labour share of income, indicating that AI acts as a capital-biased innovation. cepr.org/voxeu/column... #EconSky

AI adoption increases labour productivity levels by 4% on average in the EU, w/ no evidence of reduced employment in the short run. Productivity benefits, however, are unevenly distributed. @aldasoro.bsky.social, L Gambacorta, R Pál, D Revoltella, C Weiss, M Wolski cepr.org/voxeu/column... #EconSky

Thanks to the JRC in Ispra for hosting me today! I presented our joint paper with Antonino Lofaro on corporate subsidies and market structure, and we’re grateful for the constructive feedback — plenty to think about as we move forward with the project #Subsidies #IndustrialPolicy #IO

🚀 Happy to take part in the Workshop on Firms, Trade and Productivity in a New Era of Geoeconomic Fragmentation. I’ll be presenting my work on “Subsidies and firm entry” alongside an excellent lineup of speakers. 📍 Two days of discussions on automation, trade resilience, and industrial policy!

If worker co-operatives work, why aren’t there more of them? @gabrielburdin.bsky.social @deps-siena.bsky.social and Fabio Landini (University of Parma) for @lsebr.bsky.social

🚀 New IJIO special issue on Industrial Policy and IO now live! Fantastic collection of papers on how industrial policy shapes firm behavior, market structure, innovation, and productivity. Pushing the debate beyond slogans toward credible evidence. 👉 shorturl.at/B3Ygs #IndustrialPolicy #IO

Just published! 👉 shorturl.at/uBbIP

🚨 New paper accepted in IJIO! We study +30k subsidy initiatives: • Subsidies boost entry of ~5.5% less productive firms • Unconditional tax breaks & loans drive the negative effects • Intl., SME-focused & green/automation subsidies can improve entrant quality 👉 tinyurl.com/2b3kzbdm More soon!

Can higher productivity also mean cleaner production? 🌿 Our new paper (accepted in Energy Economics) finds that more productive firms cause less emissions per unit of output, but also more emissions per unit of input, with high cross-firm heterogeneity: smart regulation is key! 👉 shorturl.at/r8k3Z

Nel deserto lasciato dalla guerra, l'università deve parlare www.roars.it/nel-deserto-... @filippobelloc.bsky.social

MIT refuses to accept White House terms for funding, other schools still mulling reut.rs/471tkNZ

📢Evento di riflessione su Gaza 13 ottobre, 10 am Aula Cripta - San Francesco, #Siena Organizzato da @deps-siena.bsky.social #DISAG

We are not indifferent to the ongoing dramatic humanitarian situation in Gaza. We warmly welcome three Palestinian students joining our Economics & Management study programme — two supported through @deps-siena.bsky.social -funded scholarships.

What happens when manufacturing companies regularly incorporate worker feedback and ideas into their production processes? Productivity is generally higher—and so is production worker pay. New findings from Dylan Nelson of UIUC & @natewilmers.bsky.social @mitiwer.bsky.social: tinyurl.com/4vhswpvr

📢 TODAY

Very useful discussion on the perils of using micro/cross-sectional parameter estimates in inferring the aggregate effects of policies/shocks. This is pervasive in Economics, yet the two effects can even have the opposite signs. (Example in next post.) voxdev.org/topic/method...

📢 One PhD scholarship available! Conduct research on Worker Voice, Wages & Technological Change: The Role of Collective Bargaining, Unions & Employee Representation. Deadline: Sept 5, 2025 2 pm (CET) Application procedure: unisi.it/ricerca/dott...

Exceptional work from @brankomilan.bsky.social on 'new capitalism' 'We estimate that 85% of the people in the world are capital-income destitute. In other words, the world’s financial and productive assets are owned by 15% of its inhabitants (households).' branko2f7.substack.com/p/the-new-ca...

#AI is the crop that only few fields can grow. @markmuro1.bsky.social & ‪@shriyared.bsky.social find that two Bay cities bag 13% of #US AI hiring. They divide America into superstars and also-rans, revealing big adoption gaps. Investment beyond the coasts is needed. www.brookings.edu/articles/map...

🎉 Just accepted in JEBO! “Incentive Pay, Managerial Skills and Span of Control” w/ F. Landini & S. Dughera. Why do some firms rely more on bonuses than others? We show that incentive pay is more likely when managers are better educated and hierarchies are wider. WP 👉 shorturl.at/7LgAj

The Annual Meeting of the PhD in Economics of the Tuscan Universities (Florence, Pisa & Siena) is ongoing! Our PhD students are presenting their research and receiving constructive feedback from discussants and faculty members. #Pontignano #econsky

🚨THIS WEEK🚨 Our PhD Annual Meeting kicks off this week, 10–12 June! We'll spend three days at the beautiful Certosa di Pontignano (Siena), sharing and discussing our PhD students' research and strengthening our community. Program: phdeconomics.unisi.it/wp-content/u...

‘Based on admin data...’ 📊 Administrative data access for young economists improves research visibility and career progression but may reinforce existing disparities in the academic economics community. New IZA paper by A Lepinteur & @rnistico.bsky.social‬ 👇 newsroom.iza.org/en/archive/r...

🚨Our @deps-siena.bsky.social is launching a new Distinguished Visiting Scholar Program! We welcome leading economists conducting broad and impactful research. The program offers fully-funded academic visits lasting 1–3 weeks. More information 👇 www.deps.unisi.it/en/avvisi/ca... #econsky

🧨 🧨 @deps-siena.bsky.social launches a fully funded Distinguished Visiting Scholar Program! We welcome scholars from any field of economics. Apply now and share your vision with us! More info below 👇

Just published! We model how firms cut emissions under carbon pricing by mixing output control & innovation. Firms balance both to minimize costs, shifting towards innovation as prices rise. Data from EU-ETS supports our model, showing growing tech gaps across firms & countries. shorturl.at/Fv6Tf

A long long time ago, in a far away galaxy... the US used to tax the rich

Americans favor labor unions over big business now more than ever www.epi.org/blog/america...

📢 The application for the PhD in Economics at the Tuscan Universities (Siena, Florence and Pisa) is now open! Several fully funded scholarships available Deadline: June 9, 2025, at 2:00 PM (CEST) Website: phdeconomics.unisi.it Call: phdeconomics.unisi.it/the-new-call... #econsky

Fascinating deep dive into the MIT economics/AI paper scandal/clusterf***. thebsdetector.substack.com/p/ai-materia...

Happy for the opportunity to present at the IJIO Conference on Industrial Organization and Industrial Policy at HKU. Such a great event and location to discuss about industrial policy and future research. Thanks for inviting me, for the feedback and for the hospitality!

Upcoming events at the UC Berkeley Labor Center @ucblaborcenter.bsky.social Demystifying AI and Empowering Workers Part 1: Demystifying AI and Other Digital Technologies: Wednesday, May 7th 10am – 11am PT laborcenter.berkeley.edu/event/demyst...

Happy to join the IIOC 2025 in Philadelphia! Great session tomorrow about #IndustrialPolicy and #Productivity!

🚨Next week at @deps-siena.bsky.social 🚨 Excited to announce the Second Annual Workshop "Economies in Ecological Transition” Great lineup of speakers! 🗓️⏲️ May 8 - 9:30, Aula Goodwin #Siena

There is a bunch I disagree with here, but it makes an argument for why AI adoption may be less rapid and less immediately world-changing (& dangerous) than people expect. Well worth reading, as it is a useful base case where AI is just another technology. knightcolumbia.org/content/ai-a...

👇

Great workshop today at the U of Bergamo on #Automation, #Productivity and the #LaborMarket! 👉 shorturl.at/PPIgj

Here is our research seminar program for April to June 2025. Join us!

Reupping one from last summer, it was unions that made manufacturing jobs good jobs, not the factories cepr.net/publications...

🚨New Working Paper: The Value of Worker Rights in Collective Bargaining w/ @elliottash.bsky.social , W. Bentley MacLeod & Suresh Naidu We propose novel NLP methods applied to 30,000 collective bargaining agreements to quantify the value of worker rights. 👉 nber.org/papers/w33605 🧵1/7

🚨Today🚨 New DEPS Research Seminar! Speaker: Joan Rosés (LSE and CEPR) Title: "Pandemics, Capital Allocation and Structural Change" ⏲️Wed March 19th - 15:00, Goodwin Room

🚨New DEPS Research Seminar! Speaker: Julian Hinz (Bielefeld University) julianhinz.com Title: "To Russia with Love? The Impact of Sanctions on Regime Support" ⏲️Wed March 12th - 15:00, Goodwin Room