Happy to share our new WP with @GiuliaRomani17!
Europe increasingly needs supranational solutions to common challenges but these require citizens’ trust. Can the EU earn that trust by delivering when it matters most?
We study EU disaster relief and find that it can.
Terrific new paper by @GiuliaRomani17@tancredibuscemi on the JDE:
The political economy of regional development. Evidence from the Cassa... https://t.co/59TSeKzMDI
Fantastic paper on the #politicaleconomy of #placebasedpolicies by @GiuliaRomani17 : after devolution, municipalities governed by the same party in power at the regional level received more 'Cassa del Mezzogiorno' funds compared to unaligned ones https://t.co/p0ckBxsNRf
Can decentralisation undermine regional development policy? In our new paper with @GiuliaRomani17, we show that when institutions are fragile, devolution can weaken the effectiveness of development spending.
https://t.co/bDzf4LLGX8
📣 We are hiring!
We are looking for an early-career researcher in the field of education policy evaluation.
📅 Application deadline: 03/03/26
Further details:
https://t.co/Gjhn5q6oqL
@FBK_research
Of potential interest to UEA members:
Call for Papers – IEB 8th Workshop on Urban Economics
Barcelona, June 17–18, 2026
Keynotes: Gabriel Ahlfeldt and Lu Han
Submission deadline: March 15, 2026
Details: https://t.co/gVZB3vUHaC
#UVI. Ora in Sala Koch il convegno "I dati amministrativi nella valutazione delle politiche pubbliche: la prospettiva parlamentare" promosso dall'Ufficio per la Valutazione delle #PolitichePubbliche del #Senato https://t.co/JYbp4B9inA Diretta #SenatoTV https://t.co/lFtx29owE6
Le politiche industriali locali fuzionano? E a quali condizioni?
Ne scriviamo su #rivistaeco con @l_incoronato, sulla base delle lezioni del passato, in particolare della Cassa per il Mezzogiorno, troppo spesso giudicata solo come uno spreco di risorse.
https://t.co/1zZ8pIcfyp
Positions open at our department for the roles of AP and postdoc, for applied econ fields including labour, environmental and urban. Please email me if any questions: https://t.co/etq9NU8O7p @UrbanEconomics#urbaneconomics @econjob
📢 Workshop – Wed 19 Nov
🕣 8:30–17:45 📍Auditorium & Teams
🎓 Frontiers of Active Labour Market Policies
A full-day event on innovations and evidence in ALMPs, featuring international scholars and policy experts.
📄 Program:
#EconTwitter#LabourEconomics#ALMP
🚨Job Market 2025-26🚨
⛴️🌪️How vulnerable is transportation and global trade to extreme weather?
My JMP studies how tropical cyclones disrupt maritime transportation, and how private adaptation shapes welfare and investment under climate change.
🧵 A JMP thread (link below)
1/2 📢Call for papers - Workshop Frontiers of Active Labour Market Policies
📌University of Bologna (Italy)
🗓️ 19th/20th November 2025
We invite submissions for a workshop exploring recent developments in research on active labour market policies and their effectiveness.
We’re proud to host the AIEL Workshop on “Advances in Research on Labour Market Policies”
🗓️ 28–29 May 📍 Auditorium DSE, @Unibo
Organized in collaboration with AIEL, the event brings together leading researchers to discuss labour market dynamics and policy design.
New sources of big data generate valuable new insights in urban economics, past and present, from Ran Abramitzky, @leah_boustan, and Adam Storeygard https://t.co/c6Tc3uD7Vk
New WP w/@augusto_cerqua & @fedzampollo
Can municipal mergers improve institutional capacity? Using the MAQI and non-parametric DiD, we find that mergers enhance admin performance—via economies of scale and the self-selection of higher-quality politicians https://t.co/bqw8YHF9UH