Guido de Blasio

Economist. t: international economic policy. t-1: climate change. t-2: urban & regional economics. Napoli, Italy. Views are my own.

[AEA Journals @AEAjournals]

Forthcoming in the AER: "Marriage, Fertility, and Cultural Integration in Italy" by Alberto Bisin and Giulia Tura. https://t.co/9XgApeF4Qs

[Financial Times @FT]

How the EU’s plan to turbocharge Italy’s economy fell flat https://t.co/TUFJGeAujg

[Jesús Fernández-Villaverde @JesusFerna7026]

Same thing in economics: many of the truly influential papers from the 1930s to the 1950s would probably never get published today because the reaction would immediately be: “Did you run 126 robustness checks?” or “Is the identification strategy airtight?”

Take Keynes’ General Theory. I doubt a major university press would accept it today.

What we often end up with instead are countless papers that are extremely methodologically careful but focused on relatively minor questions.

Of course, there are still genuinely outstanding papers being produced. But probably far fewer than there should be.

[Il Foglio @ilfoglio_it]

Perché le rinnovabili in Sardegna sono un test sulla credibilità politica del Campo largo. Di @lucianocapone https://t.co/MKrWHOSY32

[AEA Journals @AEAjournals]

Forthcoming in the AER: "Ideological Alignment and Evidence-Based Policy Adoption" by Jorge García-Hombrados, Marcel Jansen, Angel Martínez, Berkay Özcan, Pedro Rey-Biel, and Antonio Roldán-Monés. https://t.co/mAB4YzVFRd

[The Economist @TheEconomist]

Post-war Italy has seemed content to be an economic heavyweight and a diplomatic featherweight. Will that ever change? Register for free to read our take https://t.co/4QuQbb8f3j

[il Napolista @napolista]

Se ne va Beppe #Savoldi, mister due miliardi: “Albertosi era amico di #Zoff”

Ferlaino lo comprò dal #Bologna: in cambio, diede #Clerici e decretò la fine del #Napoli di #Vinicio. Per lui, 70mila abbonamenti. Tirava i rigori alla #Maradona prima di Maradona
https://t.co/aEJl2vBS0I

[Guido de Blasio @guidodeblasio]

https://t.co/oj4bki6UC1

[Springernomics @Springernomics]

➡️No revenge of the places that don't matter? Evidence from Italy’s Cassa per il Mezzogiorno
#OpenAccess article by Tancredi Buscemi
published in Cliometrica
https://t.co/CfFmRqCbrU

[Lavoce.info @lavoceinfo]

È da poco tempo scomparso Riccardo De Bonis, economista della Banca d’Italia, studioso di stabilità finanziaria, ricchezza delle famiglie e molto altro. L'articolo in suo ricordo di M. Affinito, L. Infante, D. Liberati, C. Rondinelli e M. Stacchini

https://t.co/r99K86g0aB

[Andrea Matranga 🇺🇦🌻 @andreamatranga]

They were digging a metro in Naples and accidentally found three Roman ships

[Antonella Ferrara @antonella_ferra]

1/ Why do place-based policies work in some regions and fail in others? 🌍📊
In our new paper we show that EU Cohesion funds boost GDP & jobs only where absorptive capacity is high.

[Ricardo Hausmann @ricardo_hausman]

My column on Venezuela in @TheEconomist
“Prosperity does not come from oil, decrees or even benevolent rulers. It comes from rights. Rights create private property. Rights create security. Rights create debate. Rights allow people to invest, to innovate, to dream—and to transform reality. Take rights away, and society withers. Restore them, and recovery is possible.”
https://t.co/BuPYeGVGKs

[Diego Puga @ProfDiegoPuga]

These are 10 of my favourite #UrbanEconomics & #SpatialEconomics articles published in academic journals in 2025, continuing with a tradition started in 2018 (order is alphabetical by first author, no ranking implied):

[Official SSC Napoli @sscnapoli]

A Natale il regalo più bello è un sorriso da condividere insieme.
Tutti insieme 💙
Buon Natale da tutta la SSC Napoli! 🎄

💙 #ProudToBeNapoli

[Luciano Capone @lucianocapone]

Sulla libertà d’espressione Elon Musk sbaglia bersaglio

L’Unione europea non uccide la libertà: spesso la difende dai governi nazionali, come quello ungherese ammirato dal tycoon.

Il manifesto di @CarloStagnaro sui difetti e sui tanti pregi dell’🇪🇺. 👇🏻
https://t.co/WLdbVzHYk2

[AEA Journals @AEAjournals]

Forthcoming in AEJ: Applied Economics: "The Long-Term Effects of Cash Assistance" by David J. Price and Jae Song. https://t.co/y8bYEPTNwc

[AEA Journals @AEAjournals]

Forthcoming in AEJ: Economic Policy: "The Effect of Deactivating Facebook and Instagram on Users’ Emotional State" by Hunt Allcott, Matthew Gentzkow, Benjamin Wittenbrink, et al. https://t.co/uKRAh3Aosc