I am a Professor of Economics at the University of Bologna, Italy, where I teach Macro and International Economic Policy. My present areas of research include i) empirical work on "crises" (capital account, sovereign debt, banking, younameit), and ii) fiscal policy, both empirical and "applied" theory. I also wrote on fiscal and monetary policy in the EMU, fiscal federalism, asymmetric information, dynamic optimal taxation, "globalisation" and the labor market, trade and wage inequality. My papers have appeared in journals such as The American Economic Review, The European Economic Review, The Journal of International Economics, The Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, The Jornal of Money, Credit and Banking, Labour Economics, Economica, IMF Staff Papers, OECD Economic Studies. I worked as a HQ-based consultant for the IMF, and was a consultant for the World Bank and the OECD. On the personal side, I am a Jazz pianist with the Bologna University Jazz Combo and the 3PMJazz Trio in Milan. I have a wonderful daughter, Hélène.
Recent Blog Posts by Paolo Manasse
- Contagion? What Contagion?
- EU Elections and the Fiscal Compact
- Two Lessons From the Greek Crisis
- Will Monti’s Liberalizations Jump Start Italy’s Growth Rate?
- Monti and the ‘Mother of All Reforms’
- Dear Mario Xmas
- Euro Pills: How (Not) to Save Europe
- Mario Monti’s Last Bet
- The Problem with Monti’s Structural Reform is Deflation
- Italy’s Humpy Swap Curve and Berlusconi’s Time-Bomb Politics
- Welcome to Eurotaly
- The Bocconi University Coup
- Berlusconi: What’s Next?
- ‘Italians Buy Italian Debt?’
- Credibility Is Not Everything
- The Economics of Economics Blogs
- What Haircut for Greece?
- Rock ’n’ Roll Suicides: An Economist’s Approach
- Little Time for Italy
- Tabellini Is the Right Man for Banca d’Italia
- The Fear of Contagion in Europe
- Moody’s on Italy: Q.E.D.
- Why a Downgrade of Italian Sovereign Debt Is Increasingly Likely
- The Economic Consequences of the Berlusconi Debacle
- Why Privatisation Is Not the Panacea for Greece
- Greece: The Unbearable Heaviness of Debt
- Berlusconi and the Bureaucracy: An Analytical Approach
- In Timo’s Hands (0.19 * 0.016 = 0.0031)
- The Trouble with the European Stability Mechanism
- Unilateral Restructuring, Buybacks, and Euro Swaps: An Example
- The Macroeconomic Effects of the New Fiat Labor Contract
- My Name Is Bond, Euro Bond
- Will the Irish Crisis Spread to Italy?
- Karl Marx in Avetrana (Italy)
- Stability and Growth Pact: Counterproductive Proposals
- The Cost of Political Instability: The Italian Case
- Budget Cuts in Europe: Meet the “Virtuosi” and the “Laggards”
- Budget Cuts in Europe: Policy Coordination or German Diktat?
- Financing vs. Restructuring Greece
- Help Greece Save Herself
- Italy’s Looming Political Crisis: Dancing Under the (Debt) Volcano
- The Debt Implications of Berlusconi’s “Pyrrhic” Victory
- Identikit of the European Monetary Fund
- Rain and Tears in Greece
- Euro, Au Revoir? PIIGS’ Term Structure of Default Probabilities
- How Far Will the PIIGS Fly?
- The Minister’s Ceiling to “Foreign Born” Students in Italian Schools
- Italy vs. Greece: The Public Debt Race
- Berlusconi: Private Leisure and Public Costs of the “Sultan of Swing”
- Should unemployment benefits be financed by raising women retirement age? No
- Employment Insurance and the North-South Conflict in Italy
- The employment costs of subsidizing Fiat (Mr Berlusconi meets Stolper and Samuelson)
- The Welfare Cost of Subsidizing Fiat
- The Strange Case of Mr Tremonti
- Consumption Smoothers or Mafia Victims: The Wishful Thinking Economics
- Italian Passions, Politics and Economics: Mr Veltroni Hard Choice
