Paolo Manasse is Professor of Macroeconomics and International Economic Policy at the University of Bologna. He also taught at L. Bocconi (where he currently teaches Macro in the PhD program) , at Sorbonne (Paris I), Johns Hopkins (Bologna Center) and other Italian universities. He obtained his PhD from the LSE with Rick van der Ploeg and Charlie Bean. He worked as a Consultant for the OECD, the World Bank, the Inter-American Development Bank, and was a resident Consultant, Visiting Scholar and Technical Assistance Advisor for the IMF. He is a research fellow of IGIER-Bocconi in Milan, and of the Rimini Centre for Economic Analysis. His research interests are in international macroeconomics, including a wide range of issues such as monetary and fiscal policy in currency unions, fiscal federalism and asymmetric information, international trade and the labor market, international policy coordination, sovereign debt and banking crises. His publications include, among others, the American Economic Review, the European Economic Review, the Journal of International Economics, the Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, the Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control. His writes on current Italian and European issues on his blog “Back-of The-Envelope Economics” (in Italian, but Google Translator friendly).

Articles by Paolo Manasse:

• The roots of the Italian stagnation

  19 June 2013, 1040 reads

• Professor Monti and the bubble

  19 March 2013, 11504 reads

• Eurozone crisis: It ain’t over yet

  17 January 2013, 31305 reads

• Time for international monetary coordination

  3 September 2012, 4568 reads

• A spread-fixing scheme: Monti's pyrrhic victory?

  2 July 2012, 9384 reads

• Contagion in Europe: Evidence from the sovereign debt crisis

  25 June 2012, 11359 reads

• Two lessons from the Greek crisis

  10 March 2012, 6386 reads

• Italy and the Eurozone: it's time to inflate

  2 December 2011, 5129 reads

• Italy’s humpy swap curve and Berlusconi’s time-bomb politics

  23 November 2011, 5163 reads

• Welcome to Eurotaly: If Italy falls, so does Europe

  21 November 2011, 11055 reads

• Eurozone crisis: Credibility is not everything

  9 November 2011, 14658 reads

• The economics of economics blogs

  28 October 2011, 13670 reads

• What haircut for Greece?

  14 October 2011, 7360 reads

• Little time for Italy

  19 July 2011, 13356 reads

• The fear of contagion in Europe

  6 July 2011, 13249 reads

• Why privatisation is not the panacea for Greece

  30 May 2011, 9233 reads

• Greece, the unbearable heaviness of debt

  24 May 2011, 11835 reads

• The trouble with the European Stability Mechanism

  5 April 2011, 12803 reads

• Unilateral restructuring, buybacks, and euro swaps: An example

  5 February 2011, 8479 reads

• The macroeconomic consequences of the new Fiat labour contract

  18 January 2011, 5914 reads

• My name is Bond, Euro Bond

  16 December 2010, 14883 reads

• Will the Irish crisis spread to Italy?

  26 November 2010, 11520 reads

• Stability and Growth Pact: Counterproductive proposals

  7 October 2010, 9848 reads

• The economic consequences of coalition governments: Estimates from Italy

  27 September 2010, 8174 reads

• Budget cuts in Europe: The "virtuosi" and the "laggards”

  26 July 2010, 6722 reads

• Budget cuts across Europe: Coordination or diktat?

  24 July 2010, 6879 reads