01 Dec 2020 Taxing Debt to Curb Irrationality Without Reducing Economic Growth Bocconi students on the economics seminars organized by IGIER. In the fifth article of the series, Daniele Goffi reports on the work of Ivan Werning, MIT
26 Nov 2020 Piketty's Road Map Towards Equality Bocconi students on the economics seminars organized by IGIER. In the fourth article of the series, Gael Blanchard reports on the latest book by Thomas Piketty and his work on growth and inequality
17 Nov 2020 Research and Policy to Tackle Climate Change Bocconi students on the economics seminars organized by IGIER. In the third article of the series, Federico Scabbia reports on the work of Solomon Hsiang, Berkeley University, Christian Gollier, Toulouse University, and Tom van Ierland, DG Climate Action
06 Jan 2021 How Religion Can Hamper Industrial Development In France, during the Second Industrial Revolution, Catholic schools' curricula spurned modern science in the most religious areas of the country, and this prevented the accumulation of human capital according to a research article by Mara Squicciarini
03 Nov 2020 A Call for Evidence in the Debate Over School Autonomy Bocconi students on the economics seminars organized by IGIER. In the second article of a series, Sahana Subramanyam reports on the work of Joshua Angrist, MIT, and Stephen Machin, LSE
02 Nov 2020 How Twitter Takes Votes away from Trump but not from Republicans New research by Carlo Schwarz finds that, in the 2016 US presidential election, Twitter made independent voters less likely to vote for Donald Trump but did not affect other elections