Economics

Exposure to climate models' predictions affects policymakers and climate negotiators less than the informed general public, a paper by Valentina Bosetti and coauthors assesses. But the right presentation format can improve forecasts' effectiveness

Only when the going gets tough, the tough get going: political parties line up the best politicians in electoral constituencies where competition is most uncertain, rewarding loyalty with safe seats, according to research by Vincenzo Galasso and Tommaso Nannicini

Maristella Botticini explains why the choice, made by the Jews twenty centuries ago, of investing in human capital, continues to bear fruit today

Wage flexibility is often considered a substitute for exchange rate flexibility in countries that joined a currency union, but a paper by Monacelli and Gali shows that its effects could be negative just when a country surrenders monetary policy. The solution: an expansive fiscal policy

A model to predict how much energy we will need and how much pollution we will produce. This is the work being carried out by Valentina Bosetti, Associate Professor, Department of Economics

With an interdisciplinary approach, BIDSA puts together more than 30 scholars from different departments who, in their research, analyse largescale datasets and model the underlying phenomena. Igor Pruenster is the director