Paolo Manasse

I am a Professor of Macroeconomics and International Economic Policy at the University of Bologna. I also teach at L. Bocconi University (he Economics of Financial Crises in the PhD program) , at taught at Sorbonne (Paris I), Johns Hopkins (Bologna Center) and other Italian universities. I obtained my PhD from the London School of Economics with Rick van der Ploeg and Charlie Bean. I worked as a Consultant for the OECD, the World Bank, the Inter-American Development Bank, and I was a resident Consultant, Visiting Scholar and resident Technical Assistance Advisor for the IMF. I am a research fellow of IGIER-Bocconi in Milan, and of the Rimini Centre for Economic Analysis. In February 2011 I addressed the European Parliament in a Public Hearing on the European sovereign debt crisis. My 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 finance, sovereign debt and banking crises. My 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, Oxford Economic Papers, Economica, IMF Staff Papers. I am a regular contributor to economic websites such as voxeu.org, roubini.com and lavoce.info where I write on current Italian and European issues. My personal blog is “Back-of-The-Envelope Economics”