L’Europa c’è. Mancano gli europei.

L’Unione Europea non se la sta passando proprio bene. È colpa della crisi, oppure il sentimento anti-Europa che si sta diffondendo è sintomo di profonde differenze culturali, economiche ed istituzionali che caratterizzano storicamente i Paesi europei? In un lavoro di ricerca condotto nel 2017, i proff. Alesina (Harvard), Tabellini (Bocconi) e Trebbi (British Columbia) provano a rispondere a questa domanda osservando il processo di convergenza istituzionale, culturale ed economica tra i Paesi UE15 (e la Norvegia) dal 1980 al 2008.

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Author: Piero

I am Associate Professor of Economics at the Dept. of Economics & Statistics “Cognetti de Martiis” of the Univ. of Turin, and research affiliate at Collegio Carlo Alberto. I studied Political Science at Bachelor’s and Master’s level at the Univ. Federico II in Naples, the lovely city where I grew up and where I’ve learnt how to survive most other places of the world. Then I received the MSc in Development Economics and the PhD in Economic Theory & Institutions at the Univ. of Rome “Tor Vergata”. Although I was trained as an economist my research topics are at the intersection between different social sciences. They include social preferences (e.g. trust, altruism, cooperation), subjective well-being, happiness and development (e.g. microfinance, civil war and natural disasters). I use experimental- and applied-economics methods such as fieldworks, lab-experiments, policy evaluation tools and analysis of survey data. I founded and currently lead CLOSER (Center for LabOratory Simulations and Experimental Research) with the aim of bringing together psychologists, sociologists and economists for a broader understanding of human behavior. I love riding my mountain and road bikes, swimming, traveling, listening to music and playing it with my indie-rock band.