Federico Trombetta
@IcoTrombetta
Economist. Loving Political Economy and Game Theory (esp. combined). Agency, selection, information, accountability. PhD @warwickecon AP @unicatt. #firstgen
🚨@davidecipu @TommasoColussi @d_rossignoli and I are happy to share the call for the 25/26 Political Economy – Work in progress seminars. Tuesday, 5-6 pm, Universita’ Cattolica. Open to anyone doing political economy! Link: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI… #econtwitter #poliscitwitter
This is such a cool paper...
What happens when MPs gain broad discretion over public funds? With @augusto_cerqua, @__costanza & @marco_lett, we study the politics of “Signature Spending"✍️💵 — public spending projects funded and signed by specific politicians. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…
The Holy Family Church, the only Catholic church in Gaza, was struck by an Israeli shell on Thursday morning, resulting in several injuries, including the parish priest, Father Gabriel Romanelli. Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa, the Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem, told Vatican…
Ore 8.55. Stazione Centrale. 4 minuti di attesa per la verde, e la banchina è già piena (quindi chissà da quanto aspettano). @atm_informa non so come fate, ma riuscite a peggiorare ogni volta.
Si torna a cAsa! #biancoblu
Congratulazioni alla @PallCantu che torna in #LBA dopo quattro anni 👏 #TuttoUnAltroSport
📣📣📣 I am looking for a Research Associate (Predoc) to work on exciting projects in the economics of media and political economy. Please share and apply! For more info: tinyurl.com/hertie-applied…. Deadline: June 31. #econra #econ_ra @econ_ra
🚨@davidecipu @TommasoColussi @d_rossignoli and I are excited to announce the 2025 Unicatt Political Economy lecture! Shanker Satyanath (NYU) will present "Social Clubs and the Creation of a National Elite". 📍Tuesday 3rd June, 5pm, Università Cattolica (room G.253).
I've heard there is a great conference in NY on Friday & Saturday... Full program here: sites.google.com/nyu.edu/lse-ny…
Looking forward to attending the 3rd IE-Rochester Workshop in Political Economy. Panel 2 is highly recommended, for no reasons at all... :-)
He should actually govern in Economic Theory...
Quite the quote.
This paper has been in the making for so long that eight children across the co-author group were born between the time we started and now! But it is finally out, and you can check it at arxiv.org/pdf/2503.13323
Two days of great political economy!
Political Economy Symposium 2025 at EIEF Rome... 90+ participants. Organized by CEPR-Warwick-Northwestern -UPF
<<il 🖤 e l’ 💙 sullo sfondo d’oro delle ⭐️⭐️. Si chiamerà Internazionale, perché noi siamo fratelli del mondo>>. Buon 117esimo ai primi milanesi che capirono che per giocare a calcio servono cuore e talento. Dovunque tu sia nato. FORZA NERAZZURRI! INTERNAZIONALE! #FCIM @Inter
I reiterate: Europe needs credible independent nuclear deterrence ASAP. We cannot trust the US anymore. We are in charge of our own destiny. Today is clearer than ever.
"This will not stand. This will not stand, this aggression against Kuwait."--George H.W. Bush on August 5, 1990. Full quote from Jon Meacham's biography. Future history students will be asked why this stopped being the reaction of a Republican president to the invasion of a…
European armies would probably win a conventional war against Russia. Europe is bigger, richer, much more developed... BUT European (i.e., French and British) nuclear deterrence is too weak. Europe needs *credible* nuclear capabilities (rockets, bombers, submarines...) ASAP.
Has anyone ever thrown an ally under a bus in a more public, a more brutal way? This is catastrophic for Europe and for the world.