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New Faculty

The EUI Economics Department is pleased to welcome Professors Özlem Bedre-Defolie and Fabrizia Mealli as new full-time faculty members starting this September 2023. Professor Bedre-Defolie specializes in antitrust and regulation in the context of multi-sided platforms and vertical contracts, while Professor Mealli is an expert in statistical and econometric methods for causal inference.

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Tuna Abay and Daniel Prosi receive ECO Second Year Prize 2023

Economics researchers, Tuna Abay and Daniel Prosi, have been awarded the ECO Second Year Prize 2023 for their exceptional paper presentations. The Prize is recognised by the organisers of the second-year forum and the Department's Director of Graduate Studies, Professor Alexander Monge-Naranjo.

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International policy coordination during disinflation

Pierre Werner Chair Giancarlo Corsetti has recently co-authored a blog post for the Centre for Economic Policy Research that analyses why countries’ monetary policies tend to address the current inflation crisis with a strict national focus, instead of looking for cooperation.

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