Paolo Manasse is Professor of Macroeconomics and International Economic
Policy at the
University of Bologna.
He also taught at L. Bocconi (where he currently teaches Macro in
the PhD program) ,
at Sorbonne (Paris I),
Johns Hopkins (Bologna Center) and other Italian universities. He obtained his PhD from the LSE with
Rick van der Ploeg and Charlie Bean. He worked as a Consultant for
the OECD, the World Bank, the Inter-American Development Bank,
and was a resident Consultant, Visiting Scholar
and Technical Assistance Advisor for the IMF. He is a research fellow of
IGIER-Bocconi in Milan, and of the Rimini Centre for
Economic Analysis. His 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 policy coordination, sovereign debt and banking
crises. His 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, Foreign Affairs. In
February 2010 he was asked to address the European Parliament
on possible solution to
the European Debt Crisis. He writes on current Italian and European
issues on various websites such as lavoce.info, voxeu.org,
roubini.com, and his blog
“Back-of The-Envelope
Economics”
