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Creating a Mandate for EU Policy Reform

How can broad public support for policy reforms and gridlock be overcome? The main mechanism for achieving this in political systems across the democratic world is open competition for the main executive office: the President of the Commission, in th...

Generative AI - A concise primer for non-experts

A concise introduction into the workings of large language models is presented. We start with an introduction to the attention mechanism, the core of the transformer architecture, which is then followed by a discussion of the steps needed to engineer...

Angeloni Ignazio

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Ignazio Angeloni
Ignazio Angeloni

Ignazio Angeloni is Senior Policy Fellow at the Leibniz Institute for Financial Research SAFE in Frankfurt e Non Resident Fellow at IEP.

In 2019-2022 he was Senior Research fellow in the Harvard Kennedy School’s Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government. From 2014 to 2019 he was a member of the ECB Supervisory Board.

In 2012-2013, Ignazio was Director General for Financial Stability at the ECB; in that capacity he coordinated the establishment of the new banking supervision at the ECB. Earlier he was Director for International Financial Relations at Italy’s Ministry of Finance, Deputy Director General Research at the ECB, and Director of monetary research at the Bank of Italy.

Ignazio holds a degree from Bocconi University and a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Pennsylvania and has published books and articles in leading academic journals.

Hix Simon

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Simon Hix
Simon Hix

Simon Hix is the Stein Rokkan Chair in Comparative Politics at the European University Institute, in Florence.  

He is a Fellow of the British Academy, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.

His main areas of research and teaching are Comparative, European, and EU political behaviour and institutions – in particular parties and party systems, public opinion and voting behaviour, electoral systems and the design of democracy, and legislative behaviour.

Trebbi Francesco

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Francesco Trebbi
Francesco Trebbi

Francesco Trebbi is the Bernard T. Rocca Jr. Chair and Professor at the University of California, Berkeley Haas School of Business. He is also a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), where he co-directs the NBER Political Economy Program, and a Research Fellow of the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR). He currently is a Co-Editor at Econometrica. Before joining UC Berkeley, Trebbi was Canada Research Chair and Professor of Economics at the University of British Columbia Vancouver School of Economics and Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. He received his PhD in Economics from Harvard University in 2006.

Francesco Trebbi's academic research focuses on Political Economy and Applied Microeconomics broadly defined. He has worked on political institutions and their design, elections, political behavior, campaign finance, lobbying, regulation, housing markets, and banking. He has also worked on the political economy of development, ethnic politics, and conflict. Francesco has also worked on topics related to the political economy of development, corruption, patronage, ethnic politics, and intra-state conflict. He also has interests in Finance, Development Economics, and Macroeconomics.