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Reichlin Lucrezia

Lucrezia Reichlin

Lucrezia Reichlin is Professor of economics at the London Business School and an external fellow at the Brussels based think-tank Bruegel. She is a macroeconomist and econometrician. She has pioneered methods for the economic analysis of large dimensional data and now-casting and co-founded the company now-casting limited in 2011. She was director general of research at the European Central Bank from 2005 to 2008. Professor Reichlin is a Fellow of the British Academy and of the Econometric Society, an honorary international fellow of the American Economic Association and a distinguished fellow of the CEPR.

Lobbying the EU: How Corporations Shape EU Policies in an Electoral Year

Do firms gain from lobbying at the European level? And, if they gain something, what do they exactly get? Which role do European companies and their lobbyists play in European elections? With Alberto Alemanno (HEC), Catherine De Vries (IEP@BU), ...

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Ernesto Di Giovanni

Ernesto Di Giovanni is a partner of Utopia, an Italian lobbying firm with offices in Rome, Milan, and Bruxelles.

Alemanno Alberto

Alberto Alemanno

Alberto Alemanno is Jean Monnet Professor in European Union Law and one of the leading voices on the democratization of the European Union. His research has been centered on how the law may be used to improve people’s lives, in particular through the adoption of power-shifting reforms countering social, economic, and political inequalities within European societies and beyond. He has written extensively on risk regulation, public health, consumer rights, food policy as democratic innovation, participatory and deliberative democracy.

He’s the author of more than forty scientific articles and several academic books such as 'Nudge and the Law – A European Perspective' and the more accessible Lobbying for Change: Find Your Voice to Create a Better Society', which provides a timely analysis and guide to levelling the democratic playing field by empowering ordinary citizens to speak up and inform policy decisions at local, national and international level.

Hovy Dirk

Dirk Hovy

Dirk is an associate professor working on natural language processing and computational social science. Previously, he was faculty and postdoc in Copenhagen, got a PhD from USC, and a master's in sociolinguistics in Germany.

He is also the scientific director of BIDSA’s Data and Marketing Insights (DMI) research unit, and head of the MilaNLP lab. He has organized a conference (EMNLP 2017) and various workshops (on abusive language, ethics in NLP, and computational social science).

Outside of work, he enjoys cooking, leather-crafting, and picking up heavy object to put them back down.

Policy Brief n.8 - The Banking Union, Ten Years After

Even though European banks do have solid Basel ratios, their profitability is insufficient to make them attractive for investors. This suggests that – from the market’s perspective - the system may not be as sound and stable as regulators believe

Monetary Policy in the COVID Era and Beyond: the FED vs the ECB

Federal Reserve monetary policy has been more expansionary than the one predicted by the rule until the second quarter of 2022, then this tendency was reversed. The evidence is very different for the case of the Euro area, where the observ...

Why is the ESM so Controversial Only in Italy? A conversation with Klaus Regling

The former managing director of the ESM discusses the long-term consequences of the Euro crisis and its aftermath.

Italy & Europe, Why Greeks Had no Hurdles in Approving the Modified ESM

The ratification of the modified ESM treaty by the Greek parliament took place easily, and smoothly, without the usual political tensions. The text was submitted to the plenary on the 28th of June 2021 and a week later, on July 6th, it was adopted by...

CBAM and the Global South, The Unintended Consequences of the EU’s Carbon Pricing System

Global South countries will struggle to deal with unintended consequences of the EU carbon pricing scheme: they are being asked to limit additions to the stock of carbon from now on. This is without any significant financial transfers, or, more impor...