Giuseppe Mastromatteo

A century after the Genoa Conference and 110 years after the outbreak of World War I, Europe has been shaken once again by the roar of cannons. The effects of the pandemic, of the war and of economic sanctions on Russia are accelerating a profound reorganization of world trade and the world economy, with the rise of two political-economic blocs around which production processes and trade flows will be reshaped...

The Covid-19 pandemic had already changed the course of world history, opening up a number of scientific and political debates, when the war in Ukraine erupted. With the help of a broad literature, we go into depth about how much these events will influence the reshoring process that was already under way before the pandemic, and more generally the development of global supply chains (GSCs), especially in the EU...

This paper explores the meaning of the idea of common good as used in the classical political tradition in order to study its role in the present political economy...

We examine the influence of the 1992 and 1993 wage agreements on the disinflation experienced in Italy through the 1990s, providing econometric estimates both for the reaction function of the Bank of Italy and for 2-digit industry wage equations. We rely on industry-level measures for the degree of indexation, and find that, after the agreements, wage setters became more forward-looking and expectations were to some extent influenced by the target rate of inflation. The relationships between wages and the other main labour market variables were not much affected by the agreements.