Thomas Bolognesi
@thomasbolognesi.bsky.social
Assoc Prof of Economics @Grenoble Ecole de Management. Study environment, water, policy, political economy, institution https://sites.google.com/site/bolognesithom/
💧 New publication in Governance: @thomasbolognesi.bsky.social & Manuel Fischer @pego-group.bsky.social explore why some megacities manage water effectively while others face major water loss — even with similar “good governance” principles. Polisky 🔗 doi.org/10.1111/gove...
"The top 0.001% (about 56,000 adults) have 3 times more wealth than half of the entire world population combined."
Paper alert😀 Policy Design and Governance Effectiveness: The Role of Non-Linearities in Urban Water Management w/ Manuel Fisher @pego-group.bsky.social #polsci #water doi.org/10.1111/gove...
Policy Design and Governance Effectiveness: The Role of Non‐Linearities in Urban Water Management
International Organizations formulate and disseminate principles of good governance for issues such as urban water governance. These principles are formulated in universal and general terms, for exam...
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Forthcoming in the AER: "The Price of War" by Jonathan Federle, André Meier, Gernot J. Müller, Willi Mutschler, and Moritz Schularick. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...
The Price of War
(Forthcoming Article) - We assemble a new data set spanning 150 years and 60 countries to study the economic toll of war. A war of average intensity is associated with an output drop of close to 10 pe...
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Conflicts over freshwater resources are accelerating. Data from the new update of the Pacific Institute Water Conflict Chronology. www.worldwater.org
1,600+ fossil fuel lobbyists at COP30, outnumbering every delegation except Brazil This isn’t ‘dialogue’; it’s the industry responsible for the crisis hijacking the negotiations meant to stop it If this doesn’t make you furious, you’re not paying attention www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Fossil fuel lobbyists outnumber all Cop30 delegations except Brazil, report says
One in every 25 participants at 2025 UN climate summit is a fossil fuel lobbyist, according to Kick Big Polluters Out
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📢 Just accepted in #JAERE! 📢 "Confronting the carbon pricing gap: Second best climate policy" by Katheline Schubert, Aude Pommeret, and Francesco Ricci. Read it here: buff.ly/XeYo6rd 📈📉 #Econsky
🚨 CNBC: "Announced corporate job cuts surging past 1 million so far this year, with 153,000 new layoffs just in October according to Challenger. That is the worst October since 2003."
𝗥𝗲𝗽𝗹𝗮𝘆 Conférence de Citéco "Le #commerce international à l'ère de Trump" avec Isabelle Méjean ( @scpo-research.bsky.social, @caeeco.bsky.social, @cepr.org), @paulinewbx.bsky.social (CEPII) et Céline Boff (Brief.eco). www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fi5H... #econsky #protectionnisme
Conférence « Le commerce international à l'ère de Trump »
YouTube video by Cité de l'Économie (Citéco)
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The 400 richest Americans are now worth a record $6.6 trillion. The entire bottom 50% of America is worth just $4.2 trillion. Read that back. When 400 people control more wealth than half a country’s population, we have a very serious problem.
📣 New paper out! @thomasbolognesi.bsky.social and PEGO member Manuel Fischer analyze good governance principles that make urban water governance more effective in 35 megacities cities worldwide. 🔗 doi.org/10.1111/gove...
Policy Design and Governance Effectiveness: The Role of Non‐Linearities in Urban Water Management
International Organizations formulate and disseminate principles of good governance for issues such as urban water governance. These principles are formulated in universal and general terms, for exam...
doi.org
🌍📈 Paper “The Economics of Inequality and the Environment” out today in the Journal of Economic Literature @aeajournals.bsky.social, joint with Jasper Meya, Lutz Sager & Ulrike Kornek. See short summary and PM by PIK linked below, and the paper here 👉 pubs.aeaweb.org/doi/pdfplus/...
AEA Web - Journal of Economic Literature - 63(3):840 - Abstract
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PIK_climate@pik-potsdam.bsky.social · last yr.The poor are less able to invest in climate. Now out: first comprehensive analysis of how the economics of #Inequality & the #Environment are interrelated. Co-author Ulrike Kornek (PIK, #UniKiel): “Implications for #climate policy." Story, link to paper: www.pik-potsdam.de/en/news/late...
If you think the attack on the Fed's Lisa Cook has nothing to do with you, you're wrong — any one of us may be next paulkrugman.substack.com/p/we-are-all...
We Are All Lisa Cook
Nobody is safe from weaponized government
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Le chef de projet à l’Agence nationale pour l’amélioration des conditions de travail met en évidence plusieurs points de vigilance au sujet du déploiement de l’IA dans le monde professionnel.
Vincent Mandinaud : « Sous couvert d’un allégement de tâches, le recours à l’IA peut intensifier le travail »
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US economic data quality a worry, authorities not acting urgently enough, experts say- Reuters poll
Risks to the quality of official U.S. economic data - long seen as the gold standard - are worrying 89 of 100 top policy experts polled by Reuters, with most also concerned that the authorities are not addressing the issue urgently enough.
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We definitely need to ban congressional stock trading. And prosecute those who engage in insider trading.
Elizabeth Warren@warren.senate.gov · last yr.Protecting his stock portfolio while ripping away health care from 17 million Americans. This is Washington at its worst. We need to ban Congressional stock trading.
Excited to be part of the Policy & Politics student reading list for our analysis of #policy #preference building in the case of #water management w/ M. Fischer and E Lieberherr @ethz.ch @eawag.bsky.social
Policy & Politics@policy-politics.bsky.social · last yr.Need help curating your course materials? Want to brush up on the freshest research before term starts? The Policy & Politics student reading list is here! 🎓🌟 Access the full list for free until 31 October policyandpoliticsblog.com/2025/07/02/u... #poliSky #publicPolicy #poliSci
1.5 months to go until my book Impact Evaluation in Firms and Organizations is out with @mitpress.bsky.social! An accessible introduction to impact evaluation & causal machine learning, with examples in #R & #Python: mitpress.mit.edu/978026255292... Examples: dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtm...
🥳 We are so excited to announce our call for proposals is open! We want your paper, panel, roundtable, open session, and pre-conference workshop ideas 👇 policyprocessresearch.org/coppr26-prop...
COPPR26 Proposal Submission & Registration
Important Dates to Remember June 5, 2025-August 31, 2025: Open call for pre-COPPR workshops, papers, panels, and roundtable proposals September 30, 2025: Notification of accepted or rejected propos…
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L’impôt plancher sur le patrimoine a été adopté par l’Assemblée nationale Il est plébiscité par les Français Sa logique économique est limpide Le Sénat, en première lecture, le rejette aujourd’hui Que fait on maintenant ? On continue ! 🧵
Le discours de G Newsom face aux décisions de D Trump depuis 140 jours et en particulier, les arrestations en masse d'immigrés et l'envoi de militaires à Los Angeles. Trad @lemonde youtu.be/8660KsNPLA8?...
Los Angeles : le discours choc du démocrate Gavin Newsom contre Donald Trump
YouTube video by Le Monde
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🤖An in-person & online workshop on the Economics of #AI will take place on 10 June at @collegedefrance.bsky.social and on Zoom. The workshop covers implications of AI for labour, growth, & democracy. Co-organisers: Collège de France, RCEA Europe, & CEPR. cepr.org/events/econo... #EconSky #EconConf
The world’s two largest economies have agreed to a trade ceasefire — but who blinked first? www.ft.com/content/ce68...
There are nice contributions on collaborative governance, participation and co2 tax. 😀
Policy Studies Journal@psjeditor.bsky.social · last yr.EARLY VIEW ALERT! Explore PSJ’s latest research – now available in Early View. Be among the first to read groundbreaking research and bold new ideas shaping the future of policy. Read here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/15410072... #PSJ #PolicyStudiesJournal
Harvard sets an example for other US universities by standing up for intellectual freedom and the right to protest - both key to responsible science. One fuels innovation and critical thinking; the other ensures accountability and alignment with public values. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... 🧪
Trump freezes $2bn in Harvard funds after it rejects demands
The White House sent a sweeping list of requirements to the university last week, which it said were aimed at fighting antisemitism.
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Wondering which EU #trade sectors will be hit hardest by the #Trumptariffs? Here's great clean and comprehensive charts and figures by the CEPII. www.cepii.fr/visualdata/t... #econsky #LiberationDay #Tariffs
CEPII@cepii-paris.bsky.social · 2y ago🆕 Find the main data on the #trade relationship between the EU and the USA: bilateral trade balance, composition of trade in goods and services, trade exposures by sector, trade protection, dependencies, as well as our main publications on the topic. www.cepii.fr/visualdata/t... #econsky
How US tarifs rates have been calculated...
Philipp Heimberger@heimbergecon.bsky.social · 2y agoIncredible. The Trump administration calculated "tariff rates" by taking the US trade deficit with the respective country and dividing it by the country's exports to the US. And then the tariff rate of the US is often just set by cutting that made-up "tariff rate" in half.
