Premio Padoa Schioppa al Politecnico

Uno studente del Politecnico di Milano, Luca Macedoni, ha vinto il premio di studio intitolato alla memoria di Tommaso Padoa Schioppa, istituito dalla Fondazione Fratelli Confalonieri, con una tesi dal titolo “Effects of an exchange rate variation on the allocation of tasks in global production network” (relatore professor Fabio Sdogati, corso di Laurea Magistrale in Ingegneria Gestionale).

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An austere 2012

di Luca Macedoni

We are getting used to a constant flow of depressing macroeconomic data. On January the 31st Eurostat released the latest news on unemployment: in December 2011 10.4% of the working population in the Euro Area was looking for a job. This value, that is the highest since 1999, is even worse for young workers: the youth unemployment in the Euro Area is 21.3%, with an Italian peak of 31[1].

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