The Department of Economics and Finance (DEF) was established in 2013 with the goal of fostering high quality research with a relevant policy impact, promoting participation to the international academic community and providing a rich intellectual environment for both scholars and students. Members of DEF publish on leading economic journals and are active in a number of research fields including: microeconomics, macroeconomics, international economics, labour and education economics, public finance, monetary economics, development economics, industrial economics.

Department members include columnists of major financial newspapers and advisors for the Italian government both at the national and regional level. They also have experience as members of international organizations such as the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank and the European Fiscal Board.

The economic theory of taxation places the trade-off between efficiency and equity at the center of the debate. Fiscal instruments such as taxes and tariffs, while contributing to the reduction of economic efficiency, can promote a more desirable distribution of post-tax resources…

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Di Pace, F., G. Mangiante, and R.M. Masolo. 2024. “Do firm expectations respond to monetary policy announcements?”, Journal of Monetary Economics, 103648.

Inflation expectations are central to the price-setting decision of a forward-looking firm. Because of their role in pricing decisions, they are key to the transmission of monetary policy to inflation, i.e. for the effectiveness of monetary policy.

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