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Giacomo A. M. Ponzetto is a Senior Researcher at the Centre de Recerca en Economia Internacional (CREI) and the Institute of Political Economy and Governance (IPEG), and a professor at Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF) and the Barcelona School of Economics. He has also been a Visiting Professor at Harvard and Bocconi. He is a Research Fellow at the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) and an editorial board member of the Review of Economic Studies, having previously been an associate editor of the Journal of the European Economic Association. He received his PhD from Harvard University in 2009.

His research interests include political economics, economic geography and international trade. He has published articles in numerous scientific journals on topics such as the geographic structure of government; the impact of asymmetric information on politics and economic policy-making; legal institutions and the development of regulation; and urban growth dynamics, human capital and innovation.

Selected Publications

• “Social Capital, Government Expenditures, and Growth”, (with U. Troiano ), Journal of the European Economic Association, forthcoming.
• “Globalization and Political Structure” (with G. Gancia and J. Ventura), Journal of the European Economic Association, 20 (3), 2022, 1276-1310.
• “Securing Property Rights” (with A. P. Behrer, E. L. Glaeser and A. Shleifer), Journal of Political Economy, 129 (4), 2021, 1157-1192.
• “A Theory of Economic Unions” (with G. Gancia and J. Ventura), Journal of Monetary Economics, 109, 2020, 107-127.
• “Political Centralization and Government Accountability” (with F. Boffa and A. Piolatto), Quarterly Journal of Economics, 131 (1), 2016, 381-422.
• “Shrouded Costs of Government: The Political Economy of State and Local Public Pensions” (with E. L. Glaeser), Journal of Public Economics, 116, 2014, 89-105.
• “Stare Decisis: Rhetoric and Substance” (with P. A. Fernandez), Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization, 28 (2), 2012, 313-336.
• “Clusters of Entrepreneurship” (with E. L. Glaeser and W. R. Kerr), Journal of Urban Economics, 67 (1), 2010, 150-168.
• “Why Does Democracy Need Education?” (with E. L. Glaeser and A. Shleifer), Journal of Economic Growth, 12 (2), 2007, 77-99.
• “Strategic Extremism: Why Republicans and Democrats Divide on Religious Values” (with E. L. Glaeser and J. M. Shapiro), Quarterly Journal of Economics, 120 (4), 2005, 1283-1330.

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Does Bad Government Breed Populism? Interviewed by W. Howell
Not Another Politics Podcast, University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy.

Politiche economiche, quali scelte, by F. Boffa and G. Ponzetto.
Alto Adige, 09/11/2023

Com’è difficile fare figli da Bolzano in giù: le politiche per la natalità dell’Alto Adige, by F. Boffa and G. Ponzetto.
Il Foglio, 19/04/2024.

Qui hi perd i qui hi guanya amb el turisme de masses?, by G. Ponzetto.
5centims.cat, 21/02/2023.

Perquè la banca tracta malament a la gent? Panel discussion with O. Arango, A. Filella, G. Ponzetto and A. Romans.
Economia de Guerra, 8TV, 01/07/2022.

Vehicle nou: compra o rènting? Panel discussion with F. J. López, E. Martínez, A. Medina  and G. Ponzetto.
Economia de Guerra, 8TV, 17/06/2022.

Habitatge: un dret o un luxe? Panel discussion with G. Hernández, E. Martínez, R. Medina and G. Ponzetto.
Economia de Guerra, 8TV, 27/05/2022

Un tetto al prezzo del gas è l’arma dell’Ue contro il monopolio russo, by F. Boffa and G. Ponzetto.

Il Foglio, 27/05/2022.

Steuern für den Frieden. by F. Boffa and G. Ponzetto.
Südtiroler Wirtschaftszeitung, 22/04/2022.

Tasse europee sui profitti russi, by F. Boffa and G. Ponzetto.
La Stampa, 11/04/2022.

Il dilemma degli economisti: AstraZeneca o BioNTech? Meglio aspettare se il vaccino non è giusto, by F. Boffa and G. Ponzetto.
La Stampa, 02/05/2021.

Arrivano i tecnocrati, by F. Boffa and G. Ponzetto.
Il Foglio, 05/02/2021.

Cosa ci lascia Alberto Alesina, by F. Boffa and G. Ponzetto.
Alto Adige and L’Adige, 25/06/2020.

Per rilanciare l’economia serve ripartire dal sud, by F. Boffa and G. Ponzetto.
Il Foglio, 27/03/2020.

Istituzioni e consenso: meglio il modello autoritario cinese o quello liberaldemocratico?, by F. Boffa and G. Ponzetto.
Il Foglio, 09/03/2020.

Come portare Roma e Napoli al livello di Milano? Qualche ricetta, by F. Boffa and G. Ponzetto.
Il Foglio, 29/12/2019.

Il Nobel e la ricerca economica, by F. Boffa and G. Ponzetto.
Alto Adige, 17/10/2019.

Tres punts a millorar per escalar posicions, by G. Ponzetto.
El Periódico, 28/02/2017.

Per què la renda per habitant d’Ulldecona és la meitat que la de Sant Cugat del Vallès? Panel discussion with M. Andreu, G. Ponzetto and S. Porcel.
El Suplement, Catalunya Ràdio, 21/05/2016.

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European Economic Association

Journal of the European Economic Association

The Review of Economic Studies

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