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Filippo Belloc
@filippobelloc.bsky.social

Prof of Economics at @deps-siena.bsky.social
Working on Firm Organization, Innovation & Technology Policy
>> https://sites.google.com/site/filippobelloc

Economics 49%
Business 25%

Can higher productivity also mean cleaner production? 🌿
Our new paper (accepted in Energy Economics) finds that more productive firms cause less emissions per unit of output, but also more emissions per unit of input, with high cross-firm heterogeneity: smart regulation is key!
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Is TFP clean or dirty? The nexus between environmental and economic efficiency
Improvements in economic productivity are a key driver of economic growth and a primary objective of many national and international policy initiative…
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📢Evento di riflessione su Gaza

13 ottobre, 10 am

Aula Cripta - San Francesco, #Siena

Organizzato da @deps-siena.bsky.social #DISAG

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We are not indifferent to the ongoing dramatic humanitarian situation in Gaza.

We warmly welcome three Palestinian students joining our Economics & Management study programme — two supported through @deps-siena.bsky.social -funded scholarships.

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What happens when manufacturing companies regularly incorporate worker feedback and ideas into their production processes? Productivity is generally higher—and so is production worker pay. New findings from Dylan Nelson of UIUC & @natewilmers.bsky.social @mitiwer.bsky.social:
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The Effects of Worker Voice on Manufacturing Pay and Productivity | MIT Sloan
New research finds that when manufacturing companies regularly incorporate worker feedback and ideas, both productivity and worker pay are generally higher.
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🚨Join us for @deps-siena.bsky.social Research Day! 🚨

Excited to showcase innovative research projects and ideas from our faculty !

⏲️🗓️23 Sep 2025, 2:30 pm

All are welcome!

#Economics #Statistics #Siena
Very useful discussion on the perils of using micro/cross-sectional parameter estimates in inferring the aggregate effects of policies/shocks. This is pervasive in Economics, yet the two effects can even have the opposite signs. (Example in next post.) voxdev.org/topic/method...
The ‘missing intercept’ problem with going from micro to macro
Many applied microeconomics papers conclude with a back-of-the-envelope calculation that scales their cross-sectional estimates to the aggregate level. These types of aggregate estimates are only vali...
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📢 One PhD scholarship available!

Conduct research on Worker Voice, Wages & Technological Change: The Role of Collective Bargaining, Unions & Employee Representation.

Deadline: Sept 5, 2025 2 pm (CET)

Application procedure:
unisi.it/ricerca/dott...

Exceptional work from @brankomilan.bsky.social on 'new capitalism'

'We estimate that 85% of the people in the world are capital-income destitute. In other words, the world’s financial and productive assets are owned by 15% of its inhabitants (households).'

branko2f7.substack.com/p/the-new-ca...
New capitalism III: Capital
Why is capital so concentrated and why so few have it?
branko2f7.substack.com

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#AI is the crop that only few fields can grow. @markmuro1.bsky.social & ‪@shriyared.bsky.social find that two Bay cities bag 13% of #US AI hiring. They divide America into superstars and also-rans, revealing big adoption gaps.
Investment beyond the coasts is needed. www.brookings.edu/articles/map...

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🎉 Just accepted in JEBO!

“Incentive Pay, Managerial Skills and Span of Control”
w/ F. Landini & S. Dughera.

Why do some firms rely more on bonuses than others? We show that incentive pay is more likely when managers are better educated and hierarchies are wider.

WP 👉 shorturl.at/7LgAj
The Annual Meeting of the PhD in Economics of the Tuscan Universities (Florence, Pisa & Siena) is ongoing!

Our PhD students are presenting their research and receiving constructive feedback from discussants and faculty members.

#Pontignano #econsky
🚨THIS WEEK🚨

Our PhD Annual Meeting kicks off this week, 10–12 June!

We'll spend three days at the beautiful Certosa di Pontignano (Siena), sharing and discussing our PhD students' research and strengthening our community.

Program:
phdeconomics.unisi.it/wp-content/u...

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IZA @iza.org · Jun 2
‘Based on admin data...’ 📊

Administrative data access for young economists improves research visibility and career progression but may reinforce existing disparities in the academic economics community.

New IZA paper by A Lepinteur & @rnistico.bsky.social‬ 👇
newsroom.iza.org/en/archive/r...
How administrative data fosters young economists’ careers
Unlocking potential or reinforcing hierarchies?
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🚨Our @deps-siena.bsky.social is launching a new Distinguished Visiting Scholar Program!

We welcome leading economists conducting broad and impactful research. The program offers fully-funded academic visits lasting 1–3 weeks.

More information 👇
www.deps.unisi.it/en/avvisi/ca...

#econsky

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🧨 🧨 @deps-siena.bsky.social launches a fully funded Distinguished Visiting Scholar Program! We welcome scholars from any field of economics. Apply now and share your vision with us! More info below 👇

Just published! We model how firms cut emissions under carbon pricing by mixing output control & innovation. Firms balance both to minimize costs, shifting towards innovation as prices rise. Data from EU-ETS supports our model, showing growing tech gaps across firms & countries. shorturl.at/Fv6Tf
Environmental regulation and pollution abatement under incremental innovation
We propose a simple framework for modeling abatement decisions by regulated polluters in a carbon pricing regime, when firms can reduce emissions both…
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A long long time ago, in a far away galaxy... the US used to tax the rich

Americans favor labor unions over big business now more than ever www.epi.org/blog/america...
📢 The application for the PhD in Economics at the Tuscan Universities (Siena, Florence and Pisa) is now open!

Several fully funded scholarships available

Deadline: June 9, 2025, at 2:00 PM (CEST)

Website: phdeconomics.unisi.it

Call: phdeconomics.unisi.it/the-new-call...

#econsky
Fascinating deep dive into the MIT economics/AI paper scandal/clusterf***.

thebsdetector.substack.com/p/ai-materia...
AI, Materials, and Fraud, Oh My!
The red flags we should have seen earlier for a too-good-to-be-true paper on AI tool adoption at a materials research firm
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Happy for the opportunity to present at the IJIO Conference on Industrial Organization and Industrial Policy at HKU. Such a great event and location to discuss about industrial policy and future research. Thanks for inviting me, for the feedback and for the hospitality!

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Upcoming events at the UC Berkeley Labor Center @ucblaborcenter.bsky.social

Demystifying AI and Empowering Workers

Part 1: Demystifying AI and Other Digital Technologies:
Wednesday, May 7th 10am – 11am PT

laborcenter.berkeley.edu/event/demyst...
Demystifying AI and Empowering Workers - UC Berkeley Labor Center
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Happy to join the IIOC 2025 in Philadelphia! Great session tomorrow about #IndustrialPolicy and #Productivity!

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🚨Next week at @deps-siena.bsky.social 🚨

Excited to announce the Second Annual Workshop "Economies in Ecological Transition”

Great lineup of speakers!

🗓️⏲️ May 8 - 9:30, Aula Goodwin #Siena

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There is a bunch I disagree with here, but it makes an argument for why AI adoption may be less rapid and less immediately world-changing (& dangerous) than people expect.

Well worth reading, as it is a useful base case where AI is just another technology. knightcolumbia.org/content/ai-a...
AI as Normal Technology
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Dreaming of advancing your research career in the heart of Tuscany? I'm looking for candidates for a Marie Curie postdoc fellowship. Please send your expressions of interest by April 30th.
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#Siena #Labor #Organizations #IndustrialRelations #econsky

Great workshop today at the U of Bergamo on #Automation, #Productivity and the #LaborMarket!
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Automation, Productivity and the Labor Market | Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche
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