Filippo Santi
fsanti.bsky.social
Filippo Santi
@fsanti.bsky.social
Assistant Professor at University of Bologna and Visiting Research Fellow at @EUI_Schuman. Int'l Trade | Trade Policy | Industrial Policy | Migration. https://www.filipposanti.com
The #itsg 2025 workshop came to an end. The local organizing committee is grateful to all the participants for the super interesting and stimulating discussion. Next meeting will be in Milan, September 2025. More info on fondazionemasi.it/italian-trad...
#UniBO #EconSky
June 20, 2025 at 3:01 PM
#itsg 2025 - Alberto Pozzolo (Roma Tre): #migration choices are influenced by the characteristics of all possible destinations, not just those of the destination country finally selected.
#UniBO #EconSky #
June 20, 2025 at 2:24 PM
#itsg 2025- Elena Rossi-Espagnet (Sapienza): Looking at push factors, #emigration from Africa is strongly affected by #demographic factors. Sensitivity to #naturaldisasters and #labor force dynamics also appears to by higher than in other parte of the world. #UniBO #EconSky #HumanMobility #Africa
June 20, 2025 at 1:57 PM
#itsg 2025: @faridfarrokhi.bsky.social (BU): disconnect between #climate and #trade #agreements create cross-externalities. Looking at #energy, it confuses terms-of-trade and climate effects. But interaction likely involve transfers between importers and exporters
#UniBO #TradePolicy #CarbonPricing
June 20, 2025 at 1:17 PM
#itsg 2025 - @hubertmassoni.bsky.social ( #UniBO): #weather #disasters hitting trade infrastructure trigger re-routing from exporting #firms, increasing #tradefrictions through increased transportation and congestion costs and disrupting firm-to-firm transactions.
#climatechange #spillovers
June 20, 2025 at 10:24 AM
#itsg 2025 - Gianluca Orefice (Dauphine): More liberalization -> more emissions? Not for #air #services. Air Service Agreement reduces #emission per passenger in response to more efficient re-organization of routes. more liberalization would push emissions further down.
#UniBO #EconSky #ASA
June 20, 2025 at 9:57 AM
#itsg 2025 - Cosimo Beverelli (UniMORE): Environmental #regulation affects #services #import? Indeed. More stringent EP - especially non market-based ones - positively affect services #Trade, but most of the effect is driven by imports.
#UniBO #EconSky #services #environment
June 20, 2025 at 9:18 AM
#itsg 2025 - Luca Macedoni (UniMI): Evidence from #US consumers. #tariffs are regressive, bad for household welfare, hits price index more for poorer households. Richer household can re-structure consumption switching to less exposed varieties.
June 20, 2025 at 8:21 AM
#itsg 2025: Andrea Ciani (JRC): growing reliance on unilateral #exportcontrols on the ground of #nationalsecurity have unintended consequences when non coordinated internationally. Trade diversion + incentive to innovate mitigate intended effects #UniBO #EconSky #Trade #TradePolicy
June 20, 2025 at 7:47 AM
#itsg 2025: @inmamartinezz.bsky.social (Jaume 1): Stringency of domestic #environment #regulation is correlated with increase in #Trade from countries with less stringent policies. This is stronger for "dirty" industries, providing evidence for #PHH.
#UniBO #EconSky #GVCs #Pollution
June 19, 2025 at 4:26 PM
#itsg 2025 - Anna Ferragina (UniSalerno): #GreenExports are positively associated with #Green #Innovation but only if partner is tech. advanced, imports facilitate catch-up. Policies should target more technologically advanced partners and provide incentives for tech adoption #UniBO #EconSky #Trade
June 19, 2025 at 3:46 PM
#itsg 2025: Christoph Ernst (ILO): trade war might undo progresses in the "green economy", causing major losses in terms of employment in green goods sectors. But, results likely specific to sector and labor force composition.
#itsg #UniBO #EconSky #GVCs #Trade #GreenGoods #employment
June 19, 2025 at 3:22 PM
ITSG 2025 - Antonella Nocco (UniSalento): Call for internationally coordinate, non-discrimintatory industrial policy to promote global efficiency and mitigate market power distortion. But, global and local tools required to address misallocation #itsg #UniBO #EconSky #GVCs #Trade #industrialpolicy
June 19, 2025 at 2:32 PM
ITSG 2025 - Alberto Petrucci (Luiss): Organizational Capital positively affect trade on both margins, and help neutralize adverse interest rates shocks from tightening financial conditions #itsg #UniBO #EconSky #GVCs #Trade #interestrates
June 19, 2025 at 1:41 PM
ITSG 2025 - Carlo Altomone (Bocconi): business groups restructure when exposed to natural disasters. Reorganization affects non-exposed subsidiaries, reducing overall subsidiaries and layers within the business group. Less complex activities are reduced more #itsg #UniBO #EconSky #TradePolicy #GVCs
June 19, 2025 at 1:02 PM
The 2025 Workshop of the Italian Trade Study Group “Globalization, environmental challenges and the evolving economic geography” is off! Prof. Luca Fanelli from the Alma Mater Studiorum - University of Bologna delivers the welcome speech. #itsg #unibo #globalization #environment #trade
June 19, 2025 at 12:45 PM
June 4, 2025 at 5:24 AM
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F Pappadà & K Rogoff develop a new, algorithmic, & easily updateable approach to estimate informal activity in #Europe, utilising VAT data and consumption surveys. They estimate the share of the informal economy in the EU ranging from 36% in Greece to 5% Belgium.
cepr.org/voxeu/column...
#EconSky
March 25, 2025 at 9:57 AM
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Agglomeration economics, industrial policies and trade - @pkrugman.bsky.social explains how his thinking has evolved on things, or not, for that matter. Great episode! And @chadbown.bsky.social the taxis were not a problem at all!
NEW: Nobel Laureate @pkrugman.bsky.social joins to discuss historical lessons plus new thinking on trade, concerns over geographically concentrated production, industrial policy, AI, the Draghi Report, as well as tariffs under President Trump.

🎧 Listen 🎧: tradetalkspodcast.com/podcast/206-...
March 18, 2025 at 9:20 AM
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Feels like air raid alerts in Kyiv are nightly. I checked: since the year’s start, only 13 nights were free of alerts, and each lasts about 131 minutes on average. Let’s see how the ceasefire goes, but meanwhile, please donate to air defense, links in the next reply. #UaView #RStats
March 12, 2025 at 3:47 PM
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Today is a great day to sign up for a Workshop for #Ukraine! I just registered for "Hitting web APIs with {httr2} in R" with @tladeras.bsky.social #RStats
sites.google.com/view/dariia-...
And to get access to "Customizing slides and documents using Quarto extensions" with @nrennie.bsky.social
Dariia Mykhailyshyna - Workshops for Ukraine
Feedback on the past workshops (if you want to learn how to make wordclouds, check out Text Data Analysis workshop below)
sites.google.com
March 1, 2025 at 12:53 AM
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Sometimes I’m asked why I overreact in the European Commission’s press room on the topic of migration.

Well. The EU Ombudsman, Emily O’Reilly explained my feelings better the me in her speech last night.
September 26, 2024 at 9:34 AM
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Sauron the Economist -
existentialcomics.com/comic/556
June 24, 2024 at 4:44 PM
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New working paper! Hendrik Mahlkow
and I have just published a WP on "The Carbon Footprint of Global Trade Imbalances" (www.cesifo.org/en/publicati...). Using an extended quantitative trade model, we find that global carbon emissions would be significantly lower in a world of balanced trade.
The Carbon Footprint of Global Trade Imbalances
International trade is highly imbalanced both in terms of values and in terms of embodied carbon emissions. We show that the persistent current value trade imbalance patterns contribute to a higher le...
www.cesifo.org
November 3, 2023 at 3:44 PM