Nicola Acocella
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Nicola Acocella guest of “Trinità dei Monti”, a Rome based think tank
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July 3, 1939 Calitri, Italy |
| Nationality | Italian |
| Institution | Sapienza University of Rome |
| Field | Microeconomics, Macroeconomics, Public Policy |
| Alma mater | Sapienza University of Rome |
| Influences | Federico Caffè, Bruno de Finetti, Luigi Einaudi, Ragnar Frisch, Jan Tinbergen, Henri Theil, Edmund Phelps, Paolo Sylos Labini, Ezio Tarantelli, Giancarlo Gandolfo |
| Influenced | Roberto Schiattarella, Francesca Sanna Randaccio, Alessandra Guariglia, Manuela Angelucci, Giovanni Di Bartolomeo, Paolo G. Piacquadio, Federico Signoretti |
| Contributions | Theory of economic policy, Monetary policy, Fiscal policy European institutions, Oligopoly, Transnational corporations, Theory of public goods, Globalization, Labour market, Trade unions |
| Awards | First Medal from the University of Rome ‘La Sapienza’ for 'excellence research' in the theory of economic policy in a strategic context, 2009 |
| Information at IDEAS / RePEc | |
Nicola Acocella (born July 3, 1939) is an Italian economist and academic.
In 1963 he graduated in Economics from the “Sapienza University of Rome” with a thesis on ‘Time lags in economic policy’, under the supervision of Federico Caffè. After becoming full professor (1980), he got a reputation for his holistic contribution to systematisation and development of Economic policy. He also introduced remarkable innovations in the theory of economic policy as well as in monetary and fiscal policy and the theory of social pacts.
During his career Prof. Acocella had the opportunity to exchange views or to co-operate with some of the most important economists of the twentieth century, such as Kenneth Arrow, Amartya Sen and Joseph Stiglitz and other eminent professors like Paul De Grauwe, Alexis Jacquemin, Adrian Pagan, Luigi L. Pasinetti, Douglas Hibbs, Andrew Hughes Hallett, Peter J. Hammond.
He has visited, among others, the University of Cambridge, Oxford, Toronto, Harvard, Reading, Stanford as well as the European Union and the United Nations.
He has been Professor of Economics with the University of Perugia; Professor of Industrial organization and Economic Policy at the University of Calabria; Professor of Economic Policy, Sapienza University of Rome. He has also been Head of the Department of Economics, University of Calabria; Head of the Economics Graduate Studies Program, Sapienza University of Rome; Member of the Research Commission, Sapienza University of Rome
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