Nicola Acocella
Nicola Acocella | |
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Nicola Acocella guest of “Trinità dei Monti” Think Tank, a Rome based think tank | |
| Born | 3 July 1939 |
| Nationality | Italian |
| Academic background | |
| 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 |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Microeconomics, Macroeconomics, Public Policy |
| Institutions | Sapienza University of Rome |
| Notable ideas | 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 |
| Website | |
Nicola Acocella (born 3 July 1939) is an Italian economist and academic, Emeritus Professor of Economic Policy since 2014.
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.