Nicola Acocella

Nicola Acocella
Nicola Acocella guest of “Trinità dei Monti” Think Tank, a Rome based think tank
Born (1939-07-03) 3 July 1939 (age 85)
NationalityItalian
Academic career
FieldMicroeconomics, Macroeconomics, Public Policy
InstitutionSapienza University of Rome
Alma materSapienza University of Rome
InfluencesFederico Caffè, Bruno de Finetti, Luigi Einaudi, Ragnar Frisch, Jan Tinbergen, Henri Theil, Edmund Phelps, Paolo Sylos Labini, Ezio Tarantelli, Giancarlo Gandolfo
ContributionsTheory of economic policy, Monetary policy, Fiscal policy European institutions, Oligopoly, Transnational corporations, Theory of public goods, Globalization, Labour market, Trade unions
AwardsFirst 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 3 July 1939) is an Italian economist and academic, Emeritus Professor of Economic Policy since 2014.[1][2]

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.[3] 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.

  1. ^ Resolution n. 461/14 of the University’s Archived 2016-08-22 at the Wayback Machine.
  2. ^ "Recovery claims met with derision in Rome". Financial Times. January 8, 2014. Archived from the original on January 11, 2014. Retrieved January 14, 2014.
  3. ^ "it: 'I ragazzi che cercarono il professor Caffè (EN: 'The boys who looked for Professor Caffè.')". Repubblica. April 8, 2012. Archived from the original on February 11, 2023. Retrieved September 12, 2013.