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Is there a misalignment between EU cohesion policy and the EU’s industrial policy? Professor Vassilis Monastiriotis and Tea Gamtkitsulashvili (Department of Geography and Environment, LSE) show that while the former targets less developed areas of the EU, the latter predominantly aids well-developed regions. 🔗 Read more on the LSE European Politics and Policy #EUROPP blog: https://lnkd.in/gmyDxtsp To stay up to date with the latest stories from the European Institute, visit lse.ac.uk/ei/news.

🎉 Congratulations to Cosimo Mati! Cosimo is an alumnus from the Class of 2019 with an MSc in EU Politics. He has just begun a new role as European Government Affairs Advisor at Eni - best of luck in your new job, Cosimo! We love celebrating our alumni and students' news as part of our new #EIAwesomeAlumni campaign. Let us know if there's anything you'd like to share - and please share your congratulations with Cosimo in the comments!

OUT NOW! 📚 📣 Have you read our latest Annual Report yet? It covers all of our activities over the 2023/24 academic year here at the LSE European Institute! This includes our exciting public events programme which brought together an incredible total of almost 8000 people in-person and online to engage with global leaders, hear insights from policy experts, and challenge Eurocentric narratives 💭 🔗 Read our report here: https://lnkd.in/ehE8_Hdg #LSEEI #TeamEI #PartofLSE #Community #AnnualReport The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) Contemporary Turkish Studies Hellenic Observatory LSE Alumni LSE Review of Books LSE Blogs

Professor Nicholas Barr, Professor of Public Economics at LSE European Institute and LSE School of Public Policy, has been awarded the Jon Aldecoa Prize by the Loreto Mutua in collaboration with the Novaster company for his studies on the sustainability of pension systems. Join us in congratulating Nicholas Barr for receiving this prestigious recognition of his work. 🎉👏 🔗 Read the full story here: https://lnkd.in/eaAH3STR The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)

Modeling the economy as a watch or as a cloud - how do these models predict the effects of supply shocks? 💭 In a new discussion paper for the CEPR - Centre for Economic Policy Research, Professor Paul de Grauwe and Professor Yuemei Ji (UCL) argue that the mainstream macroeconomic models (DSGE-models) are models that operate like “watches”, while behavioural macroeconomic models operate like “clouds”. 🔗 Read more: https://lnkd.in/eJhYpZP3 To stay up to date with the latest stories from the European Institute, visit lse.ac.uk/ei/news.

Join us for the event "Understanding solidary support for reparations: Memory production and public meaning-making after mass violence" from the European Institute's Beyond Eurocentrism Programme. Register 👉 https://lnkd.in/egrpuQqy

How do lunch breaks reduce transparency and help EU leaders reach agreement? 🥪 Discover a new blog article which draws on new research by Dr Mareike Kleine and Samuel Huntington, an EI Class of 2022 alumnus now economist at the UK Department for Science, Innovation and Technology. 🔗 Read more on LSE European Politics and Policy: https://lnkd.in/gvHS8CYR To stay up to date with the latest stories from the European Institute, visit lse.ac.uk/ei/news.

Bill Philips is known as an LSE economist and inventor, but less well-known is his adventurous early life, extraordinary war record and unorthodox entry into an academic career. Professor Nicholas Barr remembers the adventures and achievements of his former teacher – who is most famous as the originator of the #PhillipsCurve – in a new article for our LSE history blog. 🔗 Read his fascinating story on LSE Blogs: https://lnkd.in/ex7Z2rxT To stay up to date with the latest stories from the European Institute, visit lse.ac.uk/ei/news.

Europe’s left has traditionally championed social protection, labour rights and expansive welfare states. Yet as our Nicholas Barr Fellow in European Political Economy Gianmarco Fifi and Virginia Crespi de Valldaura explain, the left has also played a key role in sustaining and shaping neoliberalism. 🔗 Read more on LSE European Politics and Policy #EUROPP: https://lnkd.in/gTQi_pUV To stay up to date with the latest stories from the European Institute, visit lse.ac.uk/ei/news.

The guest speaker of the Maurice Fraser Annual Lecture 2024 was Timothy Garton Ash, Professor of European Studies and Isaiah Berlin Professorial Fellow Emeritus at the University of Oxford, and Senior Fellow of Stanford University. Under the title of “Europe at the Beginning of a New Era” he discussed his latest book “Homelands: A Personal History of Europe”. The Maurice Fraser Annual Lecture celebrates the memory of Professor Maurice Fraser, former Head of Department of the EI. Maurice was Professor in Practice, having served as special advisor to three successive British foreign secretaries during the tumultuous historical period of 1989-1995, amongst other posts. It was a privilege to honor his legacy alongside members of his family, followed by a celebratory drinks reception. Watch the full lecture on our YouTube channel: https://lnkd.in/esdaDS-E