USI Lugano - Department of Economics

A new year begins! The new IdEP Econ Seminar Series starts soon: the first talk is in one week!
📆 All seminars: 12:00-13:15 | Executive Center (Main Building).
Find the full schedule here: idep.usi.ch/storage/app/me…
Contact us here or at idep@usi.ch if interested in attending!

📢 Meet the 2026–27 @USI_IDEP Job Market Candidates!
We are proud to introduce our #JMC: @aldamarchese and @tlyeungae.
See below to learn more about their profiles and research.
💼 Explore all candidates and their #JMPs here: idep.usi.ch/job-market
#EconJobMarket #Research

Today, Sara Signorelli (@CrestUmr ) presented at our #SeminarSeries26.
W/ @GovindYajna (@CBS_ECON), J. Melbourne (@Unibocconi) & E. Zink (@uni_copenhagen), they show Denmark's “ghetto” labels backfired: Danes residents searched for better areas and spatial inequality grew.

Congrats to IdEP PhD candidate @simone_foresti on receiving the USI Doc.Mobility grant! 👏

Visiting @SU_Economics 🇸🇪, hosted by Prof. @josefsig, he studies how family background shapes access to the best jobs and its aggregate economic consequences. 📈

#EconTwitter

Today, @EconFaber (@bancaditalia & @CollegioCA) presented at our #SeminarSeries26. W/ @drewkoke (@DukeEcon) & H. Yoon (@DukeEcon), they model subsidies for replacing (polluting) capital: beyond cutting pollution, replacement spurs innovation, so subsidies should price both.