Lucio Gobbi

Lucio Gobbi is Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of Trento, where he also received his PhD in Economics. His research interests include macroeconomics, monetary policy, financial stability, public debt, and financial networks. His research has been published in international peer-reviewed journals, including the Cambridge Journal of Economics, Structural Change and Economic Dynamics, and New Political Economy.

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No Country Makes Its Own Inflation

Article | Sep 20, 2026

Sixty years of data show inflation moving in step across the world. Economic theory still treats it as a national affair.

Inflation Beyond Borders: A Research Agenda

Paper Working Paper | | Sep 2026

Inflation is usually treated as a national problem, to be managed through domestic monetary and fiscal policy. But its striking synchronization across countries suggests another story, one where it is shaped by global production, capital mobility, currency hierarchies, and the international distribution of economic power.