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Walter Paternesi Meloni

  • Post-Doctoral Research Fellow in Economics, Roma Tre University

Walter Paternesi Meloni is currently post-doctoral research fellow in Economics at Roma Tre University, where he completed his PhD program in 2016 with a dissertation on the competitiveness issue in the Eurozone context. Since 2013, he has been a teaching assistant in the courses of Microeconomics and Economic Policy, Department of Economics, Roma Tre. In addition to take part in international conferences where he frequently presents empirical and policy-relevant contributions, he has been involved in drafting institutional reports on the Italian economy (INPS - National Social Security Institute, and Presidency of the Council of Ministers - Department for Regional Affairs).

His actual research interests are in the broad field of applied macroeconomics – with a particular focus on the determination of output, unemployment and income distribution from a demand-led growth perspective – and mainly related to fiscal policy, welfare models, labour market and international trade.

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Macroeconomics and the Italian Vote

Article By Walter Paternesi Meloni and Antonella Stirati | Aug 6, 2018

To understand the rise of the League and 5 Star Movement, look at economic indicators

When Demand Shapes Supply

Article By Daniele Girardi, Walter Paternesi Meloni, and Antonella Stirati | Feb 11, 2018

Contrary to the neoclassical model’s assumptions, shifts in aggregate demand have persistent effects on GDP

Persistent Effects of Autonomous Demand Expansions

Paper Working Paper Series | By Daniele Girardi, Walter Paternesi Meloni, and Antonella Stirati | Feb 2018

The prevailing wisdom that aggregate demand ‘shocks’ determine short-run cyclical fluctuations around a supply-determined equilibrium growth rate and an associated equilibrium unemployment rate (or NAIRU) has been called into question by various streams of literature in the last decades. Specifically, a recently revived literature on hysteresis finds significant persistence in the effects of recessions and negative aggregate demand shocks (Blanchard et al. 2015; Martin et al. 2015).

How Public Spending Creates Jobs and Growth—Without Inflation

Article By Daniele Girardi, Walter Paternesi Meloni, and Antonella Stirati | Dec 21, 2017

Contrary to conventional wisdom, government stimulus can improve the health of the economy for years after, without inflationary side effects 

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Reawakening

From the Origins of Economic Ideas to the Challenges of Our Time

Event Plenary | Oct 21–23, 2017

INET gathered hundreds of new economic thinkers in Edinburgh to discuss the past, present, and future of the economics profession.