Former scholars

Enrico Bergamini

Phd candidate, University of Turin

Twitter: @bergaminienrico

Enrico worked at Bruegel as a research analyst.

He is currently pursuing a PhD in Economics and Complexity at the University of Turin. He holds a BSc in Business and Economics from the University of Bologna and a MSc in Economic Policy from the University of Utrecht.

His research interests include economics of innovation, climate change, and inequalities.

Enrico is a native Italian speaker, is fluent in English and has a working knowledge of French.

Contact information

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Do citizens care about Europe? More than they used to

The level of interest of European citizens in the European Union is increasing, but still lags behind EU economic and policy integration.

By: Enrico Bergamini, Emmanuel Mourlon-Druol, Francesco Papadia and Giuseppe Porcaro Topic: Macroeconomic policy Date: April 26, 2021
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Working Paper

Interest in European matters: a glass three-quarters full?

Everything that increases the interest of European citizens in the EU, independently of whether it has a critical or a supportive character, will serve to move the EU closer to its citizens.

By: Francesco Papadia, Enrico Bergamini, Emmanuel Mourlon-Druol and Giuseppe Porcaro Topic: Macroeconomic policy Date: March 23, 2021
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Working Paper

Talking about Europe: exploring 70 years of news archives

This paper aims to contribute to the understanding of Europe as reflected in European media.

By: Enrico Bergamini and Emmanuel Mourlon-Druol Topic: Macroeconomic policy Date: March 2, 2021
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Working Paper

Understanding the European Union’s regional potential in low-carbon technologies

This research identifies existing and potential specialisation in green technologies in European Union regions, and proposes an approach to identify policies that can help to realise this potential.

By: Enrico Bergamini and Georg Zachmann Topic: Green economy Date: November 26, 2020
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Targeted horizontal industrial policy: green, regional and European

Creating the conditions for the most promising low-carbon sectors to grow is the most efficient way to enable decarbonisation. As sector potential is regional and associated with regions' current strengths in related technologies, policy should aim to boost the growth potential of low-carbon technologies on a regional level.

By: Enrico Bergamini and Georg Zachmann Topic: Green economy Date: November 23, 2020
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How COVID-19 is laying bare inequality

COVID-19 is laying bare socio-economic inequalities and could exacerbate them in the near future. The virus is a risk factor particularly for those at the lower end of the income distribution, who are vulnerable to the interaction of the shock with income, socio-economic and urban inequalities.

By: Enrico Bergamini and Bruegel Topic: Global economy and trade Date: March 31, 2020
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2019 on #econtwitter, in a million tweets

What did academic economists talk about in 2019? I collected one million tweets from popular academic economists over the year, and analysed the topics discussed.

By: Enrico Bergamini and Bruegel Topic: Banking and capital markets, Digital economy and innovation, Global economy and trade, Green economy, Macroeconomic policy Date: December 19, 2019
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Talking about Europe: La Stampa 1940s-2010s

An on-going research project at Bruegel seeks to quantify and analyse printed media discourses about Europe over the decades since the end of the Second World War. In this third blogpost, we carry out the exercise on 9.9 million articles from an Italian daily newspaper, La Stampa. The trend increase in the frequency of European related articles, previously found looking at the French and German press, is confirmed in the case of Italy.

By: Enrico Bergamini, Emmanuel Mourlon-Druol, Francesco Papadia and Giuseppe Porcaro Topic: Macroeconomic policy Date: October 22, 2019
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Talking about Europe: Die Zeit and Der Spiegel 1940s-2010s

An on-going research project is seeking to quantify and analyse printed media discourses about Europe over the decades since the end of the Second World War. A first snapshot screened more than 2.8 million articles in Le Monde between 1944 and 2018. In this second instalment we carry out an analogous exercise on a dataset of more the 500 thousand articles from two German weekly magazines: Die Zeit and Der Spiegel. We also report on the on-going work to refine the quantitative methodology.

By: Enrico Bergamini, Emmanuel Mourlon-Druol, Francesco Papadia, Giuseppe Porcaro and Bruegel Topic: Macroeconomic policy Date: July 18, 2019
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Blueprint

Digitalisation and European welfare states

EU policymakers must find answers to pressing questions: if technology has a negative impact on labour income, how will the welfare state be funded? How can workers’ welfare rights be adequately secured? A team of Bruegel scholars, with the support of the Mastercard Center for Inclusive Growth, has taken on these questions.

By: Georgios Petropoulos, J. Scott Marcus, Nicolas Moës and Enrico Bergamini Topic: Digital economy and innovation Date: July 9, 2019
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Lockin' tax haven's door

Tax avoidance and evasion harm the public coffers, and increase inequality and poverty. This post summarises the recent debate on several aspects of the issue: the update of the European blacklist of tax havens and the related recent report from Oxfam, a call for reform of international taxation by the IMF, and the request for IRS reform by US democratic senators.

By: Enrico Bergamini and Bruegel Topic: Global economy and trade Date: March 25, 2019
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Talking about Europe: Le Monde 1944-2018

An ongoing research project is seeking to quantify and analyse national printed media discourses about Europe over the decades since the end of the second world war. A first snapshot screened more than 2.8 million articles in Le Monde, out of which 750,000 speak about “Europe”.

By: Enrico Bergamini, Emmanuel Mourlon-Druol, Francesco Papadia and Giuseppe Porcaro Topic: Macroeconomic policy Date: March 20, 2019
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