David Loschiavo
I am an economist who plays his music in the sun
I am currently working as a senior economist at the Economics, Statistics and Research Department of the Bank of Italy. I received my Ph.D. from University of Pisa in 2005.
My research interests are: income and wealth inequality; household finance; applied microeconomics; urban economics; happiness; history of economic thought.
Recent works
"It is better to be vaguely right than exactly wrong"
Carveth Read in Logic, deductive and inductive
Liquidity-poor households in the midst of the Covid-19 pandemic
Published: The Review of Income and Wealth, 2022, vol. 68(2), pp. 541-562.
SMEs’ direct and indirect access to public guarantees: an evaluation of regional regulations
Published: Bank of Italy Occasional Papers n. 558
Big-city life (dis)satisfaction?
The effect of urban living on subjective well-being
Published: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2021, vol. 192(C), pp. 740-764.
Household debt and income inequality: evidence from Italian survey data
Published: The Review of Income and Wealth 2021, vol. 67(1), pp. 61-103.
A full list of my works can be found on my CV
Current projects
"Economists set themselves too easy, too useless a task, if in tempestuous seasons they can only tell us, that when the storm is long past, the ocean is flat again"
John Maynard Keynes in A Tract on Monetary Reform
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