Last year, he was awarded the prestigious Carlo Alberto Medal as the best Italian economist under 40.
" In a speech this year Andrew Haldane, the Bank of England's chief economist, considered whether there was an industrial revolution brewing in the finance industry — brought on by huge strides in technology — that might see many jobs replaced by robots.
Alan Oster, NAB's chief economist, said the reduced foreign demand probably reflected oversupply, particularly in the Melbourne market where up to 30 per cent of city centre apartments were unoccupied.
"From an urban planning perspective, Beijing could be the most inefficient city in China," said Liang Hong, chief economist of China International Capital Corporation.
Zhou Tianyong, an economist from the Party School of the Central Committee of Communist Party of China, told the Global Times on last Friday that China's economic growth rate in 2015 was 6.
"School education has tended to focus on developing the core cognitive competences — for example, reading, writing and arithmetic," said Andy Haldane, the Bank of England's chief economist, in a recent speech.
According to Robert Koopman, WTO chief economist, part of the problem has been a series of crises that has seen demand collapse in a succession of regions.
"China's fairly pragmatic policy makers have recognized the limits of things like minimum wage increases," said Louis Kuijs, chief Asia economist at Oxford Economics in Hong Kong.
"Over the past couple of years, the number of policy tools available to the People's Bank of China has proliferated," Mark Williams, the chief China economist at Capital Economics, wrote Monday evening in a research note.
"It may be the PBoC senses that speculative pressure has diminished or that closer monitoring of capital flows has helped slow the [out]flow[s]," Mark Williams, China economist at Capital Economics, said in a note.
Production capacity at the refineries which turn fat into fuel is also far larger than demand, causing the US biodiesel industry to lose about $130m last year, a University of Illinois economist has estimated.
Zhu Ning, an economist, who recently published a book named The Guaranteed Bubble, said the number of books read by Chinese people is "embarrassingly low".
" 'On the more humorous side they do confirm our more or less prejudicial stereotypes of the disturbed psychologist, the withdrawn natural scientist, the cynical economist.
"Chinese consumers came to the rescue in 2015," wrote Tom Rafferty, analyst at the Economist Intelligence Unit in Beijing.
"While China's economy has become already very large, more complex, more private-sector driven, and more connected to the rest of world, the governance structure, policy communication, policy operation, and implementation have not changed much," Li-Gang Liu, the chief economist for greater China at the Australia and New Zealand Banking Group, wrote in an email.
Shruti Uppala, economist at the Centre for Economics and Business Research (CEBR) and co-author of the report "The value of global careers to the UK", believes that taking global positions is becoming more important to executive careers: "As globalisation increases and more trade takes place between countries.
That is a step few want to take — with rare exceptions such as Italy-born Congress party leader Sonia Gandhi, widow of the former prime minister Rajiv Gandhi, and prominent Belgium-born economist Jean Drèze.
Dr Andrew Chamberlain, Glassdoor's chief economist, said: 'European labour markets today are diverse and present myriad challenges, as well as opportunities, for job-seekers.
But manufacturing today is not what it used to be," Dani Rodrik, the Harvard economist, wrote in a blog some months ago.
"The decisions reflect the desire to keep some powder dry in case more stimulus is needed down the road," said Marco Valli, economist at UniCredit.
