A searing and brilliant piece from Frances Ryan on Joseph Rowntree Foundation's report revealing the scale of destitution "It would be natural to call this a social emergency, but that would suggest a sense of urgency that our political class has rarely demonstrated." theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

What happens when voters that opted for #populism and illiberal candidates express remorse in the next #election. Vassilis Monastiriotis provoking the audience at #RSAWinter with his "Remorse of the places that didn't mean it."

New job opportunity on mobility and opportunity at LSE, to work with Paolo Brunori, Pedro Salas Rojo and me. Please apply 👇👇

🚨 ERSA members publish! Regional Policy: Theory and Practice By Ugo Fratesi, Politecnico di Milano, Italy Routledge 2023 ersa.org/2023/11/24/pub…

Strongly recommended! Ugo Fratesi

Are you interested in studying at the European Institute at LSE? Join us next week to learn about our multidisciplinary centre for the study of Europe & the world! MSc Q&A ➡️ Register now: ow.ly/veNC50Qcx1n PhD Info Session ➡️ Register now: ow.ly/Swjv50Qcx1m

Yesterday LSE honoured one of its most distinguished Greek alumni, former Greek PM Costas Simitis. In a special celebration in Athens,Prof Simitis was awarded an LSE Honorary Fellowship,a prestigious award that was conferred by the Director of the Hellenic Observatory Prof Kevin Featherstone.

🚨🚨 We are excited to announce our 50th Annual Conference (#RSAIBIS24) will be held 9-11 July in Bristol, hosted by Geographical Sciences, University of Bristol and Emmanouil Tranos With the Spatial Economic Analysis keynote delivered by Professor Robert Huggins (Cardiff University) More info 👉rsai-bis.org/2024-annual-me… 1/2

So happy and proud for my PhD student Gabriele Piazza (co-supervised with Riccardo Crescenzi) for winning the Best PhD Paper Award at the #GeoInno conference. Well deserved, the product of painstaking work.

Unusually, talking about the UK...

Great paper on Help to Buy by Carozzi, Hilber, and Yu - but a sorry tale of UK policy It was obvious the subsidy would be capitalised into house prices, they told the government it would be, and - guess what! - it was capitalised into house prices sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Proud to announce the launch —next Tuesday, February 20th, 11AM CET— of the Report of High-Level Group on the Future of #Cohesion Policy "Forging a sustainable future together." Come to Brussels (Borschette Centre, Rue Froissart 36) or follow it online at: ec.interactio.eu/a81v-c55r-ecv2

A super-interesting event, two days after the launch of the "Future of Cohesion Policy" report!

🌍 Today at LSE: The Future of #European #Cohesion Policy 🌍 Join us for an exclusive event featuring EU Commissioner Elisa Ferreira 📅 When? Today! 6.00pm GMT 📍 Where? London School of Economics or online lse.ac.uk/canada-blanch/…

Early results (if that) on my latest project on the demand for human capital repatriation (in Greece). With good colleagues 𝐈𝐨𝐚𝐧𝐧𝐢𝐬 𝐋𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐨𝐭𝐢𝐬 🇬🇷🇪🇺🇬🇧 and Eleni Kyrkopoulou.

Very excited to be delivering the keynote lecture at the #EACES workshop on the Comparative Economics of Southeast Europe in Belgrade. Talking about EU conditionality and reform gaps...

A great panel on the geo-eonomics of Cyprus - thanks to our excellent panelists and to the Cyprus Forum for hosting us.

The final program is now set, and we eagerly anticipate welcoming our keynote speaker & guests! 🔗[pamworkshop.upatras.gr] The Organising Committee: Ioannis Laliotis (𝐈𝐨𝐚𝐧𝐧𝐢𝐬 𝐋𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐨𝐭𝐢𝐬 🇬🇷🇪🇺🇬🇧) Dimitrios Minos (Dimitrios Minos) Nicholas Giannakopoulos (Nicholas Giannakopoulos) Vassilis Monastiriotis (Vassilis Monastiriotis)

Great to hear that my paper with great colleagues Andrés Rodríguez-Pose and Marco Di Cataldo made it to the #JCMS list of #TopCitedArticle s!! How smart are smart specialisation strategies? doi.org/10.1111/jcms.1…

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