Gabriele Gratton

MARKET POWER IS POWER New working paper with @bartonelee2.bsky.social Thread below! 1/5 gratton.org/papers/Marke...

Still getting my head around this paper by @grattonecon.bsky.social and co-authors -- but the intuition is very powerful!

Heading to Alghero 😎 looking forward to a great conference!

In equilibrium, as this paper shows, de facto power tracks standard measures of market power, survives bans, taxes, and technocratic delegation, and can skew innovation toward regulation-resistant technologies. By @grattonecon.bsky.social & @bartonelee2.bsky.social at @ethz.ch buff.ly/fkYG29M

We are hosting a conference in honour of Emeritus Professor Alan Woodland. Join us in celebrating his remarkable and lasting contributions to economics. Registration: www.eventbrite.com.au/e/conference...

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Lehan Zhang (@ethz.ch) presents joint work with @grattonecon.bsky.social (UNSW) and Hasin Yousaf (UNSW) and @paulinegrosjean.bsky.social (UNSW & CEPR): "Adding fuel to the (gun)fire: how politicians polarize the public debate" 🔥 #WISE2026

Let me just re-up our review of Dani Rodrik's new book ("Shared Prosperity in a Fractured World") in light of this very interesting podcast. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Great to see this finally on The Economic Journal site! “From Gridlock to Polarisation?” (with @bartonelee2.bsky.social and @marcjacob.bsky.social ). academic.oup.com/ej/article/d...

Delighted to see this review of @drodrik.bsky.social’s stimulating new book out in “Economic Record”, co-authored with @grattonecon.bsky.social. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Check out this article by @grattonecon.bsky.social. It features his important work with @bartonelee2.bsky.social -- along with the contributions of Massimo Morelli, @trfetzer.com, @caroartc.bsky.social, and Laurenz Guenther. Most importantly, however, it www.eurekastreet.com.au/article/how-...

When you see the proofs, it feels a bit more real ✨ Grassroots Women in the Populist Radical Right (Oxford University Press) will be published online in June 2026 and in print in July 2026.

Seminar today: Laurenz Guenther exploring the role of political representation gaps in fuelling the rise of anti-immigration far-right populism in Europe.

New site live! resilientdemocracylab.org

This is one of the most elegantly written "academic" trade books that I've read in a long time and it puts forward an intriguing argument. The implicit baseline, as I understand it, ​is ``quiet politics'', with business prevailing most of the time, save www.bloomsbury.com/uk/billionai...

Finishing up the slides for the launch this Thursday night. Excited... and a bit scared

Less than two weeks to the 3rd UNSW Resilient Democracy Lab workshop. Register here 👇 www.resilientdemocracylab.org/events

Very much looking forward to participating in this workshop! Thank you for inviting me.

🚨 Join us in Sydney for the 3rd UNSW Resilient Democracy Lab Workshop 26-27 Feb 2026 Info, program, and registration👇 www.resilientdemocracylab.org/events

See this @stiglercenter.bsky.social post for a short summary of the paper. www.promarket.org/2025/05/14/b...

Lovely to see the @jeppjournal.bsky.social paper that @grattonecon.bsky.social and I published last year covered. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Great article by @jerusalem.bsky.social! www.theargumentmag.com/p/the-price-...

Great podcast with @grattonecon.bsky.social! www.youtube.com/watch?v=dajZ...

Honoured to be invited to join the @cepr.org family in the Political Economy Programme. Looking forward to Rome's workshop in June👇 as my first in-person participation as fellow. bsky.app/profile/cepr...

There is understandably a great deal of interest in fighting populism. I share the normative aspiration. Yet the more I think about it, the more I find myself drawn to a more pessimistic interpretation. The latter may well be wrong. But articulating it helps clarify whether there are strong grounds

Four more days to apply!

🕵️‍♂️Some of you have yet to apply to our @unswecon.bsky.social junior position, and I can't fathom why. 👀 DEADLINE: November 28. QUESTION? Email me. LINK: www.aeaweb.org/joe/listing....

Delighted to see this paper out in @carlsengames.bsky.social - working with @grattonecon.bsky.social was fantastic; I learned a lot! We develop the argument that technocracy can serve as an intertemporal insurance device for groups who fear their majority status is ephemeral. Because technocrats

This Friday seminar: @anjaprummer.bsky.social uncovering the virtue of divisive designs in optimal mechanisms.

Trying to publish a paper on fake news in 2012... I guess I was ahead of the times 😂🤷‍♂️

Fascinating paper by @grattonecon.bsky.social, @bartonelee2.bsky.social, and Hasin Yousaf! The paper addresses a fundamental question: Why do some democracies chronically avoid ambitious, long-term reforms even when they have decent institutions? They argue that what matters is not only

.@warwickecon.bsky.social has a number of vacancies for Assistant Professors (Macro & Development) Coventry has canals, an amazing cathedral etc. ... is one hour from London, 20 mins from Birmingham 90 mins from the Peak District National Park Apply here: 👉 econjobmarket.org/positions/12...