Hubert Massoni (@HubertMassoni) profile picture

Doctoral Candidate in Economics, University of Bologna | Environmental, Trade & Spatial Economics

Bologne, Émilie-Romagne
Joined May 2012
🚨Job Market 2025-26🚨 ⛴️🌪️How vulnerable is transportation and global trade to extreme weather? My JMP studies how tropical cyclones disrupt maritime transportation, and how private adaptation shapes welfare and investment under climate change. 🧵 A JMP thread (link below)
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Thank you @kielinstitute! I am glad to participate to the Kiel Trade Talks -- see you on Friday!
🚢 This Friday! @HubertMassoni presents his Job Market Paper at the Kiel Trade Talks. He studies how extreme weather disrupts transportation infrastructure and how firms adapt, revealing insights for climate-resilient trade🌪️🌍. Register here 👉 kielinstitut.de/events/semin…
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Thank you @DSE_Unibo for the support! Here is my job market paper thread with more details 👇 🔗 nitter.cf/HubertMassoni/status/1…
(1/2) 💼 #EconJobMarket 2025–26 Meet Hubert Massoni @HubertMassoni, Job Market Candidate from @DSE_UNIBO 📌 Research interests: Environmental, Trade, Production Networks, Economic Geography #JMC #EconTwitter #ClimateEconomics #TradeEconomics
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🏗️ Policy takeaway? I derive first-order welfare gains from port capacity = a guide for future port-investment allocation. Ignoring future weather risk / adaptation causes investment misallocation (up to 50%)! 📸 Global welfare gains to port capacity
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I am honoured to have participated in the GEP/CEPR PhD Conference at @UoN_GEP and to have received the Best Paper Award. I extend my congratulations to @cespinosad for sharing the award, and my sincere thanks to the organizers for hosting such an outstanding conference!
We had a fantastic GEP/CEPR PhD Conference with a great keynote speech by @imanelici ! Congratulations to @HubertMassoni and @cespinosad for sharing the Best Paper Award! The international trade field has a bright future ahead—and we will need so! nottingham.ac.uk/gep/news-ev…
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We're proud to share that Filippo Pavanello, former PhD student at our department, has won the 2025 EAERE Award for Best Doctoral Dissertations in Environmental and Resource Economics! His thesis: Essays on Economics of Adaptation to Climate Change Congrats, @filpavanello 🎉🎉
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Can AI-powered chatbots strengthen democracy? We test BallotBot, an AI chatbot providing official information to California voters on key ballot measures ahead of the Nov 24 elections. 🧵👇 📄 Paper: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.… w/ @ellliottt @sergallet #EconTwitter
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🚨 Job Alert! 🚨 5-year postdoc position at @Unibo as part of a project exploring how beliefs shape low-carbon transition dynamics. 📌 Learn more and apply here: econjobmarket.org/positions/… ⏳ Application deadline: 31 January 2025 @DSE_Unibo #econtwitter #ejm #econjobmarket
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THREAD The best photos from the fourth stage of this year’s Tour de France. #TDF2024  1. Alone in the snowy land. (📷: Klaas Jan van der Weij)
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A fantastic workshop last week!
Thanks to all the participants for the fantastic Inaugural BSE Summer Forum Workshop on Networks in Macroeconomics and Trade! Hoping that we have witnessed a permanent positive innovation to the Forum.
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🚨 We are hiring! 🚨 Join the Department of Economics at University of Bologna for a tenured position as either Associate Professor or Full Professor. Note: interested candidates need to have held an equivalent position for 3 years. inomics.com/job/call-for-int…
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There's still time to apply to these positions at @DSE_Unibo! 👇 Please forward to anyone who might be interested in working on climate macro, sustainable finance, behavioural/experimental or political economy #EconTwitter
3 post-doc and 1 pre-doc positions open at @Unibo! Please circulate to anyone interested. All the info available here: site.unibo.it/smooth/en/jobs. Deadline for applications: 29 February 2024
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I often hear Americans & rich brits justify buying oversized, polluting vehicles by claiming they need them because they live in the "countryside". I call bullshit, Ladies and Gentlemen, allow me to introduce, the Citroen C15⬇
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