Bio
Tommaso Sonno is Adjunct Professor at SAIS Europe
Assistant Professor of Economics, University of Bologna
Professor Sonno is also an Associate at the Centre for Economic Performance at the London School of Economics, and an Adjunct Professor at Bocconi University and the Italian Institute for International Political Studies (ISPI). Since 2022, he has been serving as the Vice Director of the PNRR Lab at the SDA Bocconi School of Management. He is also a Lead Researcher for Interpeace, sponsored by the German Federal Foreign Office. He has been Responsible for Fundraising at Nasara for Burkina NGO since 2003. Professor Sonno was awarded the 2018 Review of World Economics Essay Award for Young Economists. During the years he won several research grants for his research (Fonds de la Recherche Scientifique, 2016-2018, Belgium; Cordusio Grant 2019-2020 and Modigliani Grant 2021-2022, UniCredit Foundation).
His research focuses on international economics, political economy, and development economics. He is currently analyzing the impact of multinational enterprises on violence, the environment, and labor force participation in developing countries. His research focuses also on the organizational dynamics of business groups. PhD Economics from the Universitè Catholique de Louvain, and Affiliate PhD Candidate in Economics at the London School of Economics (European Doctoral Programme in Quantitative Economics). For a recent curriculum vitae including a full list of publications,
see his personal webpage.
Courses
- Macroeconomic Risk and International Finance
This course is a graduate level course in macroeconomics and international finance. The main objectives of the course are: (1) refresh the basis for understanding how the economy works at the aggregate level, and how production, employment, prices and interest rates are jointly determined; (2) study how different economies interact and depend on one another emphasizing the role of capital markets. We will specifically analyze how exchange rates are determined and when and why capital moves from one country to another. By studying a framework that analyzes the economic interaction of individuals, we will develop the theoretical and empirical foundations to consider the various macroeconomic policies affecting economic activity. The course provides a perspective that facilitates a rigorous analysis of macroeconomic risk and introduces the most debated issues in international macroeconomics: sovereign debt and risk, currency unions, global imbalances and the financial crisis of 2007-08