Italo Colantone’s research while affiliated with Bocconi University and other places

... Although some scholarship links economic decline to populism (Marcos-Marne et al. 2023), others argue that perceived economic trends and fears of decline are more influential than personal material economic conditions (Emmenegger et al. 2012). Additionally, some suggest that broader perceptions of societal well-being, rather than personal economic situation, drive populist support, though evidence for this remains inconclusive (Colantone, Ottaviano, and Stanig 2024;Dancygier et al. 2024). ...

Reference:

Rural Populism and Tolerance for Political Violence

... The study makes three important contributions to the literature. First, our findings inform the scholarly debate over which factors drive far-right support in the aftermath of an economic shock (Agnolin, Colantone, and Stanig 2024;Margalit 2019a;Mutz 2018;Rodrik 2021). Our results suggest that shocks do not occur in isolation, but are important collective experiences and interact with preexisting community conditions (Margalit 2019b;Rettl 2022). ...

Reference:

Without Roots: The Political Consequences of Collective Economic Shocks

... Analysing the economic aspects of anti-globalist rhetoric, it is worth paying attention to research by I. Colantone et al. (2021), who consider the phenomenon of "rollback" against globalisation. Their conclusions about the relationship between the economic consequences of globalisation and the growing support for populist parties correlate with the results of the analysis. ...

Reference:

The right-wing radical vision of a multipolar world: Specifics of anti-globalist rhetoric of leaders of contemporary right-wing politicians in the EU and the United States

... Compared with sociodemographic variables, internal or cognitive factors frequently offer more direct insight into the public's attitude and WTP for MSW management. Existing literature indicates that individuals who exhibit a higher degree of environmental concern, stronger personal responsibility, and specialized knowledge regarding waste sorting or resource recovery are more inclined to bear the costs associated with MSW governance measures [29,30]. Moreover, trust in governmental institutions or managing authorities has been identified as a critical prerequisite for raising WTP [31], suggesting that public confidence in the competence and transparency of local agencies significantly boosts their willingness to financially support novel or expanded waste management initiatives. ...

Reference:

Optimizing Municipal Solid Waste Management in Hangzhou: Analyzing Public Willingness to Pay for Circular Economy Strategies

... So könnte ein Unternehmen in der Schwerindustrie seine Standortentscheidung für einen umweltbelastenden Produktionsstandort auf der Grundlage treffen, dass ein geringerer Widerstand zu erwarten ist, oder sich sogar das Narrativ "Arbeitsplätze gegen Umweltverschmutzung" zunutze machen. Umweltungerechtigkeit entsteht demnach, indem Industrien oder umweltschädliche Einrichtungen oft auf dem "Weg des geringsten Widerstands" in strukturschwachen oder benachteiligten Gemeinschaften platziert werden (Bez et al. 2023). ...

Reference:

Industriepolitik und Sektoren der Transformation – ein Blick auf strukturschwache Regionen

... European institutions are aware of a growing detachment among significant population groups from the European project, the market economy, and globalization. This disconnection is explored under the concept of the geography of discontent (Colantone et al., 2022;Dijkstra et al., 2020;Guriev & Papaioannou, 2022;Rodríguez-Pose, 2018 in multilateral institutions such as the WTO will be essential. ...

Reference:

Modelling regional exposure to new trade wars

... The lack of widespread public support presents a formidable obstacle (Fremstad et al., 2022). Research on green taxes underscores that the perceived socioeconomic inequalities resulting from their implementation can render them politically risky for governing parties (Beiser-McGrath & Busemeyer, 2023) and even favour the electoral prospects of the radical right (Colantone et al., 2024;Voeten, 2024). ...

Reference:

Can information, compensation and party cues increase mass support for green taxes?

... The lack of widespread public support presents a formidable obstacle (Fremstad et al. 2022). Research on green taxes underscores that the perceived socioeconomic inequalities resulting from their implementation can render them politically risky for governing parties (Beiser-McGrath and Busemeyer 2023) and even favor the electoral prospects of the radical right (Voeten 2024;Colantone et al. 2023). ...

Reference:

Can Information, Compensation, and Party Cues Increase Mass Support for Green Taxes?

... In Asian countries such as Singapore, Japan, and China, social robots have also been used in settings like hospitals, hotels, restaurants, homes, and even churches and temples [6][7][8]. Meanwhile, robot application shows large disparities across countries [7,9,10]. A recent report by IFR indicates that since 2017, China has experienced the fastest growth in industrial robot application in the world, with a staggering 300% increase in robot density per capita, reaching 392 units per 10,000 employees. ...

Reference:

Explaining disparities in robot applications among nations and regions: A cross-level lens of cultural tightness-looseness

... The winners of this process have mostly been high skilled "knowledge workers", whose cognitive occupations complement technology, while losers have been low-and middle-skilled workers whose routine jobs are easier to automate (Im et al., 2019). In particular, the information technology revolution led to a job polarization, implying a decrease in the relative number of routine middle-income jobs and growth in the share of non-routine jobs at the two ends of the income distribution: cognitive, high-income type or the manual, low-income type (Autor, 2014;Frey, Berger and Chen, 2018;Anelli, Colantone and Stanig, 2019). Regarding wages, the former have seen their income diverging from those of the middle-class, which fell closer to the group of low-skilled and low-income workers (Gallego, Kurer and Schöll, 2018). ...

Reference:

Uncertainty, populism and foreign direct investment: the state of play in economic research