Alberto Bagnai (born 10 December 1962) is an Italian politician and economist.

Biography

Bagnai was born in 1962 in

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. After moving to Rome in 1971, he studied economy at the Department of Public Economics of the

Sapienza University of Rome The Sapienza University of Rome (), formally the Università degli Studi di Roma "La Sapienza", abbreviated simply as Sapienza ('Wisdom'), is a Public university, public research university located in Rome, Italy. It was founded in 1303 and is ...

. In 1989, he graduated in economics and commerce at the age of 27, with an econometrics thesis on "Procedures for the Estimation and Verification of Econometric Hypotheses". He then discussed a PhD thesis in Economics in 1994 with a dissertation on "Sustainability and Dynamic Pathways of Public Debt in Italy". In 2005, Bagnai became associate professor of economic policy at the Faculty of Economics of the D'Annunzio University of Chieti–Pescara. Since 2012, he is associate researcher at CREAM at the University of Rouen Normandy, and since 2013 has been a member of the board of the International Network for Economic Research. In the same year, he formed the Italian Association for the Study of Economic Asymmetries, which he currently chairs. In 2012, Bagnai published ''Il tramonto dell'euro'' (''The Decline of the Euro''). With a strongly Eurosceptic and anti-globalist orientation, Bagnai calls himself a

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economist, and adheres to the orthodox vision expressed by economists such as

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, Anthony Thirlwall, and

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, according to which there are no structural assumptions for Europe to equip itself of a single currency. Bagnai also defines himself as a

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.Lega: chi sono Bagnai e Borghi, candidati da Salvini contro l'Ue
/ref> In 2014, Bagnai published ''L'Italia può farcela'' ("Italy Can Do It"). In the

2018 Italian general election The 2018 Italian general election was held on 4 March 2018 after the Italian Parliament was Dissolution of parliament in Italy, dissolved by President Sergio Mattarella on 28 December 2017. Voters were electing the 630 members of the Chamber of ...

, he was elected senator among the ranks of the Lega party, and in 2020 was nominated as in charge of the economy and finances of the party by the party's secretary

Matteo Salvini Matteo Salvini (; born 9 March 1973) is an Italian politician who has been serving as Deputy Prime Minister of Italy and Italian Minister of Infrastructure and Transport, Minister of Infrastructure and Transport since 2022. He has been List of F ...

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