Donato Di Carlo receives CES/JEPP Political Economy and Welfare Best Paper Prize 2021

In February 2022, MPIfG senior researcher Donato Di Carlo was awarded the 2021 Council for European Studies (CES)/Journal of European Public Policy (JEPP) Political Economy and Welfare Best Paper Prize. He received the award for his paper “Beyond Neo-Corporatism: State Employers and the Special-Interest Politics of Public Sector Wage-Setting,” which was published online in February. In his paper, Di Carlo analyzes public sector wage-setting through the lens of the common pool problem of public finance and special-interest politics. The prize is awarded annually by CES’s Political Economy and Welfare Network. The prize-winning paper is published in the Journal of European Public Policy. Di Carlo was a doctoral student at the International Max Planck Research School on the Social and Political Constitution of the Economy (IMPRS-SPCE) from 2015 to 2019, spent one year at the European University Institute (EUI) as Max Weber Fellow 2020/21, and is currently a senior researcher at the MPIfG.