But first and foremost, Giacomo was a friend I had the good fortune to work with on several occasions. Our conversations were an opportunity to look more closely at problems and analyse them rigorously, but also a way to defuse situations, tongue-in-cheek.
The page commemorating Giacomo on the Catholic University’s website opens by noting that ‘students who attended Giacomo Vaciago’s lessons on Monetary Economics and Political Economy were very fortunate, because they learned things that are not in the textbooks’.