54th ANNUAL CONFERENCE

Alma Mater Studiorum - University of Bologna

Department of Economics – Piazza Scaravilli, 2

24-26 October 2013

 

 

 

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 24

 

13:00-14.30 Registration

 

14:30-16:30 PARALLEL SESSIONS A

A1 Growth and tax (co-organized with SIEP) – Aula Magna
Chair: Massimo Bordignon, Mauro Marè – Opening remarks: Piercarlo Padoan (Chief Economist e Deputy Secretary-General of the OECD)

• Tax structure and macroeconomic performance
  Giampaolo Arachi, Valeria Bucci, Alessandra Casarico
• Government Size, Decentralization and Growth: a BARS Curve Approach Based on Italian Regional Data
  Giuseppe Di Liddo, Cosimo Magazzino, Francesco Porcelli
• Riforma fiscale ecologica in tempi di crisi economico-finanziaria
  Aldo Ravazzi Douvan

A2 The green economy (co-organized with IAERE) – Aula 11
Chair: Laura Castellucci

• On the optimal timing of switching from non-renewable to renewable resources: dirty vs clean energy sources and the relative efficiency of generators
  Elettra Agliardi, Luigi Sereno
• Green investment strategies and export performance: A firm-level investigation
  Roberto Antonietti, Alberto Marzucchi
• Environmental taxation and its determinants in Europe. Is there any relationship with rule of law, ICT and imports?
  Concetta Castiglione, Davide Infante, Janna Smirnova
• Environmental liability under risk and ambiguity
  Luigi Alberto Franzoni

A3 Spatial econometrics methods (co-organized with SIDE) – Aula 3
Chair: Giuseppe Cavaliere

• Modelling regional economic dynamics: spatial dependence, spatial heterogeneity and nonlinearities
  Roberto Basile, Román Mínguez, Jose María Montero, Jesús Mur
• The Determinants of Growth Volatility in European Regions
  Davide Fiaschi, Lisa Gianmoena, Angela Parenti
• Maximum likelihood estimation of spatially and serially correlated panels with random effects
  Giovanni Millo
• A spatial nonparametric analysis of local multipliers
  Margherita Gerolimetto, Stefano Magrini

A4 Towards a Bio-based economy (co-organized with AIEAA) – Aula 21
Chair: Donato Romano

• How does space affect the distribution of the EU RDP funds? An econometric assessment
  Beatrice Camaioni, Roberto Esposti,  Antonello Lobianco, Francesco Pagliacci, Franco Sotte
• Optimal targeting and payment design for Agri-Environmental Measures: A resource allocation model for Emilia Romagna (Italy)
  Daniele Vergamini, Meri Raggi, Davide Viaggi
• Biotechnology and Public opinion: The results of a citizens’ jury case study
  Cristina Mora, Davide Menozzi, Giovanni Sogari, Mary Brennan, Marian Raley, Lynn J. Frewer
• Economic analysis of Water Harvesting Reservoirs with Internal Water Reallocation: a Case Study in Emilia Romagna, Italy
  Matteo Zavalloni, Meri Raggi, Davide Viaggi

A5 Issues in regional economics (co-organized with AISRE) – Aula 31
Chair: Enrico Ciciotti

• Trust your neighbour. Technological relatedness, social capital and outsourcing
  Roberto Antonietti, Maria Rosaria Ferrante, Riccardo Leoncini
• Are the R&D Subsidies Effective? An Empirical Analysis of the Italian Fund for Technological Innovation
  Marusca De Castris
• Local labour markets and the interregional mobility of Italian university students
  Nicola Francesco Dotti, Ugo Fratesi, Camilla Lenzi, Marco Percoco
• Imprenditori si nasce o si diventa? La rilevazione delle attitudini imprenditoriali: modelli di misura ed evidenze empiriche
  Giuseppe Notarstefano
• The Peripheralization of Southern‐European Capitalism within the EMU
  Stefano Solari, Francesca Gambarotto

A6 Game theory (co-organized with AMASES) – Aula 2
Chair: Bruno Viscolani

• Unit-Price Auction Procedures
  Yumiko Baba
• Reputation and Entry in Procurement
  Jeff Butler, Enrica Carbone, Pierluigi Conzo, Giancarlo Spagnolo
• Organizational Structure and the Choice of Price vs. Quantity in a Mixed Duopoly
  Alessandra Chirco, Caterina Colombo, Marcella Scrimitore
• On the Feedback Solutions of Differential Oligopoly Games with Hyperbolic Demand Curve and Capacity Accumulation
  Luca Lambertini, Arsen Palestini

A7 Social capital – Aula 12
Chair: Leonardo Becchetti

• Disentangling the relationship between nonprofit and social capital: the role of social cooperatives and social welfare associations in the development of networks of strong and weak ties
  Giacomo Degli Antoni, Fabio Sabatini
• The Impact of Social Capital on Consumption Insurance and Income Volatility in the U.K.: Evidence from the British Household Panel Survey
  Filippo M. Pericoli, Eleonora Pierucci, Luigi Ventura
• A supply-side story for a threshold model: Endogenous growth of open collaborative innovation communities
  Francesco Rullani, Lorenzo Zirulia

A8 Innovation – Aula 22
Chair: Alessandra Chirco

• Old Technology Upgrades, Innovation, and Competition in Vertically Differentiated Markets
  Marc Bourreau, Paolo Lupi, Fabio M. Manenti
• Innovation, financial constraints and relationship lending: : evidence from Italy during the recent crises
  Emanuele Brancati
• Innovation, trade and the size of exporting firms
  Letizia Montinari, Massimo Riccaboni, Stefafo Schiavo

A9 Inequality (co-organized with AISSEC) – Aula 32
Chiar: Elisabetta Croci Angelini

• Inequality and trust: new evidence from panel data
  Guglielmo Barone, Sauro Mocetti
• On Revealed Diversity
  Gaetano Gaballo, Ernesto Savaglio

A10 Trade – Aula 1
Chair: Caterina Colombo

• The network of international trade and R&D spillovers
  Andrea Fracasso, Giuseppe Vittucci Marzetti
• Education ties and investments abroad. Empirical evidence from the US and UK
  Marina Murat
• Innovative capacity and export performance: Exploring heterogeneity along the export intensity distribution
  Chiara Piccardo, Anna Bottasso, Luigi Benfratello
• Export price adjustments under financial constraints
  Angelo Secchi, Federico Tamagni, Chiara Tomasi

16:30-16:45 Welcome address

16:45-18:30 PARALLES SESSIONS B

B1 Round Table “Industry Reinassance” – Aula Magna
Chair: Patrizio Bianchi – Discussant: Gilberto Antonelli
Speaker: Ha-Joon Chang

B2 History of the antitrust law and economics (co-organized with AISPE) – Aula 11
Chair: Michele Grillo, Nicola Giocoli

• Ordo and European Competition Law
  Flavio Felice, Massimiliano Vatiero
• When Economics Faces the Economy: John Bates Clark and the 1914: Antitrust Legislation
  Luca Fiorito
• The sources of monopoly power before Bain (1956)
  Manuela Mosca
• Chicago and US Antitrust: a Note on an Enduring Love Story
  Rodolfo Signorino

B3 Regulation in public utility – Aula 3
Chair: Lorenzo Robotti

• Upcoming challenges in the water sector
  Lorenzo Bardelli
• Anonymity in Social Dilemmas: Evidence from Waste Sorting
  Alessandro Bucciol, Natalia Montinari, Marco Piovesan
• Fuel poverty e bonus energetici: il caso italiano
  Raffaele Miniaci, Carlo Scarpa, Paola Valbonesi

B4 Food security, natural and human capital  – Aula 21
Chair: Pasquale Lucio Scandizzo, Giuseppe Folloni

• Millet Prices, Public Policy and Child Malnutrition: the Case of Niger in 2005
  Giovanni Andrea Cornia, Laura Deotti
• Immigration Restriction and Long-Run Cultural Assimilation: Theory and Quasi-Experimental Evidence
  Fausto Galli, Giuseppe Russo
• Biofuel Development and Large-Scale Land Deals in Sub-Saharan Africa
  Giorgia Giovannetti, Elisa Ticci
• The social rate of discount, climate change and real options
  Pasquale Lucio Scandizzo

19:00 Welcome cocktail – “Le Stanze” – Via del Borgo di San Pietro 1

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 25

8:10-10:10 PARALLEL SESSIONS C

C1 Young economist session – Aula Magna
Chair: Alberto Zazzaro

• Protection for Sale, Monopolistic Competition and Variable Markups
  Barbara Annicchiarico, Enrico Marvasi
• Business Cycle and Markov Switching Models with Distributed Lags: A Comparison Between US and Euro Area
  Monica Billio, Maddalena Cavicchioli
• Growth Forecast Errors and Government Investment and Consumption Multipliers
  Branimir Jovanovic

C2 Theory and policy making in economics (co-organized with STOREP) – Aula 11
Chair: Sergio Nisticò

• Sylos Labini on Marx: An Attempt at a Balanced Assessment Based on Critical Thinking –  slides
  Massimo Cingolani
• The Normal Level of Indebtedness and The Reproducibility of Economic System. A Monetary Theory of Production Approach
  Andrea Pacella, Riccardo Realfonzo, Guido Tortorella Esposito
• Neglected implications of neoclassical capital-labour substitution for investment theory: another criticism of Say’s Law
  Fabio Petri
• Modigliani’s and Sylos Labini’s Labini’s Unemployment Theory
  Antonella Rancan

C3 Industrial structure and crisis reaction (co-organized with SIEPI) – Aula 3
Chair: Piercarlo Frigero

• La relazione tra capitale umano, Ricerca & Sviluppo e innovazione a livello di impresa: un’analisi su un panel di imprese italiane
  Rosamaria d’Amore, Roberto Iorio, Giuseppe Lubrano Lavadera
• The determinants of international competitiveness: a firm-level perspective
  Giovanni Dosi, Marco Grazzi, Daniele Moschella
• Networks of mechanical filiéres before and after the 2008 crisis
  Margherita Russo
• The good of euro. Technological changes in low-tech and high-tech manufacturing firms in Italy
  Giuseppina Testa

C4 Energy and environmental markets integration (co-organized with AIEE) – Aula 21
Chair: Carlo Andrea Bollino

• Contagion in Electricity Markets: Does It Exist?
  Carlo Andrea Bollino, Davide Ciferri, Paolo Polinori
• Price coordination in vertically integrated electricity markets. Theory and empirical evidence
  Bruno Bosco, Lucia Parisio, Matteo Pelagatti
• Effects of the Opening of the Energy Markets on the Cost Efficiency of the Big European Players
  Clementina Bruno, Marina Di Giacomo, Giovanni Fraquelli
• Modelling and forecasting the Italian electricity price
  Valeria Di Cosmo

C5 Health (co-organized with AIES) –  Aula 31
Chair: Giacomo Pignataro

• Early-life Conditions, Lifetime income and Mortality Risk in Italy
  Michele Belloni, Adriaan Kalwij, Rob Alessie
• The relationship between costs and quality in nonprofit nursing homes
  Laura Di Giorgio, Massimo Filippini, Giuliano Masiero
• Readmission and Hospital Quality under Prospective Payment System
  Calogero Guccio, Domenico Lisi, Giacomo Pignataro
• Does the extension of primary care practice opening hours reduce inappropriate use of emergency services? An IV approach
  Matteo Lippi Bruni, Irene Mammi, Cristina Ugolini

C6 Social issues – Aula 2
Chair: Pasquale Lucio Scandizzo

• Do UN troops secure crops? Evidence from South Sudan
  Raul Caruso, Prabin B. Khadka, Ilaria Petrarca, Roberto Ricciuti
• Crop Diversification, Dietary Diversity and Agricultural Income: Empirical Evidence from Eight Developing Countries
  Lorenzo Pellegrini, Luca Tasciotti
• Ethnic Distribution, Effective Power and Conflict
  Matija Kovacic, Claudio Zoli
• Let there be (artificial) light, and Io and behold malaria returned
  Luca Tasciotti, Lorenzo Pellegrini

C7 Migration – Aula 12
Chair: Maria Luigia Segnana

• Dr. Rossi, Dr. Hu and the Politics. The Role of Immigration in Shaping Natives’ Political Preferences
  Guglielmo Barone, Alessio D’Ignazio, Guido de Blasio, Paolo Naticchioni
• Immigration, Population Diversity and Innovation of Italian regions
  Massimiliano Bratti, Chiara Conti
• Migration, Production Structure and Exports
  Giuseppe De Arcangelis, Edoardo Di Porto, Gianluca Santoni
• Estimating the Migration-Tourism Nexus for Italy’s International Outbound Tourism
  Ivan Etzo, Carla Massidda, Romano Piras

C8 Production – Aula 22
Chair: Riccardo Leoncini

• Multiple Market Imperfections, Firm Profitability and Investment
  Giorgio Calcagnini, Annalisa Ferrando, Germana Giombini
• Sunk Capital, Unions and the Hold-Up Problem: Theory and Evidence from Sectoral Data
  Gabriele Cardullo, Maurizio Conti, Giovanni Sulis
• On the Relationship between Finance and Innovation: Evidence from the Italian Manufacturing Firms
  Damiana G. Costanzo, Damiano B. Silipo, Marianna Succurro
• Networks, proximities and inter-firm knowledge exchanges
  Stefano Usai, Emanuela Marrocu, Raffaele Paci

C9 Interaction – Aula 32
Chair: Michele Polo

• Disability, life satisfaction and social interactions in Italy
  Tindara Addabbo, Elena Sarti, Dario Sciulli
• Card Games and Financial Crises
  Leonardo Becchetti, Maurizio Fiaschetti, Giancarlo Marini
• Persuasion with Reference Cues and Elaboration Costs
  Ennio Bilancini, Leonardo Boncinelli
• The Socially Responsible Choice in a Duopolistic Market: a dynamic model of “ethical product” differentiation
  Leonardo Becchetti, Arsen Palestini, Nazaria Solferino, M.Elisabetta Tessitore

C10 Lessons from the crisis – Aula 1
Chair: Marcella Corsi

• Policy Stances and the Crisis. The OECD Beveridge Curve
  Sergio Destefanis, Giuseppe Mastromatteo
• Lessons from the European Economic and Financial Great Crisis: A Survey
  Beniamino Moro
• Heterogeneous market beliefs, fundamentals and the euro-sovereign debt crisis
  Roberto Tamborini
• Too Many Charities? Insight from an Experiment with Multiple Public Goods and Contribution Thresholds
  Luca Corazzini, Christopher Cotton, Paola Valbonesi

10:15-11:45 PARALLEL SESSIONS D

D1 Cultural economics (co-organized with AEC) – Aula Magna
Chair: Innocenzo Cipolletta

• Italian Theatre Participation through Attendance: a Microeconometric Investigation
  Concetta Castiglione
• Non conventional sources on financing movies: the case of Italy
  Francesco Forte, Michela Mantovani
• The Demand for Cultural Activities: a Time-Use Approach
  Sergio Nisticò
• Experts’ Awards and Economic Success: Evidence from an Italian Literary Prize
  Michela Ponzo, Vincenzo Scoppa

D2 Applied econometrics – Aula 11
Chair: Maria Elena Bontempi

• Wealth Effects and the Consumption of Italian Households in the Great Recession
  Renata Bottazzi, Serena Trucchi, Matthew Wakefield
• The Behaviour of Repeat Visitors to Museums: Review and Empirical Findings
  Juan Gabriel Brida, Marta Disegna, Raffaele Scuderi
• Human Capital, Creative Class and Regional Economic Performance: A Dynamic Panel Analysis
  Esubalew A. Tiruneh, Ermanno Tortia, Silvia Sacchetti

D3 Innovation – Aula 3
Chair. Giovanni Marseguerra

• Animal Spirits in Entrepreneurial Innovation: Theory and Evidence
  Angela Cipollone, Paolo E. Giordani
• Innovation Drivers, Value Chains and the Geography of Multinational Firms in European Regions
  Riccardo Crescenzi, Carlo Pietrobelli, Roberta Rabellotti
• Productivity in Innovation: The Role of Inventor Connections and Mobility
  Donata Favaro, Eniel Ninka, Margherita Turvani

D4 Macroeconomic policy – Aula 21
Chair:  Antonello Eugenio Scorcu

• Sovereign and corporate credit risk: Spillover effects in the Eurozone
  Mascia Bedendo, Paolo Colla
• Employment Protection Legislation, Capital Investment and Access to Credit: Evidence from Italy
  Federico Cingano, Marco Leonardi, Julian Messina, Giovanni Pica
• Household Aggregate Wealth in the Main OECD Countries from 1980 to 2011: what do the Data Tell us?
  Riccardo De Bonis, Daniele Fano, Teresa Sbano

D5 Labour -Aula 31
Chair: Paolo Pini

• Intrinsic Motivation in the Labor Market: Not Too Much, Thank You
  Francesca Barigozzi, Nadia Burani
• Temporary contracts and young workers’ job satisfaction in Italy
  Giovanni S.F. Bruno, Floro Ernesto Caroleo, Orietta Dessy
• Career discontinuities and the gender wage gap: a quantile approach
  Paolo Naticchioni, Michele Raitano, Giulia Santangelo

D6 History of thought – Aula 2
Chair: Neri Salvadori

• Hicks’s thread out of the equilibrium labyrinth
  Antonio Bianco
• The Apostles’ justice: Cambridge reflections on economic inequality from Principia Ethica to The General Theory (1903-1936)
  Daniela Donnini Macciò

D7 Environment – Aula 12
Chair: Valeria Costantini

• Corruption in environmental policy: the case of waste
  Berardino Cesi, Alessio D’Amato, Mariangela Zoli
• Waste Sustainability and Crime in Decentralized Environments. Illegal Disposal, Territorial Enforcement and Local Policy
  Alessio D’Amato, Massimiliano Mazzanti, Francesco Nicolli, Mariangela Zoli
• Waste Management beyond the North-South Divide: Spatial Analyses of Geographical, Economic and Institutional Dimensions
  Massimiliano Mazzanti, Anna Montini

D8 Food and child – Aula 22
Chair: Marina Murat

• Obesity and smoking: can we catch two birds with one tax?
  Davide Dragone, Francesco Manaresi, Luca Savorelli
• Capability-deprivation as determinant of underweight children: perspectives from an Indian case-study
  Pier Giorgio Ardeni, Cecilia Tinonin
• Tobacco Taxes and Smoking Bans Impact Differently on Obesity and Eating Habits
  Davide Dragone, Francesco Manaresi, Luca Savorelli

D9 Firms – Aula 32
Chair: Luigi Bonatti

• Complementarity among product, process and organizational innovations for exporting: Evidence from German lirm-level data
  Rosa Bernardini Papalia, Silvia Bertarelli, Susanna Mancinelli
• Product Innovation and Governance in Italian Family Firms
  Marco Cucculelli, Isabelle Le Breton-Miller, Danny Miller
• The Concurrent Impact of Cultural, Political, and Spatial Distances on International Mergers and Acquisitions
  Maria Chiara Di Guardo, Emanuela Marrocu, Raffaele Paci

D10 Institutions – Aula 1
Chair: Luigi Alberto Franzoni

• The Size of Political Jurisdictions: Evidence from a Fascist Consolidation
  Monica Andini, Alberto Dalmazzo, Guido de Blasio
• Centralization Versus Decentralization of Legislative Production and the Effect of Each on the Duration of Disputes
  Giuseppe Di Vita

11:45-12:00 Coffee break

12:00-13:30 Inaugural Lecture – Paul Klemperer (Oxford University), “New auction designs for public policy”  – Aula Magna
Chair: Luca Lambertini

13:30-14:30 Lunch

14:30-16:30 PARALLEL SESSIONS E

E1 Round Table “The economics curriculum in the Italian secondary school” (co-organized with AEEE) – Aula Magna
Chair: Alessandro Roncaglia
Speakers: Roberto Fini, Giovanni Biondi, Enrico Castrovilli, Francesco Silva

E2 Inequality reduction and food security (co-organized with SITES) – Aula 11
Chair: Giovanni Andrea Cornia

• Testing for Houselhold Resilience to Food Insecurity: Evidence from Nicaragua
  Federico Ciani, Donato Romano
• Agricultural trade distortions during recent international price spikes: what implications for food security?
  Emiliano Magrini, Pierluigi Montalbano, Silvia Nenci, Luca Salvatici
• The Welfare Impact of Land Redistribution: Evidence from a Quasi-Experimental Initiative in Malawi
  Mariapia Mendola, Franklin Simtowe
• Child Nutritional Status in the Malawian District of Salima: A Capability Approach
  Maria Sassi

E3 Money and finance – Aula 3
Chair: Carlotta Berti Ceroni

• Liquidity Flows in Interbank Networks
  Fabio Castiglionesi, Mario Eboli
• Equilibrium earning premium and pension schemes: The long-run macroeconomic effects of the union
  Bruno Chiarini, Paolo Piselli
• Safe Assets’ Scarcity, Liquidity and Spreads
  Gabriella Chiesa
• Moneycracy
  Alessandro Fedele, Pierpaolo Giannoccolo

E4 Incentive – Aula 21
Chiar: Corrado Benassi

• Fiscal Stimulus in Recession: Evidence from a Tax Credit Programme
  Antonio Acconcia, Claudia Cantabene
• An Experimental Study of an Over-the-Counter Market
  Giuseppe Attanasi, Samuele Centorrino, Ivan Moscati
• Cooperation Hidden Frontiers: the Behavioral Foundations of the Italian North-South Divide
  Maria Bigoni, Stefania Bortolotti, Marco Casari, Diego Gambetta, Francesca Pancotto
• Economic Incentives and Social Preferences: Causal Evidence of Non-Separability
  Marco Faravelli, Luca Stanca

E5 District and city – Aula 31
Chair: Roberto Basile

• Political Selection in the Skilled City
  Antonio Accetturo
• The Determinants of Cooperation in Government-sponsored Innovation Networks: Empirical Evidence from Italian Technological Districts
  Otello Ardovino, Luca Pennacchio
• Technological status of the italian companies 
  Laura Barbieri, Flavia Cortelezzi, Giovanni Marseguerra, Maria Zoia
• Family Firms, Corporate Governance, and Export
  Raoul Minetti, Pierluigi Murro, Susan Chun Zhu

E6 Education – Aula 2
Chair: Romano Piras

• Inequality as a multiple equilibria signaling game
  Ennio Bilancini, Leonardo Boncinelli, Matteo Richiardi
• Catch me if you learn: development-specific education and economic growth
  Fabio Cerina, Fabio Manca
• Market for Degrees and Educational Standards
  David K. Levine, Salvatore Modica
• Health care, household wealth, maternal education and child nutrition outcomes in Indonesia. A micro-level perspective on the MDGs complementarities
  Maria Carmela Lo Bue

E7 Financial markets – Aula 12
Chair: Giuseppe Coco

• Term Structure Implications of Imperfect Asset Substitutability
  Matteo Falagiarda, Massimiliano Marzo
• Futures price volatility in commodities markets: The role of short term vs long term speculation
  Matteo Manera, Marcella Nicolini, Ilaria Vignati
• Endogenous financial literacy, saving and stock market participation
  Luca Spataro, Lorenzo Corsini
• The transmission of UK monetary policy across national borders: Investigation of the impact on oil prices
  Silvia Szilagyiova, John Anchor, Shabbir Dastgir

E8 Family – Aula 22
Chair: Giorgio Di Giorgio

• Young Adults Living with their Parents and the Influence of Peers
  Effrosyni Adamopoulou, Ezgi Kaya
• Retirement, pension eligibility and home production
  Emanuele Ciani
• Women Labor Market Performance in Europe: Novel Evidence on Trends and Shaping Factors
  Angela Cipollone, Eleonora Patacchini, Giovanna Vallanti

E9 Economic history – Aula 32
Chair:  Manuela Mosca

• Divisive Policies and Their Electoral Consequences: Italy, 1863
  Antonio Accetturo, Matteo Bugamelli, Andrea Lamorgese
• Speculative Cotton Pricing in the 1920s. A Nonlinear Tale of Noise Traders and Fundamentalists
  Giulio Cifarelli, Paolo Paesani
• Issues on the policy to implement innovative networks
  Carlo Capuano, Alfredo Del Monte
• Cause remote e cause prossime dell’arretratezza meridionale
  Cosimo Perrotta

E10 Public procurement – Aula 1
Chair: Paola Valbonesi

• Level-k Thinking in Average Bid Procurement Auctions
  Stefano Galavotti, Luigi Moretti, Paola Valbonesi
• Public Private Partnerships: Information Externality in Sequential Investments
  Marco Buso
• Court Efficiency and Procurement Performance
  Decio Coviello, Luigi Moretti, Giancarlo Spagnolo, Paola Valbonesi
• An assessment of the waste effects of corruption on infrastructure provision through bootstrapped DEA approach
  Massimo Finocchiaro Castro, Calogero Guccio, Ilde Rizzo
• Imperfect Bundling in Public-Private Partnerships
  Luciano Greco

16:45-18:45 SIE Members Annual Meeting

20:00 Social Dinner – “La Scuderia” – Piazza Verdi 2

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 26

8:15-9:45 PARALLEL SESSIONS F

F1 Developments in the European labour markets (co-organized with AIEL) – Aula Magna
Chair: Paolo Naticchioni

• Gender and the Great Recession: Changes in labour supply in Spain
  Tindara Addabbo, Paula Rodríguez-Modroño, Lina Gálvez-Muñoz
• International Economic Integration, Employment and Wages in Italy
  Mauro Costantini, P. Lelio Iapadre, Alessia Matano
• Labour shares and employment protection in European economies
  Mirella Damiani, Fabrizio Pompei, Andrea Ricci

F2 Tax – Aula 11
Chair: Giampaolo Arachi

• Business groups, insolvency and tax policy
  Giovanna Nicodano, Luca Regis
• The determinants of local tax setting under reform: evidence from the Italian municipal property tax
  Corrado Pollastri, Alberto Zanardi
• Time Delay and Support for Taxation
  Silvia Tiezzi, Erte Xiao

F3 Change – Aula 3
Chair: Giorgia Giovannetti

• Agriculture to Industry: the End of the Patriarchal Family
  Luca Pensieroso, Alessandro Sommacal
• Population Growth and Technological Change: a Pure Welfarist Approach
  Thomas Renström, Luca Spataro
• Does external knowledge affect environmental innovations? An empirical investigation of eleven European countries
  Claudia Ghisetti, Alberto Marzucchi, Sandro Montresor

F4 Bank – Aula 21
Chair: Massimiliano Marzo

• The determinants of abandoned M&As in the banking sector
  Stefano Caiazza, Alberto Franco Pozzolo
• The Determinants of Financial Exclusion. An Analysis Across Europe
  Germana Corrado
• New perspectives on the international lender of last resort after the recent financial crisis
  Pierluigi Morelli, Giovanni B. Pittaluga, Elena Seghezza

F5 Inflation – Aula 31
Chair: Damiano Bruno Silipo

• The comeback of inflation as an optimal public finance tool
  Giovanni Di Bartolomeo, Nicola Acocella, Patrizio Tirelli
• Measuring the impact of retailers’ strategies on food price inflation using scanner data
  Elena Castellari, Daniele Moro, Silvia Platoni, Paolo Sckokai
• US trend inflation reinterpreted. The role of fiscal policies and time-varying nominal rigidities
  Nicola Acocella, Giovanni Di Bartolomeo, Patrizio Tirelli

F6 Growth – Aula 2
Chair: Paolo Onofri

• World Interest Rates, Inequality and Growth: an Empirical Analysis of the Galor-Zeira Model
  Michele Battisti, Tamara Fioroni, Andrea Mario Lavezzi
• The Role of Mortality Rate in the Transition from Stagnation to Growth
  Davide Fiaschi, Tamara Fioroni
• Increasing returns, Structural Change and Growth
  Michele Limosani, Fabio Monteforte

F7 Spatial dependence – Aula 12
Chair: Luigi Benfratello

• Knowledge Externalities, Agglomeration and Regional Development in the EU: Motivating Place-Based Regional Intervention
  Gianni Guastella, Francesco Timpano
• Spatial Panel Data Forecasting over Different Horizons, Cross-Sectional and Temporal Dimensions
  Matìas Mayor, Roberto Patuelli
• Internationalization choices: an ordered probit analysis at industry-level
  Filomena Pietrovito, Alberto Franco Pozzolo, Luca Salvatici

F8 Production – Aula 22
Chair: Pierluigi Porta

• Reverse causality in the R&D – patents relationship: an interpretation of the innovation persistence
  Anna Laura Baraldi, Claudia Cantabene, Giulio Perani
• Production theory: accounting for firm heterogeneity and technical change
  Giovanni Dosi, Marco Grazzi, Luigi Marengo, Simona Settepanella

F9 Issues in political economy – Aula 32
Chair: Giorgio Bellettini

• Assessing policy reforms for Italy using ITEM and QUESTIII
  Barbara Annicchiarico, Fabio Di Dio, Francesco Felici, Francesco Nucci
• Varieties of decentralization, institutional complementarities, and economic growth: evidence in OECD countries
  Andrea Filippetti, Agnese Sacchi
• Emotions and Political Unrest
  Francesco Passarelli, Guido Tabellini

F10 Econometrics – Aula 1
Chair: Roberto Golinelli

• Principal Component Analysis: is this an effective way to deal with over-identification in GMM panel data estimation?
  Maria Elena Bontempi, Irene Mammi
• A Global VAR Model for the Analysis of Wheat Export Prices
  Luciano Gutierrez, Francesco Piras
• Identifying Noise Shocks: a VAR with Data Revisions
  Riccardo M. Masolo, Alessia Paccagnini

 9:50-11:20 PARALLEL SESSIONS G

G1 Transportation and logistics (co-organized with SIET) – Aula Magna
Chair: Romeo Danielis

• Airline Pricing Behaviour under Limited Intermodal Competition
  Angela S. Bergantino, Claudia Capozza
• Car and the city: Socio-technical pathways to 2030
  Gerardo Marletto
• Baggage Fees, Operational Performance and Customer Satisfaction in the US Air Transport Industry
  Davide Scotti, Martin Dresner, Gianmaria Martini

G2 Economic and labour policies for young people (co-organized with EACES) – Aula 11
Chair: Marcello Signorelli

• The Rise of NEET and Youth Unemployment in EU Regions after the Crisis
  Giovanni S.F. Bruno, Enrico Marelli, Marcello Signorelli
• The Extent of Rent Sharing along the Wage Distribution
  Alessia Matano, Paolo Naticchioni
• Reforms at the margin and labour market segmentation: Evidence from unemployment duration distributional
  Chiara Mussida, Dario Sciulli

G3 Money and credit – Aula 3
Chair: Pietro Alessandrini

• House Prices and Monetary Policy
  Paulo Brito, Giancarlo Marini, Alessandro Piergallini
• Does credit crunch investments down? New evidence on the real effects of the bank-lending channel
  Federico Cingano, Francesco Manaresi, Enrico Sette
• Andamenti e determinanti del credito nell’area dell’euro
  Riccardo De Bonis, Giorgio Nuzzo, Massimiliano Stacchini

G4 Economic policy – Aula 21
Chair: Nicola Acocella

• Appropriate Macroeconomic Policy for Complex Economies
  Giovanni Dosi, Giorgio Fagiolo, Mauro Napoletano, Andrea Roventini, Tania Treibich
• Wage and Psychological, Organizational and Technological Capital
  Paola Gritti, Riccardo Leoni
• Local electoral rules and public expenditure composition: The case of Italian regions
  Raffaella Santolini

G5 Productivity – Aula 31
Chiar: Donata Favaro

• Geography, Productivity and Trade: does Selection Explain why some Locations are more Productive than Others?
  Antonio Accetturo, Valter Di Giacinto, Giacinto Micucci, Marcello Pagnini
• An empirical study of technological leadership and persistence in product innovation
  Roberto Fontana, Diana Moriniello, Andrea Vezzulli
• Performance Related Pay and Firm Productivity: Evidence from a Social Pact
  Claudio Lucifora, Federica Origo

G6 Growth in Europe – Aula 2
Chair: Michele Fratianni

• Consumption Response to Public Spending Shocks
  Antonio Acconcia
• Economic Growth and European Integration: A Counterfactual Analysis
  Nauro F. Campos, Fabrizio Coricelli, Luigi Moretti
• When is Austerity Ineffective?
  Luigi Marattin

G7 Issues in industrial economics – Aula 12
Chair: Francesco Silva

• Dividend Policy in Regulated Firms
  Francisca Bremberger, Carlo Cambini, Klaus Gugler, Laura Rondi
• Do your Rivals Enhance your Access to Credit? Theory and Evidence
  Vittoria Cerasi, Alessandro Fedele, Raffaele Miniaci
• The fight against cartels: a transatlantic perspective
  Emilie Dargaud, Andrea Mantovani, Carlo Reggiani

G8 Macroeconomic models – Aula 22
Chair: Roberto Tamborini

• IGEM: A Dynamic General Equilibrium Model for Italy
  Barbara Annicchiarico, Fabio Di Dio, Francesco Felici, Libero Monteforte
• Expectations and Systemic Risk in EMU Government Bond Spreads
  Paolo Canofari, Giancarlo Marini, Giovanni Piersanti
• Nonlinear dynamics and chaos in an OLG growth model with endogenous labour supply and muldtiplicative external habits
  Luca Gori, Mauro Sodini

G9 School and labour – Aula 32
Chair: Maria Rosaria Carillo

• On Track Mobility, Grade Retention, and Secondary School Completation
  Stijn Baert, Bart Cockx, Matteo Picchio
• Selective admission tests and students’ performance. Evidence from a natural experiment in a large Italian University
  Vincenzo Carrieri, Marcello D’Amato, Roberto Zotti

G10 Round Table “The foreign job markets for economists”  – Aula 1
Chair: Roberto Cellini
Speakers: Gianni De Fraja, Ramon Marimon, Mattia Nardotto

11:20-11:40 Coffee break

11:40-12:40 Einaudi Lecture (plenary) – Romano Prodi  “The Future of Europe” – Aula Magna
Chair: Alberto Quadrio Curzio

12:45 Closing address

 

ARTICLES IN POSTER SESSIONS

POSTER SESSION P1 “Applied microeconomics” – Friday morning

• On the Measurement of Dissimilarity and Related Orders
  Francesco Andreoli, Claudio Zoli
• Dynamic Gasoline Taxation
  Henry Aray
• Comparing different poverty rankings: Evidence from Italian EU-SILC Dataset
  Sabrina Auci, Annalisa Castelli, Mariangela Zoli
• What Drives Patient Mobility Across Italian Regions? Evidence from Hospital Discharge Data
  Silvia Balia, Rinaldo Brau, Emanuela Marrocu
• Transition to Sustainability: Scenarios Towards a Low-Carbon Economy
  Giovanni Bernardo, Simone D’Alessandro
• Paying for others’ protection: Causal evidence on wages in a two-tier system
  Mário Centeno, Álvaro A. Novo
• Parents’ Status, Social Connections and Prestige: Evidence from Survey Data
  Luisa Corrado, Francesca Marazzi
• And Now for Something Completely Different: Females Are Not More Risk Averse than Males
  Paolo Crosetto, Antonio Filippin
• Food Security and Social Protection in Sub-Saharan Africa: an Evaluation of Cash Transfer Programs
  Giorgio d’Agostino, Luca Pieroni, Margherita Scarlato
• Trust and reciprocity: Extensions and robustness of triadic design
  Giovanni Di Bartolomeo, Stefano Papa
• Pre-market Abilities, Education, and Employment Outcomes: An Analysis of British Females
  Donata Favaro, Dario Sciulli
• The Impact of Capital Measurement Error Correction on Firm-Level Production Function Estimation
  Kamil Galuščȧk, Lubomír Lízal
• Survey Design and Response Analysis: a Study on Happiness, Life Satisfaction and Well-being in Piedmont, a Region of Italy
  Anna Maffioletti, Agata Maida, Francesco Scacciati
• Hedonic vs Environmental Quality: Wich Policy May Reduce Pollution Emissions?
  Andrea Mantovani, Cecilia Vergari
• Modelling Technical Efficiency in Cross Sectionally Dependent Panels
  Camilla Mastromarco, Laura Serlenga, Yongeheol Shin
• Gender gaps in recurrence and concentration of unemployment: evidence from youth leaving the education system in France
  Mouhamadou Moustapha Niang
• Estimating the Returns to Educational Mismatch with Panel Data: the Role of Unobserved Heterogeneity
  Marco Pecoraro
• The psychology and economics of reverse mortgage attitudes: evidence from the Netherlands
  Henriette Prast, Mariacristina Rossi, Rik Dillingh, Cesira Urzì Brancati
• A “Human Growth” Perspective on Organizational Resources and Firm Performance
  Silvia Sacchetti, Ermanno C.Tortia
• Indirect Taxation, Public Pricing and Price Cap Regulation: A Synthesis
  Edilio Valentini

POSTER SESSION P2 “Applied macroeconomics” – Friday afternoon

• Does cutting back the public sector improve efficiency? Some evidence from 15 European countries
  Sabrina Auci, Laura Castellucci, Manuela Coromaldi
• Environmental Cooperation among European Countries
  Carlo Andrea Bollino, Silvia Micheli
• Intragenerational Income Mobility: a Nonparametric Estimate
  Irene Brunetti, Davide Fiaschi
• La relazione tra incertezza e attività economica in Italia
  Guido Bulligan, Simone Emiliozzi
• Debt Financing and External Debt: The Case of Italy
  Gianluca Cafiso
• Fiscal Policies and Interest Rates in the European Monetary Union: An Empirical Analysis
  Gabriella Catalano
• Finite Mixture Modeling of Unemployment Duration: the Role of Benefits and Wealth
  Lorenzo Corsini, Paolo Frumento
• Measuring Horizontal Fiscal Imbalances: the Case of Italian Municipalities
  Giuseppe Di Liddo, Ernesto Longobardi, Francesco Porcelli
• A Nonlinear Approach for the Analysis of Tourism Expenditures
  Marta Disegna, Fabrizio Durante, Enrico Foscolo
• Political ambition and public spending in a multi-level government setting
  Andrea Filippetti, Lucio Morettini
• Beyond Austerity. A European Recovery Policy is Feasible
  Riccardo Fiorentini, Guido Montani
• Sustainability and Competitiveness in Evolutionary Perspectives. Environmental Innovations, Structural Change and Economic Dynamics in the EU
  Marianna Gilli, Massimiliano Mazzanti, Francesco Nicolli
• Comparing the Sustainability of the 27 European Countries: a Robustness Approach
  Tommaso Luzzati, Gianluca Gucciardi
• Gli effetti delle garanzie pubbliche al credito: due misure a confronto
  Marco Mariani, Fabrizia Mealli, Elena Pirani
• The Equity Premium Puzzle and the Risk-Free Rate Puzzle: Does Business Cycle Asymmetry Matter?
  Andrea Pisante
• Relative Prices, Trade, Technology and Wage Inequality – Evidence from India
  Archana Srivastava, Somesh Kumar Mathur
• Le politiche di sviluppo per il Mezzogiorno. Una visione d’insieme su teoria e prassi degli interventi
  Claudia Sunna
• Time-Varying Parameter Estimation in Macroeconometrics
  Guido Travaglini
• Asymmetric Information, Minority Shareholder Protection and Firms’ Propensity to Issue External Equity
  Wenming Xu

POSTER SESSION P3” Economic theory” – Saturday morning

• Great Recession and U.S. Consumers’ Bulimia: Deep Causes and Possible Ways Out
  Stefano Bartolini, Luigi Bonatti, Francesco Sarracino
• The Effects of Workers’ Sexual Orientation Disclosure in the Workplaces
  Luigi Bonaventura
• Ownership networks and aggregate volatility
  Lorenzo Burlon
• Money and Trust among Strangers
  Gabriele Camera, Marco Casari, Maria Bigoni
• A Note on State Capture, Bureaucratic Corruption and Industrial structure
  Roy Cerqueti, Raffaela Coppier
• Pubblicazioni: di che genere? Analisi bibliometrica della produzione scientifica delle economiste italiane negli ultimi dieci anni
  Marcella Corsi, Giulia Zacchia
• Impatience and Academic Performance. Less Effort and Less Ambitious Goals
  Maria De Paola, Francesca Gioia
• Mortality Salience, Self-esteem and Status Seeking
  Caterina Giannetti, Raimondello Orsini
• Supply Chain Configuration under Information Sharing
  Mohammad Ali Kashefi
• La rinegoziazione delle regole fiscali: una proposta per il disegno del sistema perequativo dei comuni itlaiani
  Ernesto Longobardi, Francesco Porcelli, Alberto Zanardi
• Open Access Journals & Academics’ Behaviour
  Matteo Migheli, Giovanni B. Ramello
• Waste Performances, Endogenous Technology, and Policy Effects
  Francesco Nicolli, Massimiliano Mazzanti, Roberto Zoboli
• Learning and Information in Sequential Price Competiton: Measuring the Second Movers’ Strategic Advantage
  Niall O’Higgins, Arturo Palomba, Patrizia Sbriglia
• Cultural Networks Formation
  Anna Papaccio
• Labour Market Performance and the Quality of Industrial Relations
  Giulio Piccirilli
• Are Probability and Certainty Equivalent Techniques Equivalent? Evidence from Gambles Involving Life Years and Quality of Life
  Matteo Ruggeri.