53ª RIUNIONE SCIENTIFICA ANNUALE

Matera, 18-20 Ottobre 2012

Università della Basilicata

 

 

 

 

GIOVEDÍ 18 OTTOBRE

12:00-13:30 Registrazione dei partecipanti  – Unibas

 

13:30 – 15:00 SESSIONI PARALLELE A – Unibas

A1 Crime Aula 36 – terzo piano
Presiede:  Salvatore Capasso – Discutono: Salvatore Capasso, Maurizo Lisciandra

• The Costs of Corruption in the Italian Solid Waste Industry 
  Graziano Abrate, Fabrizio Erbetta, Giovanni Fraquelli, Davide Vannoni   
• The Macroeconomic Impact of the Organized Crime, a Neo-Kaleckian Perspective 
  Carlo Capuano, Francesco Purificato
• The Reuse for Social Aims of Illegal and the Competition Policy. A New Network Strategy to Defeat Organized Crime with Its Same “Weapons”
  Michele Mosca, Salvatore Villani

A2 Growth theory Aula 41 – quarto piano
Presiede: Roberto Cellini – Discutono: Roberto Cellini, Roberto Ricciuti

• Dynamically Complex Balanced Economic Growth with Innovation – A Synthesis of the Theories of Ricardo, Keynes and Schumpeter
  Koji Akimoto
• Fertility-related pensions, tax-cum-subsidy and A-Pareto efficiency
  Luciano Fanti, Luca Gori
• An Experimental AK Model of Growth
  Ferruccio Ponzano, Roberto Ricciuti

A3 Third sector, cooperation and social responsibility Aula 37 – terzo piano
Presiede: Gian Paolo Barbetta – Discutono: Gian Paolo Barbetta, Damiano Fiorillo

• The value of real voluntary associations
  Giacomo Degli Antoni, Gianluca Grimalda
• Heterogeneous Producers’ Cooperatives and Corporate Social Responsibility
  Luisa Giallonardo, Marcella Mulino
• Sui meccanismi di finanziamento del terzo settore. Proposta per una concreta attuazione del principio di sussidiarietà
  Marco Musella, Maria Santoro

A4 Issues in regional economics Aula 32 – terzo piano
Presiede: Riccardo Cappellin – Discutono: Riccardo Cappellin, Anna Giunta

• Local Development that Money Can’t Buy: Italy’s Contratti di Programma
  Monica Andini, Guido de Blasio
• What networks to support innovation? Evidence from a regional policy framework
  Annalisa Caloffi, Federica Rossi, Margherita Russo
• The Role of Social Capabilities in Innovation and Competition in an Industrial Cluster: a Case Study
  Annunziata de Felice

A5 Youth labour Aula 33 – terzo piano
Presiede:  Marcello Signorelli – Discutono: Emanuela Ghignoni, Marcello Signorelli

• Stepping stones versus dead end jobs: Exits from temporary contracts in Italy after the 2003 reform
  Giovanni Salvatore Francesco Bruno, Floro Ernesto Caroleo, Orietta Dessy
• Youth and the total unemployment rate: The impact of policies and institutions
  Misbah Choudhry, Enrico Marelli, Marcello Signorelli
• Youth labour markets during ‘The Great Recession’
  Niall O’Higgins

A6 Income distribution and poverty Aula 35 – terzo piano
Presiede:  Anna Soci – Discutono:  Vito Peragine, Anna Soci

• Vulnerability to Poverty in Italy
  Nicola Amendola, Mariacristina Rossi, Giovanni Vecchi
• Income Distribution in Network Markets
  Corrado Benassi, Marcella Scrimitore
• Subjective poverty line and regional inefficiency
  Francesco Devicienti, Ambra Poggi

A7 Issues in health economics (co-organizzata l’AIES) Aula 34 – terzo piano
Presiede: Giacomo Pignataro – Discutono: Matteo Lippi Bruni, Giacomo Pignataro

• Measuring spatial effects in presence of institutional constraints: the case of Italian Local Health Authority expenditure
  Vincenzo Atella, Federico Belotti, Domenico Depalo, Andrea Piano Mortari
• A Country for Old Men? Long-Term Home Care Utilisation in Europe
  Silvia Balia, Rinaldo Brau
• Political Electoral Cycles and Evolution of Italian Health Care System Financing. A Long Run Perspective
  Fabio Fiorillo, Stefano Lucarelli

A8 Fiscal multipliers, public debt and economic growth Aula 43 – quarto piano
Presiede:  Domenico Scalera – Discutono: Antonio Acconcia, Domenico Scalera

• On the long run negative effects of public deficit on unemployment and the need for a fiscal constitution: An empirical research on OECD Countries (1980-2009)
  Silvia Fedeli, Francesco Forte, Ottavio Ricchi
• Fiscal Multipliers and Credit Crunches: A TVAR Approach
  Tommaso Ferraresi, Andrea Roventini, Giorgio Fagiolo
• Public Debt and Economic Growth: Is There a Causal Effect?
  Ugo Panizza, Andrea F. Presbitero

A9 Issues in industrial organization Aula polivalente – quarto piano
Presiede: Alessandro Sterlacchini – Discutono: Marco Maria Sorge, Alessandro Sterlacchini

• Price Competition and Innovation When Substitutes Become Complements
  Matteo Alvisi, Emanuela Carbonara
• Equilibrium Market and Pricing Structucres in Virtual Platform Duopoly: Coexistence on Competing Online Auction Sites revisited
  Stefan Behringer
• Environmental policy and Incentives to Adopt Abatement Technologies under Endogenous Uncertainty
  Federico Boffa, Stefano Clò, Alessio D’Amato

A10 University performances Aula Sassu – piano ammezzato
Presiede:  Luca De Benedictis  – Discutono: Luca De Benedictis, Luca Stanca

• Does Class Attendance Affect Academic Performance? Evidence from “D’Annunzio” University
  Vincenzo Andrietti, Rosaria D’Addazio
• The role of merit-based and need-based financial aid: Evidence from Trieste’s University grant programs
  Grazia Graziosi
• The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: Teaching Evaluations, Beauty and Abilities
  Michela Ponzo, Vincenzo Scoppa

A11 Issues in macroeconomics I Aula 31 – terzo piano
Presiede: Guido Traficante – Discutono: Paolo Bonomolo, Guido Traficante

• Does Inflation Walk on Unstable Paths?
  Guido Ascari, Paolo Bonomolo, Hedibert F.Lopes
• Evidence on Features and Sources of EMU Business Cycles using Bayesian Panel Markov-switching VAR
  Monica Billio, Roberto Casarin, Fancesco Ravazzolo, Herman K. van Dijk
• A systemic risk indicator and monetary policy
  Giorgio Consigli, Riccardo Pianeti, Giovanni Urga

 

15:00 – 15:15 Coffee break – Unibas

 

15:15 – 16:45 SESSIONI PARALLELE B – Unibas

B1 Shadow economy Aula Sassu – piano ammezzato
Presiede:  Damiano Silipo  – Discutono: Carmelo Petraglia, Damiano Silipo

• The Effect of Mafia on Public Transfers
  Guglielmo Barone, Gaia Narciso
• Financial Development and the Underground Economy
  Salvatore Capasso, Tullio Jappelli
• Beyond the veil of ignorance: the influence of direct democracy on the shadow economy
  Désirée Teobaldelli, Friedrich Schneider

B2 Issues in development economics Aula 32 – terzo piano
Presiede: Federico Perali – Discutono: Michele Giuranno, Federico Perali

• Income Shocks, Coping Strategies, and Consumption Smoothing. An Application to Indonesian Data
  Gabriella Berloffa, Francesca Modena
• Economic growth and equality of opportunity
  Vito Peragine, Flaviana Palmisano, Paolo Brunori
• Impact of Rainfall Pattern on Cereal Market and Food Security in Sudan: Stochastic Approach and CGE Model
  Maria Sassi, Alberto Cardaci

B3 Altruism and social expenditures Aula 41 – quarto piano
Presiede: Carlo Devillanova – Discutono: Carlo Devillanova, Luisa Giallonardo

• APrivate Monetary Transfers and Altruism: an Empirical Investigation on Italian Families
  Luigi Aldieri, Damiano Fiorillo
• The Impact of Fiscal Rules on the Grant-Making Behavior of American Foundations
  Gian Paolo Barbetta, Luca Colombo, Gilberto Turati
• Calamity, Aid and Indirect Reciprocity: the Long Run Impact of Tsunami
  Leonardo Becchetti, Stefano Castriota, Pierluigi Conzo

B4 Young economists I Aula 37 – terzo piano
Presiede: Alberto Franco Pozzolo – Discutono: Massimiliano Marzo, Alberto Franco Pozzolo

• (Just) first time lucky? The impact of single versus multiple bank lending relationships on firms and bank’s behavior
  Giorgia Barboni, Tania Treibich
• Evaluating Quantitative Easing: A DSGE Approach
  Matteo Falagiarda
• Off-Balance Sheet Credit Exposure and Asset Securitization: What Impact on Bank Credit Supply?
  Alessandro Diego Scopelliti

B5 Monetary institutions and crisis transmission Aula 36 – terzo piano
Presiede: Salvatore Rossi – Discutono: Giorgio Di Giorgio, Salvatore Rossi

• External imbalances and fiscal fragility in the euro area
  Pietro Alessandrini, Michele Fratianni, Andrew Hughes Hallett, Andrea F. Presbitero
• Determinants and consequences of credit tightening: an analysis of the United States and the euro area
  Riccardo De Bonis, Luigi Infante, Francesco Paternò
• Financial Globalization and CBI Reforms in Emerging Countries
  Giovanni B. Pittaluga, Pierluigi Morelli, Elena Seghezza

B6 Labour and inequality Aula 31 – terzo piano
Presiede:  Stefano Staffolani   – Discutono: Anna Laura Mancini, Stefano Staffolani

• ‘Child Labour and Inequality
  Simone D’Alessandro, Tamara Fioroni
• Exploring the Cross-Country Inequality-Employment Trade-off. A Production Possibility Frontier Approach
  Sergio Destefanis, Giuseppe Mastromatteo
• Competition, Firm Size and Returns to Skills: quasi-experimental evidence for Italy
  Michele Raitano, Francesco Vona

B7 Inflation, future markets and speculation Aula 35 – terzo piano
Presiede:  Giovanni Urga – Discutono: Sarah Draus, Giovanni Urga

• Do Commodity Index Traders Destabilize Agricultural Futures Prices?
  Martin T. Bohl, Farrukh Javed, Patrick M. Stephan
• Financial speculation in energy and agriculture futures markets: A multivariate GARCH approach
  Matteo Manera, Marcella Nicolini, Ilaria Vignati
• Do Sovereign Wealth Funds Herd in Equity Markets?
  Valeria Miceli

B8 Environmental economics Aula 34 – terzo piano
Presiede: Laura Castellucci – Discutono: Laura Castellucci, Fabio Fiorillo

• Local or National Environmental Spending in Italy: a Stochastic Frontier Analysis
  Sabrina Auci, Annalisa Castelli, Donatella Vignani
• Environmental Innovations in Services Manufacturing-Services Integration and Policy Transmissions in the Italian Economy
  Giulio Cainelli, Massimiliano Mazzanti
• On Emissions Trading Taxation and Market Power
  Alessio D’Amato, Edilio Valentini, Mariangela Zoli

B9 Innovation Aula polivalente – quarto piano
Presiede: Alessandro Sterlacchini – Discutono: Alessandro Sterlacchini, Stefano Usai

• R&D Incentives: The Effectiveness of a Place-Based Policy (Tables_figures)
  Marco Corsino, Roberto Gabriele, Anna Giunta
• How the geographical fragmentation of foreign R&D activities influences home region innovation
  Lorena M. D’Agostino, Grazia D. Santangelo
• Product market regulation, knowledge frontier and efficiency 
  Chiara Franco, Fabio Pieri, Francesco Venturini

B10 Modelling the Italian Economy (Istat) Aula 43 – quarto piano
Presiede:  Gilberto Antonelli – Discutono: Maria Elena Bontempi, Ottavio Ricchi

• Building a  macroeconometric model for the Italian economy- MeM0-It
  Fabio Bacchini, Maurizio Bovi, Cristina Brandimarte, Piero Crivelli, Roberta De Santis, Marco Fioramanti, Alessandro Girardi, Roberto Golinelli, Cecilia Jona-Lasinio, Massimo Mancini, Carmine Pappalardo, Daniela Rossi, Marco Ventura, Claudio Vicarelli

 

17:00 – 17:30 Saluti di benvenuto – Mediateca

 

17:30 – 19:00 SESSIONE PLENARIA:  Research assessment and journal rankings in economics – Mediateca
Presiede: Gilberto Antonelli

• The journal ranking of Gev-13
  Graziella Bertocchi
• The journal ranking of the Italian Economic Association
  Paolo Pini

 

19:00 – 19:30 Cocktail di benvenuto – Mediateca

 

VENERDÍ 19 OTTOBRE

9:00 – 11:00 SESSIONI PARALLELE C – Unibas

C1 Social norms Aula 33 – terzo piano
Presiede: Guido de Blasio – Discutono: Pierluigi Conzo, Guido de Blasio

• On the coevolution of social norms
  Lidia Bagnoli, Giorgio Negroni
• More apples less chips? The effect of school fruit schemes on the consumption of junk food
  Giorgio Brunello, Maria De Paola, Giovanna Labartino
• Leaving home and housing prices. The experience of Italian youth emancipation
  Francesca Modena, Concetta Rondinelli
• Solving the flip of the coin/unidentification dilemma: a Bayesian perspective on the incentive compatibility of hypothetical referenda
  Gianluca Stefani, Riccardo Scarpa

C2 Child, education and lifetime outcomes Aula 41 – quarto piano
Presiede: Annalisa Luporini – Discutono: Annalisa Luporini, Mariacristina Rossi

• Early-life conditions, lifetime income and mortality risk in Italy
  Michele Belloni, Rob Alessie, Adriaan Kalwij
• Self investments of adolescents and their cognitive development
  Daniela Del Boca, Chiara Monfardini, Cheti Nicoletti
• On Intergenerational Transmission of the Reading Habit: Is a Good Example the Best Sermon?
  Anna Laura Mancini, Chiara Monfardini, Silvia Pasqua

C3 Productivity and innovation Aula 32 – terzo piano
Presiede:  Elena Podrecca  – Discutono: Giorgio Fazio, Elena Podrecca

• Explaining TFP at firm level in Italy. Does location matter?
  Francesco Aiello, Valeria Pupo, Fernanda Ricotta
• And Yet they Co-Move! Public Capital and Productivity in OECD: A Panel Cointegration Analysis with Cross-Section Dependence
  Anna Bottasso, Carolina Castagnetti, Maurizio Conti
• Proximity, Networking and Knowledge Production in Europe: what lessons for innovation policy?
  Emanuela Marrocu, Raffaele Paci, Stefano Usai
• Research cooperation within and across regional boundaries. Does innovation policy add something?
  Alberto Marzucchi, Davide Antonioli, Sandro Montresor

C4 Energy and sustainable development (co-organizzata con l’ AIEE, sponsorizzata dall’ eni) Aula 36 – terzo piano
Presiede: Carlo Andrea Bollino – Discutono: Carlo Andrea Bollino, Paolo Polinori

• Efficiency in the Use of Natural Non-renewable Resources and Environmental Federalism in Italy. Evidence from Regional Management of Mining and Quarring
  Sabrina Auci, Laura Castellucci, Donatella Vignani
• Integration and Convergence in European Electricity Markets
  Carlo Andrea Bollino, Davide Ciferri, Paolo Polinori
• Price-capping in partially monopolistic electricity markets with an application to Italy
  Bruno Bosco, Lucia Parisio, Matteo M. Pelagatti
• Powering the Change: a Contingent Valuation Study on the Determinants of Demand for Green vs. Brown Energy
  Elisabetta Strazzera, Marina Mura, Vania Statzu

C5 Money and credit in the history of economic thought (co-organizzata con l’AISPE) Aula 43 – quarto piano
Presiede: Riccardo Realfonzo  – Discutono: Mario Pomini, Riccardo Realfonzo

• Dalla ricerca di regole per il controllo della quantità di moneta al Quantitative Easing. Note in margine al dibattito sulle strategie di politica monetaria
  Stefano Figuera
• Thorstein Veblen on Credit and Economic Crises
  Guglielmo Forges Davanzati, Andrea Pacella
• The Latin American debt crisis: at the origins of the BIS macro-prudential approach to financial stability
  Ivo Maes, Piet Clement
• Speculation by the next-door neighbour. The 1907 Italian financial crisis
  Gianfranco Tusset

C6 Young people, education and labour markets: comparing evidence and policies (co-organizzata con l’EACES) Aula 31 – terzo piano
Presiede: Enrico Marelli – Discutono: Orietta Dessy, Enrico Marelli

• Delayed Graduation and Overeducation: A Test of the Human Capital Model versus the Screening Hypothesis
  Carmen Aina, Francesco Pastore
• The labour market outcomes of  vocational education in Europe: evidence from the LFS survey
  Emilio Colombo, Luca Stanca
• Educational qualifications mismatch in Europe. Is it demand or supply driven?
  Emanuela Ghignoni, Alina Verashchagina
• Generational conflict and labor market turnover: a tale of employment protection and retirement age
  Marco Magnani

C7 Issues in political economy Aula 34 – terzo piano
Presiede: Ennio Bilancini – Discutono: Ennio Bilancini, Vincenzo Lombardo

• Knowing the right person in the right place: political connections and resistance to change
  Giorgio Bellettini, Carlotta Berti Ceroni, Giovanni Prarolo
• Incumbent Effects and Partisan Alignment in Local Elections: a Regression Discontinuity Analysis Using Italian Data
  Emanuele Bracco, Francesco Porcelli, Michela Redoano
• A Theory of Political Entrenchment
  Gilles Saint-Paul, Davide Ticchi, Andrea Vindigni
• Constitutional reform and state capacity building: The case of the Glorious Revolution
  Elena Seghezza

C8 Gender Aula 37 – terzo piano
Presiede: Maria Rosaria Carillo – Discutono: Maria Rosaria Carillo, Francesco Devicienti

• A Gender Equality Index for the Italian Regions 
  Monica Amici, Maria Lucia Stefani
• Employment Subsidies, Informal Economy and Women’s Transition into Work in a Depressed Area: Evidence from a Matching Approach
  Manuela Deidda, Adriana Di Liberto, Marta Foddi, Giovanni Sulis
• Women on Italian Bank Boards: are They “Gold Dust”?
  Silva Del Prete, Maria Lucia Stefani
• Ora et non labora? A test of the impact of religion on female labor supply
  Francesco Pastore, Simona Tenaglia

C9 Saving and financial education Aula polivalente – quarto piano
Presiede: Michele Fratianni – Discutono: Lorenzo Cappellari, Michele Fratianni

• The Italian saving rate: vanishing?
  Antonio Bassanetti, Concetta Rondinelli, Filippo Scoccianti
• Explaining why, right or wrong, (Italian) households do not like reverse mortgages
  Elsa Fornero, Mariacristina Rossi, Maria Cesira Urzì Brancati
• Financial education, investor protection and international portfolio diversification
  Maela Giofré
• Precautionary Savings of Agents with Heterogeneous Risk Aversion
  Michele Limosani, Emanuele Millemaci

C10 Tourism Aula 35 – terzo piano
Presiede: Innocenzo Cipolletta – Discutono: Vincenzo Asero, Innocenzo Cipolletta, Raffaele Scuderi,

• Cultural Participation and Tourism Flows in Italy
  Karol Jan Borowiecki, Concetta Castiglione
• Visitors of two types of museums: do expenditure patterns differ?
  Juan Gabriel Brida, Marta Disegna, Raffaele Scuderi
• Different tourists to different destinations. Evidence from spatial interaction models
  Emanuela Marrocu, Raffaele Paci

C11 Short-and-long-term policies: The Italian Mezzogiorno between economic backwardness and social emergency (Svimez) Aula Sassu – piano ammezzato
Presiede: Adriano Giannola

 

11:00 – 11:30 Coffee break – Mediateca

 

11:30 – 12:45 Lezione Einaudi (plenaria) Tony Thirlwall (University of Kent),  The Rhetoric and Reality of Trade Liberalisation in Developing Countries  Slides – Mediateca
Presiede: Alessandro Roncaglia

 

12.45 – 14:00 Lunch – Mediateca

 

14:00 – 15:30 SESSIONI PARALLELE D – Unibas

D1 Asymmetric information Aula 34 – terzo piano
Presiede: Davide Ticchi – Discutono: Luca Gori, Davide Ticchi

• Announcements as an equilibrium selction device
  Nicola Acocella, Giovanni Di Bartolomeo, Andrew Hughes-Hallet, Paolo G. Piacquadio
• Signalling, Social Status and Labor Income Taxes
  Ennio Bilancini, Leonardo Boncinelli
• Rel (a) ying on your team-mates is not enough: On sequential contributions to team production under competition 
  Michael Neugart, Matteo G. Richiardi

D2 Education, wages and jobs Aula polivalente – quarto piano
Presiede: Patrizia Ordine – Discutono: Marcello D’Amato, Patrizia Ordine

• Does time-to-degree matter? The effect of delayed graduation on employment and wages
  Carmen Aina, Giorgia Casalone
• Higher education and the allocation of graduate jobs
  Alessandro Cigno, Annalisa Luporini
• Education race, supply of skills and the wage skill premium
  Luca G. Deidda, Dimitri Paolini

D3 Migration Aula 32 – terzo piano
Presiede:  Gianna Claudia Giannelli – Discutono: Rinaldo Brau, Gianna Claudia Giannelli

• Immigrants’ access to health care services in Italy: New evidence from survey data 
  Carlo Devillanova
• Inter-jurisdictional Migration and the Size of Government 
  Michele G. Giuranno, Rongili Biswas
• Parental Ethnic Identity and Educational Attainment of Second-Generation Immigrants
  Simone Schüller

D4 Competitiveness, technological and organizational changes (co-organizzata con la SIEPI) – Aula 37 – terzo piano
Presiede: Piercarlo Frigero – Discutono: Federico Boffa, Piercarlo Frigero, Gianmaria Martini

• Product innovation and corporate governance in turbulent times. Evidence from Italian SMEs
  Marco Cucculelli
• Incomplete Contracts as a Screening Device in Competing Vertical Intra-Firm Relationships
  Marta Sicoli, Marco M. Sorge
• Patent Oppositions as Strategic Tools and Error Correction Mechanisms
  Alessandro Sterlacchini

D5 Issues in international economics Aula 31 – terzo piano
Presiede: Giorgia Giovannetti – Discutono:  Giorgia Giovannetti, Alessia Lo Turco

• Dynamics or relative product diversification in the course of economic development: import-export comparative analysis
  Aleksandra Parteka, Massimo Tamberi
• Wages and international factors’ mobility
  Elena Podrecca, Gianpaolo Rossini
• The stabilizing effect of exchange rate regimes: An empirical investigation
  N. Moussé Sow

D6 Banking I (sponsorizzata dalla Banca Popolare di Puglia e Basilicata) Aula 35 – terzo piano
Presiede: Giacomo Degli Antoni – Discutono: Giacomo Degli Antoni, Silvia Del Prete, Andrea F. Presbitero

• Intra-competitiveness and inter-competitiveness among mutual banks: the case of Trento
  Gian Paolo Barbetta, Luca Colombo, Stefano Colombo, Michele Grillo
• Access to credit for Italian Firms: New Evidence from the ISTAT Confidence Business Survey
  Stefano Costa, Marco Malgarini, Patrizia Margani
• Bank directors on corporate boards: conflict of interests or certification role?
  Massimiliano Stacchini, Giacomo Cau

D7 Firms’ formation and organization Aula 33 – terzo piano
Presiede: Carlotta Berti Ceroni – Discutono: Davide Antonioli, Carlotta Berti Ceroni

• Selection, Heterogeneity and Entry in Professional Markets
  Marco Alderighi, Claudio A. Piga
• The uncertain destiny of prioprietary capitalism: Family connections and the allocation of entrepreneurial talent
  Maria Rosaria Carillo, Vincenzo Lombardo, Alberto Zazzaro
• Managerial delegation schemes under centralised unionisation
  Nicola Meccheri, Luciano Fanti

D8 Issues in financial markets Aula Sassu – piano ammezzato
Presiede: Pietro Alessandrini – Discutono: Pietro Alessandrini, Giovanni Ferri

• Testing external habits in an asset pricing model
  Melisso Boschi, Stefano D’Addona, Aditya Goenka
• A flow network analysis of  direct balance-sheet contagion in financial networks
  Mario Eboli
• Regional interest rate pass-through in Italy
  Alberto Montagnoli, Oreste Napolitano, Boriss Siliverstovs

D9 Technology and networks Aula 36 – terzo piano
Presiede: Sergio Destefanis – Discutono: Sergio Destefanis, Margherita Russo

• The Importance of Being a Capable Supplier: Italian Industrial Firms in Global Value Chains
  Mariarosaria Agostino, Anna Giunta, Jeffrey B. Nugent, Domenico Scalera, Francesco Trivieri
• Interpreting the Hours-Technology time-varying relationship
  Cristiano Cantore, Filippo Ferroni, Miguel A. Leȯn-Ledesma
• How do Recombinative Capabilities: and Technological Proximity Influence Innovative Performance? A Study on the ICT sector
  Grazia Cecere, Muge Ozman

D10 Historical roots of regional development Aula 43 – quarto piano
Presiede: Alfredo Del Monte – Discutono: Alfredo Del Monte, Adriana Di Liberto, Paolo Vanin

• Poor Institutions, Rich Mines: Resource Curse and the Origins of the Sicilian Mafia
  Paolo Buonanno, Ruben Durante, Giovanni Prarolo, Paolo Vanin
• Urbanization and growth. Why the splendor of the Italian cities in the sixteenth century did not drive to the transition?
  Bruno Chiarini, Elisabetta Marzano
• Past dominations, current institutions and the Italian regional economic performance
  Adriana Di Liberto, Marco Sideri

D11 Contract Aula 41 – quarto piano
Presiede: Nicola Dimitri – Discutono: Elena D’Agostino, Nicola Dimitri, Luigi Moretti

• Publicity Requirements in Public Procurement: Evidence from a Regression Discontinuity Design
  Decio Coviello, Mario Mariniello
• Public-private contracting under limited commitment
  Daniel Danau, Annalisa Vinella
• Subcontracting in Public Procurement: An Empirical Investigation
  Lugi Moretti, Paola Valbonesi

 

15:30 – 15:45 Coffee break – Unibas

 

15:45 – 17:15 SESSIONI PARALLELE E – Unibas

E1 Trade Aula 43 – quarto piano
Presiede: Marco Cucculelli  – Discutono: Marco Cucculelli, Eleonora Pierucci

• International fragmentation of production and trade volatility: an analysis for the European countries
  Anna Falzoni, Lucia Tajoli
• China’s competition and the export price strategies of developed countries
  Giorgia Giovannetti, Marco Sanfilippo
• Imports, exports and the firm product scope: evidence from Turkey
  Alessia Lo Turco, Daniela Maggioni

E2 Issues in culture economics (co-organizzata con l’AEC) Aula 35 – terzo piano
Presiede: Tiziana Cuccia  – Discutono: Luca Barbarito, Tiziana Cuccia

• Ex Post Merger Evaluation in the UK Retail Market for Books (Appendix)
  Luca Aguzzoni, Elena Argentesi, Lorenzo Ciari, Tomaso Duso, Massimo Tognoni
• The Labor Market in the Seventeenth-Century Italian Art Sector
  Federico Etro, Silvia Marchesi, Laura Pagani
• Attracted but Unsatisfied: The Effects of Sensational Content on Television Comsunption Choices
  Luca Stanca, Marco Gui, Marcello Gallucci

E3 Poverty and agriculture Aula 33 – terzo piano
Presiede:  Ettore Bove – Discutono: Ettore Bove, Tamara Fioroni

• Trade openness and vulnerability to poverty: Vietnam in the long run (1992-2008)
  Emiliano Magrini, Pierluigi Montalbano
• Child Welfare in Albania Using Collective Approach
  Lucia Mangiavacchi, Federico Perali, Luca Piccoli
• Agriculture Reform and Food Crisis in Syria: Impacts on Poverty and Inequality
  Benedetto Rocchi, Donato Romano

E4 Happiness and job satisfaction Aula 31 – terzo piano
Presiede: Lorenzo Sacconi – Discutono: Cinzia Di Novi, Lorenzo Sacconi

• The drivers of happiness inequality. Suggestions for promoting social cohesion
  Leonardo Becchetti, Riccardo Massari, Paolo Naticchioni
• Well-being and psychological consequences of temporary contracts: The case of  younger Italian employees
  Vincenzo Carrieri, Cinzia Di Novi, Rowena Jacobs, Silvana Robone
• A “Human Growth” Perspective on Organizational Resources and Firm Performance
  Silvia Sacchetti, Ermanno C. Tortia

E5 The service sector Aula 41 – quarto piano
Presiede: Angela Stefania Bergantino – Discutono: Angela Stefania Bergantino, Davide Vannoni

• Tariffa e gestione dei servizi idrici in Italia: esiste davvero una differenza tra pubblico e privato?
  Olivier Butzbach, Roberta Murino, Elvira Romano
• Business services, innovation and sectoral growth
  Rinaldo Evangelista, Matteo Lucchese, Valentina Meliciani
• Can Producers Apply a Capacity Cutting Strategy to Increase Prices? The Case of the England and Wales Electricity Market
  Sherzod Tashpulatov, Lubomír Lízal

E6 Young economists II Aula Sassu – piano ammezzato
Presiede:  Leonardo Becchetti  – Discutono: Leonardo Becchetti, Stefania Cosci

• Risk Sharing, Financial Integration, and Welfare
  Christian Friedrich
• Enhancing Productivity and Reducing Regional Disparities: The Role of Finance and Socio-Institutional Environment
  Luigi Moretti
• Inequality, leisure time and life skills: individual and social implications for well-being
  Eleonora Romano

E7 Issues in applied economics Aula polivalente – quarto piano
Presiede: Sergio Destefanis – Discutono: Roberto Basile, Sergio Destefanis

• On the Determinants of Distribution Dynamics: a New Method and an Application to EU Regions
  Davide Fiaschi, Andrea Mario Lavezzi, Angela Parenti
• Is Globalization Driving Efficiency? A Threshold Stochastic Frontier Panel Data Modelling Approach
  Camilla Mastromarco, Laura Serlenga, Yongcheol Shin
• La convergenza condizionata nei livelli della PTF. Riflessioni sulla relazione fra PTF, processi di accumulazione e istituzioni
  Vito Pipitone, Luciano Seta

E8 Education, credit and development  Aula 32 – terzo piano
Presiede: Giuseppe Coco – Discutono: Giuseppe Coco, Michele Raitano

• Does Educational Kuznets Curve Exist? Evidence form India
  Tushar Agrawal
• Who does the grace-period really grace? Repayment flexibility in microfinance contracts
  Giorgia Barboni
• Educational Signaling, Credit Constraints and Inequality Dynamics
  Marcello D’Amato, Dilip Mookherjee

E9 Information, efficiency and welfare (co-organizzata con l’AMASES) – Aula 37 – terzo piano
Presiede: Achille Basile – Discutono: Matteo Alvisi, Achille Basile

• Enforceable vs. non-enforceable contracts: a theoretical appraisal with fair players
  Elena D’Agostino, Maurizio Lisciandra
• “Mirror Revelation” in Second-Price Tullock Auctions
  Nicola Dimitri
• Coalitional fairness in interim differential information economies
  Chiara Donnini, Maria Gabriella Graziano, Marialaura Pesce

 

17:30 – 19:00 Assemblea Annuale dei Soci – Unibas

 

20:30 Cena sociale

 

SABATO 20 OTTOBRE

9:00 – 11:00 SESSIONI PARALLELE F – Unibas

F1 Child, school and development (co-organizzata con la SITES) Aula Sassu – piano ammezzato
Presiede: Andrea Cornia – Discutono: Gabriella Berloffa, Maria Sassi

• Internal vs. International Migration: Impacts of Remittances on Child Well-Being in Vietnam
  Michele Binci, Gianna Claudia Giannelli
• How to Deal with Covert Child Labor and Give Children an Effective Education, in a Poor Developing Country
  Alessandro Cigno
• Does Promoting School Attendance Reduce Child Labour? Evidence from Burkina Faso’s Bright Project
  Jacobus de Hoop, Furio C. Rosati

F2 Fiscal Federalism and Expenditure Needs (co-organizzata con la SIEP) Aula 31 – terzo piano
Presiede: Ernesto Longobardi – Discutono: Bruno Chiarini, Ernesto Longobardi

• Complexity in the design of intergovernmental equalization system: the case of expenditure needs indicators in Italy
  Giampaolo Arachi, Salvatore Parlato, Alberto Zanardi
• Fiscal Decentralization in Weak Institutional Environments: Evidence from Southern Italy
  Sergio Beraldo, Massimiliano Piacenza, Gilberto Turati
• Standard needs of the Italian primary schools
  Giuseppe Di Giacomo, Aline Pennisi, Agnese Sacchi
• A Comprehensive Model for the Evaluation of the Local Governments Expenditure Needs and the Essential Level of Local Services
  Francesco Porcelli, Francesco Vidoli

F3 The economics of scientific research Aula polivalente – quarto piano
Presiede: Paolo Pini – Discutono: Roberto Dell’Anno, Paolo Pini

• Two New Simple Bibliometric Indexes to Better Evaluate Research in Economics
  Giovanni Anania, Annarosa Caruso
• Measuring Teaching Efficiency of the Italian University System: the Role of Market Structure. A two step DEA analysis at faculty level
  Angela Stefania Bergantino, Claudia Capozza, Francesco Porcelli
• Research collaboration networks in biotechnology: exploring the trade-off between institutional and gegraphical distance 
  Rosamaria d’Amore, Roberto Iorio, Sandrine Labory, Agnieszka Stawinoga
• Schools of Thought and Economists’ Opinions on Economic Policy
  Luca De Benedictis, Michele Di Maio

F4 Spatial agglomeration in the knowledge economy (co-organizzata con l’AISRE) Aula 35 – terzo piano
Presiede: Fabio Mazzola – Discutono: Francesco Aiello, Camilla Mastromarco, Fabio Mazzola

• Industry structure, industrial districts and employment growth: evidence from semi-parametric geo-additive models 
  Roberto Basile, Cristiana Donati, Rosanna Pittiglio
• From Space to Milieu: New Analytical Tools in the Knowledge Era
  Augusto Cusinato
• Social capital formation across space: proximity and trust in European regions
  Giorgio Fazio, Luciano Lavecchia
• Knowledge assets and regional performance
  Raffaele Paci, Emanuela Marrocu

F5 Wage inequalities and mobility (co-organizzata con l’AIEL) – Aula 36 – terzo piano
Presiede: Francesco Pastore – Discutono: Francesco Pastore, Dario Sciulli

• Alike in Many Ways: Intergenerational and Sibling Correlations of Brothers’ Life-Cycle Earnings
  Paul Bingley, Lorenzo Cappellari
• The impact of the minimum wage on low-wage and young workers: Employment and match evidence
  Mário Centeno, Cláudia Duarte, Álvaro A. Novo
• Differenziali salariali e capitale umano: alcune evidenze in cerca di spiegazione 
  Maurizio Franzini, Michele Raitano

F6 Issues in macroeconomics II Aula 32 – terzo piano
Presiede: Alessandro Piergallini – Discutono: Matteo Falagiarda, Alessandro Piergallini, Luca Sessa

• A DSGE model with Endogenous Term Structure
  Matteo Falagiarda, Massimiliano Marzo
• Indeterminacy in a Dynamic Small Open Economy with International Migration
  Carmelo Pierpaolo Parello
• Economic (In)Stability under Monetary Targeting
  Luca Sessa
• Uncertain potential output: implications for monetary policy in small open economy
  Guido Traficante

F7 Banking II Aula 33 – terzo piano
Presiede: Luca Vittorio Angelo Colombo – Discutono: Giorgia Barboni, Luca Vittorio Angelo Colombo

• Cross-Selling, Information Synergies and the Quality of Banks’ Loans
  Stefania Cosci, Valentina Meliciani, Valentina Sabato
• Circuit Breakers and Market Runs
  Sarah Draus, Mark Van Achter
• Were multinational banks taking excessive risks before the recent financial crisis?
  Mohamed Azzim Gulamhussen, Carlos Pinheiro, Alberto Franco Pozzolo
• Bank regulation when both deposit rate control and capital requirements are socially costly
  Carsten Krabbe Nielsen, Gerd Weinrich

F8 Theory of money and production – Aula 34 – terzo piano
Presiede: Giovanni B. Pittaluga – Discutono: Stefano Figuera, Giovanni B. Pittaluga

• If bad money is a collective bad, does it follow that good money is a collective good?
  Jack Birner
• Schumpeter in a matrix: a Stock Flow Consistent analysis of techonological change
  Alessandro Caiani, Antoine Godin, Stefano Lucarelli
• The monetary conditions for growth: Parguez’s debt stability condition
  Massimo Cingolani
• Crisis and Central Banks: a Circuitist Approach
  Andrea Pacella, Riccardo Realfonzo, Guido Tortorella Esposito

F9 Matching and labour markets – Aula 37 – terzo piano
Presiede: Matteo G.Richiardi – Discutono: Domenico Lisi, Paolo Naticchioni, Matteo G.Richiardi

• Marshallian Labor Market Pooling: Evidence from Italy
  Monica Andini, Guido de Blasio, Gilles Duranton, William C. Strange
• Better Workers Move to Better Firms: A Simple Test to Identify Sorting
  Cristian Bartolucci, Francesco Devicienti
• Cross-Sectors Skill Intensity and Temporary Employment
  Domenico Lisi
• Part-time work, wages and productivity: evidence from matched panel data
  François Rycx, Alessandra Cataldi, Stephan Kampelmann

F10 The economists in the 20th century: from economic analysis to economic policy (co-organizzata con la STOREP) Aula 43 – quarto piano
Presiede: Annalisa Rosselli  – Discutono: Nicola Acocella, Annalisa Rosselli

• Old Lady charm: explaining the persistent appeal of Chicago antitrust
  Nicola Giocoli
• World-class Manufacturing and Productivity. An assessment of the literature
  Riccardo Leoni
• Causality and Structure in Piecemeal Macroeconomic Modeling
  Sergio Parrinello
• L’economia del benessere e il problema della fondazione scientifica della politica economica in F. Caffè
  Mario Pomini

 

11:00 – 11:30 Coffee break – Mediateca

 

11:30 – 13:15 TAVOLA ROTONDA Energy sources for sustainable economic development – (sponsorizzata dall’eni) – Mediateca
Presiede: Carlo Andrea Bollino, Speakers: Emilio Dalmonte, Vito De Filippo, Francesco Gattei, Adriano Giannola, Jean Michel Glachant.