53ª RSA - University of Basilicata

The 53rd Annual Conference (RSA) of the Italian Economic Association (SIE) was held at the University of Basilicata in Matera, from October 18 to 20, 2012

PROGRAMMA

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.