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51ª RSA - Università di Catania - 15-16 Ottobre

 

 

51ª RIUNIONE SCIENTIFICA ANNUALE

Catania, 15-16 Ottobre 2010
 

 

 

 

VENERDì 15 Ottobre

Ore 8:30-9:00

Registrazione dei partecipanti

 

Ore 9:00-9:30

Saluti e introduzione ai lavori

 

Ore 9:30-10:45

Lezione plenaria
Alan Kirman (Université d'Aix-Marseille III) - The Crisis in Economic Theory Coffee break

 

Ore 10:45-11:15

Coffee Break

 

Ore 11:15-13:15

Sessioni parallele
A1 Quali politiche per uscire dalla crisi?

Presiede: Terenzio Cozzi

  • Uscita dalla crisi o molla di ricarica verso una nuova crisi globale?, Mario Baldassarri
  • Regime di accumulazione, distribuzione del reddito e crisi economica, Bruno Bosco, Emiliano Brancaccio, Roberto Ciccone, Riccardo Realfonzo, Antonella Stirati
  • Un'analisi quantitativa delle politiche di rientro dal disavanzo pubblico in Italia, Francesco Carlucci
  • Debito pubblico, crescita e riforma fiscale: idee per ripartire, Chiara Rapallini, Aldo Rustichini

 

A2 La ricerca in economia e il finanziamento dell'Università

Presiede: Fiorella Kostoris

  • Giovani economisti crescono? Una riflessione ex-post sui lavori della commissione per la conferma in ruolo dei ricercatori in economia politica del biennio 2008-9., Giorgio Barba Navaretti, Giancarlo Bertocco, Alessandra Chirco
  • Misure di qualità e criteri di produttività scientifica in economia. Alcuni risultati e molti problemi., Maria Cristina Marcuzzo
  • Il finanziamento dell'università italiana. Un confronto con l'Inghilterra usando i bilanci degli atenei, Sergio Paba

 

A3 Saving and taxation

Presiede: Massimo Bordignon - Discutono: Massimo Bordignon e Michele Limosani

  • The Welfare Gains of Age Related Optimal Income Taxation, Spencer Bastani, Soren Blomquist, Luca Micheletto
  • Welfare Improving Taxation on Saving in a Growth Model, Xin Long, Alessandra Pelloni
  • Capital Income Taxation Incentives During Economic Downturns: Re-thinking Theory and Evidence
  • Ernesto Longobardi, Vito Polito
  • Evaluating the impact on saving of tax-favored retirement saving plans, Monica Paiella, Andrea Tiseno

 

A4 Global imbalances and international money

(Sessione organizzata in collaborazione con la International Economic Association)

Presiede: Luigi Paganetto - Discutono: Michele Fratianni e Luigi Paganetto

  • The China- US co-dependency and the elusive costs of growth rebalancing, Luigi Bonatti, Andrea Fracasso
  • The Saving Glut Explanation of Global Imbalances: the Role of Underinvestment, Flavia Corneli
  • The international circuit of key currencies and the global crisis. Is there scope for reform?, Lilia Costabile
  • Why the Euro is not a threat for the Dollar, Giovanni B. Pittaluga, Elena Seghezza

 

Ore 13:15-14:30

Buffet

 

Ore 14:30-15:45

Assemblea Annuale dei Soci

 

Ore 15:45-17:15

Sessioni parallele

 

B1 Social capital

Presiede: Maurizio Caserta - Discutono: Maurizio Caserta e Guido De Blasio

  • Enhancing capabilities through credit access: creditworthiness as a signal of trustworthiness, Leonardo Becchetti, Pierluigi Conzo
  • Social Capital, Plant Size and Purchased Service Intensity in Italy, Matthias Burker, G. Alfredo Minerva
  • Voluntary work and domain satisfactions: evidence from Italy, Damiano Fiorillo

 

B2 Employment and labour participation

Presiede: Marco Leonardi - Discutono: Marco Leonardi e Michele Battisti

  • Friends' Networks and Transitions into Employment, Lorenzo Cappellari, Konstantinos Tatsiramos
  • Is unemployment insurance a life vest of re-employment wages? Treatment effects evidence, Mario Centeno, Alvaro A. Novo
  • Modeling the Italian female labour market participation with infertility shocks, Concetta Rondinelli, Roberta Zizza

 

B3 Regions and technological spillovers

Presiede: Marcella Mulino - Discutono: Giuseppe De Arcangelis e Marcella Mulino

  • Intangible capital and firms productivity, Emanuela Marrocu, Raffaele Paci, Marco Pontis
  • Trade Integration and Regional Disparity in a Model of Scale-Invariant Growth, Antonio Minniti, Carmelo Pierpaolo Parello
  • Competition Policy and Economic Growth in an Economy with Heterogeneous Industries, Alessandro Diego Scopelliti

 

B4 Trade II
Presiede: Giorgio Barba Navaretti - Discutono: Giorgio Barba Navaretti e Stefano Federico

  • Sectoral Border Effects and the Geographic Concentration of Production, Gianluca Cafiso
  • EU preferential margins: measurement and aggregation issues, Maria Cipollina, Luca Salvatici
  • Cross-border Activities, Human Capital and Efficiency: A Stochastic Frontier Analysis for OECD Countries, Sucharita Ghosh, Camilla Mastromarco

 

B5  Childcare and labour market
Presiede: Tiziana Cuccia - Discutono: Tiziana Cuccia e Conchita D'Ambrosio

  • The More Public the More Private? The Case of the Italian Childcare, Maria Alessandra Antonelli, Veronica Grembi
  • Conflict, economic shock and child labour in Palestine, Michele Di Maio, Tushar Nandi
  • Mothers' Employment and their Children's Schooling: A Joint Multilevel Analysis for India, Francesca Francavilla, Gianna Claudia Giannelli, Leonardo Grilli

 

B6  Governance
Presiede: Davide Castellani - Discutono: Davide Castellani e Giuseppe Di Vita

  • The efficiency view of corporate boards: theory and evidence, Angelo Baglioni, Luca Colombo
  • Foreign Ownership, Multinational Status and Firm Exit in Italy, Anna Ferragina, Rosanna Pittiglio, Filippo Reganati
  • Board Composition, Political Connections and Performance in State-Owned Enterprises, Anna Menozzi, Maria Gutierrez Urtiaga, Davide Vannoni

 

B7  Macroeconomic volatility and contagion
Presiede: Matteo Manera - Discutono: Antonio Acconcia e Matteo Manera

  • Forecasting in Real-time During Periods of High Marcroeconomic Volatility, Carlo Altavilla, Matteo Ciccarelli
  • Testing for Contagion: a Time-Scale Decomposition, Andrea Cipollini, Iolanda Lo Cascio
  • The Structural Transformation Between Manufacturing and Services and the Decline in the U.S. GDP Volatility, Alessio Moro

 

B8  Law enforcement and courts efficiency: theoretical issues

(Sessione organizzata in collaborazione con la Società Italiana di Diritto ed Economia) Presiede: Michele Grillo - Discutono: Michele Grillo e Antonio Nicita

  • Inexpressive Law, Emanuela Carbonara, Francesco Parisi, Georg Von Wangenheim
  • "Thou shalt not covet . . . : Prohibitions, Temptation and Moral Values, Matteo Cervellati, Paolo Vanin
  • Corporate Criminal Liability and the Optimal Firms' Behavior. Monitoring Internal Devices versus Managerial Incentives, Paolo Polidori, Desirée Teobaldelli

 

B9  Production of Commodities by Means of Commodities: Fifty years after the publication

Sessione organizzata in collaborazione con la European Society for the History of Economic Thought)

Presiede: Maria Cristina Marcuzzo - Discute: Mario Pomini

  • Gravitation analysis: beyond cross-dual models and back to Adam Smith, Enrico Bellino, Franklin Serrano
  • Disequilibrium and reproduction prices: some dynamic extensions of Sraffa's model, Carlo Benetti, Christian Bidard, Edith Klimovsky
  • Besicovitch, Sraffa, and the existence of the Standard commodity, Neri Salvadori

 

Ore 17:15-17:30

Coffee break

 

Ore 17:30-19:00

Sessioni parallele

 

C1  Firm networks and innovation

Presiede: Anna Giunta - Discutono: Anna Giunta e Alessandro Sapio

  • La politica per la costruzione di reti innovative: aspetti teorici e metodologia empirica, Carlo Capuano, Alfredo Del Monte
  • The contribution of different R&D activities in BRICST to the knowledge creation of OECD regions, Lorena M. D'Agostino, Grazia D. Santangelo
  • The role of institutions and firm characteristics in the networks of firm publications. An analysis of the Italian biotech sector through the Social Network Analysis, Rosamaria D'Amore, Roberto Iorio, Agnieszka Stawinoga

 

C2  Trade I

Presiede: Fabrizio Onida - Discutono: Sergio De Nardis e Fabrizio Onida

  • "Within" specialization, Preference for Quality and Trade, Eleonora Cavallaro, Piero Esposito, Alessia Matano, Marcella Mulino
  • Backward linkages and the export performance of business services. Firm level evidence from a sample of Italian firms, Giuliano Conti, Alessia Lo Turco, Daniela Maggioni
  • Measuring the price elasticity of import demand in the destination markets of Italian exports, Stefano Federico, Alberto Felettigh

 

C3  Happiness economics

Presiede: Daniela Giammanco - Discutono: Francesco Drago e Daniela Giammanco

  • The Sources of Happiness: Evidence from the Investment Game, Leonardo Becchetti, Giacomo Degli Antoni
  • Social comparison and subjective well-being: Does the health of others matter?, Vincenzo Carrieri
  • Well-Being and the Social Context of Promotions, Andrew E. Clark , Conchita D'Ambrosio

 

C4  Finance

Presiede: Marcello Messori - Discutono: Marcello Messori e Mario Quagliariello

  • Pension funds performance evaluation: a utility based approach, Fabio C. Bagliano, Carolina Fugazza, Giovanna Nicodano
  • Financial Literacy, Trust and Financial Advice, Chiara Monticone
  • How Do Alphas and Betas Move? Uncertainty, Learning and Time Variation in Risk Loadings, Carmine Trecroci

 

C5  Innovation economics

Presiede: Fabio Mazzola - Discutono: Fabio Mazzola e Paolo Emilio Mistrulli

  • Economic Crisis and Innovation Strategies. Evidence from Italian Firm-level Data, Davide Antonioli, Annaflavia Bianchi, Massimiliano Mazzanti, Sandro Montresor, Paolo Pini
  • R&D and credit rationing in SMEs, Maria Luisa Mancusi, Andrea Vezzulli
  • Looking around: the smart way of Italian SMEs to innovate, Piergiuseppe Morone, Carmelo Petraglia, Giuseppina Testa

 

C6  Problems of capitalism

Presiede: Giorgio Rodano - Discutono: Stefano Figuera e Giorgio Rodano

  • La crisi capitalistica e le sue ricorrenze: una lettura a partire da Marx, Riccardo Bellofiore
  • The psycology of inflation, monetary policy and macroeconomic instability, Giulia Canzian, Edoardo Gaffeo
  • A Financial Economy of Production, Andrea Fumagalli, Stefano Lucarelli

 

C7  Economic theory

Presiede: Aldo Montesano - Discutono: Giacomo Calzolari e Aldo Montesano

  • Convexification and exact walrasian equilibria in replica nonconvex economies, Antonio D'Agata
  • Investments in education and welfare in a two-sector, random matching economy, Concetta Mendolicchio, Dimitri Paolini, Tito Pietra
  • Value-at-Risk, limited liability and the moral-hazard problem, Vanda Tulli, Gerd Weinrich

 

C8  Theory of economic growth

Presiede: Giuseppe Freni - Discutono: Giuseppe Freni e Alessandra Pelloni

  • Global Indeterminacy of the Equilibrium in the Chamley Model of Endogenous Growth in the Vicinity of a Bogdanov-Takens Bifurcation, Giovanni Bella, Paolo Mattana
  • Maintenance and Investment: Complements or Substitutes? A Reappraisal, Raouf Boucekkine, Giorgio Fabbri, Fausto Gozzi
  • Public health spending, old-age productivity and economic growth: chaotic cycles under perfect foresight, Luciano Fanti, Luca Gori

 

C9  Industrial economics and policy

Presiede: Paola Valbonesi - Discutono: Federico Boffa e Paola Valbonesi

  • Cost Pass-Through with Network Externalities, Laura Baraldi, Christian Rojas
  • Capture, Industry Concentration, Politics and Antitrust Effectiveness, Rocco Ciciretti, Simone Meraglia, Gustavo Piga
  • Entry-Deterrence, Macroeconomic Equilibria and Pro-Competitive Policies, Claudio De Vincenti

 

Ore 20.30

Cena sociale

 

 

SABATO 16 OTTOBRE

Ore 8:30-10:00

Sessioni parallele

D1 Themes of business economics

Presiede: Maria Musumeci - Discutono: Fabio Montobbio e Maria Musumeci

  • L'impresa manifatturiera subfornitrice italiana nella catena del valore globale. Un confronto di produttività (1998-2006), Mariarosaria Agostino, Anna Giunta, Jeffrey B. Nugent, Domenico Scalera, Francesco Trivieri
  • Delocalizzazione produttiva e mix occupazionale, Alessia Amighini, Andrea F. Presbitero, Matteo G. Richiardi
  • A comprehensive survival analysis of business demography dynamics in Portugal, Elsa De Morais Sarmento, Alcina Nunes

 

D2  Foreign direct investments

Presiede: Filippo Reganati - Discutono: Francesco Aiello e Filippo Reganati

  • The impact of EU preferential trade agreements on Foreign Direct Investment, Paola Cardamone, Margherita Scoppola
  • Foreign Investments and Productivity - Evidence from European Regions, Davide Castellani, Fabio Pieri
  • FDIs and growth: What cross-country industry data say, Maria Cipollina, Giorgia Giovannetti, Filomena Pietrovito, Alberto Franco Pozzolo

 

D3  Fiscal rules

Presiede: Giorgio Brosio - Discutono: Giorgio Brosio e Fabio Fiorillo

  • The Effectiveness Evaluation of Selected Tax Expenditures: a Novel Approach, Antonella Caiumi
  • Assessing Degrees of Fiscal Rules, Emma Galli, Veronica Grembi
  • Single Ballot vs Double Ballot: Does It Matter for Fiscal Policies? Evidence from Italy, Leonzio Rizzo, Alberto Zanardi

 

D4  Regulation problems

Presiede: Antonio Purpura - Discutono: Edoardo Marcucci e Antonio Purpura

  • Macroeconomic conditions, regulatory changes and noise: are managers actually responsible of ports' efficiency? A multi-step approach to test European ports' relative efficiency, Angela Stefania Bergantino, Enrico Musso
  • Bottleneck Co-ownership as a Regulatory Alternative, Federico Boffa, John Panzar
  • On the Determinants of State Aid to Car Manufacturers, Marcella Nicolini, Carlo Scarpa, Paola Valbonesi

 

D5  Experimental economics

Presiede: Leonardo Becchetti - Discutono: Leonardo Becchetti e Carmela Di Mauro

  • Compliance by believing: an experimental exploration of social norms and impartial agreements, Marco Faillo, Stefania Ottone, Lorenzo Sacconi
  • Second mover advantage and bertrand dynamic competition: an experiment, Shane N. O'Higgins, Arturo Palomba, Patrizia Sbriglia
  • Why to be kind? Equity versus Efficiency as Determinants of Giving, Vittorio Pelligra, Luca Stanca

 

D6  Empirical issues

Presiede: Massimiliano Marzo - Discutono: Massimiliano Marzo e Camilla Mastromarco

  • Consistent anova-type estimators of variance componentes in unbalanced multi-way panel data models, Giovanni S.f. Bruno
  • DSGE Model Evaluation in a Bayesian Framework: an Assessment, Alessia Paccagnini

 

D7  Inflation and labour markets

Presiede: Giuseppe Marotta - Discutono: Giuseppe Marotta e Carmine Trecroci

  • Trend inflation, endogenous mark-ups and the non-vertical Phillips curve, Nicola Acocella, Giovanni Di Bartolomeo, Patrizio Tirelli
  • Imperfect competition, uncertainty and the labor market: self-adjustment versus policies, Annalisa Cristini, Piero Ferri, Anna Maria Variato
  • Search, bargaining and prices in an enlarged monetary union, Alessandro Marchesiani, Pietro Senesi

 

D8  Finance and growth

Presiede: Romano Piras - Discutono: Romano Piras e Andrea Vaona

  • Club convergence and non linear growth processes: evidence from a large sample of countries, Rosa Bernardini Papalia, Silvia Bertarelli
  • Growth without finance, finance without growth, Paolo Coccorese, Damiano Bruno Silipo
  • Non linear and asymmetric linkages between real growth in the Euro Area and global finance variable: new evidence, Mehdi Mili, Jean-Michel Sahut

 

D9  Theory of contracts II

Presiede: Salvatore Modica - Discutono: Concetta Mendolicchio e Salvatore Modica

  • Adverse Selection in a labor market with motivated workers, Francesca Barigozzi, Davide Raggi
  • Perks as second best optimal compensation, Alberto Bennardo, Pierre-Andre' Chiappori, Joon Song
  • Perverse cross-subsidization in the credit market, Giuseppe Coco, Giuseppe Pignataro

 

Ore 10:15-11:30

Lezione plenaria
Enrico Giovannini (Presidente ISTAT) - Nuovi indicatori di benessere

 

Ore 11:30-11:45

Coffee break

 

Ore 11:45-13:15

Sessioni parallele

 

E1  Themes of political economy

Presiede: Maria Rosa Battaggion - Discutono: Maria Rosa Battaggion e Davide Ticchi

  • Foreign Influence and the Cold War History of Democracy in Latin America, Roberto Bonfatti
  • What Do Ads Buy? Daily Coverage of Listed Companies on the Italian Press, Marco Gambaro, Riccardo Puglisi
  • The Logic of Party Coalitions with Political Activism and Public Financing, Michele G. Giuranno

 

E2  Education and institutional development

Presiede: Massimiliano Bratti - Discutono: Massimiliano Bratti e Roberta Zizza

  • Tax Evasion, the Underground Economy and Financial Development, Keith Blackburn, Niloy Bose, Salvatore Capasso
  • Does Political Knowledge Increase Support for Europe? A Cross Country Investigation of Attitudes of European Citizens, Floriana Cerniglia, Laura Pagani
  • Parental education and family characteristics: educational opportunities across cohorts in Italy and Spain, Antonio Di Paolo

 

E3 Distretti e imprenditorialità: l'economia della Sicilia

Presiede: Mario Centorrino - Discutono: Marco Bellandi e Mario Centorrino

  • The social dimension of entrepreneurship: the role of regional social effects, Luigi Bonaventura, Maurizio Caserta
  • Il settore ceramico in Sicilia. Dai cluster ai distretti artigianali e potenziamento del comparto industriale mediante investimenti esterni, Rosario La Rosa
  • Sicilia: federalismo e sviluppo, Salvatore Modica

 

E4  Industrial organization

Presiede: Antonio D'Agata - Discutono: Antonio D'Agata e Patrizia Sbriglia

  • Separating Complements: the Effects of Competition and Quality Leadership, Matteo Alvisi, Emanuela Carbonara, Francesco Parisi
  • Price Competition in International Mixed Oligopolies, Alessandra Chirco, Marcella Scrimitore
  • Mergers with Endogenous Timing, Marco A. Marini, Giorgio Rodano

 

E5  Wage contracts, brain drain and productivity

Presiede: Domenico Scalera - Discutono: Lorenzo Cappellari e Domenico Scalera

  • Flexible wage contracts, temporary jobs and worker performance: evidence from Italian firms, Michele Battisti, Giovanna Vallanti
  • High Performance Work Organization practices and productivity: the missing link between workplace design and the formation of competencies, Riccardo Leoni
  • A Micro Data Analisys of Italian Brain Drain", Simona Monteleone, Benedetto Torrisi

 

E6  Environment and health

Presiede: Guido Candela - Discutono: Guido Candela e Maria Olivella Rizza

  • An Equilibrium Model of Habitat Conservation under Uncertainty and Irreversibility, Luca Di Corato, Michele Moretto, Sergio Vergalli
  • Health related utilities under uncertainty, Carmela Di Mauro, Maria Daniela Giammanco
  • Domestic tourism demand in Italy: a Fixed Effect Vector Decomposition Estimation, Ivan Etzo, Carla Massidda

 

E7  Price dynamics

Presiede: Emanuela Marrocu - Discutono: Carlo Altavilla e Emanuela Marrocu

  • Interest Rate Co-movements, Global Factors and the Long End of the Term Spread, Joseph P. Byrne, Giorgio Fazio, Norbert Fiess
  • Macroeconomic Fundamentals and the Exchange Rate Dynamics: A No- Arbitrage Macro-Finance Approach, Junye Li, Weiwei Yin
  • Intra-national Purchasing Power Parity and Balassa-Samuelson Effects in Italy, Andrea Vaona

 

E8  Crisis and labour markets

Presiede: Nicola Acocella - Discutono: Nicola Acocella e Beniamino Moro

  • Crises and Labour Market Dynamics, Misbah Tanveer Choudhry, Enrico Marelli, Marcello Signorelli
  • L'impatto dell"onda lunga" della crisi: la disoccupazione e le sue nuove forme. Come riavviare la crescita e l'occupazione?, Riccardo Gatto, Leonello Tronti
  • The impact of Temporary Employment on Labour Productivity: Evidence from an Industry-level Panel of EU Countries, Domenico Lisi

 

E9 Theory of contracts
Presiede: Gerd Weinrich - Discutono: Alberto Bennardo e Gerd Weinrich

  • Sticks and Carrots in Procurement: an Experimental Exploration, Maria Bigoni, Giancarlo Spagnolo, Paola Valbonesi
  • Relational Contracts and Competitive Screening, Giacomo Calzolari, Giancarlo Spagnolo
  • Evasion, Corruption and Incentives Strategies, Roy Cerqueti, Raffaella Coppier

 

Ore 13:15-14:30

Buffet

 

Ore 14:30- 16:3

Sessioni parallele

 

F1 Federalism and tax reforms

(Sessione organizzata in collaborazione con la Società Italiana di Economia Pubblica) Presiede: Ernesto Longobardi - Discutono: Ernesto Longobardi e Alberto Zanardi

  • Who do you blame in local finance? An analysis of municipal financing in Italy, Massimo Bordignon, Santino Piazza
  • Federalism, Party Competition and Budget Outcome: Empirical Findings on Regional Health Expenditure in Italy, Marina Cavalieri, Emilio Giardina, Calogero Guccio, Isidoro Mazza
  • A model on interests representation and accountability in local governments, Fabio Fiorillo
  • Do local governments do it better? Analysis of the time performance in the execution of public work, Calogero Guccio, Giacomo Pignataro, Ilde Rizzo

 

F2 The Italian University system between reforms and productivity decline

(Sessione organizzata in collaborazione con l'Associazione Italiana di Economia del Lavoro) Presiede: Maria Paola Potestio - Discutono: Maria Paola Potestio e Stefano Staffolani

  • The effect of 3+2 on the graduate labor market: demand and supply, Giulio Bosio, Marco Leonardi
  • Local human capital externalities and wages at the firm level: The case of Italian Manufacturing, Massimiliano Bratti, Roberto Leombruni
  • Is there still a chance of finding a stable job? Evidence from a University in Southern Italy, Giuliana De Luca, Rosetta Lombardo, Giovanni Passarelli
  • The knowledge impact of new decentralized universities: an empirical study on Italy, Paolo Seri

 

F3 Law enforcement and courts efficiency: empirical issues

(Sessione organizzata in collaborazione con la Società Italiana di Diritto ed Economia) Presiede: Magda Bianco - Discutono: Magda Bianco e Emanuela Carbonara

  • Crime and Social Sanction, Paolo Buonanno, Giacomo Pasini, Paolo Vanin
  • The Deterrent Effects of the Penalty Point System for Driving Offences: A Regression Discontinuity Approach, Maria De Paola, Mariatiziana Falcone, Vincenzo Scoppa
  • Normative Complexity and the Lenght of Administrative Disputes: Evidence from Italian Regions, Giuseppe Di Vita
  • Indirect Effects of a Policy Altering Criminal Behavior: Evidence from a Natural Experiment, Francesco Drago, Roberto Galbiati

 

F4 Il ritardo strutturale italiano e le politiche per colmarlo

  • Presiede: Salvatore Rossi - Discutono: Giorgio Barba Navaretti e Salvatore Rossi
  • Ristrutturazione delle imprese e produttività, Andrea Brandolini, Matteo Bugamelli, Roberto Torrini
  • Imprese italiane nella competizione internazionale: modalita' di un aggiustamento a lungo misconosciuto, Sergio De Nardis, Carmine Pappalardo
  • Caduta tendenziale della crescita: analisi e prospettive per l'Italia, Giovanni Zanetti

 

F5 Regional economics: productivity and innovation

(Sessione sponsorizzata dalla Camera di Commercio di Catania) Presiede: Luigi Cannari - Discutono: Luigi Cannari e Antonello Scorcu

  • Regional Economic Divide and the Role of Technological Spillovers in Italy. Evidence from Microdata, Francesco Aiello, Paola Cardamone
  • The employment impact of technological and organizational innovations in European firms, Rinaldo Evangelista, Antonio Vezzani
  • The Dynamics of Labour Productivity across Italian Provinces: Convergence and Polarization, Davide Fiaschi, Lisa Gianmoena, Angela Parenti
  • The spatial determinants of specialisation in business services in the EU Regions, Valentina Meliciani, Maria Savona

 

F6 Banking

(Sessione sponsorizzata dal Credito Siciliano) Presiede: Luca Papi - Discutono: Angelo Baglioni e Luca Papi

  • Loan Officer Authority and Small Business Lending. Evidence from a Survey, Michele Benvenuti, Luca Casolaro, Silvia Del Prete, Paolo Emilio Mistrulli
  • Il dibattito sull'evoluzione del sistema dei pagamenti tra free-banking e central banking, Stefano Figuera
  • Rescuing Banks from the Effects of the Financial Crisis, Michele Fratianni, Francesco Marchionne
  • Do multinational banks create or destroy economic value?, Mohamed Azzim Gulamhussen, Carlos Pinheiro, Alberto Franco Pozzolo

 

F7 Fiscal policies and public spending

Presiede: Claudio De Vincenti - Discutono: Claudio De Vincenti e Paolo Paesani

  • Public spending multiplier: Evidence from province data and institutional information, Antonio Acconcia, Giancarlo Corsetti, Saverio Simonelli
  • Can we rely upon fiscal policy estimates in countries with a tax evasion of 15 per cent (or more) of GDP?, Raffaella Basile, Bruno Chiarini, Elisabetta Marzano
  • The Effects of Fiscal Shocks with Debt-stabilizing Budgetary Reactions: SVAR Analysis for Italy, Francesco Caprioli, Sandro Momigliano
  • On the usefulness of government spending in the EU area, Luigi Marattin, Simone Salotti

 

F8 Migration

Presiede: Maria Rosaria Carillo - Discutono: Maria Rosaria Carillo e Carlo Devillanova

  • Clandestine Migrants: Do the High-Skilled Return Home First?, Nicola Coniglio, Giuseppe De Arcangelis, Laura Serlenga
  • Coordination Failures in Immigration Policy, Paolo E. Giordani, Michele Ruta
  • Internal migration across Italian regions: macroeconomic determinants and accommodating potential for a dualistic economy, Romano Piras
  • Remittances and Public Spending on Education, Biagio Speciale

 

F9 Issues of history of economic analysis

(Sessione organizzata in collaborazione con l'Associazione Italiana per la Storia dell'Economia Politica) Presiede: Massimo Di Matteo - Discutono: Massimo Di Matteo e Anna La Bruna

  • Capitani d'impresa e maestri del pensiero. L'imprenditore e la tradizione degli economisti liberisti italiani da Francesco Ferrara a Sergio Ricossa, Piero Bini
  • La scuola di Chicago e la crisi di inizio millennio, Paolo Fetoni, Giuseppe Garofalo
  • Pasinetti's Structural Change and Economic Growth: a conceptual excursus, Nadia Garbellini, Ariel Luis Wirkierman
  • Dallo stato stazionario all'equilibrio dinamico: il contributo tra le due guerre mondiali, Mario Pomini 

 

 

 

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