1st Italian Doctoral Workshop
in Economics and Policy Analysis

Program

July 3rd

9.15-9.30

• Welcoming Address

9.30-11.10
Session “Labour Economics and Human Capital”, chair Christopher Flinn

• Veruska Oppedisano (Torino) – The Effects of the Expansion of Higher Education in Italy
• Sara Pinoli (Bocconi) –  Rational Expectations and the Puzzling No-Effect of The Minimum Wage

Session “Public Economics”, chair Federico Revelli

• Anna Rita Bennato (Tor Vergata) – Patent Policy and Health
• Valeria Di Cosmo (Roma III) – An Efficiency Measure of Italian Water Companies

11.30-13.10
Session “Monetary Economics”, chair Fabio Bagliano

• Amedeo Argentiero (Tor Vergata) – Spending Review and The Stability and Growth Pact: A New Keynesian Approach?
• Nicola Branzoli (Pavia) –  Price Indexation and Optimal Simple Rules in a Medium Scale New Keynesian Model

Session “Political Economy”, chair Maristella Botticini

• Francesco Scervini (Torino) – Endogenous Party Formation and the Inequality-Redistribution nexus
• Caterina Gennaioli (Bocconi) –  Product Diversity and Ethnic Fragmentation: Is Heterogeneity Good or Bad for Media Capture?

14.00-15.00
Poster Session

• Stella Capuano (Torino), Paolo Crosetto (Milano) Matteo Formenti (Tor Vergata), Novella Maugeri (Siena), Maria Melody S. Garcia (Tor Vergata), Sridhar Thapa (Trento), Serena Trucchi (Torino)

15.00-16.40
Session “Monetary Economics”, chair Marco Airaudo

• Alessia Paccagnini (Bocconi) – Assessing the Potential of DSGE Model Evaluation in a Bayesian Framework
• Francesca Carapella (Tor Vergata) – Banking Panics and Deflation in Dynamic General Equilibrium

Session “Institutions”, chair Maristella Botticini

• Luigi Bocola (Torino) – Law and Finance in Globalizing Markets
• Andrea Tesei (Tor Vergata) – International Commodity Price Variation and the Political Resource Curse

17.00-17.50
Session “Economics of the Family”, chair Giovanni Mastrobuoni

• Ekaterina Selezneva (Torino) – What Makes Russian Women (Un)happy? A Closer Look to the Family

Session “Consumption and Saving”, chair Elsa Fornero

• Simone Salotti (Siena) – The Determinants of Household Savings: is there a role for Wealth?

July 4th

9.30-11.10
Session “Industrial Organization”, chair Alessandro Sembenelli

• Raffaele Fiocco (Cattolica) – Bargaining and Collusion in Regulation
• Stefano Colombo (Cattolica) – Discriminatory Prices, Endogenous Locations and the Prisoner Dilemma Problem

Session “Economic Theory”, chair Pierpaolo Battigalli

• Nicoletta Berardi (Bicocca) – The Remains of Informality
• Stefano Galavotti (Ca’ Foscari) – On Efficient Trading Mechanisms with Ex-Post Individually Rational Traders

11.30-13.10
Round Table “Dottorati in Economia in Italia: Problemi e Potenzialità”

14.20-15.10
Session “International Economics”, chair Giuseppe Bertola

• Szabolcs Deàk (Bocconi) – Tax Cuts in Open Economies
• Alberto Panicucci, Andrea Tiburzi (Tor Vegata) – The Eastern Enlargement of the European Monetary Union: a Vector Autoregressive Analysis

Session “Human Capital”, chair Giovanni Mastrobuoni

• Virginia Maestri (Cattolica) – Poor Schooling of Kids Living in Public Housing: Ghetto Effect?
• Amedeo Piolatto (Bicocca) – Publicly Provided Private Goods: Education and Selective Vouchers

16.20-18.00
Session “International Finance” chair Gustavo Piga

• Irina Zviadadze (Lucca) – Return and Volatility Spillovers on European Stock Markets
• Riccardo Lo Conte (Cattolica) – The Dynamics of Sovereign Yield Differentials in EMU: New Evidence and Perspectives

Session “Institutions”, chair Esteban Jaimovich

• Aleksander Grygorian (Torino) – Imperfect Credit Markets with Financial Intermediators
• Filippo Gregorini (Bicocca) – Political Geography and Income Inequalities

The workshop is organized by DSE Students, University of Torino
For info and participation: www.carloalberto.org/idconference2008