Newsletter Vol. 4 | March-April 2019

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In Focus:

DSE WINS THE 1^ EDITION MARCO FANNO FELLOWSHIP!

We are proud to announce that our Department has been awarded the Marco Fanno fellowship – first edition – offered by the Unicredit & Universities Foundation. The Marco Fanno Fellowship is a 3-year fellowship in economics and finance in order to hire an Assistant Professor with tenure track (RTD-B). The main objective is to help Italian public universities to attract and retain outstanding young economists by offering them compensation comparable to international standards.

REPEC Top 25% European Economics Departments ranking

Our department is in the REPEC Top 25% European Economics Departments ranking, reaching this year the 20th position!

EVENTS

February-March 2019: Introduction to Economics - Economics crash-course for high school students.

As part of the university activity dedicated to supporting high school student’s choice of their university track, our Department offers a series of introductory classes in Economics. The classes will be held starting Monday, February 4, every week in the classrooms of the School of Economics, Management and Statistics (Piazza Scaravilli 2, Bologna).

VISITING FELLOWS

https://dse.unibo.it/en/department/people/visiting-professor-and-researchers

NEW COLLEAGUES

Simona Fiore, Research fellow

Simona is an applied economist with research interest in labor economics and political economy. Her research mainly focuses on the causes and consequences of migration, at different levels. She uses individual level data to understand how decisions on migration are taken and what are their effects on individuals and families, by focusing on the gender of the migrants or of those who are left behind. Her research also includes the study of the effect of immigration on the political life of destination countries.

Elisa Iori, Research fellow

https://www.unibo.it/sitoweb/elisa.iori5/en

Elisa’s research focuses on statistics applied to the evaluation of public policies.  She studied the decomposition of wages between workers using a semi-parametric approach to estimate counterfactual distributions. She studied also the effect of universal primary education policies on the probability to complete primary school in development countries. Currently, she is working on techniques to monitor and evaluate policies that promote a healthy lifestyle for the Wellness Valley Observatory.

PRIZES AND AWARDS

• January 2019: Prof.ssa Francesca Barigozzi is visiting professor at the Toulouse School of Economics for the academic year 2018/19
• January 2019: prof. Aura Reggiani started a visiting period at Cambridge University as Bologna-Clare Hall Visiting Fellow http://www.isa.unibo.it/it/bandi/fellowship-bologna-clare-hall-a.a.-2018-2019
• January 2019: Francesca Barigozzi became Associate Editor of the Journal of Public Economic Theory and Academic Editor of PLOS ONE
• January 2019: Davide Dragone became Associate Editor of the Journal of Health Economics.
• January 2019 the prof. Luca Lambertini has joined the group that is in charge of the editorial programs for the economic area of the publishing house Il Mulino https://www.mulino.it/scelte-editoriali

MEDIA COVERAGE

• 7 January 2019: a summary of the article by Stelios Michalopoulos (Brown University), Alireza Naghavi and Giovanni Prarolo "Trade and Geography in the Spread of Islam" (Economic Journal, 2017) has been published in the LSE Business Review
• January 2019, the antitrust site Competition Policy International reports that paper “The Innovation Theory of Harm: An Appraisal” by Vincenzo Denicolò and Michele Polo (Bocconi University) was the second most read piece in the “Economic Insights” category in 2018, coming just below the 2018 Hearings of the Federal Trade Commission. The paper is forthcoming in the Antitrust Law Journal.
• January 2019: the article by Irene Monasterolo (Boston University) and Luca De Angelis “Are Financial Markets Pricing Carbon Risks After the Paris Agreement? An Assessment of Low-Carbon and Carbon-Intensive Stock Market Indices” received a comment in the blog AllAboutAlpha, Research, Analysis & Opinion on Alternative Investment http://www.allaboutalpha.com/blog/2019/01/15/do-the-capital-markets-reward-low-carbon-business-models/
• January 2019: the new indicator of economic/political uncertainty (EURQ, economic uncertainty related queries) defined by Maria Elena Bontempi, Roberto Golinelli, Michele Frigeri and Matteo Squadrani has been included in the Economic Policy Uncertainty Index website edited by Steven Davis (Chicago University), Nick Bloom (Stanford University) and Scott Baker (Northwestern University), the world’s most influential website in terms of measures for uncertainty and a reference point of all the literature on this topic http://www.policyuncertainty.com/EURQ_monthly.html
• January-February 2019: The article "International Migration Intentions and Illegal Costs: Evidence Using Africa-to-Europe Smuggling Routes" (CEPR DP 13326) by Guido Friebel (Goethe University Frankfurt), Miriam Manchin (UCL School of Slavonic and East European Studies), Mariapia Mendola (Università degli Studi di Milano Bicocca ) e Giovanni Prarolo received the following media coverage:
  • info, 25 gennaio 2019
  • VoxEU, 2 febbraio 2019
• February 2019, the article "Strict ID Laws Don't Stop Voters: Evidence from a U.S. Nationwide Panel, 2008-2016" (NBER Working Paper No. 25522) by Enrico Cantoni and Vincent Pons (Harvard Business School) received the following media coverage:
  • Mother Jones, 11 February: https://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2019/02/new-study-suggests-voter-id-laws-have-no-effect/
  • New York Times, 12 February: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/12/opinion/voter-id-study-republicans-democrats.html
  • Washington Times, 13 February: https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2019/feb/13/voter-id-laws-dont-depress-turnout-despite-democra/
  • Economist, 19 February: https://www.economist.com/democracy-in-america/2019/02/19/do-voter-id-laws-reduce-turnout-among-black-americans
  • Boston Globe, 19 February: https://www.bostonglobe.com/opinion/2019/02/19/voter-laws-aren-worth-fighting-over/gLUO1InuZI6AkgDQWP78iM/story.html
• February 2019: the article “Artificial Intelligence, Algorithmic Pricing and Collusion” by Emilio Calvano, Giacomo Calzolari, Vincenzo Denicolò and Sergio Pastorello received the following media coverage:
  • VoxEU, 3 February, (the most read article of the month) https://voxeu.org/article/artificial-intelligence-algorithmic-pricing-and-collusion
  • Oxford Business Law Blog, 12 February https://www.law.ox.ac.uk/business-law-blog/blog/2019/02/artificial-intelligence-algorithmic-pricing-and-collusion
  • MIT Tech Review, 12 February https://www.technologyreview.com/the-download/612947/pricing-algorithms-can-learn-to-collude-with-each-other-to-raise-prices/
  • Financial Times, 22 February https://www.ft.com/content/3b9977a0-35c5-11e9-bb0c-42459962a812
  • Canadian Public Radio, 3 March https://www.cbc.ca/radio/spark/online-shopping-could-get-more-expensive-thanks-to-colluding-ai-1.5032259?fbclid=IwAR1LStrKB60OxzY-4eeul3O86TXJ54vuPASvKc42XglMhxC9wrZIpLeFpSU
• February 27 2019: Gianpaolo Rossini published the article “Cosa ci dice la anormalità tedesca” in Il Sole 24 ore https://www.ilsole24ore.com/art/commenti-e-idee/2019-02-22/cosa-ci-dice-anormalita-tedesca-113811.shtml?uuid=ABkH89WB&fromSearch

PARTICIPATION TO EXTERNAL EVENTS

• March 27 2019, Enrico Santarelli will take part in the presentation of the “Rapporto sull'economia della Romagna 2018 e scenari”organized by the Chamber of Commerce of Romagna. The seminar will be held in the Aula Magna of the University (Campus of Rimini) https://www.romagna.camcom.it/informazione-economico-statistica/rapporto-sulleconomia/presentazione-a-rimini-del-rapporto-sulleconomia-della-romagna-2018-e-scenari/index.htm?ID_D=4199