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Department of Economics

Newsletter Vol. 11 | September-October 2020

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HIGHLIGHTS

The DSE YouTube Channel was launched. It represents the official channel of the Department of Economic Sciences of the Alma Mater Studiorum - University of Bologna with the aim of highlight activities and initiatives pursued in direct contact with society, in addition to teaching and research traditional missions.

EVENTS

  • 28-30 August: the 47th Annual Conference of the European Association for Research in Industrial Economics (EARIE) has been organized in an online format. Luca Lambertini has been the Chair of the Local Organizing Committee.
    The link to the videos of the EARIE 2020 online conference sessions are available on the University of Bologna Department of Economics YouTube Channel.
  • 4-6 September: the first PhD Weekend took place in Tuscany, in Pitigliano (GR). Ten PhD students gathered together with Alessandro Sforza and Tommaso Sonno for a weekend of team-building and workshops on several topics related to the PhD, such as preparing for the job market, work-life balance, and placement in and out of academia, with the participation of external speakers, such as Nicola Mastrorocco (Trinity College) and Riccardo Zago (Banque de France). The event was a combination of formal activities with informal moments, such as visiting Etruscan tombs and bathing at the Saturnia natural thermal springs.
  • 17 September: the “Experimental/Behavioral Workshop” has been held at DSE, including presentations by Diego Gambetta (Collegio Carlo Alberto and European University Institute): “L'enfer c'est les autres? The effect of Covid 19 on interpersonal trust”; Marco Casari: “Civicness Drain"; Stefania Bortolotti: “Betrayal, Risk & Externalities - An Experiment on Fairness Ideals"; Elias Carroni: “Price Signaling with Salient-thinking Consumers". Location: Seminar Room, DSE, Piazza Antonio Scaravilli 2, 15:00.

VISITING FELLOWS

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

NEW COLLEAGUES

Elena Argentesi, Associate Professor, Academic discipline: SECS-P/06 APPLIED ECONOMICS.

Elena Argentesi’s research interests are in the area of empirical industrial organization and competition policy. She earned a Ph.D. in Economics at the European University Institute with a thesis on an empirical analysis of two-sided markets. Her papers have been published in The Journal of Applied Econometrics, The Journal of Industrial Economics, Energy Journal e Journal of Competition Law and Economics among other academic journals. She teaches Industrial Organization and Competition Economics both at the undergraduate and at the master level. She has worked as a technical expert for several public bodies, such as DG Competition and DG Internal Market Industry, Entrepreneurship and SME of the European Commission and national competition agencies.

Emanuele Campiglio, Associate Professor, Academic discipline: SECS-P/01 ECONOMICS

Before joining the University of Bologna, Emanuele Campiglio was Assistant Professor of Climate Economics and Finance at the Vienna University of Economics and Business (WU). He is also Visiting Fellow at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) and Affiliated Scientist at the RFF-CMCC European Institute on Economics and the Environment (EIEE). The University of Bologna will be the host institution for his 5-year ERC project SMOOTH - Sustainable finance for a smooth low-carbon transition - which will investigate the dynamic links between climate change, macro-financial systems and sustainability transitions.

Mauro Carboni, Associate Professor, Academic discipline: SECS-P12 ECONOMIC HISTORY

Mauro Carboni is a social and economic historian. His research activity is mostly devoted to credit and financial history, and the development of fiscal and welfare networks since the Middle Ages. He received his Ph.D. in history from Michigan State University. He had teaching assignments at Michigan State University, at the National University of Ireland, and at the European Center of Emerson College. He has authored and jointly edited several books published by Il Mulino, and has contributed many articles to collection of studies and international journals, such as the Sixteenth Century Journal, Renaissance and Reformation, Journal of European Economic History, and Financial History Review.

Luca De Angelis, Associate Professor, Academic discipline: SECS-P/05 ECONOMETRICS

Luca De Angelis is an econometrician. His research activity is mostly devoted to time series and financial econometrics, econometric methods for climate change and green finance, and forecasting. He received his Ph.D. in Statistics from the University of Bologna. He was the Director of the Master programme in Quantitative Risk Management of the University of Bologna. He has authored many articles in international journals, such as Econometric Theory, Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, International Journal of Forecasting, and Ecological Economics.

Margherita Fort, Full Professor, Academic discipline: SECS-P/01 ECONOMICS

Margherita Fort received her Ph.D. in Applied Statistics in Economic and Social Sciences from the University of Padua and was a Marie Curie Fellow (Institute for Social and Economic Research-ISER, Essex) and a Max Weber fellow at the European University Institute. She collaborates with the FBK-IRVAPP research centre, and is a research fellow at IZA and CESifo. She has published in international journals such as the Journal of Political Economy, Journal of Labor Economics, Economic Journal, and Economic Policy. Her research deals mainly with applied micro-econometrics, specifically assessing the effects of public policies, with applications mainly in the field of the education economics and labour economics. In the recent years, her research is specifically focusing on the evidence-based investments in young children and their families.

Luigi Marattin, Associate Professor, Academic discipline: SECS-P/01 ECONOMICS

Luigi Marattin was born in Naples (Italy) on 20/02/1979. Degree in Economics of Public Administration and International Institutions (2001), Master in Economics at the University of Warwick (2002), Ph.D in Economics at the University of Siena (2007). Fulbright visiting researcher at the departments of economics of Columbia University, New York University and New School University (2005). His research focuses on fiscal policy transmissions mechanisms. Economic advisor to the Prime Minister (2014-2018), Chair of the Technical Commission on Local Public Spending at the Ministry of Economics (2016-2018). On academic leave from March 23rd 2018 after his election to the House of Representatives of the Italian Parliament. From July 30th 2020 he is Chair of the Finance Committee.

Anna Montini, Associate Professor, Academic discipline: SECS-P/02 ECONOMIC POLICY

Anna Montini is a statistician and an environmental economist. Her main research interests are environmental policies, waste management, air emissions and environmental-economic performance at geographical/spatial level. She is member of IAERE (Italian Association of Environmental and Resource Economists) and SEEDS (an Italian inter-university research centre). She has been involved in several research projects on water demand, earthquakes impact studies, hybrid economic-environmental accounts and local waste management. She has jointly edited a few books published by Routledge and has contributed to many articles in national and international journals. She has extensive experience in the conception, implementation and design of sample survey instruments.

Giuseppe Pignataro, Associate Professor, Academic discipline: SECS-P/02 ECONOMIC POLICY

Giuseppe Pignataro is a micro theorist. His research activity is mostly devoted to the inequality measurement, the impact of public policies, and issues related to asymmetric information in various markets. He received his Ph.D. in Economics and Finance (DEFAP) from Catholic University, Milan. In the last years, he has published in international journals, such as Social Choice and Welfare, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, Journal of Banking and Finance, Health Economics.

Emanuela Randon, Associate Professor, Academic discipline: SECS-P/03 PUBLIC ECONOMICS

Emanuela Randon is interested in Public Economics. Her research topics deal with the redistributive impact of taxation policies and gambling, positive and normative analysis of externalities. She has recently worked on epidemic policies with uncertainty. She achieved a Doctorate in Economics (Bocconi University-Catholic University and University of Milan) and a Phd in Economics at University of York.  She has published several contributions in international and national journals, such as Journal of Public Economic Theory, Economics Letters, Journal of Evolutionary Economics, Journal of Economics, Economia Politica.

Giulio Zanella, Full Professor, Academic discipline: SECS-P/01 ECONOMICS

Giulio Zanella obtained his PhD in Economics from the University of Siena in 2005. He was Visiting Assistant Professor at UC Santa Barbara, USA, in 2009 and he is currently Professor of Economics at the University of Adelaide, Australia. His research interests span labor economics, social economics and applied econometrics. His papers are published in international journals such as Journal of Political Economy, The Journal of the European Economic Association, The European Economic Review, The Journal of Monetary Economics, The Journal of Public Economics, The Review of Economic Dynamics. Giulio is Associate Editor of the European Economic Review. His ongoing research projects focus on the evaluation of public policies such as prison work programs, active labor market policy, and the expansion of access to tertiary education. Giulio is also currently working on econometric issues related to regression discontinuity designs with multiple cutoffs and the volatility of survey measures in the relation between culture and economic development.

PRIZES AND AWARDS

  • August 17: Francesca Fauri has been awarded the two-years Jean Monnet project “Past and Present Migration Challenges: what European and American History can teach us” as Academic Coordinator, funded by the European Commission.
  •  July 20: the book “L'economia italiana dopo il Covid-19", edited by Giorgio Bellettini and Andrea Goldstein (OECD), Bononia University Press, has been released. Davide Dragone, Paolo Figini, Paolo Manasse and Graziano Moramarco were among the contributors as authors (link to an extract from the book).
  •  July 21: Roberto Scazzieri has been appointed a Member of The Academy of Europe (link to the academic webpage). 

PUBLICATIONS BY DSE MEMBERS IN THE TOP 5 ECONOMICS SCIENTIFIC JOURNALS 

 

PARTICIPATION TO EXTERNAL EVENTS

  • July 1: Francesca Leucci, PhD student in the EDLE program, held a talk online for the course “Introduction to Environmental Policy and Management” offered by the School of Environment at the University of Massachusetts, USA. (Link to the presentation)
  • July 28: Giorgio Bellettini held a presentation of his book “The Italian Economy after COVID-19”, edited together with Andrea Goldstein (OECD), published by the Bononia University Press. Link: