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Newsletter Vol. 12 | November-December 2020

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EVENTS

  •  20 October : Another round of the meeting “I Grandi Temi della Politica Economica: Posizioni a Confronto” was held with the topic “Un mondo nuovo? Cambiamento climatico e riconversione produttiva negli scenari post pandemia”. Simone Borghesi (Università di Siena; Direttore FSR Climate, EUI; Segretario Generale EAERE), Daniele Cantagalli (Responsabile R&D, ÈCOSÌ), Lorenzo Forni (Università di Padova), Stefano Venier (AD, Gruppo HERA) have partecipated as discussants; and Stefano Agnoli (Corriere della Sera) has partecipated as moderator. The event has been broadcasted live on the YouTube channel of the DSE.
  •  31 October : The project entitled “MINUTO – Mind Us Together” has been launched by an interdisciplinary group of researchers, including Maria Bigoni, Chiara Monfardini, Margherita Fort e Daniela Iiorio as DSE members. The MINUTO project is a is a guided path that accompanies parents through the re-discovery of their skills and needs, as well as those of their children, to help them enhance every shared moment, in a way compatible with the sometimes complex routines that characterize the life of contemporary families. Information available on the website https://site.unibo.it/minuto/en/project.

VISITING FELLOWS

http://www.dse.unibo.it/en/department/visiting-professors

NEW COLLEAGUES

Guglielmo Barone, Associate Professor, Academic discipline: SECS-P/01 ECONOMICS  

Guglielmo is an applied economist whose research mainly deals with political economy, urban economics, public economics. He published in international journals such as American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, Economic Journal, Journal of Public Economics, Journal of Urban Economics, Review of Economic Studies. His previous appointment was as associate professor of Economic Policy at the University of Padua. Before entering the academic career, he served as economist for the Bank of Italy, and has been the head of the Bank’s regional research units in Tuscany and in Emilia-Romagna. He has also been a visiting scholar at the NBER.

Patrizia Battilani, Full Professor, Academic discipline: SECS-P/12 ECONOMIC HISTORY

Patrizia received her Ph.D. in Political Economy from the University of Ancona and was visiting student at the History Department of the London School of Economics (1992-3), and visiting scholar at the University of Sidney (2013) and the University of Glasgow (2017-2018). Since 2018 she is the Director of CAST (Center for Advanced Studies in Tourism) at the University of Bologna, and she sits in the Scientific Board of the Postgraduate Master in Economia della cooperazione (Economics of cooperative enterprises). She has published articles in international journals such as Business History, Journal of Sustainable Tourism, Journal of Historical Research in Marketing, Journal of Tourism History, and books with national and international publishers as Cambridge University Press and Il Mulino. Since January 2019 she has the scientific responsibility for the Bologna University unit of Recolor (Reviving and EnhanCing artwOrks and Landscapes Of the adRiatic) an Interreg Italy-Croatia project aiming at making natural and cultural heritage a leverage for sustainable and more balanced territorial development (2014–2020 Interreg V-A Italy - Croatia CBC Programme - Priority Axis: Environment and cultural heritage). Her primary research interests are business history with a focus on cooperative enterprises, the history of welfare state mainly dealing with social innovation, the history of culture and tourism with applications in the field of participatory tourism planning, cultural tourism experience design, enhancement of UNESCO World Heritage Sites and European Cultural Routes.

Alessandro Saia, Senior Assistant Professor (RTD-B), Academic discipline: SECS-P01 ECONOMICS

Alessandro received his doctoral degree in Economics from the University of Bologna in 2015. He worked as an economist at the Economics Department of the OECD and as a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Lausanne. He has published in international journals such as Journal of International Economics and Journal of Public Economics. His research interests lie in the area of international economics and political economy. His current research agenda is focused on the role of institutions and media in reducing political and social conflicts.

 

PRIZES AND AWARDS

  •  Margherita Fort has been awarded the 2019 EIEF grant on the project entitled “Gender Differences in STEM: Can Teaching Girls to Code Close the Gaps?”. Team members: Michela Carlana (Harvard University).
  •  30 October : Francesco Clavorà Braulin, DSE PhD in 2020 (32nd Cycle), has been awarded the 2020 Louis-André Gerard-Varet prize by the Association of Southern-European Economic Theorists, as author of the paper “The Effects of Personal Information on Competition: Consumer Privacy and Partial Price Discrimination”.
  •  2 October 2020 : Vincenzo Scrutinio, post-doc researcher at the DSE, has been awarded the “Premio Annuale di Economia del Lavoro Ezio Tarantelli” as author of the paper “The medium-term effects of unemployment benefits”.

PARTICIPATION TO EXTERNAL EVENTS

  • 12 - 14 September : Alessandro Tavoni participated as panelist to the Asko Meeting. 
  •  24 - 25 September : Alessandro Tavoni participated as panelist to the CEE-M Annual Environmental and Natural Resource Conservation Workshop. 
  •  8 - 9 October : Margherita Fort participated as keynote speaker to the virtual PhD Workshop “Causal Analyses of School Reforms” organized by the IFO Center for the Economics of Education and the WZB Berlin Social Science Center.