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Department of Economics

Newsletter Vol. 14 | March-April 2021

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EVENTS

The department has organized a series of Research Seminars to scholars around the world who have responded to a call for interest, to visit the department and interact with faculty.

  • 19 January: Bruno Conte (Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona), Climate Change and Migration: the case of Africa
  • 21 January: Antoine Dubus (Université Libre de Bruxelles), Market for Information and Selling Mechanisms
  • 25 January: Leonardo Elias (Sloan School of Management, MIT), Capital Flows and the Real Effects of Corporate Rollover Risk
  • 26 January: Mauricio Olivares Gonzalez (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), Robust Permutation Test for Equality of Distributions under Covariate-Adaptive Randomization
  • 28 January: Silvia Sarpietro (University College London), Dynamic Unobservable Heterogeneity: Income Inequality and Job Polarization
  • 1 February: Davide Cipullo (Uppsala University), Gender Gaps in Political Careers: Evidence from Competitive Elections    
  • 2 February: Laura Gati (Boston College), Monetary Policy & Anchored Expectations: An Endogenous Gain Learning Model 
  • 4 February: Moritz Drechsel-Grau (University of Mannheim), Employment, Output and Welfare Effects of Minimum Wages
  • 11 February: Davide Alonzo (Vancouver School of Economics - UBC), Marrying your job: matching and mobility with geographic heterogeneity

9 March

Another round of the meeting “I Grandi Temi della Politica Economica: Posizioni a Confronto” was held with the topic “Il nuovo intervento pubblico nell’economia”, presented by Guglielmo Barone and organized by Guglielmo Barone, Marianna Berti e Riccardo Rovelli. Stefano Fassina (Deputato LeU), Tommaso Nannicini (Senatore PD) e Carlo Stagnaro (Istituto Bruno Leoni) have participated as discussants. Luciano Capone (Il Foglio) has participated as moderator. The event has been broadcasted live on the Youtube channel of the DSE.

20 April

A new meeting entitled “Il Mezzogiorno e altri divari territoriali” will be held within the seminar series “I Grandi Temi della Politica Economica: Posizioni a Confronto”, presented by Guglielmo Barone and organized by Guglielmo Barone, Marianna Berti and Riccardo Rovelli. Guido De Blasio (Bank of Italy), Maria De Paola (University of Calabria and INPS) and Claudio De Vincenti (University of Rome “La Sapienza” and LUISS School of European Political Economy) will participate as discussants; Alessandro Barbano (journalist, essayst, editorialist of the Huffington Post) will take part as moderator.

VISITING FELLOWS

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

PRIZES AND AWARDS

  •  Aura Reggiani has been appointed as a member of the Academy of Sciences of Bologna Institute.
  • Tommaso Sonno has been selected by the Scientific Committee of UniCredit Foundation as one of the winners of the “11th Modigliani Research Grant”, with the research project entitled “Africa's territory is for sale - Multinational corporations, land grabbing, and violence: how a pandemic fosters abusive behaviours in the ancient continent”. (Link to the selected finalists)

PUBLICATIONS ON THE TOP 5 ECONOMICS SCIENTIFIC JOURNALS

PARTICIPATION TO EXTERNAL EVENTS

  • 22 January: Andrea Mantovani was invited by the Spanish competition authority (Comisión Nacional de los Mercados y la Competencia, CNMC) to participate to a webinar with a presentation entitled “Economía de las plataformas digitales” (Link to the event)