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Department of Economics

Newsletter Vol. 18 | January-February 2022

Events

The 3rd Italian "Workshop of Econometrics and Empirical Economics" (IWEEE) organized by the Italian Econometric Association (SIdE) with the support of the DSE, will be held in Rimini on January 20-21, 2022, hosting about 100 participants. Chair of the Program Committee: Matteo Barigozzi. Local organizers: Luca Fanelli, Giuseppe Cavaliere and Giovanni Angelini.

Visiting fellows

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

New colleagues

Jonathan Chapman, Assistant Professor (RTD-B), SECS-P/01 Economics.

Jonathan Chapman is an applied microeconomist, with research interests straddling Economic History, Political Economy, and Behavioral Economics. His work in economic history is focused on the development of the British state, with several papers using the British experience to test the effect of democratization on government spending. In behavioral economics his work studies the distribution of and relationships between economic preferences using data from general population samples. His work has been published in journals such as the Quarterly Journal of Political Science, the Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, and the Journal of Economic History.

Martin Gonzalez Eiras, Associate Professor, SECS-P/01 Economics 

Martín Gonzalez-Eiras is Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Bologna. He holds a PhD in Economics from MIT, and has been on the faculty of Universidad de San Andrés (Argentina), Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez (Chile), and University of Copenhagen. He held visiting positions at IIES, Study Center Gerzensee, Columbia University, CEMFI and Bank of Spain. He has research interests in Macroeconomics, Finance, Political Economy, and Public Finance. He has published in the Journal of Monetary Economics, Journal of Public Economics, Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, European Economic Review, Review of Economic Dynamics and Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control. He has been a consultant at the IADB and has received a variety of grants and awards, including the GDN First Prize Medal in Financial Markets and a Fulbright research grant.

Andrea Mattozzi, Full Professor, SECS-P/01 Economics 

Andrea Mattozzi is an economic theorist interested in political economy and specifically in voting, selection of politicians, electoral systems and group formation. He holds a PhD from the University of Pennsylvania and has been a faculty at the California Institute of Technology and at the European University Institute where he also served as Head of Department. He has published in top international journals such as American Economic Review, American Economic Journal Micro, Journal of the European Economic Association, International Economic Review, Games and Economic Behavior, Journal of Public Economics, Journal of Politics. His research has been supported by National Science Foundation, Ramón y Cajal fellowship and PRIN. He is a research fellow of CEPR and an associate editor of the European Economic Review.

Paolo Vanin, Full Professor, SECS-P/01 Economics 

Paolo Vanin holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Pavia and one from Pompeu Fabra University (Barcelona). Before Bologna, he worked for three years as assistant professor in Padua, and spent research periods abroad in Osnabrück, Bonn (EDP), Berlin (FU) and Buenos Aires (UTDT and, between 2016 and 2020, UdeSA). His research deals with theory and empirics of long-term development, political economics, social economics and crime economics, as well as microeconomic theory. It was published, among others, in the following outlets: Journal of the European Economic Association, Journal of Public Economics, Journal of Development Economics, Economic Journal, American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, Journal of Law & Economics. His research topics in recent years include: the relationship between economic development and the evolution of the state system in European history, government transparency, political effects of terrorism, origins and consequences of the Sicilian mafia, social closure and crime, morality and temptation, and dynamic price effects.

 

PRIZES AND AWARDS

  •  Giuseppe Cavaliere has been awarded the “Best Associate Editor of 2021” by the Journal of Econometrics.
  • Alireza Jay Naghavi has been appointed as a member of the Editorial Board of the journal “International Economics”.
  • Alessandro Sforza is affiliated at the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) within the following programs: International Trade and Regional Economics e Organizational Economics.

 

Publications by DSE members in the top 5 economics scientific journals

The paper entitled “Does Context Outweigh Individual Characteristics in Driving Voting Behavior? Evidence from Relocations within the U.S.” by Enrico Cantoni and Vincent Pons is forthcoming on the American Economic Review.

 

Participation in external events

 

Events co-organized by the DSE

On November 12th the DSE has hosted the presentation of the XX Annual Report of INPS. Stefano Toso and Giulio Zanella have participated as discussants. Guglielmo Barone chaired the debate.