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Alghero program 2024

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Monday 1st July

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Digital Economics

Registration 8:30-9:00

09:00 - 10:30 - Information I: Privacy and shadow profiling

Andrew Rhodes, Toulouse School of Economics. Personalization and Privacy choice

Laura Abrardi, Politecnico di Torino. Privacy regulations and online safety. Evidence from adult-only websites

Eliza Stenzhorn, ZEW Mannheim. Beliefs on shadow profiling and support for government intervention

10:30 - Coffee break

11.00 – 12.30 - Information II: Data sharing and learning

Antoine Dubus, ETH Zurich. The sale of data: Learning Synergies before M&A

Federico Navarra, Charles River Associates. Sharing is (not) caring: strategic information disclosure and platform’s business model

Johannes Walter, KIT & ZEW. Advised by an Algorithm: Learning with Different Informational Resources

12:45 - 14:15 Lunch buffet at Ristorante Aquatica

14.30 – 15.30 - Social Media and Peer-to-peer markets

Giorgio Ferroni, Universitè de Namur. Asymmetric competition in peer-to -peer markets.

Robin Ng, Universitat Mannheim. Free and Open-Source Software: Coordination and Competition.

Economic History

Registration 8:30-9:00

09:00 - 10:30 - Session 1

Giampaolo Lecce, Università di Bergamo. From Fields to Factories: Malaria Eradication and Structural Transformation in Post-War Italy.

Vania Licio, Università di Cagliari. Cultivating the disaster: Latifundia, natural hazards and infectious diseases in pre-industrial Sicily.

10:30 - Coffee break

11:00 - 12:45 - Session 2

Emanuele Felice, Università Iulm. Escape from biology. Highlighting the differences between the Agricultural Revolution and the birth of the modern world.

Fabrizio Adriani, University of Leicester. The civilising process: on the evolution of self control, manners and informality.

12:45 - 14:00 Lunch buffet at Ristorante Aquatica

14:00 - 15:30 - Session 3

Marco Martinez, Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna. A geography of women inventors in Italy, 1861-1939.

Alice Calder, University of New South Wales. One Question at a Time: The Impact of the American Civil War on Mobilization for Women’s Suffrage.

15:30 Break

15:45 - 17:15 - Session 4

Leonardo Ridolfi, Università di Siena. Women’s Wages, Gender Wage Gap and the Long Run of History. France in the Modern Period.

Luigi Moretti, Università di Bergamo. Detecting non-politically driven location probability of early railway networks.

Tuesday 2nd July

20:30 - Social dinner at Ristorante Acquatica

Digital Economics

9:00-10.30 - Pricing strategies

Jing Su, Université catholique de Louvain. Consumer fairness concerns for personalized pricing by two-sided platforms

Kevin Tran, University of Bristol. Value for Money and Selection: How Pricing Affects Airbnb Ratings

Francesco Gabriele, University of Southern California. The Welfare Effects of Behavior-based Price Discrimination in E-commerce

10:30 - Coffee break

11.00 – 12.30 - Competition & Innovation

Federico Vaccari, Università di Bergamo. Complementary and Rivalrous R&D for Global Standards

Luca Bennati, Toulouse School of Economics. Vertical Integration in Amazon Marketplace

Bruno Carballa-Smichowski, Joint Research Centre - European Commission. Competition in digital markets and disruptive innovation

12:45 -14:15 Lunch buffet at Ristorante Aquatica

14.30-15.30 - Related markets

Matteo Pazzona, Brunel University. DO NOT shut up and DO dribble: Social Media and TV Consumption

Riccardo Paba, Università di Sassari. Pricing perishable goods in the digital economy

Economics of Education

Registration 8:30-9:00

9:00-10:30 - Session 1

Elisabeth Kempter, Université de Luxembourg. Uncovering the role of education in the uptake of preventive measures against malaria in the African population.

Daniele Checchi, Università di Milano. TV digital transition and its impact on Italian pupils’ academic performance.

10:30 - Coffee break

11:00 -13:00 - Session 2

Adriana Di Liberto, Università di Cagliari. Managerial practices and student performance: evidence from changes in school principals.

Giuseppe Rose, Università di Calabria. Gender stereotypes and STEM Major’s Choice: Can the Effect of Prejudices be Reduced?

Marco Nieddu, Università di Cagliari. Teacher compensation and structural inequality: evidence from centralized teacher school choice in Perù.

13:00 -14:15 Lunch buffet at Ristorante Aquatica

14:30 -16:30 - Session 3

Leonardo Vargiu, Università di Padova. Big science and young researchers: The impact of research infrastructures on French Ph.D. students’ productivity.

Daniele Angelini, Universität Konstanz. Fiscal policy and human capital in the race against the machine.

Sirui Li, Université libre de Bruxelles. Standardized testing for college entrance: evidence from a major examination reform in China.

16:30 Break

16:45 -17:25 - Session 4

Michel Beine, Université de Luxembourg. Emigration prospects and educational choices: evidence from the French-Luxembourg case.

17:25-18:25 - Keynote Speaker

Maria De Paola, Università di Calabria

Using Administrative Data for the Evaluation of Tertiary Education Policies: A focus on the Impact of the Erasmus Program

PE&CF

Wednesday 3rd July

Political Economy

Registration 8:30-9:00

9.00 - 10.30 - Session 1

Matia Vannoni, King's College London. A Complex Compromise: Ideology and Regulatory Complexity in the US Federal Bureaucracy

Giovanna Marcolongo, Bocconi University. The Undoing of Economic Sanctions: Evidence from the Russia-Ukraine conflict.

Gloria Gennaro, UCL. User suspension and its consequences for online behavior.

10:30 - Coffee break

11.00-12.30 - Session 2

Marco Tabellini, Harvard Business School. Homeward Bound: How Migrants Seek Out Familiar Climates.

Sulin Sardoschau, Humboldt University. Public Signal and Private Action: Right-wing Protest and Hate Crimes against Refugees.

Elliot Ash, ETH Zurich. Judging Disparities: Recidivism Risk, Image Motives, and In-Group Bias on Wisconsin Criminal Courts.

12:45 - 14:15 Lunch buffet at Ristorante Aquatica

14.15 - 15.45 - Session 3

Maria Carreri, UC Berkeley. The Influence of Public Safety Unions in Local Elections. Evidence from U.S. Cities Spending and Performance.

Federico Trombetta, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore. Jumping without parachutes. Revolving doors and political incentives.

Stephane Wolton, London School of Economics. The structural transformation of the public space: High street change and populism.

Corporate Finance, Financial Intermediation and Macro-Finance

Registration 8:30-9:00

9:00-10:30 - Digital economy and the credit market

Fiorella de Fiore, BIS. Big Tech and the Macroeconomy

Fabrizio Core, ESE Rotterdam. Advantageous Selection in Fintech Loans

10:30 - Coffee break

11:00-12:30 - Banks and the Macroeconomy

11:00 - 11:45 Dominik Supera, Columbia Business School. The Foreign Liability Channel of Bank Capital Requirements

11:45 - 12:30 Dominik Thaler, ECB. The Bright Side of the Doom Loop: Banks’ Sovereign Exposure and Default Incentives

12:45 - 14:00 Lunch buffet at Ristorante Aquatica

14:00-15:30 - Credit Conditions

Ander Perez-Orive, Fed Board. Zombie Lending to U.S. Firms

Mattia Colombo, ESE Rotterdam. Credit Conditions when Lenders are Commonly Owned

Break 15:30

15:45-17:15 - Bankruptcy

Philip Valta, University of Bern. Loan Renegotiation and Information Diffusion: The Role of Insider Trading

Kasper Roszbach, Norges Bank. Make it or Break it: Corporate Bankruptcy and Management Careers

20:30 - Social dinner at Ristorante Aquatica

Thursday 4th July

Political Economy

9.00 - 10.30 – Session 4

Karine Van der Straten, Toulouse School of Economics. On the veil-of-ignorance principle: welfare-optimal information disclosure in voting.

Salvatore Nunnari, Bocconi University. Cognitive Skills and the Demand for Bad Policy.

Gilat Levy, London School of Economics. Research Waves.

10:30 - Coffee break

11.00 - 12.30 – Session 5

Alberto Bisin, New York University. Questione Meridionale: Elites and Civil Society.

Laura Mayoral, Institute for Economic Analysis and Barcelona School of Economics. Economic development in pixels.

Caterina Chiopris, Harvard University. The Diffusion of Ideas.

12:45 - 14:15 Lunch buffet at Ristorante Aquatica

14:00 - Unicredit Foundation best paper announcement

14:15-15:15 - Session 6

Giovanna Invernizzi, Bocconi University. Evolving Parties.

Scott Tyson, University of Rochester. Eager Hearts and Radicalized Minds.

Corporate Finance, Financial Intermediation and Macro-Finance

10:30 - Coffee break

10:45-13:00 - Leverage and interest rates

Daria Finocchiaro, Sveriges Riksbank. Liquidity, Capital Pledgeability and Inflation Redistribution

Alejandro Van der Ghote, ECB. Monetary Policy under Multiple Financing Constraints

Giovanna Nicodano, Università di Torino. On the Heterogeneous Response of Leverage to Interest Rates

13:00 - 14:15 Lunch buffet at Ristorante Aquatica

14:00 - Unicredit Foundation best paper announcement

14:15-15:45 - Credit frictions

Malika Hamadi, University of Birmingham. Mitigating Labor Investment Inefficiency: Does Social Capital Matter?

Rebecca De Simone, London Business School. Taxation when Markets are not Competitive: Evidence from a Loan Tax.

Break 15:45

16:00-17:30 - ESG

Luana Zaccaria, EIEF. Welcome on Board: The Spillover Effects of Mandatory Gender Quotas

Martina Jasova, Barnard College. “Glossy Green" Banks: The Disconnect Between Environmental Disclosures and Lending Activities.