ALGHERO PROGRAM 2019

 

18th June

Parallel session 18-A: Credit and Financial Frictions

9:30-11:00

Omar Rachedi, Banco de España: ”Bank Regulatory Capital Arbitrage: Evidence from Housing Overappraisals”

Caterina Mendicino, European Central Bank: ”Bank risk taking and twin defaults”

11:00-11:30 COFFE BREAK

11:30-13:00

Daria Finocchiaro, Sveriges Riksbank and Uppsala University: ”Endogenous growth, endogenous finance”

Quentin Vandeweyer, European Central Bank: ”The Portfolio Rebalancing Channel of Monetary Policy”

 

13:00-14:30 LUNCH

 

14:30-16:00

Marlene Isoré, Université Paris-Saclay: ”International Propagation of Financial Shocks in a Search and Matching Environment”

Ettore Panetti, Banco de Portugal: ”Wealth Inequality, Financial Crises and Government Intervention in a Heterogeneous Banking System”

16:00-16:30 COFFE BREAK

 

Parallel session 18-B: Political Economy

9:00-11:00

Scott Tyson, University of Rochester: ”Sowing the Seeds: Indoctrination and Counterinsurgency”

Josè Tavares, Nova School of Business and Economics: ”Can ATMs Get Out The Vote? Evidence From a Nationwide Field Experiment”

 

Andrea Canidio, IMT Lucca and INSEAD: ”Optimal Political Institutions in the Shadow of Conflict”

Tommaso Sonno, Università di Bologna: ”Globalization and conflicts: the good, the bad and the ugly of corporations in Africa”

11:00-11:30 COFFE BREAK

11:30-13:00

Livio di Lonardo, Università Bocconi: ”The Political Economy Of Criminal Capturing”

 

Antonio Nicolo', Università di Padova: “Corruption, Extremism and Conflict”

Matteo Gamalerio, Institut d’Economia de Barcelona, Universitat de Barcelona: ”Finding the Warmth of other Suns? Refugee Reception, Extreme Votes and Hate Crimes”

 

13:00-14:00 LUNCH

 

14:00-16:00

Pierre Boyer, Ecole polytechnique (CREST): ”On the political economy of the income-tax threshold”

Federica Izzo, London School of Economics: ”Ideology for the Future”

Salvatore Nunnari, Università Bocconi: ”Preferences, Cognitive Abilities and the Demand for Populism”

Guadalupe Correa-Lopera, Universidad de Málaga: ”Demand for Direct Democracy”

16:00-16:30 COFFE BREAK

 

16:30

Plenary session: KEYNOTE Political Economy

Massimo Morelli, Università Bocconi: ”Causes and Consequences of Populism”

 

20:30 SOCIAL DINNER

 

19th June

Parallel session 19-A: Credit and Financial Frictions

9:00-11:15

Sarah Holton, Central Bank of Ireland: ”Is There a Zero Lower Bound? The Effects of Negative Policy Rates on Banks and Firms”

Sara Formai, Banca d’Italia: ”Bank credit and firm level investment: are recessions different?”

 

Artashes Karapeytan, ESSEC Business School, ”To Ask or Not To Ask: Bank Capital Requirements and Loan Collateralization”

11:15-11:45 COFFE BREAK

11:45-13:15

Marcella Lucchetta, Università di Venezia: ”Bad bank resolutions and bank lending”

 

Andrea Nobili, Banca d’Italia: ”Credit risk-taking and maturity mismatch: the role of the yield curve”

 

13:15-14:30 LUNCH

 

Parallel session 19-B: Political Economy

9:00-11:00

Antoni de Moragas, CUNEF: ”When consensus hurts: expert advice and electoral support”

 

Tinghua Yu, London School of Economics: ”Political Polarization and Policy Expertise: Theory and Evidence from State Supreme Courts”

Tommaso Giommoni, Università Bocconi: ”Fighting Corruption with Fiscal Rules”

 

Alberto Grillo, Toulouse School of Economics: ”Political Competition with Endogenous Turnout”

 

11:00-11:30 COFFE BREAK

11:30-13:30

Erica Pini, Université Catholique de Louvain: ”Economic inequality, political polarization and voter turnout”

 

Gregory Sasso, Università Bocconi: ”Accountability in Governing Hierarchies”

Michela Redoano: Politics in the Facebook Era. Evidence from the 2016 US Presidential Elections

13:00-14:30 LUNCH

 

14:30

Plenary session: KEYNOTE Credit and Financial Frictions

Andrew Ellul, Kelley School of Business, Indiana University: ”Financial Regulation, Fire Sales and Systemic Risk”

 

20th June

Parallel session 20-A: Economic Growth and Development

9:00-11:15

Maurizio Iacopetta, OFCE Sciences Po: ”Corporate Governance and Phases of Development”
 

Evangelos Dioikitopoulos, King’s College London: ”The Elimination of Common Rights and Comparative Economic Development in a Malthusian World”

 

Giorgio Gulino, Università di Bergamo: ”The Epidemiological Roots of Inequality: Malaria and Historical Evidence for Italy”

 

11:15-11.45 COFFE BREAK

11:45:13:15

 

Junaid Arshad, Università di Bologna: ”Psychological and Social Motivations in Microfinance Contracts: Theory and Evidence”

 

Esther Acquah, Universidad de Alicante: ”Rising from the Ashes: A Threshold Analysis of The Growth Effect of Institutions in Africa”

13:15-14:30 LUNCH
 

14:30-15:15

Katsufumi Fukuda, Toyama University: ”Effects of trade liberalization on economic growth and welfare”

16:00-16:30 COFFE BREAK

 

Parallel session 20-B: Digital Economics

9:00-11:15

Paul Belleflamme, Université Catholique de Louvain: ”Price Disclosure by two-sided platforms”

Marc Bourreau, Telecom ParisTech: ”Streaming Platform and Strategic Recommendation Bias”

Emilio Calvano, Università di Bologna: ”Artificial Intelligence, Algorithmic Pricing and Collusion”

 

11:15-11:45 COFFE BREAK

11:45-13:15

Lorien Sabatino, Politecnico di Torino: ”Online Privacy and Market Structure: Theory and Evidence”

 

Thanh Doan, University of East Anglia: “Platform Competition in the Tablet PC Market: the Role of Application Quality”

 

13:15- 14:30 LUNCH
 

14:30-16:00

Giuseppe Pignataro, Università di Bologna: ”Online reviews: better information or too much effort?”

Fabrizio Ciotti, Université Catholique de Louvain: ”Online News Provision and Strategic Sponsorship”

 

16:00-16:30 COFFE BREAK

 

16:30

Plenary session: KEYNOTE Digital Economics

Jose L. Moraga-Gonzalez, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and University of Groningen: ”Search costs, prices and quality”

 

19:00 BUS Shuttle to SUNSET APERITIVO and SOCIAL DINNER at Restaurant Pedramare

 

21st June

Parallel session 21-A: Economic Growth and Development

9:00-11:15

Pietro Peretto, Duke University: ”Beyond ‘Through Scarcity to Prosperity: A Theory of the Transition to Sustainable Growth’: A report progress”

Alessandra Pelloni, Università di Roma II: ”Optimal Factor Taxation in A Scale Free Model of Vertical Innovation”

 

Pedro Gomes, Birkbeck, University of London: ”Human capital and financial frictions: firm-level interactions and some macroeconomic implications”

11:15-11:45 COFFE BREAK
 

11:45-13:15

Luca Pensieroso, Université Catholique de Louvain: ”Structural change and human handedness: how economic development can shape evolutionary forces”

 

Rafael Serrano-Quintero, Universidad del Alicante: ”Decreasing Hours, the Labor Share, and the Elasticity of Substitution”
 

13:15-14:30 LUNCH
 

Parallel session 21-B: Digital Economics

9:00-11:15

Andrea Mantovani, Università di Bologna: ”Much ado about nothing? Online platform price parity clauses and the EU Booking.com case”

 

Heiko Karle, Frankfurt School of Finance & Management: ”Excessive Targeting”

 

Rossi Abi-Rafeh, Toulouse School of Economics: ”The Price is Right!”

 

11:15-11:45 COFFE BREAK

11:45-13:15

Alessandro Fedele, Libera Università di Bolzano: ”Congestion and Incentives in the Age of Driverless Cars”

 

Pasqualina Arca, University of Manchester: “Information avoidance, Echo Chambers and Uninformed Decisions”

 

13:15-14:30 LUNCH
 

14:30

Plenary session: KEYNOTE Economic Growth and Development

Jakob B. Madsen, The University of Western Australia: ”The Aging Society: Is Growth Reverting to Pre-Industrial Levels in the 21st Century? ”