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Monday, 27^th June 2005

Lunch

17.30-19.00   Keynote Lecture

Lucrezia Reichlin (European Central Bank)

Large information and shocks identification in macroeconomics

Tuesday, 28^th June 2005

Lunch

17.30-19.00   Keynote Lecture

Joe Harrington (Johns Hopkins University)

The collusion chasm: reducing the gap between antitrust practice and industrial organization theory

Wednesday, 29^th June 2005

 

Macroeconomics       9.00-10.15 Francesco  Lippi (Banca d'Italia) and  Alessandro Secchi The demand for currency and the welfare cost of inflation in a 21st century economy   10.15 -11.30 Giovanni Pica (Università di Salerno and CSEF) and José V. Rodrìguez Mora FDI, Allocation of talents and differences in regulation   11.30-11.45 Coffee Break   11.45-13.00 Timothy Cogley and Argia M. Sbordone (Federal Reserve Bank of New York) A search for a structural Phillips Curve

Industrial Organization       9.00-10.15 Helder Vasconcelos (Università Bocconi and IGIER) Efficiency gains and structural remedies in merger   10.15 -11.30 Marcello D’Amato (Università di Salerno and CSEF), Riccardo Martina and Salvatore Piccolo Competitive pressures and managerial incentives with asymmetric information   11.30-11.45 Coffee Break   11.45-13.00 Marco Pagnozzi (Università di Salerno and CSEF) Resale and demand reduction in multi-unit auctions

Lunch

17.30-19.00   Keynote Lecture

Michael Woodford (Columbia University)

Inflation targeting  under fiscal stress

Thursday, 30^th June 2005

 

International Economy       9.00-10.15 Alessia Campolmi and Ester Faia (Universitat Pompeu Fabra) Inflation differentials and different labor mrket institutions in the EMU   10.15 -10.45 Coffee Break

Political Economy       9.00-10.15 Marco Pagano (Università di Napoli "Federico II" and CSEF) and Paolo Volpin The political economy of shareholder protection  and stock market development   10.15 -10.45 Coffee Break

10.45-12.15   Keynote Lecture

Abhijit Banerjee (MIT)

Credit access and the poor

Lunch

Friday, 1^st July 2005

 

Economics of Pensions       9.45-11.00 Paul Sengmueller and Thomas Steinberger (Università di Salerno and CSEF) Funding defined benefit plans: risk sharing, default and funding regulations   11.00-11.30 Coffee Break

Market microstructure       9.00-10.00 Maria Grazia Romano (Università di Salerno and CSEF) Learning, cascades and transaction costs   10.00 -11.00 Giovanni Cespa (Università di Salerno and CSEF) Information sales and insider trading   11.00-11.30 Coffee Break

11.30-13.00   Keynote Lecture

Gary Biglaiser and Ching-to Albert Ma (Boston University)

Moonlighting: public service and private practice

Lunch