Institute for
New Economic Thinking
Debunking Austerity:
Towards Alternative Economic Policy Scenarios
P ROGRAMME - M ONDAY, N OVEMBER 17 TH , 2014
9:00 - Welcome and introduction
P IERDOMENICO P ERATA - Rector, Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna
G IOVANNI D OSI - Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna
J AY P OCKLINGTON - Young Scholar Initiative, INET
C LARA M ATTEI - Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, INET
10:00 - Labour Market and Unemployment
Keynote Speaker: R ICHARD F REEMAN - Harvard University and National Bureau of Economic Research
Chair: M ARIA E NRICA V IRGILLITO - Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna
11:10 Coffee break
11:30 - Young Scholars Presentations
S IMON S TURN - University of Massachusetts Amherst
Explaining the German Employment Miracle in the Great Recession
M UNKACSI Z SUZSA - European University Institute
Fiscal Austerity, Unemployment and Family Firms
R ADEK S AUER - Goethe University Frankfurt
Macroeconomics of Minimum Wage
13:00 Lunch
14:30 - Innovation and Industrial Policy
Keynote Speaker: M ARIANA M AZZUCATO - Science Policy Research Unity, University of Sussex
Chair: F LAVIO C ALVINO - Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna
15:40 - Young Scholars Presentations
A NTONIO M ARIA C ONTI - Banca d’Italia
Recent Trends of Industrial Production in the Euro Area Major Countries
S TEFANIA V ITALI - Università Politecnica delle Marche
The Dynamic of Innovation Networks: a Switching Model on Technological Change
VALERIA C IRILLO - Sapienza, Università di Roma
The Case for a New Industrial Policy: Structural Change, Competitiveness, Employment
17:10 Closing coffee
Institute of Economics: Piazza Martiri della Libertà, 33 – 56127 Pisa — Tel. +39 050-883343
http://www.phdeconomics.sssup.it/debunkingausterity — idpe.conference@sssup.it
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Institute for
New Economic Thinking
Debunking Austerity:
Towards Alternative Economic Policy Scenarios
P ROGRAMME - T UESDAY, N OVEMBER 18 TH , 2014
10:00 - Fiscal and Monetary Policy
Keynote Speaker: A LAN K IRMAN - Aix-Marseille Université
Chair: M ATTIA G UERINI - Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna
11:10 Coffee break
11:30 - Young Scholars Presentations
I TALO P EDROSA - University of Campinas
A Minskyan-Fisherian SFC Model for Analyzing the Linkages of Private Financial Behavior and Public Debt
A NDREA M AZZOCCHETTI - Università di Genova
The Contractionary Effects of Fiscal Austerity in Agent-Based Macro-Model
E LTON B EQIRAJ - Sapienza, Università di Roma
Fiscal Consolidation and Default Risk in the Euro-zone Periphery
13:00 Lunch
14:30 - Inequality and Redistribution
Keynote Speaker: G IOVANNI V ECCHI - Università degli Studi di Roma Tor Vergata
Chair: R OBERTO G ANAU - Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna
15:40 - Young Scholars Presentations
G UILHERME M AGACHO - Cambridge University
Estimating Kaldor-Verdoorn’s Law Across Countries in Different Stages of Development
FAUSTINE P ERRIN - Université de Strasbourg
On the Construction of a Historical Gender Gap Index. An Implementation on French Data
DARIO G UARASCIO - Sapienza, Università di Roma
The Distributional Consequences of Austerity. Wages, Profits and Technology in a Stagnating Europe
17:10 Coffee break
18:00 - Final Roundtable
Keynote Speaker: S IDNEY W INTER - University of Pennsylvania
Participants: G IOVANNI D OSI, R ICHARD F REEMAN, A LAN K IRMAN, G IOVANNI V ECCHI
19.30 End of the Conference
Institute of Economics: Piazza Martiri della Libertà, 33 – 56127 Pisa — Tel. +39 050-883343
http://www.phdeconomics.sssup.it/debunkingausterity — idpe.conference@sssup.it
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