Monday, June 20
13:00-13:30 Registration
Afternoon Session: Theory 1
13:30-14:15 Alessandro Lizzeri (Princeton University) – Keynote Lecture
Disentangling Exploration from Exploitation (with Eran Shmaya and Leeat Yariv)
14:15-14:45 Elia Sartori (University of Naples Federico II & CSEF)
Consumption and Waste in a Durable Goods Model with Transaction Costs (with Luca Coraggio)
14:45-15:15 Coffee break
15:15-15:45 Tangren Feng (Bocconi University & IGIER)
The Limits of Ex Post Implementation without Transfers (with Axel Niemeyer and Qinggong Wu)
15:45-16:15 Matteo Bizzarri (University of Naples Federico II & CSEF)
Supply and Demand Function Equilibrium: Trade in a Network of Superstar Firms
Tuesday, June 21
Morning Session: Macroeconomics 1
09:15-10:00 Chad Jones (Stanford Graduate School of Business) – Keynote Lecture
Recipes and Economic Growth: A Combinatorial March Down an Exponential Tail
10:00-10:30 Dmitriy Sergeyev (Bocconi University & IGIER)
The Economics of Financial Stress (with Chen Lian and Yuriy Gorodnichenko)
10:30-11:00 Francisco Queiros (University of Naples Federico II & CSEF)
Firm Heterogeneity, Market Power and Macroeconomic Fragility (with Alessandro Ferrari)
11:00-11:30 Coffee break
11:30-12:00 Mario Carillo (University of Naples Federico II, CSEF & UPF)
The Fascist Roots of Migrant Labor Exploitation (with Gemma Dipoppa and Shanker Satyanath)
12:00-12:30 Francesco Flaviano Russo (University of Naples Federico II & CSEF)
Cultural Assimilation and Social Segregation of a Minority
12:30-13:30 Lunch
Afternoon Session: Applied Economics 1
13:30-14:15 Paolo Pinotti (Bocconi University & CEPR) – Keynote Lecture
Making Subsidies Work: Rules vs. Discretion (with Federico Cingano, Filippo Palomba, Enrico Rettore)
14:15-14:45 Monica Langella (University of Naples Federico II & CSEF)
Commuting for crime (with Tom Kirchmaier and Alan Manning)
14:45-15:15 Coffee break
15:15-15:45 Martin Rossi (Universidad de San Andrés)
Once a Cheater, Always a Cheater? Dishonesty and Public Employment (with Guillermo Cruces and Ernesto Schargrodsky)
15:45-16:15 Edoardo Di Porto (University of Naples Federico II, CSEF)
Friday Morning Fever. Evidence from a Randomized Experiment on Sick Leave Monitoring in the Public Sector (with Tito Boeri, Paolo Naticchioni, and Vincenzo Scrutinio)
Wednesday, June 22
Morning Session: Theory 2
09:15-10:00 Ariel Rubinstein (Tel Aviv University & New York University) – Keynote Lecture
Economics without Prices and without Games
10:00-10:30 Antonio Rosato (Univ. of Queensland, Univ. of Naples Federico II & CSEF)
Quality is in the Eye of the Beholder: Taste Projection in Markets with Observational Learning (with Tristan Gagnon-Bartsch)
10:30-11:00 Alfredo Di Tillio (Bocconi University & IGIER)
Comparison of Experiments in Monotone Problems (with Marco Ottaviani and Peter Norman Sørensen)
11:00-11:30 Coffee break
11:30-12:00 Pierpaolo Battigalli (Bocconi University & IGIER)
Information Flows and Memory in Games (with Nicolò Generoso)
12:00-12:30 Niccolò Lomys (Toulouse School of Economics)
A Mediator Approach to Mechanism Design with Limited Commitment (with Takuro Yamashita)
12:30-13:30 Lunch
Afternoon session: Finance 1
13:30-14:00 Marco Di Maggio (Harvard Business School)
In the Red: Overdrafts, Payday Lending and the Underbanked
14:00-14:30 Raoul Minetti (Michigan State University)
Banking Structures, Liquidity and Macroeconomic Stability (with Luis Araujo, David Hong, and Sotirios Kokas)
14:30-15:00 Coffee break
15:00-15:30 Carlo Favero (Bocconi University & IGIER)
Macro Trends and Factor Timing (with Alessandro Melone and Andrea Tamoni)
15:30-16:00 Anna Maria Menichini (University of Salerno & CSEF)
Does the master’s eye fatten the cattle? Maintenance and care of collateral under purchase and leasing contracts (with Maria Grazia Romano)
Thursday, June 23
Morning Session: Applied Economics 2
09:30-10:00 Luigi Guiso (Einaudi Institute for Economics and Finance & CEPR)
The Economic Cost of Ambiguous Laws (with Tommaso Giommoni, Claudio Michelacci, and Massimo Morelli)
10:00-10:30 Francesco Drago (University of Catania & CSEF)
No rose without thorns, Mr. Galilei. Science under the Italian Inquisition (with Edgard Dewitte, Roberto Galbiati, and Giulio Zanella)
10:30-11:00 Michele Giannola (University of Naples Federico II, CSEF & IFS)
Helping Struggling Students and Benefiting All: Peer Effects in Primary Education (with Samuel Berlinski and Matias Busso)
11:00-11:30 Coffee break
11:30-12:00 Giovanni Pica (Università della Svizzera Italiana & CSEF)
A peer like me? Early exposure to high achievers in math and later educational outcomes (with Laura Pagani)
12:00-12:30 Carla Guerriero (University of Naples Federico II & CSEF)
Analyzing matching patterns in marriage: Theory and application to Italian data (with Pierre-André Chiappori and Edoardo Ciscato)
12:30-13:30 Lunch
Afternoon session: Macroeconomics 2
13:30-14:00 Maddalena Ronchi (Bocconi University & IZA)
Hiring Difficulties and Firms’ Growth (with Thomas Le Barbanchon and Julien Sauvagnat)
14:00-14:30 Tomas Williams (George Washington University)
Benchmarks, Firm Financing, and Real Effects: Evidence from a Global Natural Experiment (with Fernando Broner, Juan J. Cortina, and Sergio L. Schmukler)
14:30-15:00 Coffee break
15:00-15:30 Ettore Panetti (University of Naples Federico II & CSEF)
Monetary Policy, Labor Income Redistribution, and the Credit Channel: Evidence from Matched Employer-Employee and Credit Registers (with Martina Jasova, Caterina Mendicino, José-Luis Peydró, and Dominik Supera)
15:30-16:00 Carlo Galli (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid)
Asset Purchases and Default-Inflation Risks in Noisy Financial Markets (with Gaetano Gaballo)
Friday, June 24
Morning Session: Finance 2
09:15-10:00 Per Strömberg (Stockholm School of Economics & Chicago Booth) – Keynote Lecture
How do firms respond to carbon pricing?
10:00-10:30 Umit Gurun (The University of Texas at Dallas)
Too Many Managers: Strategic Use of Titles to Avoid Overtime Payments (with Lauren Cohen and Bugra Ozel)
10:30-11:00 Claudio Tebaldi (Bocconi University & IGIER)
Supply Chain Finance and Firm Capital Structure (with Laura Bottazzi and Goutham Gopalakrishna)
11:00-11:30 Coffee break
11:30-12:00 Brunella Bruno (Bocconi University & Baffi Carefin)
Internal Ratings, Non-Performing Loans, and Bank Opacity: Evidence from Analysts’ Forecasts (with Immacolata Marino and Giacomo Nocera)
12:00-12:30 Francesco Celentano (HEC Lausanne & Swiss Finance Institute)
Public Listing Choice with Persistent Hidden Information (with Mark Rempel)
12:30-13:30 Lunch