Programme:
- 3 October 2008
Located at: "Sala del Consiglio di Facoltà", 4th floor, building
U7, Piazza dell'Ateneo Nuovo, 1
9.00-9.30 Welcome
9.30-10.30 "Simple Equilibrium Models of Fiscal and Wage Policy
in Common Currency Areas"
D. Soskice (Duke University) and W. Carlin (UCL)
Discussant: P. Tirelli (UMB)
10.30-11.30 “The Inflation-Unemployment Trade-Off at Low
Inflation”
P. Benigno (LUISS University) and L.A. Ricci (IMF)
Discussant G. Ascari (University of Pavia)
11.30-11.45 Coffee break
11.45-12.45 “Preferences for collective vs individual wage
setting”
T. Boeri (Bocconi University) and
M. Burda (Humboldt University)
Discussant F. Mattesini (University of Rome Tor Vergata)
12.45-14.00 Lunch
14.00-15.00 “Are Labour Market Institutions Endogenous? An
Investigation of Unemployment, Unions and Wages”
D. Checchi (University of Milan) and L. Nunziata (University
of Padua)
Discussant L. Cappellari (University of Novara)
15.00-16.00 “Explaining Social Pacts: economic fundamentals,
union's strength, institutional constraints”
E. Colombo (UMB), P. Tirelli (UMB), J. Visser (University
of Amsterdam)
Discussant: J. Driffill (Birbeck College)
16.00-16-15 Coffee break
16.15-17.15 “Fiscal and monetary interactions when wage-setters
are large: is there a role for corporatist policies?”
L. Cavallari (University of Rome)
Discussant: V. Cuciniello (EPFL Lausanne)
17.30-19 Round table “New social Pacts in EMU?” (provisional
programme)
T. Boeri (Bocconi University), D. Soskice (Duke University), J. Visser
(University of Amsterdam), C. Dell'Aringa (Università
Cattolica Milan)
20.00 Dinner
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4 October 2008
Located at: room 5, building U9, Via dell'Innovazione 10
9.30-10.30 “Optimal monetary policy in open economies with large
unions”
L. Lambertini and V. Cuciniello (EPFL Lausanne)
Discussant: A. Colciago (UMB)
10.30-11.30 “Inflation targets as a fiscal
discipline device”
N. Acocella (University of Rome La Sapienza), G. Di
Bartolomeo (University of Teramo), P. Tirelli (UMB)
Discussant L. Lambertini (EPFL Lausanne)
11.30-12.30 “Labour and product market reforms with
distortionary taxation”
N. Bokan (S. Andrews University) and A. Hughes Hallett
(G. Mason University)
Discussant: F. Etro (UMB)
12.00 Conclusion
For each presentation the author has forty minutes, the
discussant has ten minutes with ten further
minutes reserved to general discussion.
Organizers:
Andrea Colciago (UMB) and Patrizio Tirelli (UMB)
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