Location:
Seminar Room, Via del Santo 33, Padua
Department of Economics and Management "Marco Fanno", University of Padua

Dates:
13-14 March 2025

Register HERE by Monday, 10 March 2025 at 12.00 PM

Organizers:
Marco Bertoni
Francesco Campo
Andreas Menzel
Martina Miotto

Programme

13 March 2025

14:30 - 14:45 Welcome Speech

14:45 - 16:15 Session 1: Development and Transition Economics
Mattea Stein (University of Naples Federico II) - Fostering official trade: Beliefs and informal trade at the Kenya-Uganda border
Vojtech Bartos (University of Milan) - Youngism: Discrimination and Stereotypes
Marc Witte (VU Amsterdam) - Wage Information and Applicant Selection

16:15 - 17:00 Coffee Break

17:00 - 18:00 Keynote Speech by Paolo Buonanno (University of Bergamo)

18:00 - 19:00 Session 2: Risky Behaviors
Ludovica Giua (University of Cagliari) - Addictive Consumption, Imperfect Substitutes and Self-Control: A Model and an Application to Slot Machines
Caterina Muratori (University of Barcelona) - The Effect of E-Cigarette Taxes on Substance Use

20:00: Social Dinner

14 March 2025

9:15 - 10:45 Session 4: Economic History and Long-Run Dynamics
Mattia Bertazzini (University of Nottingham) - The Negus and the Monks: Monasteries, State Formation and Long-Run Development in Ethiopia, 1270-2020
Giampaolo Lecce (University of Bergamo) - From Fields to Factories: Malaria Eradication and Industrialization in Post-War Italy
Eleonora Guarnieri (University of Bristol) - Male Dominance and Cultural Extinction

10:45 - 11:30 Coffee Break

11:30 - 13:00 Session 3: Public and Political Economics
Claudio Deiana (University of Cagliari) - The Whole is Other than the Sum of the Parts. Municipal Mergers and Economic Development in Fascist Italy
Tommaso Giommoni (University of Amsterdam) - Extractive Taxation and the French Revolution
Matteo Gamalerio (University of Barcelona) - Jumping without Parachutes. Revolving Doors and Political Incentives

13:00 - 14:00: Lunch and Goodbye