International Workshop on

The Economic Impact of Financial and Labour Market Institutions

Department of Economics, Palazzo Battiferri

Via Saffi 42, Urbino

Aula Blu

May 12th, 2006

Programme

9.15 AM – Welcoming Remarks: Università di Urbino “Carlo Bo” Dignitaries and Giancarlo Ferrero, Chairman of the Economics Department

9.25 AM – Welcoming Remarks: Roberto Troiani, Chief Executive of the Banca Popolare dell’Adriatico

9.30 AM – Moderator: Marcello Messori, Università di Roma “Tor Vergata”, National Coordinator of  the Research Project “Ownership, Financial Systems and Firm Performances”

9.40 AM - Stephen Nickell, London School of Economics and Bank of England “Investment and Institutions”Download

10.10 AM - Giorgio Calcagnini and Germana Giombini, Università di Urbino “Carlo Bo”, “How Does Employment Protection Legislation Affect Firms’ Investment? The European Case”Download

10.40 - Coffee Break

11.00 AM – Robert Chirinko, Emory University “Glamour vs. Value: The Real Story”Download

11.30 AM - Enrico Saltari, Università di Roma “La Sapienza” and Davide Ticchi, Università di Urbino “Carlo Bo”, “A Two-period Model of Investment Under Aggregate Uncertainty With Recursive Preferences”

12.00 PM – General Discussion: Fabrizio Mattesini, Università di Roma “Tor Vergata” and Alberto Zazzaro, Università Politecnica delle Marche.

12.45 PM – Lunch

2.20 PM – Moderator: Michele Bagella, Università di Roma “Tor Vergata”

2.30 PM - Philip Vermeulen, European Central Bank, “Employment Stickiness in Small Manufacturing Firms”Download

3.00 PM – Giovanni Pica, Università di Salerno, “The Effects of Employment Protection Legislation on Wages: a Regression Discontinuity Approach”Download

3.30 PM - Coffee Break

3.50 PM – Silvio Rendon, Istituto Tecnologico Autonomo de Messico, “Job Creation and Investment in Imperfect Capital and Labour Markets”Download

4.20 PM – Enrico Saltari, Università di Roma “La Sapienza” and Giuseppe Travaglini, Università di Urbino “Carlo Bo”, “Technological and Non-Technological Shocks in the Labour Market”Download Abstract

4.50 PM - Francesco Busato, University of Aarhus, Bruno Chiarini, Pasquale De Angelis and Elisabetta Marzano, Università di Napoli Parthenope, “Capital Subsidies and Underground Production”Download

5.15 PM – General Discussion: Maurizio Ciaschini, Università di Macerata and Marco Mazzoli, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milano

6.00 PM – Close of Workshop: Marcello Messori, Università di Roma “Tor Vergata”

Contact and information: calcagnini@uniurb.it, g.giombini@uniurb.it

Telephone: +39-0722-305656

Fax:           +39-0722-305550