Riccardo Faini Memorial Conference, 13 January 2017, Bank of Italy

“Italy’s lost productivity and how to get it back”

The Conference organised by the Bank of Italy in collaboration with Centro Studi Luca d’Agliano and Associazione Borsisti Marco Fanno in commemoration of Professor Riccardo Faini on the tenth anniversary of his untimely death, will be held in Rome Palazzo Koch (Via Nazionale 91) on Friday 13 January 2017.

Programme

Ignazio Visco: opening remarks

 Session 1: Productivity

• Long run trends in Italian productivity – C. Giordano (Banca d’Italia), G. Toniolo (Luiss), F. Zollino (Banca d’Italia)
• Productivity trends inside and outside the euro area – F. Daveri (Università Cattolica)
• Italy’s Productivity Conundrum: A Misallocation Perspective –  Calligaris (Università di Roma Tor Vergata), M. Del Gatto (Università G. d’Annunzio), F. Hassan (Banca d’Italia), G.I.P Ottaviano (LSE and Università di Bologna), e F. Schivardi (Università Bocconi and EIEF)

Session 2: Trade

• In the Wake of the Global Crisis Evidence from a New Quarterly Database of Export Competitiveness  – Gaulier (Banca di Francia), G. Santoni (Banca di Francia), D. Taglioni (Banca Mondiale), e S. Zignago (Banca di Francia)
• From macro to micro: the sources of competitiveness – Barba Navaretti (Università di Milano), M. Bugamelli (Banca di Italia), S. De Pinto (Centro Studi L. D’Agliano), e E. Forlani (Università di Pavia)