Rome, 15 December 2022 - 16 December 2022
The Bank of Italy is organising the workshop on "Firms in a period of turmoil", in collaboration with the CEPR and the EIEF. The event will take place in Rome from 15 to 16 December 2022, health conditions and travel restrictions permitting. The meeting aims at bringing together lead economists to discuss how the productive structure is reacting to the recent pandemic, energy and trade shocks, and the growing relevance of micro-macro interactions between public policies, firm choices, and aggregate productivity. The keynote lecture will be given by Kalina Manova (University College London). Interested authors should submit their work by September 30, 2022, according to the Call for papers.
For the video recording of each session please click here.
1st session
Chair: Josefina Monteagudo (European Commission)
The “completeness” of the EU single market in comparative perspective
Craig Parsons* (University of Oregon and University of Oslo), and Andy Smith* (Sciences Po Bordeaux)
Cristina Herghelegiu* (European Commission), with Fernando Martin Espejo (KU Leuven)
2nd session
Chair: Pierre Regibeau (European Commission)
Beyond the Great Reversal: Superstars, Unions, and the Euro
Tommaso Crescioli* (LSE), and Angelo Martelli* (LSE)
European Firm Concentration and Aggregate Productivity
Filippo di Mauro* (IWH and CompNet), with Tommaso Bighelli (Halle Institute for Economic Research), Marc J. Melitz (Harvard University), Matthias Mertens (IWH)
3rd session
Chair: Josefina Monteagudo (European Commission)
30 Years of the Single Market: Taking Stock and Looking Ahead
Frank Vandermeeren* (European Commission)
Aleksei Trofimov* (European Commission), with Javier Barbero, Manol Bengyuzov, Martin Christensen, Andrea Conte, Simone Salotti (European Commission)
4th session
Chair: Román Arjona (European Commission)
Mariam Camarero* (University Jaume I), and Cecilio Tamarit* (University of Valencia), with Antonia Lopez-Villavicencio (CNRS and University Paris Nanterre)
Cross-country price and inflation dispersion: Retail network or national border?
Georg Strasser* (European Central Bank), with Teresa Messner (Oesterreichische Nationalbank), Fabio Rumler (Oesterreichische Nationalbank),
5th session
Chair: Edouard Bourcieu (European Commission)
UK Trade in the Wake of Brexit
Thomas Sampson* (LSE), with Rebecca Freeman (LSE), Kalina Manova (UCL), Thomas Prayer (Cambridge)
Unravelling Deep Integration: Local Labour Market Effects of the Brexit Vote
Beata Javorcik* (Oxford, EBRD & CEPR), with Katherine Stapleton (World Bank), Benjamin Kett (IMF), Layla O’Kane (BGT)
As the criticism to globalisation mounts, so do the challenges to solid tenets of economic theory and practice connecting trade and productivity. How can we reconcile the decline in productivity in the last decade with still unabated barriers to globalisation? To what extent are increasing cross-border activities related to higher productivity? How would society's welfare be affected in case barriers to trade were imposed by nations in some form or another? How would a lower freedom to cross-border activities affect the spread of innovation globally and across firms? How will this affect Small and Medium Enterprises? Would such a "less globalised world" lead to smaller imbalances across economies and in terms of income inequality?
For more details, please check the conference program and the conference summary. Follows the presentations and materials discussed during the conference.