II N.E.R.I. Meeting
Padua, 19-20 February 2010
Università degli Studi di Padova
Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche “Marco Fanno”
Local organizer:
Antonio Scialà
Program
Friday 19 February
10.55 – 11.00 Welcome address
Session I
11.00 – 11.45 Michele Moretto
Licences, “Use or Lose” provisions, and the time of investment
(with Dosi C.)
11.45 – 12.30 Maurizio Conti
An assessment of the cost structure of the UK airport industry: ownership outcomes and long run cost economies
(with Bottasso, A.)
12.30 – 13.15 Paolo Pertile
Static and dynamic efficiency of irreversible health care investment under alternative payment schemes
(with Levaggi R., Moretto, M.)
Session II
14.30 – 15.15 Alessandro Petretto
On the impact of productive efficiency and quality of a regulated local public utility upon final goods prices and consumer’s welfare
15.15 – 16.00 Edilio Valentini
Regulating unverifiable quality by fixed-price contracts
(with Berardino Cesi and Alberto Iozzi)
16.00 – 16.45 Dimitri Paolini
Universal service financing in competitive postal markets: One size does not fit all
(with Gautier A. and Wauthy X.)
Sessione III
17.00 – 17.45 Gilberto Turati
Optimal risk allocation in the provision of local public services: can a private insurer be better than a public mutual fund?
(with Luigi Buzzacchi)
17.45 – 18.30 Carlo Cambini
Access regulation, financial structure and investment in vertically integrated utilities: evidence from EU telecoms
(with Rondi, L.)
Saturday 20 February
Session IV
9.00 – 9.45 Francesco Porcelli
Electoral accountability and local government efficiency: a quasi-experimental evidence from the Italian health care sector reforms
9.45 – 10.30 Massimiliano Piacenza
Does fiscal discipline towards sub-national governments affect citizens well-being? Evidence on the role of bail-out expectations in influencing the efficiency of regional public health expenditure
(with Gilberto Turati)
10.30 – 11.15 Lisa Grazzini
Competition between State Universities
(with A. Luporini and A. Petretto)
Session V
11.30 – 12.15 Cristina Giorgiantonio
Infrastrutture e Project Financing in Italia: il ruolo possibile della regolamentazione
(with V. Giovanniello)
12.15 – 13.00 Matteo Colombo
Public procurement auctions with time renegotiation
(with D. Coviello and P. Valbonesi)