GRASS VIII – Collegio Carlo Alberto
Friday, September 19th 2014
10:30 – 11:00 Welcome Coffee
11:00 – 11:05 Opening Remarks
Session 1: Social Preferences
1) 11:05 – 11:45 Pierluigi Conzo (Università di Torino): “Trust and Cheating in Sri-Lanka: The Role of
Experimentally-Induced Emotions about Tsunami” (discussant Fabio Landini, Università Bocconi)
11:45 – 12:00 Coffee Break
2) 12:00 – 12:40 Gilberto Turati (Università di Torino): “The Role of Personal Responsibility in Shaping
Preferences for Redistribution: An Experimental Study” (discussant Daniela Sonedda, Università del
Piemonte Orientale)
3) 12:40 – 13:20 Fabio Landini (Università Bocconi): “Friendship Network in the Classroom: Parent Bias
and Peer Effects” (discussant Daniele Checchi, Università di Milano)
13:20 – 14:40 Lunch
Session 2: Coordination and Cooperation in Games
4) 14:40 – 15:20 Stefano Demichelis (Università di Pavia): “Efficient Coordination in Repeated Games:
Behavioral Maxims” (discussant Theodoros Diasakos, University of St. Andrews)
5) 15:20 – 16:00 Giovanni Ursino (Università Cattolica di Milano): “Cheap Talk with Correlated Signals”
(discussant Leonardo Boncinelli, Università di Pisa)
16:00 – 16:20 Coffee Break
Session 3: Social Choices and Political Economics
6) 16:20 – 17:00 Daniele Checchi (Università di Milano): “And the Winners are….An Axiomatic Approach
to Selection from a Set” (discussant Ernesto Savaglio, Università di Pescara)
7) 17:00 – 17:40 Francesco Passarelli (Università di Teramo e Università Bocconi): “Loss Aversion in
Politics” (discussant Eugenio Peluso, Università di Verona)
8) 17:40 – 18:20 Federico Boffa (Università di Bolzano): “Political Centralization and Government
Accountability” (discussant Edoardo Grillo, Collegio Carlo Alberto)
18:20 – 18:40 Meeting GRASS
20:30: Dinner at Circolo Canottieri Esperia, Corso Moncalieri 2, Torino
GRASS VIII – Collegio Carlo Alberto
Saturday, September 20th 2014
9:00 – 9:30 Breakfast
Session 4: Poverty and Redistribution
9) 9:30 – 10:10 Mariateresa Ciommi (Università Politecnica delle Marche): “The Decomposition of RankDependent Poverty Measures using Ordered Weighted Averaging Operators” (discussant Irene Brunetti,
Università di Pisa)
10) 10:10 – 10:50 Daniela Sonedda (Università del Piemonte Orientale): “Who benefits from Public
Education Provision? Evidence from Italy” (discussant Federico Boffa, Università di Bolzano)
10:50 – 11:10 Coffee Break
Session 5: Labor Market and Workers Selection
11) 11:10 – 11:50 Ennio Bilancini (Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia): “Signaling with Costly
Acquisition of Signals” (discussant Andrea Gallice, Università di Torino)
12) 11:50 – 12:20 Francesca Barigozzi (Università di Bologna): “Competition and Screening with Skilled
and Motivated Workers” (discussant Ennio Bilancini, Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia)
13) 12:20 – 13:00 Irene Brunetti (Università di Pisa): “Occupation Mobility between Generations: a
Theoretical Model with an Application to Italy” (discussant Mariateresa Ciommi, Università Politecnica
delle Marche)