Department of Excellence Final Workshop 2026

Department of Excellence – Final Workshop 2026

The Department of Excellence is delighted to host its Final Workshop in June.

The Final Workshop aims to conclude the recruitment process that was carried out through the Department of Excellence project and showcase the recruits hired over the years. This two-day conference welcomes the participation of all DEF faculty members.

WORKSHOP REGISTRATION

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I will attend Day 1 of the workshop at Tor Vergata, Faculty of Economics

I will attend the ‘apericena’ on Day 1

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PROGRAM

Day 1: Thursday, June 4, 2026 - Tor Vergata School of Economics, Department of Economics and Finance, via Columbia 2 – 00133 Rome

Sala del Consiglio, II floor, Building B

2:15 pm – 2:30 pm - Arrival

2:30 pm – 3:00 pm - Institutional Greetings and Introduction to the Department of Excellence

3:00 pm – 3:30 pm - Elisa Facchetti (Applied economics) - When Non-native Speakers Compete for Top Schools

3:30 pm – 4:00 pm - Antonio Raiola (Econometrics) - Second-order Properties of Student’s T-test

4:00 pm – 4:30 pm - Associate Professor (P01) - To be hired

4:30 pm – 4:50 pm - Coffee Break

4:50 pm – 5:20 pm - Anna D’Annunzio (Microeconomics/Industrial Organization) - Taxation, Revenue Sharing and Price Discrimination

5:20 pm – 6:10 pm - Luigi Guiso (Einaudi Institute for Economics and Finance) - The Economic Costs of Ambiguous Laws

6:10 pm – 7:30 pm - Apericena - Outdoor terrace (first floor) of Building A

Day 2: Friday, June 5, 2026 - Villa Mondragone Conference Center, Via Frascati, 51 - 00040 Monte Porzio Catone

Sala degli Svizzeri

9:00 am – 9:30 am - Arrival

9:30 am – 10:00 am - Arthur Dolgolpolov (Microeconomics theory) - Taste for Variety: Axiomatic Approach

10:00 am – 10:30 am - Guillaume Pommey (Microeconomics, Industrial Organization) - Flexibility versus Security in Agency Contracts with Moral Hazard

10:30 am – 11:00 am - Andrey Alexandrov (Macroeconomics) - The Misallocation Costs of Inflation: A Sufficient Statistics Approach

11:00 am – 11:20 am - Coffee Break – Portico dei Vasanzi

11:20 am – 11:50 am - Paolo Giordani (Macroeconomics) - Family Ties, Talent Allocation and Economic Growth

11:50 am – 12:20 pm - Celso Brunetti (Finance) - Climate Risk Networks and Banks’ Exposures

12:20 pm – 1:40 pm - Lunch - Portico dei Vasanzi

1:40 pm – 2:10 pm - Cosimo Petracchi (Macroeconomics) - The Macro Neutrality of Exchange-Rate Regimes in the Presence of Exporter-Importer Firms

2:10 pm – 2:40 pm - Enrico Mattia Salonia (Microeconomic theory) - Identifying Belief-dependent Preferences

2:40 pm – 3:10 pm - Alessandro Casini (Econometrics) - Dynamic Local Average Treatment Effects in Time Series

3:10 pm – 3:30 pm - Coffee Break – Portico dei Vasanzi

3:30 pm – 4:20 pm - Joshua Angrist (MIT) - Financial Consequences of Financial Aid

4.20 pm – 4:30 pm - Closing greetings

4.30 pm – 5:30 pm - The Future of the Department of Excellence, Discussion with the Steering Committee and DEF Faculty (reserved to DEF faculty only – no students)