FACOLTÀ DI ECONOMIA DIPARTIMENTO DI ECONOMIA E FINANZA The 2018 Meeting of the European Public Choice Society April 11-14, 2018 E P Rome, Italy C S European Public Choice Society www.epcs-home.org ORGANIZATIONAL SECRETARIAT UNIVERSITÀ CATTOLICA DEL SACRO CUORE Formazione Permanente ECM, Convegni e Manifestazioni Largo F. Vito, 1 - 00168 Roma Tel. +39 0630154886 Fax +39 063055397 Email: [email protected] www.rm.unicatt.it The program is updated with information received by April 3rd, 2018. EPCS 2018 Table of Contents EPCS 2018 ORGANIZERS ..................................................... 3 UNIVERSITÀ CATTOLICA DEL SACRO CUORE ..... 4 PROGRAM AT A GLANCE .................................................... 8 ROOMS LOCATION .................................................................12 PARALLEL SESSIONS ................................................................14 IMPORTANT INFORMATION............................................43 EPCS 2018 Church of the Sacred Heart. 2 EPCS 2018 EPCS 2018 Organizers Local organizers and Program Chair Gilberto Turati | Luca V.A. Colombo | Massimo Bordignon Department of Economics and Finance, School of Economics, Università Cattolica Selection committee EPCS President Francisco Veiga | University of Minho, Portugal EPCS Board Members Niclas Berggren | Research Institute of Industrial Economics, Sweden Lisa Chauvet | DIAL, IRD, Université Paris Dauphine, France Michael Dorsch | Central European University Budapest, Hungary Raphaël Franck | Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel Martin Gassebner | University of Hannover, Germany Silvia Marchesi | Università di Milano Bicocca, Italy Paola Profeta | Università Bocconi, Italy Monika Köppl-Turyna | Agenda Austria, Austria Linda Veiga | University of Minho, Portugal Wicksell Prize Committee Axel Dreher | Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Germany Vincenzo Galasso | Università Bocconi, Italy Francisco Veiga | University of Minho, Portugal 3 EPCS 2018 Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore History A group of forward thinking men united by strong commitment to culture and the Church came together in 1919 to put into effect their intent to found a Ca- tholic university that would exercise an important and necessary role in the na- tion’s culture. Father Agostino Gemelli, Ludovico Necchi, Francesco Olgiati, Armida Barelli and Ernesto Lombardo faced many challenges but successful- ly set up the founding organization and authority, Istituto Giuseppe Toniolo di Studi Superiori, in February 1920. On 24 June of the same year, the then Minister of Public Education, Benedetto Croce, signed a decree approving the project. In the meantime, Pope Benedict XV gave the project an ecclesiastical endorse- ment, calling it a “victorious accomplishment for the Catholic movement, and for the entire ecclesial community in Italy.” Inauguration of Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore took place in Milan on 7 De- cember 1921 with a mass concelebrated by Father Agostino Gemelli and Cardinal Achille Ratti, Archbishop of Milan, who was to become Pope Pius XI three months later. The first seat of the university was in the Palazzo Canonica, Via Sant’Agnese 2. In October 1932, the university’s seat was moved to the historic Saint Ambro- se Monastery where it has remained to this day. In 1921, there were 68 studen- ts enrolled on the first two courses: Philosophical Sciences and Social Sciences. The Italian government officially recognised the university in 1924, thereby al- lowing it to issue legally valid degrees and diplomas (the statutes of Università Cattolica were approved by royal decree on 2 October 1924, and were publi- shed on 31 October 1924 in the Official Gazzette of the Republic of Italy). The Faculty of Arts and Philosophy and the Faculty of Law were established soon the- reafter, and the Higher Institute of Education originally set up in 1923 became an independent faculty in 1946, later in 1996 to become the Faculty of Education. The School of Social and Economic-Policy Sciences was separated from the Fa- culty of Law in 1926, and in 1931 became the Faculty of Political, Economic and Commercial Sciences, which also awarded degrees in Economics and Business until 1947. In 1936, the Faculty of Political Sciences became a separate entity. Cattolica’s commitment to education was again very evident immediately following World War II, with the creation of new programmes and the opening of additional campuses. In 1947 the university officially inaugurated the Faculty of Economics and Commerce, which also offered an evening course. On 30 October 1949, Luigi Einaudi, the then President of the Republic attended a ceremony at Uni- versità Cattolica to mark the beginning of construction for the Faculty of Agriculture in Piacenza, while the degree programme officially got started in November 1952. A government decree was issued on 4 August 1958 providing for the insti- tution of the Faculty of Medicine and Surgery in Rome. Adding a faculty of 4 Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore EPCS 2018 medicine had always been Father Gemelli’s great dream (the founder was in fact a graduate of medicine and surgery from the University of Pavia). The un- dertaking proved demanding and complex, and in fact first had to wait many decades for the construction of the biological institutes and general hospi- tal (later to be named after Father Gemelli). Construction work on the facul- ty buildings began in 1959, and Pope John XXIII celebrated a Mass on 5 November 1961 to officially open the Faculty of Medicine and Surgery. The first doctors graduated from the new medical school in 1967 by which time there were two degree programmes: Medicine and Surgery, and Dentistry. In 1965 Università Cattolica opened its campus in Brescia, with a teacher training college drawing on the city’s rich tradition of education. The Facul- ty of Mathematical, Physical and Natural Sciences was added in 1971, at the initiative of a group of renowned experts from the world of mathematics. During the 1990s, three new faculties were added to the Milan campus: the Faculty of Banking, Finance and Insurance Sciences (in 1990); Languages and Foreign Literature, which is today the Faculty of Linguistic Sciences and Foreign Literatures (in 1991) and the Faculty of Psychology (in 1999). The Faculty of Eco- nomics at Piacenza, which had been a satellite of the Milan campus, became an independent faculty in 1997. Then in 2000 the Faculty of Law at Piacenza, which had been offering a degree programme since 1995 as a satellite of the Milan campus, also became independent of the Milan campus. The Faculty of Sociology was set up in Milan during the 2001-2002 academic year, and is Cattolica’s fourteenth faculty. The numbers Università Cattolica • 5 Campuses in Italy • Tenured professor/student ratio • 12 Faculties 1/21,68 • 47 Undergraduate programs • Tenured professors plus contract • 31 Graduate programs professors/student ratio 1/8,1 • 6 single-cycle (taking into account approx. 3000 Undergraduate programs contract professors) • Over 100 Specializing Masters • 49 Specialty programs • 7 Graduate Schools • 24 Departments • 49 Institutes • 79 Research centres • 5 University centres • About 40.000 enrolled students • 1400 Professors 5 EPCS 2018 Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore Our Campuses Founded in Milan in 1921 by Father Agostino Gemelli, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore is Europe’s most important Catholic university. It is also the only university in Italy with campuses all over the country: in Milan, Piacenza, Cremona, Brescia and Rome - which is also home to the Agostino Gemelli General Hospital. Academic excellence, a commitment to charting the frontiers of research, and high standards of services are the strengths of an in- stitution long recognised for its openness to innovation and change. Università Cattolica holds a place in European tradition as a seat of cultural development; the strong and essential focus on a comprehensive, unifying building of know- ledge facilitates an understanding and interpretation of the complexities of life today. The university’s mission translates into the offer of an education focused on development of the person as a whole. Based on these ideals and this commitment, Università Cattolica has educated many of the individuals in past and present positions of leadership in Italy. The thousands of graduates since the institution’s foundation include eminent scho- lars, politicians, lawyers, educators, intellectuals, entrepreneurs, professionals, journalists, writers, publishers, and Church leaders. And there are so many other graduates, some better known than others, who have contributed to building Università Cattolica’s reputation in Italy and around the world. Rome Campus 2 Faculties (Medicine and surgery and Economics), 34 institutes, 18 research centres and over 7,000 students. 57 Undergraduate programs in Medicine, Healthcare, Biotechnology, Healthcare economics and management; more than 150 graduate programs. The Rome campus opened in 1961 and is home to Università Cattolica’s Facul- ties of Medicine and Surgery, Economics (as part of the School of Economics in Milan) and the Agostino Gemelli General Hospital. The campus has created synergy between education, research and healthcare which is one of its great strengths: the university hospital is a centre of excellence giving students the opportunity to put into practice what they have learnt in the classroom. Around 5,000 students are enrolled on undergraduate programmes