When
Tuesday November 23, 2021
Because of travel restrictions related to COVID-19, the meeting will take place online. Tuesday November 23, 2021, h: 10-12 and h: 14-16.
Objective
The annual NetCIEX meeting is the occasion to share progress in current research activities with Counterfactual Impact Evaluation techniques.
Specific theme
The specific theme of the 2021 annual meeting is "Modalities of access to microdata in EU institutions and opportunities of cooperation".
Expected outcomes
The expected outcomes of the meeting are:
improved information about research in the network;
identification of possible future collaborations in the network;
possible enlargement of participating institutions.
Agenda
| 10.00 -10.15 | Welcome address Paolo Paruolo (CC-ME) |
| 10.15 -11.15 | Roundtable on the theme: “Modalities of access to microdata in EU institutions and opportunities of cooperation" Convenor: Ian Vollbracht (CC-ME) Participants: Pedro Martins (Nova school of business and Economics), Katja Neugebauer (Bank of Portugal), Andrea Weber (Central European University) |
| 11.15 -12.00 | Discussion and action points |
| 14.00 -15.30 | Afternoon session Chair: Antonella Ferrara (CC-ME) Updates on the main research activities in nodes of the network (15 min each):
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| 15.30 -16.00 | Discussion, action points and farewell |
Presentations
Browse by Universities:
University Catholique of Milan
Università della Svizzera Italiana
University of Genova (Prof. M. Conti)
Speaker: M. Conti
Title: "Roads to Innovation. Evidence from Italy"
Authors
Anna Bottasso, Maurizio Conti, Simone Robbiano, Marta Santagata
Keywords
| A. | IV (the «historical route approach»: the ancient Roman road network. Violations of SUTVA (partly) addressed by including motorways network in nearby NUTS-3 areas (weighted by distance and economic links). |
| B. | Impact of the motorways network on innovation in Italy during the 80s and 90s |
| C. | Sources of data:
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Title: "Migrants perceptions and extreme right-wing vote. The role of historic sea trade"
Authors
Anna Bottasso, Gianluca Cerruti, Maurizio Conti, Marta Santagata
Keywords
| A. | IV using information on location of medioeval ports with trade links with North-Africa as instruments |
| B. | Causal effects of individuals’ fear of migrants on propensity to vote for (extreme) right-wing parties as of 2017 |
| C. | Sources of data:
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Title: "Robot Adoption and local labour markets"
Authors
Mauro Caselli, Andrea Fracasso, Sergio Scicchitano, Silvia Traverso, Enrico Tundis
Keywords
| A. | Shift share combined with IV based on non-European adoption and lagged local employment shares |
| B. | Robot adoption on employment dynamics on Italian local labour markets. Sectoral exposure (industry shares) to that on the exposure of groups of workers (tasks) |
| C. | Sources of data:
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Link
https://www.econstor.eu/bitstream/10419/232010/1/GLO-DP-0802.pdf
Title: "Cutting VAT as a COVID-19 policy intervention: evidence form the UK case"
Authors
Claudio Piga, Anna Bottasso, Maurizio Conti
Keywords
| A. | DiD, using hotel room prices in other large EU countries as control group |
| B. | To causally analyse the effects of a selective VAT reduction for hospitality services in the UK on hotel room prices |
| C. | Sources of data:
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Title: "Labour market reform and demand for skilled & unskilled labor"
Authors
Anna Bottasso, Maurizio Conti
Keywords
| A. | Differences in Discontinuity Design (DRDD). It exploits the discontinuity at the 15 employees threshold (like in RDD) and the change brought about by the reform (as in DiD) |
| B. | To assess the impact of a labour market reform (the 2012 Fornero Reform) on relative propensity to hire skilled and unskilled labour |
| C. | Sources of data:
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Title: "The effects of high speed rail. Evidence from Italy"
Authors
Anna Bottasso, Maurizio Conti, Simone Robbiano
Keywords
| A. | Diff-in-Diff, using firms near the station (0-20 km) as the treatment group, and firms far from the station (30-50) as control group |
| B. | The study uses the opening of a high speed rail station near Reggio Emilia (between Milan and Bologna) as a quasi natural experiment to assess the impact of high-speed railways on firms’ sales and productivity |
| C. | Sources of data:
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Title: "The effect of the Affordable Care Act on employment and time use"
Authors
Anna Bottasso, Gianluca Cerruti, Maurizio Conti
Keywords
| A. | DiDiD, using income threshold and before-after to identify the effect of the tax break and a (different) income threshold as well as information before-after the States’ implementation (which is staggered and with a set of never implementing States). Issue of staggered implementation. Use insights from Wooldridge (2021) |
| B. | To separately identify the labour market effects of both the Medicaid extension and the Tax Premium Subsidies on employment as well as other uses of time |
| C. | Sources of data:
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Insubria University (Prof. S. Robone)
Speaker: C. Maronero
Title: "Non-Practicing Entities in Europe: an Empirical Analysis of Patent Acquisitions at the European Patent Office"
Authors
Valerio Sterzi, Cecilia Maronero, Gianluca Orsatti, Andrea Vezzulli
Keywords
| A. | Linear Probability Models (LPM), logistic regression, sample selection models, matching methods, Firth rare event logit model |
| B. | Patent acquisitions/litigations, Non-Practicing Entities, Markets for technology, Innovation policies |
| C. | Sources of data:
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Link
Università “La Sapienza” (Prof. G. Pellegrini)
Speaker: A. Cerqua
Title: "Local inequalities of the COVID-19 crisis"
Authors
Augusto Cerqua, Marco Letta
Keywords
| A. | Machine learning control method |
| B. | Local economic growth + resilience to negative shocks |
| C. | Sources of data:
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Link
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0166046221001125?via%3Dihub#appsec2
Title: "Decomposing the employment effects of investment subsidies"
Authors
Augusto Cerqua, Guido Pellegrini
Keywords
| A. | Regression discontinuity design with multiple cut-offs |
| B. | Investment subsidies + spillover effects |
| C. | Sources of data:
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Link
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0094119021000905
Title: "Large plant crises in bad times: do local economies (ever) recover? "
Authors
Viviana Celli, Augusto Cerqua, Guido Pellegrini
Keywords
| A. | Non-parametric generalization of the difference-in-differences estimator |
| B. | Local employment growth + resilience to local employment shocks |
| C. | Sources of data:
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Link
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0094119021000905
University Catholique of Milan (Prof. C. Lucifora)
Speaker: M. Ovidi
Title: "The long-run impact of schooling on cognitive skills"
Authors
Lorenzo Cappellari, Daniele Checchi, Marco Ovidi
Keywords
| A. | Parametric event study design; stacked-by-event design |
| B. | Education: schooling and cognitive skills |
| C. | Sources of data:
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Speaker: D. Vigani
Speaker: E. Villar
Title: "The Intended and Unintended Consequences of Taxing Waste "
Authors
Tommaso Colussi, Matteo Romagnoli, Elena Villar
Keywords
| A. | Diff-in-Diff with variation in treatment timing; staggered rollout design; stacked-by-event design |
| B. | Taxation policies; environmental policies |
| C. | Sources of data:
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Speaker: E. Cottini
Speaker: B. Fanfani
Title: "Tastes for Discrimination in Monopsonistic Labour Markets"
Authors
Bernardo Fanfani
Keywords
| A. | AKM fixed effects regression models; micro-foundation of empirical models |
| B. | Gender economics; discrimination; gender wage gap; Italian labour market |
| C. | Sources of data:
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Link
Università della Svizzera Italiana (Prof. M. Jammetti)
Speaker: L. Barisone
Title: "Traffic Exposure and Income Sorting"
Authors
Lorenzo Barisone
Keywords
| A. | For the reduced-form estimation part: fixed effects, 2-stage least squares (IV), and 3-stage least squares // For the structural estimation part: Classical Minimum Distance (CMD) estimator |
| B. | Urban Economics |
| C. | Sources of data:
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Link
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3970607
Speaker: N. Gatti
Title: "Opening the labor market to qualified immigrants: evidence from Italian-speaking Switzerland"
Authors
Nicolò Gatti, Fabrizio Mazzonna, Raphaël Parchet, Giovanni Pica
Keywords
| A. | Diff-in-diff, event-study, logit model |
| B. | Skilled immigration policy, labor mobility, wage differentials, long-term unemployment |
| C. | Sources of data:
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For info
For any additional info, please contact: ec-cc-me@ec.europa.eu
| Originally Published | Last Updated | 27 Oct 2021 | 17 Jun 2022 |
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