The annual meeting of the Italian Society of Economists (SIE), chaired by Alessandro Roncaglia, the pupil of Sylos Labini, begins today. Two days of intense work and research presentations addressing topics ranging from immigration to demography, from welfare studies to labor market problems, from sustainable development proposals to methodological theories. The names of some of the more than 200 participants are enough: Giovanni ferri, one of the leading Italian experts on rating agencies, formerly at the Bank of Italy and the World Bank, Fulvio Coltorti, historical director of the research area of Mediobanca, Michael Fratianni, professor of monetary policy at Indiana University and Marche Polytechnic University and former member of the White House economic advisers team at the time of the Reagan presidency, Paul Onofri of Prometeia and Marcello De Cecco, economist of the Normal University of Pisa.
But in these same days the annual Bank of Italy conference is taking place in parallel. Two days ago the governor Mario Draghi he opened the meeting by urging Italy to focus on growth "as soon as possible", recalling that international aid will not continue forever. But many other figures will parade in via Nazionale: among the names we remember the Bocconi University professors Francesco Giavazzi and Fabrizio Onida, the economic history professor at Oxford Kevin O'Rourke, the general secretary of Bank of Italy Salvatore Rossi.
Three days to present the first major international research on the development of the Italian economy over the last 50 years. It consists of 20 works, each of which touches on a specific aspect of the theme, offering new insights into the successes and failures of Italian companies, workers, governments and civil society with respect to the challenges of the global economy that have followed one another in the last half century. The general manager Fabrizio Saccomanni will sum up the results (Saturday 15th he will speak directly from the pages of FIRSTonline), which will help to reflect on the profound reasons for the unsatisfactory responses of the Italian economy to the changes in the international economic framework of the last twenty years.
See the program of the Sie and Bankitalia conference
