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Battista Severgnini |
Institute for Economic Theory II |
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EDUCATION
2004 - present |
Ph.D. Candidate |
Department of Economics, Humboldt-University Berlin, Germany |
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October 2005 |
Visiting Ph.D. Candidate |
Centre for Economic and Business Research, Copenhagen, Denmark |
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2002 - 2003 |
M.Sc. Economics |
Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain |
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1996 - 2000 |
B.A. Economics (Laurea in Economia Poltica, indirizzo: Economia Internazionale) |
Universitá Commerciale Luigi Bocconi, Milan, Italy |
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2004 - 2007 |
Research Assistant (Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter) |
Project "interVal" |
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Department of Economics, Humboldt University Berlin, Germany |
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2003 - present |
Teaching Assistant (Labour Economics Courses) |
Universitá Commerciale Luigi Bocconi, Milan, Italy |
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2000 - 2002 |
Research Assistant |
Universitá Commerciale Luigi Bocconi, Milan, Italy |
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATION AND ACTIVITIES
2006 - present |
Research Affiliate |
CEBR, Copenhagen, Denmark |
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2004 - present |
Research Affiliate |
Fondazione Rodolfo Debenedetti, Milan, Italy |
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2006 - present |
Contributor |
www.lavoce.info, Italian economic policy watchdog website |
WORKING PAPERS
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"Solow Residuals without Capital Stocks", with Michael C. Burda, SFB Discussion Paper 2008-040 | Presented at the Fourth North American Productivity Workshop (NAPWIV), Stern School of Business of New York University, New York City, New York, and at the 2nd Nordic Summer Symposium in Macroeconomics , Sandbjerg. |
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"State-Space Models, Technological Change and Initial Conditions" |
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Presented at Milano Labour Lunch Seminar,
Bocconi University, Milan, March 30 2007, at the Workshop on Productivity, ICT, and Human Capital,
CEBR, Copenhagen, at the Tenth European Workshop on Efficiency and Productivity Analysis, Lille, at the International Conference Measurement Error: Econometrics and Practice, Aston University, Birmingham, and at 8th IWH-CIREQ Macroeconometric Workshop: Structural empirical modelling in macroeconomics, IWH, Halle. |
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"Skilled Biased Technological Change v. Capital-Skill Complementarity: Evidence from OECD Countries" , with Esben Anton Schultz and Anders Sørensen |
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Presented at the EU KLEMS Final Conference, Groningen, at the Fifth North American Productivity Workshop (NAPW V), New York University, New York, and at the 2nd Nordic Summer Symposium in Macroeconomics, Sandbjerg. |
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"The Italian Job: Match Rigging, Career Concerns and Media Concentration in Serie A", with Tito Boeri |
ARTICLES IN BOOKS (in Italian)
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Calciopoli Anno Zero, with Tito Boeri, in Il Management del Calcio. La partita più lunga, edited by Bof, Montanari and Silvestri, Franco Angeli, Milano, 2008. |
POLICY ARTICLES (in Italian)
July 2006 |
"Solo una Maastricht del pallone ci può salvare", Reset, July-August 2006 |
NEWSPAPER ARTICLES (in Italian)
May 2007 |
"Euro 2012, quanto costa la bocciatura dell'Italia", with Diego Corrado, www.lavoce.info |
June 2006 |
"Il goal non segna la crescita", with Tito Boeri and Carlo Favero, www.lavoce.info |
May 2006 |
"Quando l'Europa può darci un fischietto", with Tito Boeri , www.lavoce.info |
February 2006 |
"La Partita della Diseguaglianza", with Ludovico Poggi, www.lavoce.info |
MEDIA APPEARENCES
RAI Radio 3, Radio 3 Scienza, Università tedesche, 10/7/2008 |
Berliner Zeitung, Die Zauberformel, 5/12/2007 |
Gazzetta dello Sport, Sportweek, Nelle Stanze del Potere, 07/07/2007. |
RAI Radio 3, Radio3Scienza, Il riformista solo, 13/04/2007 (interview on Federico Caffè's economic thought) |
Radiotelevisione Svizzera di lingua italiana, 1212, Europei UEFA 2008, 06/03/2007 |
Repubblica, Lo scandalo entra all'Università. "Così si scopre il calcio truccato", 13/12/2006 |
RAI Radio 3, Radio3Scienza, Oro rosso, 01/09/2006 (review of Tim Hardford's book "The Undercover Economist") |
RAI Radio 3, Radio3Scienza, Un'economia in via di sviluppo, 26/07/2006 (interview on Happy Planet Index, GDP and Productivity) |
RAI Radio 3, Radio3Scienza, La scienza ti fa bello, 13/07/2006 (interview on Soccer World Championship and GDP growth rate) |
Handelsblatt, Aus Humboldt mach Harvard, 20/03/2006 |
FIELDS OF INTEREST
Productivity, Growth Accounting, Labour Economics and Economics of Sport
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