Battista Severgnini

Institute for Economic Theory II
School of Business and Economics
Humboldt University of Berlin 
Ziegelstraße 13a
D-10117 Berlin 
Germany

Email: severgni@wiwi.hu-berlin.de
http://www2.wiwi.hu-berlin.de/institute/wt2/
Tel. +49-30-2093-1418
Fax +49-30-2093-5696

EDUCATION

2004 - present 

Ph.D. Candidate

Department of Economics, Humboldt-University Berlin, Germany

October 2005 

Visiting Ph.D. Candidate

Centre for Economic and Business Research, Copenhagen, Denmark

2002 - 2003 

M.Sc. Economics

Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain

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"

Department of Economics, Humboldt University Berlin, Germany

2003 - present

Teaching Assistant (Labour Economics Courses)

Universitá Commerciale Luigi Bocconi, Milan, Italy

2000 - 2002

Research Assistant

Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research

Universitá Commerciale Luigi Bocconi, Milan, Italy


PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATION AND ACTIVITIES

2006 - present 

Research Affiliate

CEBR, Copenhagen, Denmark

2004 - present 

Research Affiliate

Fondazione Rodolfo Debenedetti, Milan, Italy

2006 - present

Contributor

www.lavoce.info, Italian economic policy watchdog website

 

WORKING PAPERS

 

"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.

 

"State-Space Models, Technological Change and Initial Conditions"

 

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.

 

"Skilled Biased Technological Change v. Capital-Skill Complementarity: Evidence from OECD Countries" , with Esben Anton Schultz and Anders Sørensen

 

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.

 

"The Italian Job: Match Rigging, Career Concerns and Media Concentration in Serie A", with Tito Boeri

 

ARTICLES IN BOOKS (in Italian)

 

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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