19th, 20th and 21st September 2018, XXX Annual Conference of Italian Society of Economic Policy (SIEP) will take place in Padova, organized by Interuniversitary Research Centre of Public Economy (CRIEP), in partnership with Dipartimento di Scienze economiche e aziendali of University of Padova and SIEP itself.
CRIEP’s director Luciano Greco, professor of “Scienza delle finanze” at University of Padova, explain the importance of the event: “SIEP is a renowned scientific institution. Among its members, prominent academics are inclued, but also people that covered important institutional positions, either in Italy and abroad. During its thirty years of activity, SIEP conferences combined scientific discipline with economic policy debates which are very important for Italy, European Union and international community. It is a time to reflect also for those choices that our Country is asked to face.” “That is the reason why”, Prof. Greco says, “we are particularly proud that this event takes place, for the first time, in Padova. And the fact that this conference coincide with the twentieth anniversary of CRIEP, foundedin 1998 by Univesities of Padova, Venezia and Verona, is extremely pleased”.
During the conference, more than 160 economists, coming from italian and foreign Universities and research institutes, will introduce their researches and will confront with public and private institutions’ experts and representatives in round table related to the conference theme: “Global Structural Changes and government challenges“.
CRIEP’s Director clarifies the importance of the chosen theme: “During the last thirty years, an increasing support among experts has been built based on the idea that markets and governments are ‘both perfect institutions’ and, therefore, research’s and political economy’s fundamental objective becomes the identification of ‘the most appropriate design of public intervention’. The disaster of Ponte Morandi and our country’s safety of infrastrustures, highlights the central role of these problems in a dramatic way. More generally, the new global challenges require the strenghtening of public-private partnership, beside among local, national, european and international institutions, with the final aim of reviewing national and global markets regolamentation”.
Two events will be of particular interest and open to the public:
20th September 2018, at 16:30 (Aula Magna – Unifersity of Padova) will take place the round table – in partnership with regional research Institutes – on “Asymmetric federalism in Italy and Europe”, introduced by Prof. Luciano Greco (CRIEP Director) and Padova’s Mayor, Sergio Giordani, and moderated by Prof. Giuseppe Muraro (CARIPARO Foundation President), during which academics, research institutes and representatives of governments, in particular Prof. Mario Bertolissi of University of Padova, Prof. Solé Ollé of University of Barcellona, doct. Stefano Piperno of IRES Piemonte and Underscretary of Economics and Finance Ministry on. Massimo Garvaglia, will face. The round table is aimed to go beyond the public debate’s limits on the theme of autonomy, comparing experts’ assessments of different guidelines and institutions’ need and framing italian situation inside the more general european context, with reference to other specific autonomous european regions (i.e. Catalogne in Spain).
21st September 2018, from 13:00 (Aula 12 – Scuola di Economia of University of Padova, Via Ugo Bassi 1), the Annual Report edited by Mulino “La finanza pubblica italiana: rapporto 2018” will be introduced. The report analyses the policies adopted by the last administrations with references to the most relevant public intervention field (public finances, taxation, pension and assistence, healthcare, federalism, public utilities and infrastructure). 2018 Report goes deeper in two important themes for utalian public finances and for the prospective of the italian economic recovery: austeruty policies and their important role in the last yearsand Irpef revision. The Report, after the previewed submission at Camera dei Deputati of last week, will be – for the first time – publicly discussed by Prof. Giampaolo Arachi (University of Salento) and Prof. Massimo Baldini (University of Modena and Reggio Emilia) and it will be commented by Prof. Maria Cecilia Guerra (Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia), Prof. Anna Marenzi (University Ca’ Foscari of Venezia & CRIEP) and Prof. Alessandro Petretto (University of Firenze).