Workshop
on
"Intergenerational
risk sharing and contracts”
Fiesole,
September 12-14, 2002
Organizers:
Graziella Bertocchi (Universita’ di Modena e Reggio Emilia)
Piero Gottardi (Universita’ di Venezia)
Pietro Reichlin (Universita’ di Roma-La Sapienza)
Sponsor:
Ministero per l‘Universita’ e la Ricerca Scientifica, Grant
N. MM13262288
Chair:
Graziella Bertocchi (Universita’ di Modena e Reggio Emilia)
09.30
– 10.45 Heracles Polemarchakis (Brown University)
“Intertemporal
Optimality under Uncertainty”
10.45 –
11.15 Coffee
11.15
– 12.30 Paola
Profeta (Università Bocconi and Università di Pavia)
"What
Social Security: Beverdigean or Bismarckian?"
Joint with J.Ignacio Conde Ruiz (Universitat Pompeu Fabra and
FEDEA)
13.00
– 14.00 Lunch
Chair:
Piero Gottardi (Universita’
di Venezia)
15.00 – 16.15 Martin Barbie (University of Bonn)
"Government Debt as Insurance against
Macroeconomic Risk"
Joint with Ashol Kaul (IZA)
16.15 – 16.45 Coffee
16.45 – 18.00 Dirk Krueger and Felix Kubler (Stanford
University)
"Intergenerational Risk Sharing
when Financial Markets are
Chair: Pietro Reichlin (Universita’ di Roma - La
Sapienza)
09.30 – 10.45 Michele Boldrin (University of
Minnesota)
"Mortality,
Fertility and Saving in a Malthusian Economy"
Joint with Larry Jones (University of Minnesota)
10.45 – 11.15 Coffee
11.15 – 12.30 Øystein Thøgersen (Norwegian School of
Economics and Business
Administration)
"Designing
Social Security. A Portfolio Choice Approach"
Joint with Egil Matsen (Norwegian University
of Science and
Technology)
13.00
– 14.00 Lunch
Chair:
Tito Pietra (Universita’ di
Pescara)
15.00 – 16.15 Henning
Bohn (University of California, Santa Barbara)
"Efficient Risk Sharing in a Stochastic Overlapping Generations Economy"
16.15 – 16.45 Coffee
16.45 – 18.00
Kjetil Storesletten (IIES and Stockholm University)
Joint with John Hassler (IIES and Stockholm
University), Per
Krusell (Stockholm University and University of Rochester) and Fabrizio
Zilibotti (IIES and Stockholm
University)
20.00 Conference
Dinner
Chair: Guy Laroque (CREST-INSEE)
09.30
– 10.45 Alessandro
Cigno (Universita' di Firenze)
"The
political economy of intergenerational cooperation"
10.45 – 11.15 Coffee
11.15 – 12.30 Ashol Kaul (IZA)
"Fostering
Within-Family Human Capital Investment: An
Intragenerational Insurance Perspective of Social
Security"
Joint with Martin
Barbie (University of Bonn) and Marcus Hagedorn
(IZA)
13.00
– 14.00 Lunch
Chair: Heracles Polemarchakis
(Brown University)
15.00 – 16.15 J.Ignacio Conde Ruiz (Universitat
Pompeu Fabra and FEDEA)
"Designing
an Intergenerational Welfare State when Fertilty is Endogenous” Joint with Eduardo L. Gimenez
(Universidade de Vigo) and Miguel
Perez-Nievas (Universidade de Santiago)
16.15 – 16.45
Coffee
16.45 – 18.00 Graziella Bertocchi (Universita’ di Modena e
Reggio Emilia)
"The Law of Primogeniture and the
Transition from Landed Aristocracy
18.00 Adjourn
LIST OF
PARTICIPANTS
Martin Barbie (University of
Bonn) martin.barbie@wiwi.uni-bonn.de
Alberto Bennardo
(University of California, Los Angeles) abennardo@econ.ucla.edu
Graziella Bertocchi (Universita’
di Modena e Reggio Emilia) bertocchi@unimo.it
Gaetano Bloise (Universita’ di
Roma - La Sapienza) gaetano.bloise@uniroma1.it
Henning
Bohn (University of California,
Santa Barbara) bohn@econ.ucsb.edu
Michele Boldrin (University of Minnesota) mboldrin@atlas.socsci.umn.edu
Subir Chattopadhyay (Universidad de Alicante) subir@merlin.fae.ua.es
Alessandro Cigno (Universita' di Firenze) cigno@studistato.unifi.it
J.Ignacio Conde-Ruiz (U. Pompeu
Fabra and FEDEA) ignacio.conde-ruiz@econ.upf.es
Sergio Currarini (Universita' di Venezia e Ente Einaudi) currarin@unive.it
Piero Gottardi (Universita’
di Venezia) gottardi@unive.it
Ashok Kaul (IZA) kaul@iza.org
Dirk
Krueger (Stanford University) dkrueger@Stanford.EDU
Felix
Kubler (Stanford University) fkubler@Stanford.EDU
Guy Laroque (CREST-INSEE) guy.laroque@ensae.fr
Herakles
Polemarchakis (Brown University) herakles_polemarchakis@brown.edu
Paola Profeta (Università Bocconi
and Università di Pavia) paola.profeta@uni-bocconi.it
Tito Pietra (Universita’ di
Pescara) t.pietra@unich.it
Pietro Reichlin
(Universita’ di Roma - La Sapienza) reichlin@caspur.it
Kjetil Storesletten (IIES and Stockholm University) kjetil@iies.su.se
Øystein Thøgersen (Norwegian School of Economics) oystein.thogersen@nhh.no
The conference venue is the Centro Studi CISL, Via della Piazzolla 71, 50133 Firenze, telephone 39 055 5032111, fax 39 055 578057, which is located in the outskirts of Florence, on the hills near Fiesole.
Please check the following web pages for
information on how to reach it:
www.cisl.it/cstudi
http://www.dsi.unifi.it/fmoods/cscisl.html
From the Florence airport,
there is public transportation to the Santa Maria Novella station. From there
take the bus N. 7, which runs every 20
minutes until late at night (see the above websites for the exact schedules and
a detailed map). Alternatively, from the Florence airport you can take a taxi
and pay approximately E. 25. Unfortunately however we shall not be able to
reimburse the taxi fare.
Accommodation,
coffee breaks and lunches will be provided at the Centro Study CISL. A
conference dinner in the village of Fiesole is planned for Friday September 13.
Copies of the papers
will be made available on the following webpage: http://www.economia.unimore.it/Bertocchi_Graziella/fiesole/fiesole.html