8:45 – 9:10 (room 10): Registration
9:00 – 9:10 (room 3): Welcome - Gianmaria Martini (Director Dept. of Economics, U. Bergamo)
 

9:10 – 10:30 (room 1): Politicians’ gender and generations (chair: Michela Cella, U. Milan Bicocca)

• Alda Marchese (U. Svizzera Italiana): Did male and female leaders react differently to the pandemic? Evidence from local public finance (with P. Profeta and G. Savio)
• Piera Bello (U. Bergamo): Politician’s generation and public expenditure for the environment: Evidence from local governments (with L. Moretti and D. Rossi)
   

9:10 – 10:30 (room 3): Politicians’ skills and salaries (chair: Marco Buso, U. Padua)

• Davide Cipullo (Catholic U. Milan): Clever politicians: Evidence from strategic bankruptcies in Italian municipalities  (with M. Bordignon and G. Turati)
• Samuel Nocito (U. Rome La Sapienza): Pay incentives in politics: Evaluating a large-scale salary increase for local politicians (with A. Cerqua and G. Pinto)

Coffee break

11:00 – 12:20 (room 1): Politicians’ party affiliation (chair: Annalisa Cristini, U. Bergamo)

• Tommaso Colussi (Catholic U. Milan): Populists at work. Italian municipal finance under M5S governments (with M. Bordignon and F. Porcelli)
• Federico Franzoni (Catholic U. Milan): Explaining split-ticket voting in concurrent European and local elections in Italy

11:00 – 12:20 (room 3): Financial distress (chair: Salvatore Piccolo, U. Bergamo)

• Marco Tonello (Bank of Italy): Auditors' independence: Does random selection work? (with G. Barone, L. Conti, and G. Narciso)
• Maximilian Thomas (Ruhr-U. Bochum): Bailouts, fiscal austerity, and consolidation strategies (with Z. Hessami)

12:20 – 13:30 (room 3): Plenary session 1 (chair: Luigi Moretti, U. Bergamo)

• Michela Redoano, U. Warwick

Lunch

9:10 – 10:30 (room 1): Government’s size and fragmentation (chair: Alessandra Bonfiglioli, U. Bergamo)

• Alessandro Sovera (Brown U.): Decoding local public finance: The interplay of the legislature and the executive 
• Giorgio Gulino (U. Bozen/Bolzano): Separated under the same roof: Political fragmentation and fiscal policies (with M. Cervellati and P. Roberti)

9:10 – 10:30 (room 3): Decentralization (chair: Elona Harka, U. Bergamo)

• Costanza Giannantoni (U. Rome La Sapienza): Going local: Public spending, bureaucratic efficiency and decentralization (with A. Cerqua)
• Alberto Zanardi (U. Bologna): Central government’s goals vs municipalities’ action: Evidence from the Italian municipalities’ choices on child care provision (with A. Cremaschini, M. Mastracci, and F. Porcelli)

Coffee break

11:00 – 12:20 (room 1): Social media and social capital (chair: Paolo Buonanno, U. Bergamo)

• Simona Mandile (U. Rome Tor Vergata): Negative fiscal shocks and hate crimes in Italy
• Francesco Porcelli (U. Bari): Social media and local support for national policies (with E. Alabrese, F. Liberini, M. Redoano, and A. Russo) 

11:00 – 12:20 (room 3): Merging and outsourcing (chair: Giampaolo Lecce, U. Bergamo)

• Ines Duarte (EUI): Come together: Amalgamation and the quality of local government (with S. Peralta, J. Pereira dos Santos, and R. Spruk)
• Anna Laura Mancini (Bank of Italy): Companies held by local administrations: A comparison between North and South of Italy (with C. Di Carmine, D. Mele, G. Roma, and G. Ziglio) 

12:20 – 13:30 (room 3): Plenary session 3 (chair: Luciano Greco, U. Padua)

• Albert Solé-Ollé, U. Barcelona

Lunch and farewell