Innovation, growth and international production
Sapienza University of Rome
Department of Economics and Law
University of Urbino Carlo Bo
Department of Economics, Society and Politics
Scuola Normale Superiore
Istituto di Studi Avanzati ‘Carlo Azeglio Ciampi’
in collaboration with
Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies
Institute of Economics
Marche Polytechnic University
Ph.D. Programme in Economics
Roma Tre University
Ph.D. Programme in Economics
Programme
Monday 22 May
9.30 Welcome and presentation of the course
Fabrizio D’ascenzo, Dean of the Faculty of Economics, Sapienza University of Rome
Michele Raitano, Director of the Department of Economics and Law, Sapienza University of Rome
Massimiliano Tancioni, Director of the Ph.D. in Economics, Sapienza University of Rome
Antonello Zanfei, University of Urbino
10.00-11.20 Digital platforms, employment and incomes: theory and empirics
Dario Guarascio, Sapienza University of Rome
11.20-12.30 Evolutionary approaches to the economics of innovation
Luigi Marengo, LUISS
Lunch break
14.00-15.20 Innovation and employment: an economic analysis
Marco Vivarelli, Catholic University of Milan
15.30-16.50 Industry 4.0 technologies, firm performance and job flows
Valeria Cirillo, University of Bari
17.00-18.30 Stata class
Francesca Subioli, Sapienza University of Rome
Tuesday 23 May
9.30-11.00 Firms in the GVCs: challenges in a post-covid world
Anna Giunta and Enrico Marvasi, Roma Tre University
11.10-12.30 Innovation and environmental sustainability
Francesco Crespi, Roma Tre, Serenella Caravella, SVIMEZ
Lunch break
14.00-15.20 Evolutionary Economic Geography and Innovation: Theories and empirics
Francesco Quatraro, Turin University
15.30-16.50 Robots, AI and labour markets
Jelena Reljic, Sapienza University of Rome
17.00-18.30 Stata class
Francesca Subioli, Sapienza University of Rome
Wednesday 24 May
9.30-11.00 The engines of inequality
Maurizio Franzini, Sapienza University of Rome
11.10-12.30 Wage inequality and education
Michele Raitano, Sapienza University of Rome
Lunch break
14.00-15.20 Alternative perspectives on labour: knowledge and power inside organizations
Maria Enrica Virgillito, Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies, Pisa
15.30-16.50 The empirics of the innovation-firm growth nexus
Federico Tamagni, Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies, Pisa
17.00-18.30 Stata class
Francesca Subioli, Sapienza University of Rome
Thursday 25 May
9.30-11.00 Global Value Chains, FDIs and Economic Performance
Antonello Zanfei and Andrea Coveri, University of Urbino
11.10-12.30 Innovation and firm survival
Elena Cefis, University of Bergamo
Lunch break
14.00-17.00 A dialogue on Evolutionary, Structural and Post-Keneysian research perspectives
Grazia Ietto-Gillies, South Bank University, London
Mario Pianta, Scuola Normale Superiore
Christos Pitelis, Leeds University
Alessandro Sapio, Parthenope University of Naples
Malcolm Sawyer, Leeds University
Annamaria Simonazzi, Sapienza University of Rome
17.00-18.30 Stata class
Francesca Subioli, Sapienza University of Rome
Friday 26 May
International Workshop
Big Tech, Corporate Power and Economic Performance: Revisiting Monopoly Capitalism
Presentation of the Special Issue of the Cambridge Journal of Economics celebrating the 40 years since the publication of Keith Cowling’s seminal monograph Monopoly Capitalism
9.30-9.50 Introduction
Phil Tomlinson, University of Bath
Christos Pitelis, University of Leeds
9.50-11.15 Digital platforms, globalization and finance
Chair: Dario Guarascio, Sapienza University of Rome
Christos Pitelis, University of Leeds
Big tech and platform-enabled multinational corporate capital(ism): the socialisation of capital, and the private appropriation of social value
Claudio Cozza, University of Naples Pathenope
Monopoly Capital in the time of digital platforms: a radical approach to the Amazon case
Malcolm Sawyer, University of Leeds
Monopoly capitalism in the past four decades
Discussion: Jelena Reljic, Sapienza University of Rome
Coffee break
11.45-13.00 Monopoly capital, digitalization and consumers
Chair: Valeria Cirillo, University of Bari
Phil Tomlinson, University of Bath
Advertising and the consumer in the age of Big Tech: a new moment in the evolution of monopoly capitalism?
Ramaa Vasudevan, University of Colorado
Digital platforms: monopoly capital through a classical-marxian lens
Maria Enrica Virgillito, Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies
Big pharma and monopoly capitalism: a long-term view
Discussion: Annamaria Simonazzi, Sapienza University of Rome
Lunch
14.00-15.30 Industrial Development and Industrial Strategies in the era of Big Tech
Chair: Grazia Ietto-Gillies, South Bank University - London
Antonio Andreoni, SOAS University of London
Governing digital platform power for industrial development: towards an entrepreneurial-regulatory state
Patrizio Bianchi and Sandrine Labory, University of Ferrara
Industrial strategy in a transforming capitalism
Zhongjin Li, University of Missouri, and HAO QI, Renmin University
Platform power: monopolisation and financialisation in the era of big tech
David Bailey, University of Birmingham
Brexit and industrial policy in the UK
Discussion: Andrea Coveri, University of Urbino
15.30-16.00 Reflection on Keith Cowling and his contribution
REGISTRATION: All teaching and the final workshop will be carried out in presence and in English. The Course is oriented to Ph.D. students, post-docs and young scholars. Participants attending the Course and classes will obtain a certificate of attendance that could be used for credits in their own Ph.D. School.
In order to apply, please complete the registration form available here.
The registration form for the Workshop of 26 May alone can be found here.
The deadline for applications is 2 May 2023.
Applicants will receive the notification of acceptance no later than 9 May 2023.
FEE INFORMATION: For participants who are not PhD students at the universities that organize the course, a fee of 250 euros is expected for the coverage of organizational costs. The fee should be paid before the course begins with the procedures that will be communicated directly to the participants with the notification of acceptance. Accommodation and subsistence costs will be covered by participants; support for finding accommodation will be provided by local organizers if needed.
STATA CLASSES. Participants are asked to bring their own laptop computer. Students should be familiar with basic Stata functions (data exploration, variable generation and manipulation, multivariate regressions). Some introductive materials to Stata software will be provided before the start of the Course. Participants are encouraged to request student short-term Stata license at this link before the Course starts. In Stata classes, lecturers will present different databases and will make available data samples on which participants will carry out econometric exercises.
LOCAL ORGANIZERS: Vicente Ferreira, Nicolò Geri, Dario Guarascio, Jelena Reljic