Battista Severgnini
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://lehre.wiwi.hu-berlin.de/Professuren/vwl/wtm2
Tel. +49-30-2093-1418
Fax +49-30-2093-5696
Education
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2004 - present |
Ph.D. Candidate |
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Department of Economics, Humboldt-University Berlin, Germany |
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October 2005 |
Visiting Ph.D. Candidate |
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Centre for Economic and Business Research, Copenhagen, Denmark |
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2002 - 2003 |
M.Sc. Economics |
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Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain |
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1996 - 2000 |
B.A. Economics (Laurea in Economia Poltica, indirizzo: Economia Internazionale) |
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Universitá Commerciale Luigi Bocconi, Milan, Italy |
Professional Experience
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2004 - 2007 |
Research Assistant (Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter) |
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Project "interVal" |
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Department of Economics, Humboldt University Berlin, Germany |
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2003 - present |
Teaching Assistant (Labour Economics Courses) |
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Universitá Commerciale Luigi Bocconi, Milan, Italy |
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2000 - 2002 |
Research Assistant |
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Universitá Commerciale Luigi Bocconi, Milan, Italy |
Professional Affiliation and Activities
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2006 - present |
Research Affiliate |
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CEBR, Copenhagen, Denmark |
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2004 - present |
Research Affiliate |
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Fondazione Rodolfo Debenedetti, Milan, Italy |
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2006 - present |
Contributor |
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www.lavoce.info, Italian economic policy watchdog website |
Working Papers
Total Factor Productivity Measurement
"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.
Wage Inequality
"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, and at XXIII Italian Conference of Labour Economics, Brescia University.
"On the Measurment of Skills and Capital-Skill Complementarity: Evidence from a Panel of Countries", with Esben Anton Schultz
Soccer
"The Italian Job: Match Rigging, Career Concerns and Media Concentration in Serie A", with Tito Boeri, IZA Discussion Paper No. 3745
Presented at International Conference-Economics and Psychology of Football 2008, University of Innsbruck, and at the European Economic Association Congress.
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)
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July 2006 |
"Solo una Maastricht del pallone ci può salvare", Reset, July-August 2006 |
Newspaper Articles (in Italian)
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August 2008 |
"Non dimentichiamo Calciopoli", with Tito Boeri, www.lavoce.info, also published as column in IL MONDO, and in IL PICCOLO DI TRIESTE |
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May 2007 |
"Euro 2012, quanto costa la bocciatura dell'Italia", with Diego Corrado, www.lavoce.info |
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June 2006 |
"Il goal non segna la crescita", with Tito Boeri and Carlo Favero, www.lavoce.info |
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May 2006 |
"Quando l'Europa può darci un fischietto", with Tito Boeri , www.lavoce.info |
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February 2006 |
"La Partita della Diseguaglianza", with Ludovico Poggi, www.lavoce.info |
Media Appearances
Stern, "Gibst du mir, gebe ich dir", 4/09/2008
Corriere della Sera, "Un modello matematico per scopire chi bara in campo", 2/09/2008
Funkhaus Europa-Radio Colonia, "Un modello matematico per smascherare calciopoli", 31/08/2008
Aktualne.sk, "Matematici majú systém, ako nájst korupciu vo futbale", 30/08/2008
Der Spiegel, "Mathematik der Schiebung", 26/08/2008
Der Spiegel, "Mathematik des Betrugs",25/08/2008
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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