The events of Friday, 4 June, 2010
The central programme of the Festival, highlighted in a box, has been planned by the organisers together with the Scientific Coordinator. The joint programme is made up of meetings and events suggested to the organisers by publishers and other organisations, which take responsibility for them.
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10:00
04
Media companies are platforms that must satisfy two types of demand; content for the public and advertising space for advertisers. This, in turn, has a major impact on the sector’s market structure and the diversification of content. It is against this background that the challenges posed to traditional information by the free press, pay-TV and web sites ought to be analyzed.
introduced by Andrea Bellavita
Sala Conferenze
discussions
10:00
04
Casting a "net" means allowing the circulation of information and experience even in the most isolated and forgotten places around the world. If the Universal Declaration of Human Rights has established that access to education and participation in cultural and scientific life is a fundamental right, today an even more fundamental right is access to the web and its content.
organised by the Centro per la Formazione alla Solidarietà Internazionale di Trento
speaker Rudy Aernoudt
meetings with authors
10:00
04
The Noisefromamerika collective
organised by Ancora del Mediterraneo
Sala Conferenze
at the frontier
10:30
04
Privatization, deregulation and other pro-market reforms are often unpopular. Are economists just wrong (and these reforms really are welfare reducing), or is it that voters have been subject to populist propaganda by a biased media? A randomized field experiment in Argentina supplies some important insights into these questions.
introduced by Lucia Magi
Aula Magna
dialogues
10:30
04
We are increasingly reading and writing texts on media other than paper. How will forms of knowledge change if and when they are primarily conveyed via the web and digital media? And how will the publishing market evolve? These questions are discussed by an economist, a publisher and an expert in new media.
introduced by Stefano Salis
discussions
11:00
04
Comparison of the rules and values safeguarding the official and effective accuracy of accounting and financial information.
organised by ODCEC - Ordine Dottori Commercialisti ed Esperti Contabili - for the administrative districts of Trento and Rovereto Courts
coordinated by Alessandro Plateroti
speakers Mario Boella, Claudio Siciliotti
Sala Fondazione Caritro
discussions
11:00
04
A panorama of the costs linked to the purchase of property: taxes, VAT, stamp duty, special terms for "first home" and notary fees.
organised by the Consiglio Nazionale del Notariato, in collaboration with "Il Sole 24 Ore"
coordinated by Massimo Esposti
speakers Piero Avella, Maurizio Delvecchio
Torre Mirana
true or false
12:00
04
organized by "lavoce.info"
coordinated by Federico Rampini
introduced by Marzio Galeotti
speakers Carlo Carraro, Robert Pindyck
evidence presented by Ottmar Edenhofer, Giuseppe Nicoletti
Sala Depero
meetings with authors
12:00
04
organised by Cambridge University Press
discussed by Paolo Guerrieri, Salvatore Rossi
Sala Conferenze
meetings with authors
12:00
04
organised by Ibl - Istituto Bruno Leoni
discussed by Carlo Scarpa
chaired by Alberto Mingardi
at the frontier
15:00
04
To what extent does the media influence what voters know, what politicians do, and government policy? When the media is "captured" by politicians what effects does this have on the way they justify their actions to voters? What happens when the press is free, but supplies little political information?
introduced by Alessandra Sardoni
discussions
15:00
04
The international crisis raises important questions about the development model introduced in Western-Eastern Europe after 1989, the vulnerability of these economies and their ability to react to external shocks. Hungary and Poland: a comparison of two cases.
organised by the
speakers Sergio Arzeni, Bruno Dallago, Grzegorz W. Kolodko, Karoly Attila Soos
Sede OCSE
meetings with authors
15:00
04
organised by Il Mulino
discussed by Alfonso Gianni, Maria Pierdicchi, Giulio Trigilia
Aula Magna
focus
15:30
04
Many effective decisions can also be taken when information is scarce and cognitive abilities are limited. Cognitive limitations can paradoxically become advantageous when information is incomplete.
introduced by Luigi Mittone
Sala Depero
past and present
16:00
04
The crisis of 1929 strucks Italy two years later, in 1931. The flight from bank deposits to post offices and the withdrawal of short-term deposits granted by foreign banks to the major Italian banks led to a state bail out and the creation of the Institute for Industrial Reconstruction (IRI). Then as now, Italy was hit by the international crisis in the midst of a recession. Are we facing another 1931?
introduced by Pierangelo Giovanetti
focus
16:00
04
The privatization of Italy's flagship company became a national affair, even influencing the 2008 electoral campaign. Much of what was said at the time was divorced from reality. Information was limited. Almost two years down the road, with the help of the company that acquired it – CAI – and two economists who have studied developments in Italy’s strategic infrastructure projects, we will try to get to the heart of the Alitalia affair.
introduced by Marco Panara
discussions
16:00
04
Italy is very behind in terms of female representation, both in institutions and in businesses. And yet greater representation for women leads to increased income and better organisational health, as it is shown in a study by Valore D, an association of 35 major companies promoting an increase in the number of women at the top.
organised by Valore D
coordinated by Beppe Severgnini
speakers Monica D'Ascenzo, Carlo dell'Aringa, Alessandra Perrazzelli
meetings with authors
16:30
04
organised by Marsilio Editori
discussed by Pier Paolo Baretta, Maurizio Castro, Michele Salvati
Aula Magna
at the frontier
17:00
04
The explanations offered for the current economic crisis constantly refer to three concepts – trust, networks and contagion – which rarely feature in economic models. If we think about the players in the system – individuals, companies and banks – as subjects who interact constantly and much more "locally" than is thought, then perhaps ant and bee colonies can suggest some interesting models for analyzing modern times.
introduced by Frank Paul Weber
focus
17:00
04
It is often said that without patents pharmaceutical companies would no longer be able to introduce new drugs and that without copyright books would no longer be published, music no longer broadcast and films no longer made. Is it true, then, that with weaker intellectual property rights and greater freedom to copy others, technological progress and artistic creativity would suffer? No, it is not self-evident that this is the case. Indeed, it is very likely that the opposite is true.
introduced by Anna Masera
Sala Conferenze
discussions
17:00
04
A widespread lack of financial knowledge leads to negative consequences in relation to the economic choices of individuals. The recent establishing of a high school focusing on economic and social subjects is an interesting step forwards.
organised by AEEE - Association of European Economics Education - Italy
coordinated by Gianfranco Fabi
speakers Max Bruschi, Enrico Castrovilli, Yves Patrick Coleno, Roberto Fini, Emanuela Rinaldi, Francesco Silva, Stefano Zamagni
Sala Fondazione Caritro
the economics cafè
17:00
04
In collaboration with young entrepreneurs from Trentino
The public can meet the Festival speakers at the bar.
Caffè Duomo 34
witnesses of time
18:00
04
American banks were the first to go into crisis, bringing the entire financial system with them. A great deal of criticism has centred on the lack of information by Wall Street players. Europe went into recession later but here too the crisis of the real economy is generating unemployment and a decline in consumption. The managing director and CEO of Intesa Sanpaolo analyzes the differences between Italy's economic system and that of the countries most similar to it, as well as the choices necessary for a return to growth.
introduced by Jennifer Clark
Sala Depero
meetings with authors
18:00
04
organised by "Il Sole 24 Ore"
discussed by Daniela Del Boca, Paola Profeta
Aula Magna
discussions
18:00
04
Content, checks, guarantees and costs safeguarding both parties participating in the sale of property.
organised by the Consiglio Nazionale del Notariato in collaboration with "Il Sole 24 Ore"
coordinated by Massimo Esposti
speakers Giulia Clarizio, Antonio Longo
Torre Mirana
visions
18:30
04
Households and firms have a limited capacity to process information on the behaviour of economic aggregates. This means that prices, investments, employment and other macroeconomic variables only respond to shocks of a certain gravity and when they evolve, the variations are anything but marginal. Many economic phenomena can be explained in this way.
introduced by Eric Jozsef
dialogues
19:00
04
Traditional newspapers are struggling to survive, while news is increasingly distributed via the internet. To what extent does the retreat of traditional newspapers influence the democratic debate? From the United States to the United Kingdom, and from China to Italy, the transformation of the media is casting fresh doubt on the relationship between the fourth power and political and economic power, and ultimately on the very freedom of the press.
introduced by Enrico Franceschini
discussions
19:00
04
The Great Crisis also brought many companies in Italy subjected to aggressive leverage buyout operations to their knees, also bringing private equity funds and the use of leverage under accusation. Thanks to funds, many Italian companies have grown and become more transparent and credible, as well as bigger and more competitive. What is the balance to date?
organised by Gruppo Economisti di Impresa with the collaboration of AIFI
coordinated by Lorenzo Stanca
intervengono Giampio Bracchi, Gianfilippo Cuneo, Marco De Benedetti, Matteo Bruno Lunelli, Eugenio Morpurgo, Massimo Mucchetti, Fabio Sattin
Aula Kessler
witnesses of time
21:00
04
What are the differences between TV journalism in Italy and that in other countries? How is politics dealt with on TV? What is the information content of talk shows compared with investigative journalism? How did the media behave and how should they have behaved during the crisis? Experts and leading names in Italian and foreign media exchange ideas.
coordinated by Beppe Severgnini