Grants
The 2011 funded projects
The 2011 grants for research progects have been awarded to:
Principal Investigator : Erich BATTISTIN (University of Padua)
Project title: “School Inputs, Cognitive Development and Labor Supply of Mothers: Evidence from the “One Teacher Only” Reform in Italy”
Other researchers involved: Daniela Vuri (University of Rome “Tor Vergata”)
Principal Investigator : Francesco DRAGO (University of Naples “Parthneope”)
Project title: “The Effect of Crime and Economic Shocks on Beliefs Formation”
Other researchers involved: Roberto Galbiati (CNRS-Economix and Po Paris)
Principal Investigator : Massimo FRANCHI (University of Rome “La Sapienza”)
Project title: “DSGE Models, State Space Representations and VARS”
Other researchers involved: Paolo Paruolo (Università dell’Insubria, Varese)
Principal Investigator : Joshua B.MILLER (Bocconi University)
Project title: “Accountability in Actor-Responder Relationships”
Other researchers involved: Individual research
Principal Investigator : Davide RAGGI (University of Bologna)
Project title: “Higher Order Beliefs and Volatility”
Other researchers involved: Francesca Pancotto (University of Modena and Reggio Emilia) and Giuseppe Pignataro (University of Bologna)
Principal Investigator : Alessia RUSSO (University of Modena and Reggio-Emilia)
Project title: “Self-Commitment-Institutions and Cooperation in Team Projects”
Other researchers involved: Francesco Lancia (University of Vienna)
Principal Investigator : Giulio ZANELLA (University of Bologna)
Projects title: “Childcare, Grandparents or Nannies? What is Best for Children When Parents are Away”
Other researchers involved: Margherita Fort (University of Bologna) and Andrea Ichino (University of Bologna)
Principal Investigator: Luca ZARRI (University of Verona)
Project title: “Value Consonance. Homophily and Polarization in Attitudes and Beliefs”
Other researchers involved: George Loewenstein (Carnegie Mellon University) and Karl Ove Moene (University of Oslo)
For completeness of information, the main features of the original call for projects are reported below:
Project content and characteristics
Projects can be in any field of economics and finance, provided they are:
- highly innovative and able to advance the understanding of economic behaviour, systems or policies;
- potentially able to yield at least one paper publishable in a top academic journal;
- carried out by an individual researcher based in an Italian institution or a team of researchers whose principal investigator satisfies the same criterion.
Preference is given to projects whose principal investigator is under the age of 40.
Project duration and funding
- The length of each project is 1 year from the official communication of the award;
- The funds for each project are up to EUR 10,000 a year; 50% of the grant is paid upon approval, 50% upon completion and presentation of the final project in a seminar at EIEF;
- Up to 50% of the funds can be used as direct compensation for the researchers.
Applications
Research proposal must be written in English. To apply fill in the online form, and send it to grants@eief.it no later than November 7th, 2011. Each proposal must contain:
- clear motivation and description of the research question and strategy;
- timeline of the project;
- financial plan, clearly identifying the financial needs;
- allocation of tasks among the participants (if there is more than one);
- a brief CV of each participant to the project.
Selection
A committee appointed by EIEF will select up to 8 projects. A project representative will be invited to present and discuss it at EIEF. The main criterion for selection is the quality of the project, together with an assessment of its feasibility by the proponent team.
Transparency
All proposals, committee decisions and outputs of the projects at the various stages will be made available on EIEF’s web page.
Output
One of the researchers for each of the funded projects will present the project’s output at a seminar at EIEF.
Intellectual property rights will be transferred to EIEF upon acceptance of the grant.