Grants
The 2008 funded projects
EIEF funds research projects in economics and finance to foster high-quality and policy-relevant research in Italy. In 2008, we received 39 applications. These were evaluated by a broad Committee, including EIEF’s President and Director, all the Fellows and the Assistant professors. The Committee assessed the project innovativeness, the likelihood to generate interesting and useful insights, the potential to give rise to top-quality papers, the curricula of the researchers involved, the appropriateness of the financial plan accompanying the research proposal.
Owing to the very high quality of the applications received we initially decided to include in a short-list up to 12 projects, much more than the 5 originally planned (see below the posted call). The shortlisted candidates were invited to present and discuss their project with EIEF researchers. After this, the merits and potential drawbacks of the various projects were further discussed by the Committee and a final list of eight funded projects was defined.
The 2008 recipients of EIEF’s grants and their projects are listed below (projects are listed according to the name of the principal investigator):
Andrea Attar
Project title: Non-exclusive competition and financial markets.
Affiliation: Dipartimento di Economia e Istituzioni, Università di Roma II, Tor Vergata,
Other researchers in the team:
Thomas Mariotti, Toulouse School of Economics (IDEI-GREMAQ).
François Salanie, Toulouse School of Economics (IDEI-LERNA).
Project duration: Three years
Francesco Bartolucci
Project title: Advances in non-linear panel models with socio-economic applications.
Affiliation: Department of Economics, Finance and Statistics, University of Perugia
Other researchers in the team:
Antonietta Mira, Department of Economics, University of Insubria
Fulvia Pennoni, Department of Statistics, University of Milano-Bicocca
Alessio Farcomeni, Department of Experimental Medicine, “La Sapienza”
Project duration: Three years
Alberto Bennardo
Project title: Non monetary compensations as second best incentive devices
Affiliation: CSEF, University of Salerno and CEPR,
Other researchers in the team:
Pierre Andrè Chiappori, Department of Economics - Columbia University
Joon Song, Department of Economics -University of Essex
Project duration: Twenty months
Giacomo Calzolari
Project title: Contracts and behavior: theoretical issues and empirical analysis.
Affiliation: University of Bologna, Department of Economics & CEPR London U.K.
Other researchers in the team:
Mattia Nardotto, University of Bologna - Department of Economics
Project duration: Two years
Marco Casari
Project title: Cooperation among strangers under indefinite interaction
Affiliation: Università di Bologna -Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche
Other researchers in the team:
Gabriele Camera, University of Iowa -Dept. of Economics
Project duration: Two years
Matteo Cervellati
Project title: Mortality, conflict and development: a theoretical and empirical investigation of the interactions between demographic and economic development.
Affiliation: University of Bologna, Department of Economics
Other researchers in the team:
Uwe Sunde, Unversity of Sant Gallen, Switzerland,
Paolo Vanin, University of Bologna - University of Padova
Project duration: Two years
Decio Coviello
Project title: Political turnover and public contracts: evidence from Italian local governments.
Affiliation : Istituto Universitario Europeo, Centre for Studies in Economics and Finance (CSEF), and Università degli Studi di Tor Vergata (from October 1, 2008)
Other researchers in the team:
Stefano Gagliarducci, CEMFI, IZA, and Università degli Studi di Tor Vergata (from October 1, 2008)
Project duration: Two years
Francesco Drago
Project title: Social interactions and spillovers effects in crime: evidence from the Italian collective clemency bill.
Affiliation: Università di Napoli Parthenope
Name and affiliation of other researchers in the team:
Roberto Galbiati, CNRS, Paris and Econpubblica-Bocconi University
Project duration: Two years
EIEF wishes to thank all applicants for their interest in the initiative and encourages all to continue in their research and to apply again in the future for financial support.
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.
A preference is given to projects whose principal investigator is under the age of 40.
Project duration and funding
- The length of each project is from 1 to 3 years.
- The funds for each project are up to EUR 20,000 a year; 50% of the grant is paid upon approval, 50% upon completion of the project.
- At most 50% of the funds can be used as direct compensation of 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 September 30, 2008. 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;
A short CV of each participant must also be provided.
Selection
A committee appointed by EIEF will select up to 5 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. The committee will decide which projects, among those selected, will receive funding.