Seminari - Dipartimento Scienze Economiche Seminari - Dipartimento Scienze Economiche validi dal 15.11.2025 al 15.11.2026. https://www.dse.univr.it/?ent=seminario&rss=0 Strategic Use of Social Media by Political Parties: Evidence from Italy https://www.dse.univr.it/?ent=seminario&rss=0&id=6680 Relatore: Federico Boffa; Provenienza: Libera Università di Bolzano; Data inizio: 2025-11-18; Ora inizio: 12.00; Note orario: Aula Vaona; Riassunto: We examine how Italian parties use social media to shape voter priorities and electoral support. We use machine-learning techniques to identify immigration- and economy-related events in news, which we link to partiesrsquo; online messaging, issue salience, and polling data. High-frequency analysis shows that the social media communication campaign by the Italian right-wing populist party sharply raises immigration salience, along with its electoral support. A structural model of political competition informed by the relationships uncovered by our reduced-form indicates that strategic online communication explains more of the support for the party than events, highlighting the central role of online political communication. Tue, 18 Nov 2025 12:00:00 +0100 https://www.dse.univr.it/?ent=seminario&rss=0&id=6680 Stronger together: The impact of formal networks on GP practice’s funding, workforce and adoption of technology https://www.dse.univr.it/?ent=seminario&rss=0&id=6681 Relatore: Rita Santos; Provenienza: University of York; Data inizio: 2025-11-27; Ora inizio: 12.00; Note orario: Aula Vaona; Referente interno: Paola Bertoli; Riassunto: Introduction: There is a recent change from competition to collaboration in the English primary care market. Integrated Care Systems were established in July 2022 to encourage and enable collaboration between local organisations. However, the focus on collaboration within primary care started with Primary Care Networks (PCNs) in 2019 and before that with Federations in 2010. As part of the NHS Long Term Plan, PCNs were established on 1st July 2019, marking a significant reorganisation of primary care services across the UK. One of the fundamental changes was thechanges in the 2019 General Practitioner contract, which paved the way for GP practices to join networks. However, this was preceded by the formation of Federations in 2010 to fulfil the Five-Year Forward View proposals that the English NHS should envisage delivering primary care on a larger scale than the traditional GP practice list. Objective: Explore the role of primary care collaboration in funding and workforce, considering the impact of GP practices belonging to these two networks: Federations and PCNs. Methods We use an IV framework to estimate the impact of PCNs on GP practices funding, workforce and adoption of technology. The first stage regression is a network analysis model of the PCN formation while the second stage is a spatial Durbin model. We test also a specification with two different weight matrices: the strong relationship matrix, which defines that GP practices belong to the same PCN and Federation, and the weaker relationship matrix, which defines that GP practices belong to the same PCN but a different Federation (or no Federation). This approach allows the disentangling of the two sources of networks and easily tests for the existence of power in collaboration. Results: Our results show robust evidence of a significant and positive spatial coefficient for the stronger relationship effect, confirming the importance of collaborations before PCNs to enhance the impact of incentives. Thu, 27 Nov 2025 12:00:00 +0100 https://www.dse.univr.it/?ent=seminario&rss=0&id=6681 Brown Bag Seminar: Ferdinando Marrazza (Università degli Studi di Verona) https://www.dse.univr.it/?ent=seminario&rss=0&id=6791 Relatore: Ferdinando Marrazza; Provenienza: Università degli Studi di Verona; Data inizio: 2025-12-02; Ora inizio: 12.00; Note orario: Aula Vaona; Referente interno: Andrea Mazzon. Tue, 2 Dec 2025 12:00:00 +0100 https://www.dse.univr.it/?ent=seminario&rss=0&id=6791 Nicola Lacetera (Università di Bologna) https://www.dse.univr.it/?ent=seminario&rss=0&id=6682 Relatore: Nicola Lacetera; Provenienza: Università di Bologna; Data inizio: 2025-12-04; Ora inizio: 12.00; Note orario: Università di Bologna; Referente interno: Simone Quercia. Thu, 4 Dec 2025 12:00:00 +0100 https://www.dse.univr.it/?ent=seminario&rss=0&id=6682 Fabrizio Anfuso (Bank of England) https://www.dse.univr.it/?ent=seminario&rss=0&id=6801 Relatore: Fabrizio Anfuso; Provenienza: Bank of England; Data inizio: 2025-12-17; Ora inizio: 12.00; Note orario: Aula Vaona; Referente interno: Alessandro Gnoatto. Wed, 17 Dec 2025 12:00:00 +0100 https://www.dse.univr.it/?ent=seminario&rss=0&id=6801 Brown Bag Seminar: Giuliano Rolle (Gran Sasso University Institute) https://www.dse.univr.it/?ent=seminario&rss=0&id=6792 Relatore: Giuliano Rolle; Provenienza: Gran Sasso University Institute; Data inizio: 2026-01-13; Ora inizio: 12.00; Note orario: Aula Vaona. Tue, 13 Jan 2026 12:00:00 +0100 https://www.dse.univr.it/?ent=seminario&rss=0&id=6792 Maria Bigoni (Università di Bologna) https://www.dse.univr.it/?ent=seminario&rss=0&id=6701 Relatore: Maria Bigoni; Provenienza: Università di Bologna; Data inizio: 2026-01-22; Ora inizio: 12.00; Note orario: Aula Vaona; Referente interno: Simone Quercia. Thu, 22 Jan 2026 12:00:00 +0100 https://www.dse.univr.it/?ent=seminario&rss=0&id=6701 Brwon Bag Seminar: Voting matters: exploring the consequences of early electoral participation https://www.dse.univr.it/?ent=seminario&rss=0&id=6739 Relatore: Silvia Granato; Provenienza: Università degli Studi di Verona; Data inizio: 2026-01-27; Ora inizio: 12.00; Note orario: Aula Vaona; Referente interno: Andrea Mazzon. Tue, 27 Jan 2026 12:00:00 +0100 https://www.dse.univr.it/?ent=seminario&rss=0&id=6739 Paolo Li Donni (Universita' degli Studi di Palermo) https://www.dse.univr.it/?ent=seminario&rss=0&id=6691 Relatore: Paolo Li Donni; Provenienza: Universita' degli Studi di Palermo; Data inizio: 2026-02-05; Ora inizio: 12.00; Note orario: Aula Vaona; Referente interno: Paolo Pertile. Thu, 5 Feb 2026 12:00:00 +0100 https://www.dse.univr.it/?ent=seminario&rss=0&id=6691 Brown Bag Seminar: Clara Fertonani (Università degli Studi di Verona) https://www.dse.univr.it/?ent=seminario&rss=0&id=6793 Relatore: Clara Fertonani; Provenienza: Università degli Studi di Verona; Data inizio: 2026-02-17; Ora inizio: 12.00; Note orario: Aula Vaona; Referente interno: Andrea Mazzon. Tue, 17 Feb 2026 12:00:00 +0100 https://www.dse.univr.it/?ent=seminario&rss=0&id=6793 Brown Bag Seminar: Chiara Costi (Università degli Studi di Verona) https://www.dse.univr.it/?ent=seminario&rss=0&id=6794 Relatore: Chiara Costi; Provenienza: Università degli Studi di Verona; Data inizio: 2026-02-24; Ora inizio: 12.00; Note orario: Aula Vaona; Referente interno: Andrea Mazzon. Tue, 24 Feb 2026 12:00:00 +0100 https://www.dse.univr.it/?ent=seminario&rss=0&id=6794 Angelique Acquatella (Toulouse School of Economics) https://www.dse.univr.it/?ent=seminario&rss=0&id=6684 Relatore: Angelique Acquatella; Provenienza: Toulouse School of Economics; Data inizio: 2026-02-26; Ora inizio: 12.00; Note orario: Aula Vaona; Referente interno: Giovanni Righetti. Thu, 26 Feb 2026 12:00:00 +0100 https://www.dse.univr.it/?ent=seminario&rss=0&id=6684 Ester Mariucci (Université Paris-Saclay) https://www.dse.univr.it/?ent=seminario&rss=0&id=6685 Relatore: Ester Mariucci; Provenienza: Université Paris-Saclay; Data inizio: 2026-03-05; Ora inizio: 12.00; Note orario: Aula Vaona; Referente interno: Cecilia Mancini. Thu, 5 Mar 2026 12:00:00 +0100 https://www.dse.univr.it/?ent=seminario&rss=0&id=6685 Fabio Galeotti (National Center for Scientific Research) https://www.dse.univr.it/?ent=seminario&rss=0&id=6704 Relatore: Fabio Galeotti; Provenienza: National Center for Scientific Research; Data inizio: 2026-04-02; Ora inizio: 12.00; Note orario: Aula Vaona; Referente interno: Simone Quercia. Thu, 2 Apr 2026 12:00:00 +0200 https://www.dse.univr.it/?ent=seminario&rss=0&id=6704 Ivan Soraperra (Max Planck Institute for Human Development Berlin) https://www.dse.univr.it/?ent=seminario&rss=0&id=6686 Relatore: Ivan Soraperra; Provenienza: Max Planck Institute for Human Development Berlin; Data inizio: 2026-04-23; Ora inizio: 12.00; Note orario: Aula Vaona; Referente interno: Maria Vittoria Levati. Thu, 23 Apr 2026 12:00:00 +0200 https://www.dse.univr.it/?ent=seminario&rss=0&id=6686 Martin Larsson (Carnegie Mellon University Chicago) https://www.dse.univr.it/?ent=seminario&rss=0&id=6687 Relatore: Martin Larsson; Provenienza: Carnegie Mellon University Chicago; Data inizio: 2026-04-30; Ora inizio: 12.00; Note orario: Aula Vaona; Referente interno: Sara Svaluto Ferro. Thu, 30 Apr 2026 12:00:00 +0200 https://www.dse.univr.it/?ent=seminario&rss=0&id=6687 Matteo Ploner (Università di Trento) https://www.dse.univr.it/?ent=seminario&rss=0&id=6706 Relatore: Matteo Ploner; Provenienza: Università di Trento; Data inizio: 2026-05-07; Ora inizio: 12.00; Note orario: Aula Vaona; Referente interno: Maria Vittoria Levati. Thu, 7 May 2026 12:00:00 +0200 https://www.dse.univr.it/?ent=seminario&rss=0&id=6706