SEMINAR SERIES: NEW DIMENSIONS IN ITALIAN PUBLIC POLICY
Fridays at 5 pm in the Seminar Room at the European Studies Centre, 70 Woodstock Road


NB. After each lecture the text will be published here. Click on the lecture title to read.

Week 1, Friday 18 October:

Tax Reduction and Budgetary Consolidation
Prof. Vincenzo Visco: Universita' di Roma, Tor Vergata. Minister of Finance 1996-2001. Member of the Chamber of Deputies.
Discussant: Prof. Christopher Allsopp, MPC and Oxford (to be confirmed)

Week 2, Friday 25 October:
Health Care Reform
Hon. Rosy Bindi: Minister of Health, 1996-2000, Member of the Chamber of Deputies.

Week 3, Friday 1 November:
Labour Market Deregulation – seminar paper         (tables to accompany paper)
Prof. Carlo dell'Aringa, Presidente dell'Istituto per lo Sviluppo e la Formazione dei Lavoratori (ISFOL)

Week 4, Friday 8 November:
Italy, Europe, and Financial Market Regulation
Dott. Giovanni Carosio, Head of Banking Supervision, Banca d'Italia
Discussant: David Green UK Financial Services Authority

Week 5, Friday 15 November:
Media and Telecommunications (Manacorda)(Presentation slides in Powerpoint)

Discussion (Niada)
Dtt.ssa. Paola Manacorda, Communications Regulatory Authority
Discussant: Marco Niada, London Correspondent of Il Sole/24Ore 

Week 6, Friday 22 November:
The Politics and Legislation of Conflicts of Interest – seminar paper

Senate minority report on conflict of interest bill
Senator Stefano Passigli, author of numerous parliamentary bills on conflict of interest regulation.
Discussant: David Hine, University of Oxford

Week 7, Friday 29 November:
Regional Policy: the South: Paper 1; Paper 2
Prof. Fabrizio Barca, Ministry of Finance and the Economy
For an official Treasury summary in English of recent southern development policies see also:
http://www.tesoro.it/Documentazione/AreeDoc/area_politiche_di_sviluppo/Sintesi_inglese.pdf


Convenors: David Hine (Christ Church), Francesca Bettio (St Antony's)