Annual report 2004 - Compagnia di San Paolo

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CeRP (www.cerp.unito.it) directed by Elsa Fornero, developed research activities on the following
issues: sustainability and adequacy of pension systems; redistributional aspects in pension
systems; migration and pensions; severance indemnity and pension funds; asset classes for
institutional investors. The centre belongs to an European Commission funded international network,
aiming at a project on “Adequacy of Old-Age Income Maintenance in the EU (AIM)”. Research
activity on pensions for autonomous workers is currently under way, sponsored by CNA. The
international meeting “How Much Redistribution Within Pension Systems? Scope and Implications
for Adequacy” was held in June. Some working papers were published on scientific reviews, and two
books were published under the titles: Developing an Annuity Market in Europe (edited by E. Fornero
and E. Luciano) and Unequal Welfare States: Distributive Consequences of Population Ageing in Six
European Countries (in cooperation with SCP in the Hague).
LABORatorio R. Revelli (www.labor-torino.it). Directed by Bruno Contini, it is currently completing
a model for medium-long term forecast on employability of elder citizens, commissioned by the
Ministry of Labour and Welfare. In cooperation with Associazione Italiana dei Direttori del Personale
(Italian Association of Personnel Managers) with the funding of the Fondazione CRT, the Laboratorio
is carrying out research on entrepreneurial strategies targeted at increasing employability for the
elderly. It carried on some studies on mobility and the relations between wage rigidity and inflation
and held two conferences on agent-based microsimulation methods, respectively WILD@ACE 2004
and “WHIP -Work Histories Italian Panel - A new data bank on the working histories of Italians”. The
Centre, with R & P – Research and Projects – won the tender of Isfol for research activities on
“Differenziali salariali regionali e performance economica” (Regional wage differences and
economic performance).
The Centro Studi sul Federalismo (www.csfederalismo.it) chaired by Antonio Padoa Schioppa, it
has developed research on the following themes: EU’s environmental policies; interpretative theories
on the process of European integration; the Stability and Growth Pact; the role of Piedmont in the
process of European integration; the great European federal challenge; the relations between
European and national judges in federal systems; EU enlargement; economic and fiscal
harmonization; globalization and cosmopolitic democracy; the role of the second chambers in
federal systems. Research activities carried out in cooperation with ITP on “Competitive
benchmarking among homogeneous territories aimed at defining and outlining incentives for foreign
direct investments” reached completion. Conferences on “The new Constitution and the future of the
European parliament with the Enlargement”, in cooperation with the Compagnia di San Paolo and the
IAI - Istituto Affari Internazionali, and “Immanuel Kant and Alexander Hamilton, founders of
federalism” were held respectively in April 2004 and November 2004.