Guglielmo Weber

Occupation:       Professor in Econometrics, Università di Padova, Italy

Education
11/77 - 4/82         Siena University, Italy - Laurea in Economics
10/82 - 6/83         The L.S.E., London - M. Sc. in Econometrics and Mathematical Economics
10/83 -10/88        The L.S.E., London - Ph.D. in Economics

Employment
10/87 - 12/92       Lecturer, Economics Department, University College London
1/93 - 10/94         Associate Professor, Economics Department, University  of Venice
11/94-                  Professor, Economics Department, University of Padua
11/00-10/03         Chair, Economics Department, University of Padua

11/00 -                 Chair, Ph.D. Programme in Economics and Management, University of Padua

Other Appointments
International Research Associate, Institute for Fiscal Studies, London
Research Fellow, Centre for Economic Policy Research, London
Country Team Leader, SHARE project

Recent publications

“What Do We Learn from Recall Consumption Data?”, 2003. Journal of Human Resources, 38(2), 354-385 (with Erich Battistin and Raffaele Miniaci)


“Asking Consumption Questions in General Purpose Surveys”, 2003. Economic Journal, 113(491), F540-F587 (with Martin Browning and Thomas F. Crossley)

 

“Consumer Credit: Evidence from Italian Micro Data”, 2005. Journal of European Economic Association, 3(1), 144-178 (with Rob Alessie and Stefan Hochguertel).

 

“Health Care Quality and Economic Inequality”, 2007. Health Economics, 16(4), 327-346 (with Tullio Jappelli and Luigi Pistaferri)

 

“Are Household Portfolios Efficient? An Analysis Conditional on Housing”, 2008. Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, 43(2). 401–432 (with Loriana Pelizzon)

 

“Changes in Compulsory Schooling, Education and the Distribution of Wages in Europe", 2009. Economic Journal,  119, 516-539 (with Giorgio Brunello and Margherita Fort)

 

“Ageing and Unused Capacity in Europe: Is There an Early Retirement Trap?”, 2009. Economic Policy, 59,  463-508 (with Viola Angelini and Agar Brugiavini)

 

“Efficient Portfolios when Housing Needs Change over the Life-Cycle”, 2009. Journal of Banking and Finance, 33, 2110-2121 (with Loriana Pelizzon)

 

“The Retirement Consumption Puzzle: Evidence from a Regression Discontinuity Approach”, 2009. American Economic Review, 99(5), 2209-2226 (with Erich Battistin, Agar Brugiavini and Enrico Rettore).

 

“How Does Consumption Change Upon Retirement?”,  2010. Empirical Economics, 38(2), 257-280. Previously: “Is There a Retirement Consumption Puzzle in Italy?”, IFS WP03/14 (with Raffaele Miniaci and Chiara Monfardini)

 

Consumption and Saving: Models of Intertemporal Allocation and Their Implications for Public Policy”, 2010. Journal of Economic Literature, 48, 693-751 (with Orazio P. Attanasio)

 

Key earlier publications

 

“Intertemporal  Substitution,  Risk  Aversion  and  the  Euler  Equation  for Consumption”, 1989, Economic Journal  Supplement,  99,  59-73  (awarded  the Royal Economic Society prize 1989-90) (with Orazio P. Attanasio).

 

“A Microeconomic Expenditure-Based Measure of Britain's Black Economy”, 1989, Journal of Public Economics, 39, 17-32 (with Christopher A. Pissarides).

 

“What Do We Learn On  Consumer  Demand  Patterns  From  Micro  data?”,  1993, American Economic Review, 83(3), 570-97 (with Richard Blundell and Panos Pashardes).

 

“Consumption Growth, the Interest Rate  and  Aggregation”,  1993,  Review  of Economic Studies , 60(3), 631-50 (with Orazio P. Attanasio).

 

“Is Consumption Growth Consistent with Intertemporal  Optimization?  Evidence from the Consumer Expenditure Survey”, 1995, Journal of Political Economy, 103(6), 1121-1157 (with Orazio P. Attanasio)

 

“Intertemporal Non-Separability or  Liquidity Constraints? A Disaggregate Analysis on US Panel Data”,  1996Econometrica,  64(5),  1151-81  (with  Costas Meghir)

 

“Intertemporal Consumption, Durables and Liquidity Constraints:  A Cohort Analysis”, 1997, European Economic Review, 41, 37-59 (short-listed for the 1998 Hicks-Tinbergen medal) (with Rob Alessie and Michael Devereux)

 

“Humps and Bumps in Lifetime Consumption”, 1999, Journal of Business & Economic Statistics, 17(1), 22-35 (with Orazio Attanasio, James Banks and Costas Meghir)

 

“The Italian Recession of 1993: Aggregate Implications of Microeconomic Evidence”, 1999, Review of Economics and Statistics, 81(2), 237-249 (with Raffaele Miniaci).

 

Work in progress

 

“Voluntary Private Health Care Insurance among the Over Fifties in Europe: A Comparative Analysis of SHARE Data”, 2008, Marco Fanno Working Paper n. 86 (with Omar Paccagnella and Vincenzo Rebba).

 

“Expected Bequests and Current Wealth of Older Households”, 2010, Netspar Discussion Paper No. 10/2010-074, presented at 7th RTN Workshop on the Economics of Ageing, Venice, October 2005  and 2006 Rand Workshop on Comparative International Research Based on HRS, ELSA and SHARE (with Dimitris Christelis)

 

“Saving Rates of Urban Households in China”, 2010, paper presented at the Bank of Italy – University Ca’ Foscari Venice Workshop on the Chinese Economy, VIU 25-27 November 2010 (with Agar Brugiavini and Binzhen Wu)

 

“Does Downsizing of Housing Equity Alleviate Financial Distress in Old Age?”, 2010, MEA Discussion Paper series No. 10217 (with Viola Angelini and Agar Brugiavini). Forthcoming in Börsch-Supan, A., M. Brandt, K. Hank and M. Schröder (eds) The Individual and the Welfare State. Life Histories in Europe. Heidelberg: Springer.

 

“Homeownership in Old Age at the Crossroad Between Personal and National Histories”, 2010, MEA Discussion Paper series No. 10216  (with Viola Angelini and Anne Laferrère). Forthcoming in Börsch-Supan, A., M. Brandt, K. Hank and M. Schröder (eds) The Individual and the Welfare State. Life Histories in Europe. Heidelberg: Springer.

 

“Human Capital Accumulation and Investment Behaviour”, 2010, MEA Discussion Paper series No. 10213 (with Danilo Cavapozzi, Alessio Fiume and Christelle Garrouste). Forthcoming in Börsch-Supan, A., M. Brandt, K. Hank and M. Schröder (eds) The Individual and the Welfare State. Life Histories in Europe. Heidelberg: Springer.

 

Editorial Activity

 

Co-editor of a special issue of the Journal of Econometrics on "Panels and Pseudo-Panels", Vol. 59(1/2), 1993 (with Carlo Carraro and Franco Peracchi).
Member of the Editorial Board of Fiscal Studies http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/fisc  (1992-2010)
Associate Editor (1994-5) and Editor (1996-2001) of Research in Economics/Ricerche Economiche
Member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Applied  Econometrics  (1995-97)
Member of the Editorial Board of the B.E. Journals in Economic Analysis and Policy  http://www.bepress.com/bejeap  (since May 2001)
Co-editor of a special issue of Giornale degli Economisti  on  "Health, Aging and Wealth in Italy", Vol. 62(1), 2003 (with Agar Brugiavini and Tullio Jappelli).
Co-editor of  Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe – First Results from the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe, Mannheim: Mannheim Research Institute for the Economics of Ageing, 2005 (with Axel Börsch-Supan, Agar Brugiavini, Hendrik Jürges, Johan Mackenbach, and Johannes Siegrist)

Co-editor of a special issue of Giornale degli Economisti  "Papers from the second Italian Congress on Econometrics and Empirical Economics", Vol. 66(1), 2007 (with Tullio Jappelli).
Co-editor of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (2004–2007).  Starting the Longitudinal Dimension, Mannheim: Mannheim Research Institute for the Economics of Ageing, 2008 (with Axel Börsch-Supan, Agar Brugiavini, Hendrik Jürges, Arie Kapteyn, Johan Mackenbach, and Johannes Siegrist)

Editorial Board Member of the Journal of Pension Economics and Finance (since January 2010)

Editorial Board Member of Aging Clinical and Experimental Research (since January 2010)

 

 

Last update: 08 March 2011