Guglielmo Weber
Occupation: Professor in Econometrics, Università di Padova, Italy
Education
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Employment
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Lecturer, Economics Department, University College London
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10/94 Associate Professor,
Economics Department, University of Venice
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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,
Other Appointments
International Research Associate, Institute for
Fiscal Studies, London
Research Fellow, Centre for Economic Policy Research,
Country Team Leader, SHARE project
Recent publications
“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
“Ageing and Unused Capacity in
“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
“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
“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),
“Intertemporal Non-Separability or
Liquidity Constraints? A Disaggregate Analysis on US
Panel Data”, 1996, Econometrica,
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
“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
“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
“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
“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
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,
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
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)
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