Scientific Committee  

President: Jacques Silber (Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel) 

Members (in alphabetical order): 

• Rolf Aaberge (Statistics Norway, Oslo, Norway)

• Tony Atkinson (Nuffield College, Oxford, UK)

• François Bourguignon (Paris School of Economics, Paris, France)

• Andrea Brandolini (Bank of Italy, Rome, Italy)

• Satya Chakravarty (Indian Statistical Institute, India)

• Frank Cowell (London School of Economics, London, UK)

• Jean-Yves Duclos (Université Laval, Québec, Canada)  

• Joan Esteban (Institut d’Analisi Economica, CSIC, Barcelona, Spain)

• Francisco Ferreira (World Bank, Washington, US)

• Gary Fields (University of Cornell, US)

• Cecilia Garcia-Penalosa (GREQAM, Marseille, France)

• Leonardo Gasparini (CEDLAS - University of La Plata)

• Ann Harding (NATSEM Canberra, AU)

• Nora Lustig (Tulane University, New Orleans, US)

• Federico Perali (University of Verona, Italy)

• Giacomo Pignataro (University of Catania)

• Amedeo Spadaro (Paris School of Economics, Paris, France and Universitat de les Illes Balears, Spain)

Conference Organizing Committee

• Giacomo Pignataro (University of Catania)

• Marina Cavalieri (University of Catania)

• Calogero Guccio (University of Catania)