Riccardo Faini Memorial Conference Italy’s lost productivity and how to get it back Bank of Italy, Via Nazionale 91  Opening remarks by Ignazio Visco Governor of the Bank of Italy  Rome, 13 January 2017  I am pleased to welcome all participants to this conference to remember Professor Riccardo Faini.
I first met Riccardo in 1978 when I presented a paper written with Stefano Micossi in the famous monetary workshop held by Franco Modigliani and Stan Fisher at MIT (Riccardo was then a PhD student with Giampaolo Galli and Luca Barbone…). We met often in the following years inside and outside of Italy, socially and professionally, exchanging views and commenting on each other writings.