Monday Lunch Seminars
Monday Lunch Seminars
Monday Lunch Seminars Levon Barseghyan (Cornell)
"The Nature of Risk Preferences: Evidence from Insurance Choices" (Note: the seminar is on Wednesday) Abstract: We use data on insurance deductible choices to estimate a structural model of risky choice that permits "standard" risk aversion, loss aversion, and probability weighting. We show that loss aversion and probability weighting - though not separately identified without strong…
Monday Lunch Seminars Giangiacomo Bravo (Università di Torino & Collegio Carlo Alberto)
"Discrimination in labour markets: An experimental analysis" Abstract: This study highlights that discrimination can be pervasive on the labor market also in the lack of quality differences between different categories and if employers with unbiased intentions strive for high quality workers. We tested experimentally the hypotheses that (i) high aspiration levels of firms and (ii)…
Monday Lunch Seminars Francesca Molinari (Cornell University)
"Inference for Best Linear Approximations to Set Identified Functions" Abstract: This paper provides inference methods for best linear approximations to functions which are known to lie within a band. It extends the partial identification literature by allowing the upper and lower functions defining the band to be any functions, including ones carrying an index, which…
Monday Lunch Seminars Antonio Nicolò (Universita di Padova)
"On the Efficiency of Partial Information in Elections" We study the relation between the electorate’s information about candidates’ policy platforms during an election, and the subsequent provision of inefficient local publicgoods (pork) by the elected government. More information does not lead to better outcomes. We show that the efficient outcome in which no candidate proposes…
Monday Lunch Seminars Aleksey Tetenov (Collegio Carlo Alberto)
"Price as a signal of product quality: experimental evidence from wine tastings" Abstract:We study the determinants of the choice between wines in wine tasting experiments where about 200 nonprofessional tasters were asked to indicate which one of the tasted wines they preferred and which one they would buy. In addition to actually tasting several wines, which differ in terms…
Monday Lunch Seminars Chris Flinn (New York University and Collegio Carlo Alberto)
"An Estimable Equilibrium Model of Labor Market Search and Schooling Choice"
Monday Lunch Seminars Marco Mariotti (Visiting Fellow from University of St. Andrews)
"A Salience Theory of Choice Errors"
Monday Lunch Seminars Aleksey Tetenov (Collegio Carlo Alberto)
"Treatment choice using empirical risk minimization"
Monday Lunch Seminars Paolo Ghirardato (Collegio Carlo Alberto)
"A more robust definition of multiple priors"
Monday Lunch Seminars Cristian Bartolucci (Collegio Carlo Alberto)
"Identifying Sorting: In Practice"
Monday Lunch Seminars Esteban Jaimovich (Collegio Carlo Alberto)
"Love for Quality, Comparative Advantage, and Trade"
Monday Lunch Seminars Filippo Taddei (Collegio Carlo Alberto)
"International Capital Flows and Credit Market Imperfections: a Tale of Two Frictions"
Monday Lunch Seminars Theodoros Diasakos (Collegio Carlo Alberto)
"Efficient Nash Equilibrium in Insurance Markets with Adverse Selection"
Monday Lunch Seminars Giovanni Mastrobuoni (Collegio Carlo Alberto)
"Organized Crime Networks: Theory and Evidence Based on Federal Bureau of Narcotics Secret Files on American Mafia"
Monday Lunch Seminars Bruno Contini (University of Torino and LABOR)
"Long Term Youth Unemployment Or Disposable Workforce?"
Monday Lunch Seminars Giorgio Bellettini (Visiting Fellow from University of Bologna)
"Knowing the right person in the right place: political connections and resistance to change"
Monday Lunch Seminars Dean Lueck (Visiting Fellow from University of Arizona)
"The Demarcation of Land and the Role of Coordinating Property Institutions"
Monday Lunch Seminars Harry J. Paarsch (Visiting Fellow from University of Melbourne)
"The Effects of Competition on Post-Transplant Outcomes of Cadaveric Liver Transplantation under the MELD Scoring System"