14.00 Matteo Assandri title: Risk aversion and preferences for redistribution: a laboratoryexperiment 15.00 Maddalena Sacconetitle: Exploring Microcredit in China: Insights from an Agent-basedSimulation Model 16.00 Augusto Fasanotitle: The patient-zero problem: a comparison between the Monte Carlomethod and Belief Propagation

At Campus Luigi Einaudi, Torino In collaboration with Master in Economics and Complexity of the Collegio Carlo Alberto and University of Turin http://herbertsimonsociety.org/

Alessandro Milazzo title: The Italian Pension Gap: a Stochastic Optimal Control Approach

Sala Rossa

Organizers: Karen Shire and Margarita Estevez-Abe Day 1 Friday, November 20, 9:00 – 18:30, Sala Rossa, Collegio Carlo Alberto, via Real Collegio 30, Moncalieri (Torino) Day 2 – Continuation of Expert Workshop Saturday, November 21, 9:00 – 17:00, Meeting Room, Hotel Genova, Via Sacchi, Torino

"Life-course biological pathways underlying social differences in healthy ageing"

9.00 am: Alice CorteseTitle: "Macroeconmic variables and stock market index. Evidence from Italy."-----9.40 am: Gian Luca SalvaraniTitle: "Is there a convergence among states and regions"-----10.20 am: Simona GiglioliTitle: "Student loans: theoretical analysis and empirical evidence".------11.00 am: Sarah RaviolaTitle: "The Rediscovery of Land"-------11.40 am: Giulia OddoneTitle: "The Solow growth model: evidence from BRIC"-----12.20 pm: Marco SchiavoneTitle:…

10.30 Noemi Oggero"Liquidity Constraints and Human Capital Accumulation. Evidence from Italian households" 11.30 Elisa Rubbo"Communication and Persuasion" 13.30 Gianluca De Tommaso"Scaling limits for output dynamics in economies with Poisson-Dirichlet innovations" 14.30 Matteo Sordello"Diffusion approximation for cluster dynamics in a generalized gamma population model" 15.30 Cecilia Balocchi"A Bayesian approach to role inference in high resolution social…

10.00 Marco OdifreddiTitle: "Exploring labor market policies. Insights from a simulation model"11.00 Marco PelosiTitle: "Financial Intermediation with Market Frictions: a Bargaining Approach"

"Is The More Better? Fertility and Life Satisfaction in Rural Ethiopia" at Campus Luigi Einaudi

9.30 am Alessandro De SanctisTitle: DSGE Models and Reality: Rational Expectations and Fat Tails 10.30 am Lorenzo PiccininiTitle: The Circularity of the Production Process 11.30 am Vincenzo MaccaroneTitle: Unpaid work and the crisis. Empirical evidence from the Modena District 12.30 pm Alberto PellicioliTitle: Overconfidence, speculation and financial bubbles

9.30 am Paolo BaudissoneTitle: Modeling autoregressive conditional heteroskedasticity: an empirical application to exchange rates market 10.10 am De AndreaTitle: Income, Education and Health: mutual influences 10.50 Andrea MilesiTitle: Analysis of competitiveness of road-rail combined transport 11.30 am Luca Perdoni:Title: Unitary and Non-Unitary Models of Household Decision-Making 12.10 pm Christian RolloTitle: An analysis of the impact…

10.00  Aleksandra Kolndrekaj "School attendance and child labor as an informal insurance device. An empirical research in Tanzania" 11.00  Vito Musci "Optimal filtering one-dimensional diffusive signals " 12.00  Valerio Perrone "Learning and Generalization in a Perceptron with Discrete Synapses: a Statistical Physics Approach"

15.00 Federica Odifreddi "Who gains from on-the-job training? Impact on productivity and wages, from the theory to empirics"    16.00 Giorgio Martini "Paying for Predictions" 

"Urbanising China" Abstract China anticipates an increase in its urban population of around 300 million over the next decades, having seen its urban population more than double to around 712 million between 1990s and 2012. China’s management of this process, which is without precedent in terms of speed or scale, will have huge and lasting…

9.30 Marta Bruschi "Does business cycle matter for labor market reform? Theory and evidence" 11.00 Federico Petri "Home decisions, homeownership and price volatility" 12.00 Ilaria Febbo "Sustainable high dividend yield portfolio strategy and loss aversion" 13.00 Valentina Garella "Does The Publication Of School Rankings Influence Students' Choices? An Empirical Analysis On Data From Piedmont" 14.00 Stefano Pietrosanti "Financial Sector Stability: a…