Seminars
Seminars
Seminars in Economics of Innovation and Knowledge Maksim Belitski (University of Reading)
"Innovation in Schumpeterian Firms: Internal or External Knowledge Spillover?" abstract An important characteristic of Schumpeterian entrepreneurs is their ability of knowledge creation and commercialization as part of a market disruption strategy. Building on the knowledge spillover of entrepreneurship theory, the corporate entrepreneurship strategy and economic geography literatures, this study distinguishes between an internal and external…
Seminars in Economics Francesco Amodio (McGill University)
"Bribes vs. Taxes: Market Structure and Incentives"
Monday Lunch Seminars Toomas Hinnosaar (Collegio Carlo Alberto)
"Price Setting on a Network" abstract Most products are produced and sold by supply chain networks, where an interconnected network of producers and intermediaries set prices to maximize their profits. I show that under a few technical assumptions, there is a unique equilibrium in a price-setting game on a network. The key distortion in the…
Seminars in Economics Martin Pesendorfer (LSE)
"Price Reference Effects in Consumer Demand"
Monday Lunch Seminars Stefano Colonnello (IWH)
"Effectiveness and (In)Efficiencies of Compensation Regulation: Evidence from the EU Banker Bonus Cap" joint with LTI@UNITO
Seminars in Economics Geert Rouwenhorst (Yale School of Management)
"A Tale of Two Premiums: The Role of Hedgers and Speculators in Commodity Futures Markets"
Seminars in Economics Eliana La Ferrara (Bocconi University)
"Revealing stereotypes: Evidence from grading in schools"
Monday Lunch Seminars Omer Moav (Warwick)
"The Emergence of Hierarchies and States: Productivity vs. Appropriability"
Seminars in Economics Takuo Sugaya (Stanford Graduate School of Business)
"The Revelation Principle in Multistage Games"
Seminars in Statistics Jan Naudts (Universiteit Antwerpen)
Non-Commutative Information Geometry Information geometry is concerned with the study of statistical manifolds. These are differentiable manifolds consisting of probability distributions. In the param- eterized case their geometry is described by a metric tensor and a pair of dually flat connections. In the more general non-parameterized case they are Banach manifolds. This area of…
Occasional Seminars Allievi Defense Session
SENIOR ALLIEVI 10.00 Lucia DonatoTitle: The Phillips Curve before and after the Great Recession: What has changed 10.45 Martino BanchioTitle: Information Disclosure with Imperfect Identification
Occasional Seminars Allievi Defense Session
JUNIOR ALLIEVI 10.00 Mariachiara BoTitle: Poisson Process and first passage times 10.30 Mattia Luchese Title: Maximum principle for elliptic pde 11.00 Fabio BuccolieroTitle: Theory of nodes SENIOR ALLIEVI 11.30 Laura RissoTitle: Preferential attachment random graphs: analysis and extension 12.15 Marco PontinTitle: Effects of social learning on consumer's quality estimates. An heuristic approach
Occasional Seminars Allievi Defense Session
SENIOR ALLIEVI 10.30 Gaia RigodanzaTitle: The Bloody Rise of Drug Cartels and the Internal Displacement in Mexico
Monday Lunch Seminars Nicolas Groshenny (University of Adelaide)
"Do we really know that US monetary policy was destabilizing in the 1970s?"
Monday Lunch Seminars Pascal Courty (University of Victoria)
"The Value of Online Scarcity Signals"
Occasional Seminars CANCELLED: Seminar, Gabriella E. Sanchez (Arizona State University)
"The countering of migrant smuggling along the US Mexico Border and what it tells us about the European experience" At Campus Luigi Einaudi abstract Graphic images of migrant suffering in the context of irregular journeys, and narratives that blame the tragedy on migrant smugglers singlehandedly, dominate much of the EU coverage on migration. This level of…
Monday Lunch Seminars Dario Sansone (Georgetown University)
"Pink Work: Same-Sex Marriage, Employment and Discrimination" Abstract This paper analyzes how the legalization of same-sex marriage in the U.S. affected gay and lesbian couples in the labor market. Results from a difference-in-difference model emphasize that both partners in same-sex couples were more likely to be employed, to have a full-time contract, and to work…