Seminars
Seminars
[Academic Events] Seminars in Politics and Society Sönke Matthewes (WZB Berlin, DIW Berlin & Freie Universität Berlin)
"De-Tracking at the Margin – A County-Level Difference-in-Differences Analysis of Comprehensive Schools in Germany"
[Academic Events] Job Market Seminars Roberto Steri (Unil and Swiss Finance Institute)
"The Sources of Financing Constraints"
[Academic Events] Job Market Seminars Irina Zviadadze (Stockholm School of Economics)
"Term structure of risk in expected returns"
[Academic Events] Job Market Seminars Francesca Parodi (UCL)
"Taxation of Durables, Non-durables and Earnings with Heterogeneous Preferences"
[Academic Events] Job Market Seminars Hanno Foerster (Mannheim)
"The Impact of Post-Marital Maintenance on Dynamic Decisions and Welfare of Couples"
[Academic Events] Job Market Seminars Andreas Ferrara (U. of Warwick)
"World War II and African American Socioeconomic Progress"
[Academic Events] Seminars in Economics of Innovation and Knowledge Sandro Montresor (Kore University of Enna)
"Persistence of innovation in times of crisis: An analysis of Italian firms"
[Academic Events] Seminars in Statistics Matteo Sesia (Stanford University)
"New tools for reproducible variable selection with knockoffs"
[Academic Events] Seminars in Statistics Gary L. Rosner (Johns Hopkins University)
"Bayesian Approaches in Regulatory Science"
[Academic Events] Occasional Seminars Allievi Defense
JUNIOR ALLIEVI 9.30: Ludovico De Fazio Title: The impact of immigration on the destination economy 10.00: Federico Boscaino Title: The international trade: effects on global growth and the case of developing countries SENIOR ALLIEVI 10.45: Valerio Di Tommaso Title: Identifying the effects of monetary policy in a data-rich environment 11.30: Samuele Bertaina Title: Non-parametric Bayesian Functional…
[Academic Events] Monday Lunch Seminars Giovanna Nicodano (Collegio Carlo Alberto)
"Does Bankruptcy Risk Increase Value?" Abstract We show that bankruptcy exposure increases ex-post average firm value due to a survivorship bias. The reason is that bankruptcy cancels rms with the lowest realized cash ows from databases. Such bias gives rise to known pricing puzzles. It generates a discount on diversified companies when diversification helps their survival. Moreover, it…
[Academic Events] Seminars in Politics and Society Annabelle Berthiaume (McGill University, Montreal, Canada)
"The "Activation" Funnel: Mother's Involvement in Anti-Poverty Intervention in the Era of Social Investment" Abstract How anti-poverty interventions are involving mothers ? Recent redefinition of policies and programs in the social sector has been concomitant with a reconfiguration of responsibilities and responses to poverty from the state, the private sector, community organizations, families and individuals.…
[Academic Events] Seminars in Economics Ben Brooks (Chicago University)
"Labor Market Competition and the Assimilation of Immigrants"
[Academic Events] Seminars in Economics Luigi Guiso (EIEF)
"Populism: Demand and Supply"
[Academic Events] Monday Lunch Seminars Giovanni Mastrobuoni (Collegio Carlo Alberto)
"Open or Close the Door? Prison Conditions and Recidivism" Abstract The question of how prison conditions affect recidivism is very important. In designing a prison system, one would want to know the answer. We estimate the effect on recidivism of replacing time served in a common closed-cell prison with time served in an open-cell one, mimicking an experiment…
[Academic Events] Seminars in Economics of Innovation and Knowledge CANCELLED: Wes Cohen (Duke University)
"Academics’ motives, opportunity costs and commercial activities across fields" at Department of Economics and Statistics S. Cognetti de Martiis Abstract Scholarly work seeking to understand academics’ commercial activities often draws on abstract notions of the institution of science and of the representative scientist. Few scholars have examined whether and how scientists’ motives to engage in commercial…
[Academic Events] Seminars in Economics Albrecht Glitz (Universitat Pompeu Fabra)
"Labor Market Competition and the Assimilation of Immigrants"
[Academic Events] Monday Lunch Seminars Bernardo Fanfani (University of Torino)
"The effects of collective bargaining on employment and growth" Abstract This paper analyses the employment effects of the Italian sectoral wage bargaining system. The study is based on high-frequency, comprehensive and updated information on employment and wages derived from administrative data on private-sector social security contributions, matched with precise information on the economic content of…