Seminars
Seminars
Seminars in Economics of Innovation and Knowledge Lucia Naldi (Jonkoping International Business School)
"Industry Knowledge, Prior Industry Experience and New Venture Survival"
Seminars in Economics Gustavo Manso (Haas School of Business, University of California at Berkeley)
"Shareholder Litigation and Corporate Innovation"
Monday Lunch Seminars Stephen Zeldes (Columbia GSB)
"Should the Government Be Paying Investment Fees on $3 Trillion of Tax-Deferred Retirement Assets?"
Seminars in Politics and Society Andreas Schedler (Center for Economic Research and Teaching, Mexico)
"A Threat to Democracy? Donald Trump in Comparative Perspective" at Campus Luigi Einaudi (Sala Lauree Rossa piccola) abstract Since his irruption into the 2016 presidential contest, Donald Trump has engendered intense public debate about him representing a “threat to democracy” and herewith forming part of a wider international trend of democratic subversion by illiberal leaders. In…
Seminars in Economics Simone Galperti (UC San Diego)
"Shared Knowledge and Competition for Attention in Information Markets"
Seminars in Economics Luigi Pistaferri (Stanford University)
"Wealth Returns Persistence and Heterogeneity"
Monday Lunch Seminars Willa Friedman (University of Houston)
"What Happens to Babies Born During Health-Worker Strikes?" abstract Health worker strikes are a growing but still under-studied phenomenon in Sub-Saharan Africa. In the past few years alone, health worker strikes limited service provision in more than 18 countries. We use panel data from Kenya linked with a newly compiled record of the timing and…
Occasional Seminars Giuseppe Bertola (University of Torino)
"EEAG Report on the European Economy"
Seminars in Politics and Society Glyn Morgan (Maxwell Syracuse University)
"Is the European Union Imperialist?" abstract A common charge of Eurosceptics is that the project of European Integration constitutes a form of imperialism. In recent years, this charge appeared during the Eurozone Crisis, it was reiterated by “Leavers” both during and after the Brexit campaign, and it can be heard today in Hungary and Poland…
Seminars in Economics Huseyin Yildirim (Duke University)
"Social Pressure, Transparency, and Voting in Committees"
Seminars in Economics CANCELLED: Geert Rouwenhorst (Yale School of Management)
"A Tale of Two Premiums: The Role of Hedgers andSpeculators in Commodity Futures Markets"
Seminars in Economics of Innovation and Knowledge Pierre Mohnen (University of Maastricht, The Netherlands)
"Exploring complementarity between R&D, ICT and organizational change"
Seminars in Economics Francesco Drago (Università degli Studi di Messina)
"Voters' Response to Public Policies: Evidence from a Natural Experiment" abstract How do voters assess policy makers in the presence of incomplete information? We address this question by providing quasi-experimental evidence on voters' electoral response to the realized effects of public policies and by also unmasking the underlying mechanism linking public policies and electoral behavior…
Monday Lunch Seminars Marit Hinnosaar (Collegio Carlo Alberto)
"How long do healthy habits last? The role of prices" Abstract When a policy gives temporary incentives for healthy behaviors, how long does the impact last? I study the U.S. Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children, which gives vouchers for healthy foods. Using household-level scanner data, I find that the effect of…
Seminars in Statistics Kolyan Ray (King’s College London)
Estimating the mean response in a missing data model We study semiparametric Bayesian estimation of the mean response in a binary regression model with missing observations. We allow some dependence between the missingness and response mechanisms, which we assume are conditionally independent given some measured covariates (i.e. unconfoundedness). This model has applications in biostatistics and…
Carlo Alberto Law Seminars From the European Stability Mechanism to the European Monetary Fund?
Ralf Jansen (ESM), Iñigo Arruga Oleaga (ECB), Giovanna Adinolfi (University of Milan)
Occasional Seminars LTI: “Advanced Risk and Portfolio Management”
Dr. Attilio Meucci (founder of ARPM) at ESOMAS – Università di Torino
Monday Lunch Seminars Juan Carlos Carbajal (UNSW)
"Selling Mechanisms for a Financially Constrained Buyer"