Seminars
Seminars
Seminars in Statistics Stephanie van der Pas (Leiden University)
"Posterior concentration for Bayesian regression trees and their ensembles"
Seminars in Economics Giorgio Brunello (University of Padova)
"The Long Term Payoffs of Having Privileged Peers. Evidence from Siblings in School" abstract By comparing siblings attending the same school at different points of time, we estimate the effects of schoolmates’ average parental education on lifetime earnings and other medium and long-term outcomes and investigate whether these effects vary with individual parental education. We…
Occasional Seminars Allievi Defense Session
JUNIOR ALLIEVI 10.00 Pietro BuriTitle: "Prospect Theory and Game Theory"10.30 Emanuele FerroTitle: "The effects of Italian pension reforms: from a defined benefit (DB) to a defined contribution (NDC) system"
Seminars in Economics Aislinn Bohren (Carnegie Mellon university and University of Pennsylvania)
"Social Learning with Model Misspecification: A Framework and a Robustness Result"
Carlo Alberto Law Seminars Marcelo Granato (Facultades de Campinas, Brasile)
"Vincoli di bilancio a tutela dei diritti sociali? Il caso della Costituzione brasiliana"
Seminars in Statistics Fernando A. Quintana (Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile)
"Discovering Interactions Using Covariate Informed Random Partition Models"
Occasional Seminars Allievi Defense Session
JUNIOR ALLIEVI 10.00 Adele Ravagnani Title: "The two-dimensional Ising model: Vdovichenko's solution"
Seminars in Economics Imran Rasul (UCL)
"The Mechanics of Job Search Behavior: Evidence from a Field Experiment in Uganda"
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"