Seminars
Seminars
Seminars in Statistics Davide La Vecchia (University of Geneva)
Saddlepoint techniques for dependent data Saddlepoint techniques provide numerically accurate, higher-order, small sample approximations to the distribution of estimators and test statistics. While a rich theory is available for saddlepoint techniques in the case of independently and identically distributed observations, only a few results have been obtained for dependent data. In this talk, we explain…
Job Market Seminars Tommaso Sonno (LSE)
"Globalisation and conflicts: the good, the bad, and the ugly of corporations in Africa" Job Market Seminar abstract Using georeferenced data on the affiliates and headquarters of multinational enterprises together with georeferenced conflict data, this work is the first to establish a causal link between the activities of multinational enterprises and violence. The results indicate…
Monday Lunch Seminars Albin Erlanson (Stockholm School of Economics)
"Costly Verification in Collective decisions" Abstract We study how a principal should optimally choose between implementing a new policy and maintaining the status quo when the information relevant for the decision is privately held by agents. Agents are strategic in revealing their information, but the principal can verify an agent's information at a given cost.…
Occasional Seminars Daniel Klein (Professor of Economics, George Mason University)
"Commutative, Distributive, and Estimative Justice in Adam Smith" organised by Istituto Bruno Leoni
Seminars in Statistics John Armstrong (King’s College London)
Stochastic Differential Equations as Jets We explain how Ito Stochastic Differential Equations (SDEs) on manifolds may be defined using 2-jets of smooth functions. We show how this relationship can be interpreted in terms of a convergent numerical scheme. We show how jets can be used to derive graphical representations of Ito SDEs and how jets…
Seminars in Economics Marco Casari (University of Bologna)
"Carbon is Forever: a Climate Change Experiment on Cooperation"
Seminars in Economics Francesco Sangiorgi (Frankfurt School)
"Why is capital slow moving? Liquidity hysteresis and the dynamics of limited arbitrage" Abstract Will arbitrage capital flow into a market experiencing a liquidity shock, mitigating the adverse effect of the shock on liquidity? Using a stochastic dynamic model of equilibrium pricing with privately informed capital-constrained arbitrageurs, we show that arbitrage capital may actually flow…
Seminars in Politics and Society Karoly Takacs (Corvinus, University of Budapest)
"Dynamics of Multiplex Networks in Schools" abstract Previous research has looked at the dynamics of social networks mainly in the context of friendship relations. In this seminar, the benefits of studying social network dynamics in multiplex dimensions are illustrated using social network panel data from Hungarian schools. By taking into account positive as well as…
Monday Lunch Seminars Nicola Limodio (Bocconi University)
"Deposit Volatility, Liquidity and Long-Term Investment: Evidence from a Natural Experiment in Pakistan"
Carlo Alberto Law Seminars Lorenzo Gradoni (Max Planck Institute for Procedural Law, Lussemburgo)
"Consuetudine internazionalein prospettiva comparata" at CLE
Seminars in Politics and Society Sandro Cattacin (Université de Genève)
"Unexpected Inclusions: Migration, Mobility and the Open City" abstract Self-organisation of migrant association, independent civil society initiatives and established ritualised practices of inclusion in the city occur outside formal migration and integration policies and improve the dynamics of belonging and peaceful coexistence between the established and newcomers. Rather than crisis discourses, we are interested in routinised…
Monday Lunch Seminars Esteban Jaimovich (University of Surrey)
"Roadway Density, Input Sourcing, and Patterns of Specialisation"
Seminars in Economics Naveen Gondhi (INSEAD)
"Feedback Effect and Investor Information Acquisition: Implications for Agency Problems"
Seminars in Economics of Innovation and Knowledge Simone Vannuccini (Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena)
"The Compositional Effect of the Productivity and Innovation Slowdown"
Seminars in Economics Seth Sanders (Duke University)
"Using Response Time Data from Social Science Surveys to Model Cognition and Cognitive Decline"
Monday Lunch Seminars Stefano Sacchetto (IESE)
"How Costly Are External Financing and Agency for Private Firms?" abstract We estimate the magnitude of external financing costs and manager-shareholder conflicts for large U.S. private firms, and compare the results of the estimation to those from a sample of comparable public firms. Large private firms face marginal equity issuance costs for the first million…
Seminars in Politics and Society Luc Boltanski (EHESS Paris)
"ENRICHISSEMENT. Une critique de la marchandise" at CLE
Seminars in Economics Helena Perrone (Barcelona Graduate School of Economics)
"Consumers' Costly Responses to Product-Harm Crises"
Monday Lunch Seminars Carolina Fugazza (Università di Torino)
"A Life-Cycle Model with Unemployment Traps" abstract The Great Recession has highlighted that long-term unemployment may become a trap with loss of human capital. This paper extends the life-cycle model allowing for a small risk of long-term unemployment with permanent effects on labour income. Such nonlinear income risk dampens both early consumption and early investment…