Seminars
Seminars
Seminars in Economics Alessandro Pavan (Northwstern University)
"Robust predictions in dynamic screening" Abstract We characterize properties of optimal dynamic mechanisms using a variational approach thatpermits us to tackle directly the full program. This allows us to make predictions for a considerably broader class of stochastic processes than can be handled by the first order, Myersonian,approach", which focuses on local incentive compatibility constraints…
Seminars in Economics of Innovation and Knowledge Michele Pezzoni (Université Côte d’Azur, CNRS, GREDEG, France)
"Is this novel technology going to hit? Genetic markers predicting technological novelty diffusion"
Monday Lunch Seminars Margherita Calderone (Università di Torino)
"The Intergenerational Effects of Cash Transfers to Groups of Men and Women: Evidence from Northern Uganda" abstract This paper looks at the intergenerational effects of a cash transfer, the Youth Opportunities Program (YOP), on human capital investments in children in conflict-affected Northern Uganda. The YOP was primarily aimed at providing startup money to groups of…
Seminars in Economics Ruben Durante (Universitat Pompeu Fabra / Sciences Po)
"Advertising Spending and Media Bias: Evidence from news Coverage of Car Safety Recalls"
Seminars in Economics of Innovation and Knowledge Marina della Giusta (University of Reading)
"Beliefs, exams and social media: a study of girls and boys in the UK"
Seminars in Economics Jonathan Berk (Stanford Graduate School of Business)
"Regulation of Charlatans in High-Skill Professions"
Job Market Seminars Julien Penasse (University of Luxembourg)
"The Missing Risk Premium in Exchange Rates" Job Market Seminar Abstract It is well known that the interest rate differential (the forward premium) predicts currency returns. However, we find that the real exchange rate, not the interest rate differential, is the main predictor of currency returns at longer horizons. We relate this finding to other…
Seminars in Politics and Society Ana Marta Guillen Rodriguez (University of Oviedo, Spain)
"Walking in others’ shoes? Welfare reform in Germany and Southern Europe" Abstract The study analyses comparatively the trajectories of social policy reform in the four Southern European countries and Germany since the turn of the millennium. For those countries in the periphery of the Eurozone, the crisis has brought about austerity in public expenditure as…
Seminars in Economics of Innovation and Knowledge Stefano Breschi (Università Bocconi)
"The Effect of Knowledge and Social Interdependencies on Inventor Outward Mobility" Discussants: Orion Pener and Fabiana Visentin (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne)
Job Market Seminars Doruk Cetemen (Universitry of Rochester)
"Achieving Efficiency in Repeated Partnerships via Information Design"
Job Market Seminars Jules Tinang (Toulouse School of Economics)
"Macro Uncertainty and the Term Structure of Risk Premium" abstract Abstract:Leading frictionless consumption-based asset pricing models (Long run risks and Habit formation) predict that the expected return on assets whose cash flows appear in the distant future are higher than or equal to the expected returns on assets which pay-off in the near future. Contrary…
Job Market Seminars Diego Battiston (LSE)
"The Persistent Effects of Brief Interactions: Evidence from Immigrant Ships" Job Market Seminar Abstract This paper shows that brief social interactions can have a large impact on economic outcomes when they occur in high-stakes decision contexts. I study this question using a high frequency and detailed geolocalized dataset of matched immigrants-ships from the age of…
Seminars in Politics and Society Ben Stanley (SWPS University of Social Sciences and Humanities)
"Voting Populist or Just Voting for Populists? A Comparative Analysis of Populist Attitudes and Vote Choice in Central and Eastern Europe" Abstract This paper uses data from a new survey on populism and voting behaviour in eight countries of Central and Eastern Europe to examine the relationship between populist attitudes, ideological attitudes, and voting behaviour.…
Job Market Seminars Elisabeth Proehl (Université de Geneve)
"Approximating Equilibria with Ex-Post Heterogeneity and Aggregate Risk" Job Market paper abstract Dynamic stochastic general equilibrium models with ex-post heterogeneity due to idiosyncratic risk have to be solved numerically. This is a nontrivial task as the cross-sectional distribution of endogenous variables becomes an element of the state space due to aggregate risk. Existing global solution…
Seminars in Economics Laura Grigolon (McMaster University)
"Blurred boundaries: a flexible approach for segmentation applied to the car market" Abstract Prominent features of differentiated product markets are segmentation and product proliferation that blurs the boundaries between segments. I develop a tractable demand model, the Ordered Nested Logit, which allows for overlap between neighboring segments. I apply the model to the automobile market…
Occasional Seminars Neil Gandal (Tel Aviv University)
"Network-Mediated Knowledge Spillovers: A Cross-Country Comparative Analysis of Information Security Innovations" Abstract A large and growing literature has used patent and patent citation data to measure knowledge spillovers across inventions and organizations, but relatively few papers in this literature have explicitly considered the collaboration networks formed by inventors as a mechanism for shaping and transmitting…
Seminars in Statistics Fabrizio Leisen (University of Kent)
Compound Random Measures Compound Random Measures (CoRM's) have been recently introduced by Griffin and Leisen (2017) and represent a general and tractable class of vectors of Completely Random Measures. This talk aims to provide an overview about CoRM's by illustrating some recent developments about their use in Bayesian nonparametrics.
Seminars in Politics and Society Simona Guerra (University of Leicester)
"Public Euroscepticism after the 2016 British referendum: Unleashing emotion" abstract What is Euroscepticism? This presentation will explore how the study of public Euroscepticism has changed since the EU fifth enlargement (2004-07) and the recent British referendum. It is widely accepted that social learning, interaction and political communication have a significant impact on individual political opinions…
Seminars in Economics of Innovation and Knowledge Francesco Zirpoli (Università di Venezia)
"Post merger "network" integration: the case of Fiat and Chrysler" abstract I will present a forthcoming book on the merger between Fiat and Chrysler, co-authored with Markus Becker and Josh Whitford. This is a book about mergers of large firms which have extensive supply networks who carry out a substantial part of their productive and…
Monday Lunch Seminars Marina Della Giusta (University of Reading)
"Keep calm and carry on: gender differences in endurance"