Seminars
Seminars
Occasional Seminars Marit Hinnosaar
Applied Lunch Seminar
Carlo Alberto Law Seminars Alexandre Skander Galand (Koç University)
"The Legitimacy of the International Criminal Court: a global public goods perspective" at Campus Luigi Einaudi
Seminars in Politics and Society Jürg Steiner (University of Bern)
"Deliberation across Deep Divisions" abstract In group discussions of any kind there tends to be an up and down in the level of deliberation. To capture this dynamic we coined the concept of Deliberative Transformative Moments (DTM). In deeply divided societies deliberation is particularly important in order to arrive at peace and stability, but deliberation is also very…
Seminars in Economics Paolo Pinotti (Bocconi)
"The Political Legacy of Entertainment TV"
Monday Lunch Seminars Marla Ripoll (University of Pittsburgh)
"The Elasticity of Intertemporal Substitution, Parental Altruism and Fertility Choice"
Occasional Seminars Ainhoa Aparicio Fenoll (Collegio Carlo Alberto)
Applied Lunch Seminar: "English Proficiency and Academic Performance of US Immigrant Children"
Seminars in Statistics John Aston (University of Cambridge)
Functions, Manifolds and Statistical Linguistics Functional Data Analysis concerns the statistical study of curves and surfaces. An extension, Functional Object Data Analysis, looks at the statistical analysis of curves and surfaces which live in restricted spaces, such as on manifolds. One particular example of these are the covariance functions associated with the underlying curves. These…
Occasional Seminars Allievi Defense Session
JUNIOR ALLIEVI 09.15 Giovanni Ferraris Title: "How do economists measure happiness? A critical appraisal of the World Happiness Report" SENIOR ALLIEVI 09.45 Andrea Milesi Title: "The impact of railway infrastructure investments on rail freight transport" 10.30 Mattia Duma Title: "Bayesian nonparametric analysis of Shakespeare's poems"
Seminars in Economics Marco Scarsini (Luiss University)
"On the asymptotic behavior of the price of anarchy" abstract This paper examines the asymptotic behavior of the price of anarchy as a function of the total traffic inflow in nonatomic congestion games with multiple origin-destination pairs.We first show that the price of anarchy may remain bounded away from 1, even in simple three-link parallel networks…
Carlo Alberto Law Seminars Anna Chadwick (European University Institute)
"Law, Commodity Derivatives, and the Global Food Crisis" at Campus Luigi Einaudi
Monday Lunch Seminars Giovanni Mastrobuoni (Collegio Carlo Alberto)
"Police Patrols and Crime"
Seminars in Politics and Society Delia Baldassarri (New York University)
"Interethnic Relationships in Contemporary Communities: How does diversity affect solidarity and cooperation?" abstract The increasingly multiethnic nature of modern societies has spurred academic interest in the consequences of diversity. Recently, social scientists have linked ethnoracial diversity to undesirable outcomes, most notably, low levels of social capital, civic engagement, and cooperation. In my presentation, I challenge…
Seminars in Economics Avi Goldfarb (Toronto University)
"Exit, Tweets, and Loyalty" abstract Hirschman’s Exit, Voice, and Loyalty highlights the role of “voice” in disciplining firms for low quality. We develop a formal model of voice as a relational contact between firms and consumers and show that voice is more likely to emerge in concentrated markets. We test this model using data on…
Carlo Alberto Law Seminars Laura Westra (University of Windsor)
"On Hunger" at Campus Luigi Einaudi
Monday Lunch Seminars Francesco Passarelli (Universita di Torino)
"Loss Aversion in Politics"
Carlo Alberto Law Seminars José Luis Vivero Pol (Université Catholique de Louvain)
"Food, Law, and the Commons" at Campus Luigi Einaudi
Occasional Seminars CeRP: “Donne e finanza: una relazione complicata”
at Museo del Risparmio di Torino http://www.museodelrisparmio.it/donne-e-finanza-una-relazione-complicata
Seminars in Politics and Society Hanspeter Kriesi (EUI)
"Old versus new politics: The political spaces in Southern Europe in times of crises" at Campus Luigi Einaudi (classroom E2) abstract The presentation focuses on the party political spaces in four Southern European countries (i.e. Greece, Italy, Portugal, and Spain) since the onset of the Euro crisis. To understand the emerging conflict structures, it argues for…
Carlo Alberto Law Seminars Alain Zamaria (Max Planck Insitute Luxembourg)
"The law of lawless currencies. An inquiry into the jurisprudence of Bitcoins" at Campus Luigi Einaudi
Seminars in Economics of Innovation and Knowledge Michela Giorcelli (University of California – Los Angeles)
"Scientific Education and Innovation: From Technical Diplomas to University STEM Degrees"