Seminars
Seminars
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"
Carlo Alberto Law Seminars Ioannis Lianos (University College London)
"Polycentric competition law: theory and methods" at Campus Luigi Einaudi
Monday Lunch Seminars Carmine Guerriero (Universita di Bologna)
"Endogenous Institutions and Economic Outcomes"
Seminars in Statistics Maria De Iorio (University College London)
Dependent Generalised Dirichlet Process Priors We propose a novel Bayesian nonparametric process prior for modelling a collections of random discrete distributions. This process is defined by combining a Generalised Dirichlet Process with a suitable Beta regression framework that introduces dependence among the discrete random distributions. This strategy allows for covariate dependent clustering of the observations.…
Carlo Alberto Law Seminars Matthias Goldmann (Max Planck Institute, Heidelberg)
"The Great Recurrence. Karl Polanyi and the Crises of the European Union" at Campus Luigi Einaudi
Seminars in Economics Andrea Galeotti (EUI)*
"Pricing Network Eects: Competition"
Carlo Alberto Law Seminars Susanna Cafaro (Università del Salento)
"The Eurocrisis : Which Way Forward?" at Campus Luigi Einaudi
Monday Lunch Seminars Cristiano Cantore (University of Surrey)
"The Profit Share, the Labor Share, and Monetary Policy Shocks" Abstract Despite its importance, studies on the effect of monetary policy shocks on the laborshare and the share of corporate profits are very limited. In this paper we fill this gap in twoways. Firstly, we provide new and robust evidence on the effects of MP…
Seminars in Politics and Society John Gal & Idit Weiss (Tel Aviv University)
"Exploring the Engagement of Social Workers in Social Policy" abstract Social workers are the professionals most associated with the modern welfare state and with its social policies. These professionals are generally regarded as primarily street-level bureaucrats who implement the social policies determined by decision-makers. However, a key ethos of the social work profession is that…
Seminars in Economics Ron Siegel (Pennsylvania State University)
"Pareto Improvements in the Contest for College Admissions"
Seminars in Economics Antoine Dechezlepretre (LSE)
"Do pollution offsets offset pollution? Evidence from the Clean Development Mechanism in India" Abstract We examine the impact of low-cost imports on firms’ propensity to engage in material-saving (’clean’) innovation and product innovation using a dataset that combines firm-level international trade data with self-reported innovation data for around 9,000 French companies observed from 1998 to…