Seminars
Seminars
Carlo Alberto Law Seminars Julio César Rivera (Universidad de San Andrés)
"A Critical Review of the Treatment of Argentina's Economic Crisis inInternational Investment Arbitration" at CLE (Campus Luigi Einaudi) Discussants: Lorenza Mola (Università di Torino), Francesco Costamagna (Università di Torino & Collegio Carlo Alberto)
Seminars in Economics John A. Weymark (Vanderbilt University)
"Optimal Nonlinear Taxation of Income and Savings Without Commitment"
Monday Lunch Seminars Matteo Triossi (University of Chile)
"Costly Information acquisition: the role of abstention" Abstract Citizens have little and uneven levels of political knowledge, consistently with the rational ignorance hypothesis. The paper presents a strategic model of common value elections with voluntary voting and endogenous information acquisition accounting for these facts. While, under compulsory voting, majoritarian elections generically fail to completely aggregate…
Occasional Seminars Presentation of the Peking University HSBC Business School (PHBS)
A privileged opportunity to explore the possibility of studying, doing research and working in China
Seminars in Economics of Innovation and Knowledge Thomas Kemeny (Geography and Environment, University of Southampton, UK)
"Economic Implications of Immigrant Diversity in Cities" (at Dipartimento di Economia "S. Cognetti de Martiis")
Seminars in Economics Philipp Schmidt-Dengler (University of Vienna)
"Information and Price Dispersion: Theory and Evidence" abstract We study the empirical importance of consumer information in generating price dispersion. Limited information is the key element generating price dispersion in modelsof homogeneous goods markets. We show that in these models the global relationship between information and price dispersion is an inverse-U shape. We test this mechanism using a…
Monday Lunch Seminars Rigas Oikonomou (UC Louvain)
"Long Term Government Bonds" abstract We study the impact of debt maturity on optimal fiscal policy by focusing on the case where the government issues a bond of maturity N > 1: Isolating these e ffects helps provide insight into the construction of optimal government debt portfolios. We find long bonds may not complete the…
Monday Lunch Seminars Matteo Cacciatore (HEC Montreal)
"Market Reforms at the Zero Lower Bound" Abstract We study the impact of product and labor market reforms when an economy faces major slack and a binding constraint on monetary policy easing---such as the zero lower bound. To this end, we build a two-country two-final-goods model featuring endogenous producer entry, labor market frictions, and nominal…
Seminars in Statistics Boyu Ren (Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health)
A Bayesian Nonparametric model for microbiome data analysis We develop a statistical model to analyse microbiome profiling data based on sequencing of genetic fingerprints in 16S ribosomal RNA. The analysis allows us to quantify the uncertainty in ecological ordination and clustering methods commonly applied in microbiome research. In addition, it can be extended into a…
Seminars in Economics Adriaan Kalwij (Utrecht University School of Economics – U.S.E.)
"The impact of financial education on financial literacy and saving behavior: Evidence from a controlled field experiment at Dutch primary schools" Abstract This paper estimates the short term impact of a 90-minutes financial education program on financial literacy at Dutch primary schools using a controlled field experiment. We find that of the improvements in pupils’…
Occasional Seminars Allievi Program Defense Sessions
junior allievi 12.30 Ornella Darovatitle: "What if your cleaning lady is a nuclear engineer? Overqualification of European immigrants: human capital transferability and freedom of movement" senior allievi 9.30 Alice Battistontitle: "Gender differences in Job Ladder: evidence from a network analysis" 09.45 Shuyi Yangtitle "Preferential attachment growth models for networks in presence of windows" 10.15 Luca…
Occasional Seminars Allievi Program Defense Sessions
10.30 Danilo Forastiere "Mean field approaches for linear threshold models on graphs" 11.00 Laura Risso "Branching Processes: properties and applications" 11.30 Alessandro Grande "Bayesian Inference in Epidemics over Networks"
Occasional Seminars Dalibor Stevanovic (UQAM)
"Dynamic Effects of Credit Shocks in a Data-Rich Environment"
Occasional Seminars Paola Bord on (Universidad de Chile)
"Employer Learning, Statistical Discrimination and University Prestige"
Seminars in Politics and Society Barbara Risman (University of Illinois at Chicago)
"From Sex Roles to Gender Structure: Understanding Inequality for Social Change" at Campus Einaudi (CLE), Dept of Cultures, politics and society, 3rd floor, room D233 abstract This talk has three major goals. First, I provide a succinct intellectual history of research and theorizing about gender in the social sciences in the 20th Century until today. I do…
Seminars in Statistics Steven Scott (Google)
Predicting the Present with Bayesian Structural Time Series This article describes a system for short term forecasting based on an ensemble prediction that averages over different combinations of predictors. The system combines a structural time series model for the target series with regression component capturing the contributions of contemporaneous search query data. A spike-and-slab prior…
Occasional Seminars CANCELLED: CeRP lunch seminar: Simone Tedeschi (Università Roma Tre)
"Household Risksharing Channels"
Seminars in Statistics Natesh Pillai (Harvard University)
Bayesian Factor Models in High Dimensions Sparse Bayesian factor models are routinely implemented for parsimonious dependence modeling and dimensionality reduction in high-dimensional applications. We provide theoretical understanding of such Bayesian procedures in terms of posterior convergence rates in inferring high-dimensional covariance matrices where the dimension can be larger than the sample size. We will also…
Occasional Seminars Avidit Acharya (Stanford University)
"Improving the Relationship: A Principal-Agent Model of Progressive Learning and Path Dependence" Abstract We study a dynamic principal-agent relationship with adverse selection and limited commitment. We show that when the relationship is subject to time-varying productivity shocks, the principal may be able to improve her value over time by gradually learning the agent's private information.…