Seminars
Seminars
Seminars in Economics of Innovation and Knowledge Roberto Antonietti (University of Padua)
"Social capital and regional diversification in Italy" (at Dipartimento di Economia "S. Cognetti de Martiis")
Seminars in Economics Pietro Veronesi (University of Chicago)
"Habits and Leverage" Abstract Many stylized facts of leverage, trading, and asset prices can be explained by a frictionless general equilibrium model in which agents have heterogeneous endowments and external habit preferences. Our model predicts that aggregate leverage increases in good times when stock prices are high and volatility is low, it should predict low…
Seminars in Economics Pietro Tebaldi (University of Chicago)
"Estimating Equilibrium in Health Insurance Exchanges: Price Competition and Subsidy Design under the ACA" Abstract To design premium subsidies in a health insurance market it is necessary to estimate consumer demand and study how different subsidy schemes affect insurers’ incentives. Combining data from the Californian ACA marketplace with a model of insurance demand and insurers’…
Seminars in Economics Shmuel Baruch (David Eccles School of Business)
"Strategic Foundation for the Tail Expectation in Limit Order Book Markets"
Seminars in Politics and Society Birgit Pfau-Effinger (University of Hamburg)
"The Contribution of Cultural Change to Welfare State Change - Tracing Cultural Processes" at Campus Einaudi (CLE) Abstract The presentation aims to discuss the question: How can cultural change contribute to institutional change in welfare state institutions? The role of ideas for institutional change is increasingly discussed. The focus is usually on the ideas that are…
Carlo Alberto Law Seminars Harm Schepel (University of Kent)
"EU Investment Agreements and the End of the Internal Market" at CLE (Campus Luigi Einaudi)
Seminars in Economics Jan Stuhler (Universidad Carlos III Madrid)
"Shift-share instruments and the Impact of Immigration" jointly organised by Collegio Carlo Alberto and Centro Studi Luca d'Agliano within the Migration Observatory Abstract A large number of papers in the immigration literature rely on geographic variation in the concentration of immigrants to identify the impact of immigration. National flows of immigrants are often interacted with…
Monday Lunch Seminars Emilio Paolucci, Paolo Neirotti, Danilo Pesce (Politecnico di Torino)
"ICT-Based Innovation and the Changing Nature of Competition: Evidence from Information Intensive Industries in Italy" Abstract Despite the increasing interest in Information and Communication Technology’s (ICT) potential to transform industry structure and competition, there is still not comprehensive evidence on how ICT-related innovations affect competitive dynamics due to the low number of industry-level studies. Strategic…
Carlo Alberto Law Seminars Panos Papapaschalis (ESMA/ECB)
"EU Administrative Law Seminar: Instruments of Supervisory Convergence in view of CJEU jurisprudence" at CLE (Campus Luigi Einaudi)
Occasional Seminars Allievi Defense Session
9.00 Ivan Lagrosa Title: Jobless recovery. How economic upturns can be unhappy
Seminars in Economics of Innovation and Knowledge Johan Bollen (Indiana University)
"Using big data to study well-being and mental health"
Seminars in Economics Piero Gottardi (EUI)
"A Theory of Repurchase Agreements, Collateral Re-use, and Repo Intermediation" Abstract This paper characterizes repurchase agreements (repos) as equilibrium contracts starting from first principles. We show that a repo allows the borrower to augment its consumption today while hedging both agents against future market price risk. As a result, safer assets will command a lower…
Monday Lunch Seminars Toomas Hinnosaar (CCA)
"Rent-seeking contest design" Abstract This paper studies the relationship between information, incentives, and outcomes in rent-seeking contests. A common solution to limiting socially wasteful rent-seeking activities is transparency. I show that information strictly increases efforts in rent-seeking contests. Thus, the socially optimal rent-seeking contest provides as little information as possible about the competition. The model…
Seminars in Politics and Society Davide Barrera (Collegio Carlo Alberto)
"Social Support and Network Composition of the Elderly in Europe"
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…