Seminars
Seminars
Occasional Seminars Allievi Defense Session
JUNIOR ALLIEVI 10.00 Debora SesiaTitle: Hidden Markov models and their applications in biology 11.15 Tommaso PortaluriTitle: Channels of Knowledge Transfer at CERN: the case of the PACMAN Marie-Curie project SENIOR ALLIEVI 12.00 Marco MasoeroTitle: "Multi-population mean field games with local coupling"
Carlo Alberto Law Seminars Luca Pasquet (Max Planck Institute Luxembourg)
"The Internationalization of the 'Solange' Method and its Application to Inter-Systemic Conflicts" at CLE (Campus Luigi Einaudi)
Seminars in Economics Sonia Oreffice (University of Surrey)
"The Demand for Season of Birth" Abstract We study the determinants of season of birth, for white married women aged 20-45 in the US, using birth certificate and Census data. We also elicit the willingness to pay for season of birth through discrete choice experiments implemented on the Amazon Mechanical Turk platform. We document that the probability…
Seminars in Economics Barbara Petrongolo (Queen Mary University)
"Reservation wages and the wage flexibility puzzle"
Monday Lunch Seminars Lucas Maestri (EPGE-FGV)
"Optimal Mirrleesian Taxation in Non-competitive Labor Markets"
Seminars in Statistics Bruno Scarpa (University of Padua)
Bayesian modelling of networks in business intelligence problems Complex network data problems are increasingly common in many fields of application. Our motivation is drawn from strategic marketing studies monitoring customer choices of specific products, along with co-subscription networks encoding multiple purchasing behavior. Data are available for several agencies within the same insurance company, and our…
Seminars in Politics and Society Georg Menz (Goldsmiths University of London)
"Constructing Response Strategies to the Euro Crisis: Groupthink, Identity and Ideas in Decision-Making" abstract The response strategy to the crisis of the single currency came with some delay and was shaped by the respective positions of national governments. There was considerable disunity and disagreement at that level. These disagreements stemmed from ideas about different conceptions…
Occasional Seminars Allievi Defense Session
SENIOR ALLIEVI 12.00 Mario Cannella Title: "Do bequest motives offset self-control problems in savings and wealth accumulation choices?"
Occasional Seminars Federico Casolari (Università di Bologna)
"Statuto giuridico fondamentaleo commodity? La vendita dellacittadinanza europea" At Campus Luigi Einaudi (CLE)
Seminars in Economics Francesca Cornelli (London Business School)
"Team Stability and Performance: Evidence fromPrivate Equity" abstract We examine the effect of team turnover on performance studying the privateequity industry. Using a unique data set that tracks over time teams in 138PE managers and their performance, we uncover a positive relation betweenturnover and fund performance. We propose and confirm in the data twochannels that…
Seminars in Economics Philippe Bacchetta (Université de Lausanne and CEPR)
"Money and Capital in a Persistent Liquidity Trap"
Monday Lunch Seminars Julien Penasse (University of Luxembourg)
"Bubbles and Trading Frenzies: Evidence from the Art Market" abstract We use the art market as a laboratory to test speculative bubble models based on investor disagreement. Several aspects distinguish the art market from other markets: it features unlevered and wealthy investors, financial and technological innovations are absent, and transaction costs are substantial. We find…
Seminars in Politics and Society Teresa Martin Garcia (Centro de Ciencias Humanas y Sociales)
"Women’s and men’s education and partnership formation: Does the field of education matter?" Abstract Using data from the Gender and Generation Survey, this study explores the effect of field of education on first union formation for women and men born since the 1960s in Norway, Austria, Belgium and Poland. Educational attainment is known to influence…
Carlo Alberto Law Seminars Andreas Ziegler (Université de Lausanne)
"Is there a problem with the TTIP (and other Megaregionals)?" at CLE (Campus Luigi Einaudi)
Monday Lunch Seminars Ignacio Monzon (CCA), Andrea Gallice (CCA)
"Cooperation in Social Dilemmas through Position Uncertainty" Abstract In a social dilemma, individual incentives and collective interests are at odds. We propose a simple mechanism to sustain full cooperation in one-shot social dilemmas among a finite number of agents. Players sequentially decide whether to contribute to a public good. They observe the actions of some…
Monday Lunch Seminars Roberto Marfe (CCA)
"Labor Rigidity and the Dynamics of the Value Premium" (Note: the seminar is on Wednesday) abstract This paper documents that (i) the labor-share is a strong predictor of both the value and duration premia, (ii) these premia are highly correlated, and (iii) the labor-share does not forecast the component of the value premium orthogonal to the…
Seminars in Economics of Innovation and Knowledge Roberto Torrini (Bank of Italy)
"Labour, Profit and Housing Rent Shares in Italian GDP: Long-Run Trends and Recent Patterns" (at Dipartimento di Economia "S. Cognetti de Martiis")
Seminars in Economics Enrica Carbone (Seconda Università degli Studi di Napoli)
"Equilibria in Transportation Games with Road Pricing" abstract As congestion pricing is becoming increasingly popular as a solution to traffic congestion in many parts of the world, one issue is how it affects the location of commercial activities. If a cordon charge is constructed around a city center, as in London and Stockholm, for example,…
Seminars in Economics Tito Boeri (INPS and Università Bocconi)
"A clash of generations? Increase in retirement age and labour demand for youth" Note: this seminar is on Monday
Monday Lunch Seminars Dino Gerardi (CCA)
"Efficiency in Decentralized Markets with Aggregate Uncertainty" (Note: the seminar is on Thursday) Abstract We study efficiency in decentralized markets with aggregate uncertainty and one-sided private information. There is a continuum of mass one of uninformed buyers and a continuum of mass one of informed sellers. Buyers and sellers are randomly and anonymously matched in…