Seminars
Seminars
Occasional Seminars Allievi Program Defense Sessions
14.00 Matteo Assandri title: Risk aversion and preferences for redistribution: a laboratoryexperiment 15.00 Maddalena Sacconetitle: Exploring Microcredit in China: Insights from an Agent-basedSimulation Model 16.00 Augusto Fasanotitle: The patient-zero problem: a comparison between the Monte Carlomethod and Belief Propagation
Seminars in Statistics Mattia Ciollaro (Carnegie Mellon University)
An inferential theory of clustering for functional data Recently, it has been shown that Morse theory can be exploited to de- velop a sound inferential background for clustering: one can rigorously define both population and empirical clusters by means of the gradient flows asso- ciated to the population density p and the estimated density pˆ.…
Seminars in Economics Mark Armstrong (Oxford University)
"Multiproduct Pricing Made Simple"
Seminars in Statistics Juhee Lee (University of California at Santa Cruz)
Bayesian inference for intra-tumor heterogeneity in mutations and copy number variation Tissue samples from the same tumor are heterogeneous. They consist of different subclones that can be characterized by differences in DNA nucleotide sequences and copy numbers on multiple loci. Inference on tumor heterogeneity thus involves the identification of the subclonal copy number and single…
Seminars in Statistics Harry Crane (Rutgers University)
Relative exchangeability Symmetry arguments lie at the heart of classical considerations in inductive inference and statistics. In statistics, de Finetti's notion of exchangeability is the most prominent symmetry assumption, laying the foundation for Bayesian inference. In practice, many statistical and scientific problems exhibit only partial symmetry determined by some underlying structure in a population. As…
Occasional Seminars Workshop of the International Herbert A. Simon Society: “Adaptive and Ecological Rationality in Complex Environments”
At Campus Luigi Einaudi, Torino In collaboration with Master in Economics and Complexity of the Collegio Carlo Alberto and University of Turin http://herbertsimonsociety.org/
Seminars in Economics of Innovation and Knowledge Riccardo Fini (University of Bologna)
"Breaking the career path in academia: does entrepreneurship help?" (at Dipartimento di Economia "S. Cognetti de Martiis")
Monday Lunch Seminars Tiago Pires (UNC)
"Cash-Constrained Households and Product Size"
Occasional Seminars Allievi Program Defense Sessions
Alessandro Milazzo title: The Italian Pension Gap: a Stochastic Optimal Control Approach
Seminars in Economics of Innovation and Knowledge Michele Pezzoni (Université Côte d’Azur, CNRS, GREDEG, France)
"What are the factors shaping technological novelty diffusion? The impact of initial conditions" (at Dipartimento di Economia "S. Cognetti de Martiis")
Seminars in Economics Claudia Olivetti (Boston College)
"Three-generation Mobility in the United States, 1850-1940: The Role of Maternal and Paternal Grandparents"
Seminars in Economics CANCELLED: Barbara Petrongolo (Queen Mary University)
"Reservation wages and the wage flexibility puzzle" Abstract Wages are only mildly cyclical, implying that shocks to labour demand have a larger short-run impact on unemployment rather than wages, at odds with the quantitative predictions of the canonical search and matching model. This paper provides an alternative and informative perspective on the wage flexibility puzzle,…
Monday Lunch Seminars Ainhoa Aparicio Fenoll (Collegio Carlo Alberto)
"Immigrant Networks and Remittances" abstract This paper studies the influence of immigrants' social networks on remittances, both the probability of remitting and the quantity remitted. We use the Spanish Migrant Survey, a unique database with detailed information both on immigrant's residence location and remittances. Our methodology accounts for problems of reverse causality, common unobserved factors,…
Seminars in Politics and Society Teresa Jurado Guerrero (UNED, Madrid)
"Fathering in Construction: What favours a positive paternal involvement in the Spanish context?" abstract Positive paternal involvement (Pleck and Masciadrelli 2004) has become an important concept in research on new ways of fathering and its consequences for child development. This presentation draws on data of the Spanish case of the international TransParent research project and…
Seminars in Economics Matthew Harding (Duke University)
"Sparsity-Based Estimation of a Panel Quantile Count Data Model with Applications to Big Data"
Seminars in Economics of Innovation and Knowledge Kostas Kounetas (University of Patras)
"Technology Gaps in European Regions and factors that affect it: A Meta-Frontier Approach. Is there any convergence?" (at Dipartimento di Economia "S. Cognetti de Martiis")
Seminars in Economics Stepan Jurajda (CERGE-EI)
"Comparing Real Wage Rates using McWages" abstract Thanks to the standardized work protocol and technology of McDonald’s restaurants across the globe, the hourly wage rate of Basic Crew McDonald’s workers offers consistent, easy-to-interpret, and up-to-date wage comparisons. First, the wage rate expressed in a common currency measures the costs of labor in prices of tradables…
Monday Lunch Seminars Marit Hinnosaar (Collegio Carlo Alberto)
"Why taxes on unhealthy food might not lead to healthy behavior?"
Seminars in Statistics Paul Jenkins (University of Warwick)
Exact simulation of the Wright-Fisher diffusion The Wright-Fisher family of diffusion processes is a class of evolutionary models widely used in population genetics, with applications also in finance and Bayesian statistics. Simulation and inference from these diffusions is therefore of widespread interest. However, simulating a Wright-Fisher diffusion is difficult because there is no known closed-form…