Seminars
Seminars
Job Market Seminars Michela Giorcelli (Stanford University)
"The Long-Term Effects of Management and Technology Transfer: Evidence from the US Productivity Program” abstract This paper uses a unique historical episode to assess the long-run effects of man-agement and technology transfer on firm performance. During the 1950s, as part of the Marshall Plan, the US administration sponsored management-training trips for European managers to US…
Job Market Seminars Gabriella Santangelo (Yale University)
"Firms and Farms: The Impact of Agricultural Productivity on the Local Indian Economy"
Seminars in Economics of Innovation and Knowledge Valentina Meliciani (LUISS University)
"Regional disparities in the enlarged European Union: Geography, Innovation and Structural Change" (at Dipartimento di Economia "S. Cognetti de Martiis")
Seminars in Politics and Society Matteo Luppi (Collegio Carlo Alberto)
"Dependency and Poverty. The effect of LTC spending on dependent elderly people and their families' income" Abstract This work examines the economic conditions of dependent elderly people and their families in order to investigate the existence of a relation between the condition of dependence and the risk of falling into poverty. For this purpose, we…
Seminars in Politics and Society Tiziana Caponio (University of Torino and Collegio Carlo Alberto)
"Immigrant Integration beyond National Policies? Italian Cities Participation in Transnational Cities Networks" Abstract In the literature on the local dimension of migration policy-making, one can see an emerging interest towards transnational cities networks (TCNs). Networks such as Eurocities can represent policy venues that go beyond the limits of vertical relations between national governments and local…
Job Market Seminars Camilla Roncoroni (Yale University)
"Political Connections and Market Structure"
Job Market Seminars Bruno Salcedo (Penn State University)
"Pricing Algorithms and Tacit Collusion" Abstract There is an increasing tendency for firms to use pricing algorithms that speedily react to market conditions, such as the ones used by major airlines and online retailers like Amazon. I consider a dynamic model in which firms commit to pricing algorithms in the short run. Over time, their algorithms can be revealed…
Job Market Seminars Stefano Sacchetto (London Business School)
"Merger Activity in Industry Equilibrium" ABSTRACT We study a dynamic industry-equilibrium model that features mergers, entry, and exit by heterogeneous firms. We show how different sources of synergies affect merger cyclicality. Improvements in marginal productivity between merging firms generate a procyclical motive for mergers, while reductions in fixed costs of production generate a countercyclical one.…
Job Market Seminars Andres Garcia-Suaza (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid)
"Oaxaca-Blinder type Decomposition Methods for Duration Outcomes"
Job Market Seminars Jorge Vasquez (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
"Crime and Vigilance"
Seminars in Economics of Innovation and Knowledge Jonatan Pinkse (Manchester Business School)
"The role of the government in promoting and steering cluster development: The case of a top-down energy cluster"
Job Market Seminars Ruben Gaetani (Northwestern)
"The Geography of Unconventional Innovation"
Seminars in Economics of Innovation and Knowledge CANCELLED: Francesco Rullani (LUISS University)
"MNC strategies to limit knowledge spillovers: How subsidiaries manage their knowledge source breadth to decrease spillovers" (at Dipartimento di Economia "S. Cognetti de Martiis")
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")