Seminars
Seminars
Monday Lunch Seminars Pierluigi Conzo (University of Turin & CSEF)
"Trust and Cheating in Sri Lanka: The Role of Experimentally-Induced Emotions about Tsunami"
Seminars in Economics of Innovation and Knowledge Mario Alexandre Silva (University of Porto)
"Strategic knowledge transmission, localized learning and technological diversification" (at Dipartimento di Economia "S. Cognetti de Martiis")
Seminars in Politics and Society Carol Mershon
"Formal Modeling for Substantive Social Research: The Place of Narratives in Linking Theory to Models" abstract This talk grows out of Mershon's book manuscript, _Formal Modeling for Substantive Research_, co-authored with Olga Shvetsova. The talk and the book focus on the methodology of using formal models as a systematic component in research design in political…
Seminars in Economics Yuliy Sannikov (Princeton University)
"Dynamic Trading: Price Inertia, Front-Running and Relationship Banking" Abstract We build a linear-quadratic model to analyze trading in a market with pri-vate information and heterogeneous agents. Agents receive private endowment shocks and trade continuously. Agents dier in their need for trade as well assize, i.e. the ability to stay away from their ideal positions. In…
Seminars in Economics Leeat Yariv (Caltech)
"Optimal Dynamic Matching"
Monday Lunch Seminars Federico Boffa (Free University of Bolzano)
"Should Different People have Different Governments?"
Seminars in Politics and Society Tina Miller (Oxford Brookes University)
"Falling back into Gender? Men's Narratives and Practices around First-time Fatherhood"
Seminars in Economics Rahul Deb (Toronto University)
"Optimal Adaptive Testing"
Monday Lunch Seminars Ainhoa Aparicio Fenoll (Collegio Carlo Alberto)
"Education Policies and Migration across European Countries"
Seminars in Economics of Innovation and Knowledge Martin Fransman (University of Edimburgh)
"Re-thinking the role of innovation in companies and the implications for government policy" (at Dipartimento di Economia "S. Cognetti de Martiis")
Seminars in Politics and Society Maurizio Carbone (University of Glasgow)
"Explaining variation of EU effectiveness in international development negotiations" abstract This article analyses the role played by the European Union in the changing development architecture, focusing on the negotiation and conclusion of four high-level forums on aid effectiveness, held in Rome (2003), Paris (2005), Accra (2008) and Busan (2011). Drawing on published and unpublished material and…
Seminars in Economics Bernard Dumas (INSEAD)
"The Stock Market in an Inflation-Targeting Economy"
Seminars in Economics Michele Pellizzari (University of Geneva)
"Wage compression within the firm" abstract We study the distributional effect of a wage indexation mechanism - the textit{Scala Mobile} (SM) - that heavily compressed the distribution of Italian wages during the 1970s and 1980s. By imposing nominal adjustments to all workers in the economy, the SM increased real wages at the bottom of the…
Monday Lunch Seminars Emanuele Bracco (Lancaster University)
"The Effect of Immigration and Immigration Policies on the Underground Economy?"
Seminars in Politics and Society Vasillis Monastiriotis
"The Greek euro-crisis: between government failure and failed government" abstract The presentation seeks to provide an analytical account of the Greek crisis that goes beyond simple and partial explanations of the crisis, which typically focus selectively either on domestic problems and weaknesses (fiscal laxity, corruption, weak administrative capacities, reform resistance) or on external and systemic…
Monday Lunch Seminars Bruno Contini (Collegio Carlo Alberto)
"A neo-keynesian proposal for restoring growth in the Italian economy" abstract A neo-keynesian suggestion aimed at recovering after twenty years of dramatic economic crisis has recently been put forward in Italy. There are reasons to suppose that analogous measures could be reasonably adapted to other EU countries where the wellbeing of the low-middle class is…
Seminars in Economics of Innovation and Knowledge Shai Harel (School of Business Administration, Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
"The implications of the size and diversity of investor syndicates for startup performance" (at Dipartimento di Economia "S. Cognetti de Martiis")
Seminars in Economics Sevi Mora (Edimburgh University)
"The Inheritance of Advantage"
Seminars in Economics Maia Guell (Edimburgh University)
"Correlating Social Mobility and Economic Outcomes"
Occasional Seminars Giulia Fuochi (Collegio Carlo Alberto)
"Is The More Better? Fertility and Life Satisfaction in Rural Ethiopia" at Campus Luigi Einaudi