Seminars
Seminars
Seminars in Statistics Mingyuan Zhou (University of Texas at Austin)
The Poisson gamma belief network A key issue in deep learning is to define an appropriate network structure, including both the depth of the network and the width of each hidden layer, which may be naturally addressed with completely random measures. We propose the Poisson gamma belief network (PGBN), which factorizes each of its layers…
Occasional Seminars Allievi Program Defense Sessions
10.30 Noemi Oggero"Liquidity Constraints and Human Capital Accumulation. Evidence from Italian households" 11.30 Elisa Rubbo"Communication and Persuasion" 13.30 Gianluca De Tommaso"Scaling limits for output dynamics in economies with Poisson-Dirichlet innovations" 14.30 Matteo Sordello"Diffusion approximation for cluster dynamics in a generalized gamma population model" 15.30 Cecilia Balocchi"A Bayesian approach to role inference in high resolution social…
Monday Lunch Seminars Ben Cowan (Washington State University)
"The Effects of Merit-Based Financial Aid on Drinking in College" (Note: the seminar is on Thursday)
Monday Lunch Seminars Claudio Campanale (University of Alicante)
"Luxury goods in heterogeneous agents economies" Abstract Most macroeconomic models are based on the assumption of a single homogeneous consumption good. In the present paper we consider a model with two goods: A basic good and a luxury good. We then apply this assumption to a standard general equilibrium heterogeneous agent model. We find a substantial reduction in precautionary…
Monday Lunch Seminars Giovanni Mastrobuoni (University of Essex)
"Harsh or Humane? Prison Detention Conditions and Recidivism" ABSTRACT We use quasi-random variation in the fraction of time served in the Italian"open-cell prison'' of Bollate to estimate the effect of rehabilitation efforts on recidivism. We deal with the endogeneity of rehabilitation assignments by focusing on those sources of variability in the length of exposure…
Monday Lunch Seminars Luca Flabbi (Georgetown University)
"Simultaneous Search in the Labor and Marriage Markets with Endogenous Schooling Decisions" (Note: the seminar is on Thursday) Abstract Labor market decisions are not taken in isolation when individuals areengaged in stable relationships. There now exist a number of estimatedmodels of household search able to address and estimate the impact of thesedecision processes. However, in these…
Monday Lunch Seminars Mark Machina (University of California, San Diego)
"Analytics of Ambiguity Aversion" (Note: the seminar is on Wednesday)
Monday Lunch Seminars Paola Profeta (Bocconi University)
“From Family Culture to Welfare State Design”
Seminars in Economics of Innovation and Knowledge Pier Paolo Saviotti (INRA GAEL, Université Pierre Mendès-France)
"Education, income distribution and economic development" (at Dipartimento di Economia "S. Cognetti de Martiis")
Seminars in Economics Sandro Shelegia (University of Vienna)
"Consumer Search with Observational Learning"
Occasional Seminars Allievi Program Defense Sessions
10.00 Marco OdifreddiTitle: "Exploring labor market policies. Insights from a simulation model"11.00 Marco PelosiTitle: "Financial Intermediation with Market Frictions: a Bargaining Approach"
Seminars in Economics of Innovation and Knowledge Giampaolo Garzarelli (IPEG, University of the Witwatersrand)
"Should I Stay or Should I Go? Natural State Formation through Internal Exit" (at Dipartimento di Economia "S. Cognetti de Martiis")
Seminars in Politics and Society Isabela Mares (Columbia University)
"Vote-buying and coercion in elections: experimental evidence from Eastern Europe"
Seminars in Economics Sylvain Chassang (Princeton University)
"Minimum prices and collusion in procurement auctions: theory and evidence"
Seminars in Economics Matt Wiswall (Arizona State University)
"Estimation of Children's Skill Formation when Children's. Skills are Unobserved" abstract We develop a new estimator for the process of skill formation where individuals' skills are unobserved (latent) and measured in data with error. Our model of skill formation has a dynamic factor structure where the latent skills of individuals evolve endogenously over the life-cycle…
Seminars in Statistics Luca Tardella (University of Rome “La Sapienza”)
Flexible behavioral capture-recapture modelling We develop some new strategies for building and fitting new flexible classes of para- metric capture-recapture models for closed populations which can be used to address a better understanding of behavioural patterns. We first rely on previous approaches based on a conditional probability parameterization and review how to regard a large…
Seminars in Politics and Society Robert Hancke (LSE)
"The missing link: Labour unions, central banks and monetary integration in Europe" Abstract This paper examines the problems of the single currency in light of the organization of labour relations in the member-states and their interaction with monetary policies. Continental (western) Europe consists of two very different systems of employment and labour relations, roughly coinciding…
Seminars in Economics Hector Chade (ASU)
"Risky Matching"
Monday Lunch Seminars Ignacio Monzon (Collegio Carlo Alberto)
"Identifying Sorting in Practice" Abstract We propose a novel methodology to detect assortative matching in the labor market using information on workers' mobility, firms' profits, and wages. We estimate the strength of sorting from a ranking of firms alone, built from firm-level profits. We identify the strength of sorting from the fraction of the variance in firm types explained…