Seminars
Seminars
Job Market Seminars Alexander Jakobsen (Princeton)
"Dynamic (In)Consistency and the Value of Information" Download the paper abstract This paper develops a revealed-preference model of information disclosure. One decision maker, DM1, ranks information sources (Blackwell experiments) knowing that a second decision maker, DM2, uses the information to select an act from a menu. Both decision makers are subjective expected utility maximizers but…
Job Market Seminars Davide Malacrino (Stanford)
"Entrepreneurs’ Wealth and Firm Dynamics" Download the paper abstract Owners of privately-held firms typically invest a large amount of their personal wealth into their firm. In principle, the wealth not invested in the firm may be used as a buffer to smooth shocks to the firm. Is such buffer stock behavior observed among privately-held firm…
Seminars in Economics of Innovation and Knowledge Andy Toole (USPTO)
"The Dynamic Relationship between Investments in Brand Equity and Firm Profitability: Evidence using Trademark Registrations"
Seminars in Economics Neale Mahoney (Booth School of Business, University of Chicago, and NBER)
"Provider Incentives and Health Care Costs: Evidence from Long-Term Care Hospitals"
Seminars in Economics Stefano Giglio (Chicago Booth)
"Contractionary volatility or volatile contractions?" Note: the seminar in on Monday
Carlo Alberto Law Seminars Hadar Aviram (University of California, Hastings)
"The impact of the Economic Crisis on Prison Policy in The United States" at Campus Luigi Einaudi (CLE)
Seminars in Politics and Society Bruno Cousin (Université de Lille)
"Self-segregation, sociability and the internationalization of European upper classes"
Seminars in Economics of Innovation and Knowledge Claudio Cozza (University of Trieste)
"Are multinationals better at creating technical linkages with local firms and institutions?" (at Dipartimento di Economia "S. Cognetti de Martiis")
Seminars in Statistics Vinayak Rao (Purdue University)
Path and parameter inference for Markov jump processes A variety of phenomena are best described using dynamical models which operate on a discrete state-space and in continuous time. The most common example is the Markov jump processes whose applications range from systems biology, genetics, computing networks and human-computer interactions. Posterior computations typically involve approximations like…
Seminars in Economics Gianluca Violante (New York University)
"Monetary policy according to HANK"
Seminars in Economics Antoine Bommier (ETH Zurich)
"Household Finance and the Value of Life" Abstract We analyze life-cycle saving strategies with a recursive model that is designed to provide reasonable positive values for the value of a statistical life. With a positive value of life, risk aversion amplifies the impact of uncertain survival on the discount rate, and thus reduces savings. Our…
Monday Lunch Seminars Marit Hinnosaar (CCA)
"Price discriminating minorities"
Seminars in Economics of Innovation and Knowledge Marcus Dejardin (Université de Namur)
"Fitting a firm’s strategic position and environmental context with its managers’ personality traits. A configurational study of SME performance" abstract Building upon the person–environment contingency model in combination with its strategy–environment counterpart, we adopt an integrated manager–strategy–environment configurational lens, and explore this perspective empirically by applying fuzzy set Qualitative Comparative Analysis to data from a sample…
Seminars in Economics Erzo Luttmer (Darthmouth)
"The Welfare Cost of Perceived Policy Uncertainty: Evidence from Social Security"
Seminars in Economics Michael Haliassos (Goethe University Frankfurt)
"Financial Literacy Externalities" abstract This paper uses unique administrative data and a quasi-field experiment of exoge- nous allocation of refugees in Sweden to estimate effects of exposure to financially literate neighbors on household financial behavior. The paper contributes evidence of a causal impact of financial literacy on behavior and points to a social multiplier of…
Monday Lunch Seminars Alessandro Barattieri (CCA)
"Banks Interconnectivity and Leverage"
Seminars in Statistics Tamara Broderick (MIT)
Fast Quantification of Uncertainty and Robustness with Variational Bayes In Bayesian analysis, the posterior follows from the data and a choice of a prior and a likelihood. These choices may be somewhat subjective and reasonably vary over some range. Thus, we wish to measure the sensitivity of posterior estimates to variation in these choices. While…
Seminars in Statistics Alejandro Jara (Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile)
Bayesian nonparametric approaches for the analysis of compositional data based on Bernstein polynomials We will discuss Bayesian nonparametric procedures for density estimation and fully nonparametric regression for compositional data, that is, data supported in a multidimensional simplex. The procedures are based on modified classes of Bernstein polynomials. We show that the modified classes retain the…
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)