Seminars
Seminars
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)
Seminars in Economics Sonia Oreffice (University of Surrey)
"The Demand for Season of Birth" Abstract We study the determinants of season of birth, for white married women aged 20-45 in the US, using birth certificate and Census data. We also elicit the willingness to pay for season of birth through discrete choice experiments implemented on the Amazon Mechanical Turk platform. We document that the probability…
Seminars in Economics Barbara Petrongolo (Queen Mary University)
"Reservation wages and the wage flexibility puzzle"
Monday Lunch Seminars Lucas Maestri (EPGE-FGV)
"Optimal Mirrleesian Taxation in Non-competitive Labor Markets"
Seminars in Statistics Bruno Scarpa (University of Padua)
Bayesian modelling of networks in business intelligence problems Complex network data problems are increasingly common in many fields of application. Our motivation is drawn from strategic marketing studies monitoring customer choices of specific products, along with co-subscription networks encoding multiple purchasing behavior. Data are available for several agencies within the same insurance company, and our…
Seminars in Politics and Society Georg Menz (Goldsmiths University of London)
"Constructing Response Strategies to the Euro Crisis: Groupthink, Identity and Ideas in Decision-Making" abstract The response strategy to the crisis of the single currency came with some delay and was shaped by the respective positions of national governments. There was considerable disunity and disagreement at that level. These disagreements stemmed from ideas about different conceptions…
Occasional Seminars Allievi Defense Session
SENIOR ALLIEVI 12.00 Mario Cannella Title: "Do bequest motives offset self-control problems in savings and wealth accumulation choices?"
Occasional Seminars Federico Casolari (Università di Bologna)
"Statuto giuridico fondamentaleo commodity? La vendita dellacittadinanza europea" At Campus Luigi Einaudi (CLE)
Seminars in Economics Francesca Cornelli (London Business School)
"Team Stability and Performance: Evidence fromPrivate Equity" abstract We examine the effect of team turnover on performance studying the privateequity industry. Using a unique data set that tracks over time teams in 138PE managers and their performance, we uncover a positive relation betweenturnover and fund performance. We propose and confirm in the data twochannels that…
Seminars in Economics Philippe Bacchetta (Université de Lausanne and CEPR)
"Money and Capital in a Persistent Liquidity Trap"
Monday Lunch Seminars Julien Penasse (University of Luxembourg)
"Bubbles and Trading Frenzies: Evidence from the Art Market" abstract We use the art market as a laboratory to test speculative bubble models based on investor disagreement. Several aspects distinguish the art market from other markets: it features unlevered and wealthy investors, financial and technological innovations are absent, and transaction costs are substantial. We find…
Seminars in Politics and Society Teresa Martin Garcia (Centro de Ciencias Humanas y Sociales)
"Women’s and men’s education and partnership formation: Does the field of education matter?" Abstract Using data from the Gender and Generation Survey, this study explores the effect of field of education on first union formation for women and men born since the 1960s in Norway, Austria, Belgium and Poland. Educational attainment is known to influence…