Seminars
Seminars
Seminars in Politics and Society Olivier Thevenon (INED, Paris)
"Do “Institutional Complementaries” Foster Female Labour Force Participation?" Abstract I analyse the response of female labour force participation to policies supporting the work-life balance, with country-level data from the early 1980s for 18 OECD countries. It includes an original analysis of interactions and complementarity between different policy measures, as well as of potential variations in…
Seminars in Economics of Innovation and Knowledge Mario Cimoli (CEPAL, Santiago)
"External shocks, productivity gaps and twin deficits in Latin America: today more than ever industrial policy is welcome" (at Dipartimento di Economia "S. Cognetti de Martiis")
Seminars in Politics and Society Piero Tortola (Centro Studi sul Federalismo)
"Multi-level governance: A conceptual analysis"
Occasional Seminars Allievi Program Defense Sessions October 2014
9.30 am Paolo BaudissoneTitle: Modeling autoregressive conditional heteroskedasticity: an empirical application to exchange rates market 10.10 am De AndreaTitle: Income, Education and Health: mutual influences 10.50 Andrea MilesiTitle: Analysis of competitiveness of road-rail combined transport 11.30 am Luca Perdoni:Title: Unitary and Non-Unitary Models of Household Decision-Making 12.10 pm Christian RolloTitle: An analysis of the impact…
Seminars in Politics and Society Bruno Contini (University of Torino and Collegio Carlo Alberto)
"Disposable workforce, long-term employment out-of the labor force or irregular work? Discovering the pathologies of the Italian labor market"
Seminars in Economics Andrea Prat (Columbia University)
"Transparency and Deliberation at the Fed: a Computational Linguistics Approach"
Seminars in Economics Theo Diasakos (University of St. Andrews)
"Optimal Mechanism under Adverse Selection: The Canonical Insurance Problem"
Seminars in Economics Salvatore Piccolo (Università Cattolica Milano)
"Organized Crime, Insider Information and Optimal Leniency"
Occasional Seminars Allievi Program Defense Sessions July 2014
10.00 Aleksandra Kolndrekaj "School attendance and child labor as an informal insurance device. An empirical research in Tanzania" 11.00 Vito Musci "Optimal filtering one-dimensional diffusive signals " 12.00 Valerio Perrone "Learning and Generalization in a Perceptron with Discrete Synapses: a Statistical Physics Approach"
Seminars in Statistics Michael J. Daniels (University of Texas at Austin)
A Flexible Bayesian Approach to Monotone Missing Data in Longitudinal Studies with Informative Missingness with Application to An Acute Schizophrenia Clinical Trial We develop a Bayesian nonparametric model for a longitudinal response in the presence of nonignorable missing data. Our general approach is to first specify a {em working model} that flexibly models the missingness…
Occasional Seminars CANCELLED: Richard Disney (IFS)
CeRP Seminar: "House Prices, Wealth Effects and Labor Supply" Sala Rossa abstract We examine the impact of housing wealth on labor supply using data on exogenous local variation in house prices merged into household panel data for Britain. Our estimates are conditioned on variations in local labor demand and income expectations as these may co-determine…
Seminars in Economics Marco Airaudo
"Endogenous Stock Price Cycles, Chaos and Sunspot Equilibria with Dynamic Self-Control Preferences"
Seminars in Statistics Goran Peskir (University of Manchester)
Optimal Mean-Variance Portfolio Selection I will present a dynamic formulation of the mean-variance portfolio selection problem and discuss possible ways of solving it.Joint work with J. L. Pedersen (Copenhagen)
Monday Lunch Seminars Juan Ortner (Boston University)
"Making Collusion Hard: Asymmetric Information as a Counter-Corruption Measure"
Seminars in Economics Ilse Lindenlaub (EUI)
"Sorting Multidimensional Types: Theory and Application" abstract This paper studies multidimensional matching between workers and jobs. Workers dier in manualand cognitive skills and sort into jobs that demand dierent combinations of these two skills.To study this multidimensional sorting, I develop a theoretical framework that generalizes theunidimensional notion of assortative matching. I derive the equilibrium in…
Seminars in Economics of Innovation and Knowledge Antonio Andreoni (University of Cambridge and University of Bologna)
"Manufacturing linkages in medical devices clusters: Comparing configurations and hidden competencies of techno-industrial systems" (at Dipartimento di Economia "S. Cognetti de Martiis")
Monday Lunch Seminars Andrea Vindigni
"Forbidden fruits: the political economy of science, religion, and growth"
Seminars in Politics and Society Karin Gottshall (Bremen)
"Still the best of all worlds? Varieties of public employment transformation in Germany, France and Sweden"
Occasional Seminars Allievi Program Defense Sessions May 2014
15.00 Federica Odifreddi "Who gains from on-the-job training? Impact on productivity and wages, from the theory to empirics" 16.00 Giorgio Martini "Paying for Predictions"