Seminars
Seminars
Monday Lunch Seminars Massimiano Bucchi (Università di Trento and Collegio Carlo Alberto)
“Norms, competition and visibility in contemporary science: the legacy of Robert K Merton” (Note: the seminar is on Friday) Abstract Can Robert K. Merton’s seminal work in the sociology of science still offer useful insights to understand key features, trends and challenges of science in contemporary societies? This paper focuses on two main topics. It addresses…
Seminars in Politics and Society Denish Walsh and Carol Mershon
"Strategies for Diversifying Academe: Redressing Bias against Women and Minority Scholars in the Social Science Professions"
Seminars in Economics Ernesto Villanueva (Bank of Spain)
"Contract Staggering and Unemployment During the Great Recession: Evidence from Spain"
Monday Lunch Seminars Toru Kitagawa (UCL)
"A Test for Instrument Validity" Abstract This paper develops a specification test for instrument validity in the heterogeneous treatment effect model with a binary treatment and a discrete instrument. The strongest testable implication for instrument validity is given by the condition for non-negativity of point- identifiable complier’s outcome densities. Our specification test infers this testable…
Seminars in Statistics Piotr Zwiernik (University of Genova)
Maximum likelihood estimation for linear Gaussian covariance Models We study parameter estimation in linear Gaussian covariance models, which are p-dimensional Gaussian models with linear constraints on the covariance matrix. Maximum likelihood estimation for this class of models leads to a non-convex optimization problem which typically has many local optima. We prove that the log-likelihood function…
Seminars in Statistics Luigi Malagò (Shinshu University, Japan)
Information geometry of the Gaussian distribution in view of stochastic optimization: first and second order geometry We study the optimization of a continuous function by its stochastic relaxation, i.e., the optimization of the expected value of the function itself with respect to a density in a statistical model. In the first part of the talk…
Seminars in Economics of Innovation and Knowledge Mario Morroni (Università di Pisa)
"Georgescu-Roegen's flow-fund model and the economics of innovation" (at Dipartimento di Economia "S. Cognetti de Martiis")
Seminars in Politics and Society Rinke Bax (European Central Bank)
"The European Central Bank’s role in the Single Supervisory Mechanism as part of the Banking Union" Abstract On 4 November 2014, the European Central Bank (ECB) took up its supervisory tasks as part of the Single Supervisory Mechanism (SSM). The presentation will focus on the ECB’s role in the SSM and the exercise of its supervisory…
Seminars in Economics Lukas Schmid (Duke University, Fuqua School of Business)
"Competition, Markups and Predictable Returns"
Monday Lunch Seminars Dino Gerardi (Collegio Carlo Alberto)
"Dynamic Contracting with Limited Commitment and the Ratchet Effect"
Seminars in Politics and Society Rinus Penninx (University of Amsterdam)
"European Cities and their Migrant Integration Policies"
Seminars in Economics Daniel Quint (University of Wisconsin)
"Indicative Bidding in Auctions with Costly Entry"
Seminars in Economics David McKenzie (World Bank)
"Business Practices in Small Firms in Developing Countries"
Seminars in Economics Alessandro Barattieri (ESG-UQAM)
"Asymmetric trade liberalizations and current account dynamics"
Seminars in Economics of Innovation and Knowledge Hans Loof (Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation Studies, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm)
"A SEM approach to estimation of the R&D-innovation relationship" (at Dipartimento di Economia "S. Cognetti de Martiis")
Seminars in Politics and Society Karel Williams (University of Manchester)
"The end of the experiment? From competition to the foundational economy"
Monday Lunch Seminars Juan Carlo Carbajal (University of New South Wales)
"Inconspicuous conspicuous consumption” (Note: the seminar is on Friday)
Seminars in Statistics Alessandro Arlotto (Duke University)
Sequential decisions, time dependence, and central limit theorems We prove a central limit theorem for the sum of functions of (1+m)-dimensional vectors from a time non-homogeneous Markov chain and we show several examples in which this central limit theorem can be used to easily establish the asymptotic normality of the optimal total reward of finite…
Seminars in Politics and Society Etienne Ollion (University de Strasbourg – CNRS)
"The Superiority of Economists" AbstractIn this essay, we investigate the dominant position of economics within the network of the social sciences in the United States. We begin by documenting the relative insularity of economics, using bibliometric data. Next we analyze the tight management of the field from the top down, which gives economics its characteristic hierarchical structure. Economists also…
Job Market Seminars Mariana Khapko (Stockholm School of Economics)
"Asset Pricing with Dynamically Inconsistent Agents"