Seminars
Seminars
Carlo Alberto Law Seminars Harm Schepel (University of Kent)
"EU Investment Agreements and the End of the Internal Market" at CLE (Campus Luigi Einaudi)
Seminars in Economics Jan Stuhler (Universidad Carlos III Madrid)
"Shift-share instruments and the Impact of Immigration" jointly organised by Collegio Carlo Alberto and Centro Studi Luca d'Agliano within the Migration Observatory Abstract A large number of papers in the immigration literature rely on geographic variation in the concentration of immigrants to identify the impact of immigration. National flows of immigrants are often interacted with…
Monday Lunch Seminars Emilio Paolucci, Paolo Neirotti, Danilo Pesce (Politecnico di Torino)
"ICT-Based Innovation and the Changing Nature of Competition: Evidence from Information Intensive Industries in Italy" Abstract Despite the increasing interest in Information and Communication Technology’s (ICT) potential to transform industry structure and competition, there is still not comprehensive evidence on how ICT-related innovations affect competitive dynamics due to the low number of industry-level studies. Strategic…
Carlo Alberto Law Seminars Panos Papapaschalis (ESMA/ECB)
"EU Administrative Law Seminar: Instruments of Supervisory Convergence in view of CJEU jurisprudence" at CLE (Campus Luigi Einaudi)
Occasional Seminars Allievi Defense Session
9.00 Ivan Lagrosa Title: Jobless recovery. How economic upturns can be unhappy
Seminars in Economics of Innovation and Knowledge Johan Bollen (Indiana University)
"Using big data to study well-being and mental health"
Seminars in Economics Piero Gottardi (EUI)
"A Theory of Repurchase Agreements, Collateral Re-use, and Repo Intermediation" Abstract This paper characterizes repurchase agreements (repos) as equilibrium contracts starting from first principles. We show that a repo allows the borrower to augment its consumption today while hedging both agents against future market price risk. As a result, safer assets will command a lower…
Monday Lunch Seminars Toomas Hinnosaar (CCA)
"Rent-seeking contest design" Abstract This paper studies the relationship between information, incentives, and outcomes in rent-seeking contests. A common solution to limiting socially wasteful rent-seeking activities is transparency. I show that information strictly increases efforts in rent-seeking contests. Thus, the socially optimal rent-seeking contest provides as little information as possible about the competition. The model…
Seminars in Politics and Society Davide Barrera (Collegio Carlo Alberto)
"Social Support and Network Composition of the Elderly in Europe"
Carlo Alberto Law Seminars Julio César Rivera (Universidad de San Andrés)
"A Critical Review of the Treatment of Argentina's Economic Crisis inInternational Investment Arbitration" at CLE (Campus Luigi Einaudi) Discussants: Lorenza Mola (Università di Torino), Francesco Costamagna (Università di Torino & Collegio Carlo Alberto)
Seminars in Economics John A. Weymark (Vanderbilt University)
"Optimal Nonlinear Taxation of Income and Savings Without Commitment"
Monday Lunch Seminars Matteo Triossi (University of Chile)
"Costly Information acquisition: the role of abstention" Abstract Citizens have little and uneven levels of political knowledge, consistently with the rational ignorance hypothesis. The paper presents a strategic model of common value elections with voluntary voting and endogenous information acquisition accounting for these facts. While, under compulsory voting, majoritarian elections generically fail to completely aggregate…
Occasional Seminars Presentation of the Peking University HSBC Business School (PHBS)
A privileged opportunity to explore the possibility of studying, doing research and working in China
Seminars in Economics of Innovation and Knowledge Thomas Kemeny (Geography and Environment, University of Southampton, UK)
"Economic Implications of Immigrant Diversity in Cities" (at Dipartimento di Economia "S. Cognetti de Martiis")
Seminars in Economics Philipp Schmidt-Dengler (University of Vienna)
"Information and Price Dispersion: Theory and Evidence" abstract We study the empirical importance of consumer information in generating price dispersion. Limited information is the key element generating price dispersion in modelsof homogeneous goods markets. We show that in these models the global relationship between information and price dispersion is an inverse-U shape. We test this mechanism using a…
Monday Lunch Seminars Rigas Oikonomou (UC Louvain)
"Long Term Government Bonds" abstract We study the impact of debt maturity on optimal fiscal policy by focusing on the case where the government issues a bond of maturity N > 1: Isolating these e ffects helps provide insight into the construction of optimal government debt portfolios. We find long bonds may not complete the…
Monday Lunch Seminars Matteo Cacciatore (HEC Montreal)
"Market Reforms at the Zero Lower Bound" Abstract We study the impact of product and labor market reforms when an economy faces major slack and a binding constraint on monetary policy easing---such as the zero lower bound. To this end, we build a two-country two-final-goods model featuring endogenous producer entry, labor market frictions, and nominal…
Seminars in Statistics Boyu Ren (Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health)
A Bayesian Nonparametric model for microbiome data analysis We develop a statistical model to analyse microbiome profiling data based on sequencing of genetic fingerprints in 16S ribosomal RNA. The analysis allows us to quantify the uncertainty in ecological ordination and clustering methods commonly applied in microbiome research. In addition, it can be extended into a…
Seminars in Economics Adriaan Kalwij (Utrecht University School of Economics – U.S.E.)
"The impact of financial education on financial literacy and saving behavior: Evidence from a controlled field experiment at Dutch primary schools" Abstract This paper estimates the short term impact of a 90-minutes financial education program on financial literacy at Dutch primary schools using a controlled field experiment. We find that of the improvements in pupils’…