Seminars
Seminars
Monday Lunch Seminars Suvi Vasama (Humboldt University of Berlin)
"Real Options and Dynamic Incentives" abstract We examine a dynamic principal-agent model in which the output is correlated over time. The optimal contract determines a payment schedule from the principal to the agent and a liquidation policy. Incentive compatibility, together with the agent’s limited liability, requires that the firm is liquidated following a history of low returns. With…
Seminars in Statistics Bartek Knapik (VU Amsterdam)
Convergence rates of posterior distributions in nonparametric inverse problems Since the seminal works of Ghosal, Ghosh and van der Vaart (2000) and Shen and Wasserman (2001), posterior contraction has attracted much attention, resulting in the rich literature on this subject. However, these results are not suitable to deal with trully ill-posed inverse problems, where one…
Seminars in Politics and Society Michael Tahlin (SOFI, Stockholm University)
"Why is youth employment falling? A comparative analysis of skill matching and labor demand in Europe" abstract Youth employment has fallen in many countries in recent decades. How can this development be explained? Potentially important causes include economic recessions, long-term losses of labor demand, upgrading of job structures, educational expansion, and changes in skill matching…
Seminars in Economics Arnaud Dupuy (CEPS, INSTEAD)
"Migration in China: to Work or to Wed?" Abstract Why do people migrate? In this paper we study the trade-offs between migrating to work and migrating to wed. To this aim, we develop a marriage matching model in which men and women, are initially distributed over various locations, i.e. were born and raised in various…
Seminars in Economics Francesco Decarolis (Boston University)
"Detecting Bidders Groups in Collusive Auctions"
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"