Seminars
Seminars
Seminars in Politics and Society Jill Rubery (Manchester Business School)
"From women and recession to women and austerity"
Monday Lunch Seminars Stefano Fenoaltea (University of Rome “Tor Vergata”)
"The fruits of disaggregation: the general engineering industry in Italy, 1861-1913" (Note: the seminar is on Thursday)
Seminars in Economics of Innovation and Knowledge Andrea Mina (University of Cambridge)
"Firm financial constraints and innovation" (at Dipartimento di Economia "S. Cognetti de Martiis")
Seminars in Economics Cheti Nicoletti (York)
"Sibling spillover eects inschool test scores"
Seminars in Statistics Judith Rousseau (Université Paris Dauphine)
Behaviour of the posterior distribution in HMM models when the number of states is misspecified In this paper we study the asymptotic behaviour of the posterior distribution for parametric HMM models with finite number of components. We concentrate in particular on the case where the number of states of the hidden Markov chain in the…
Seminars in Politics and Society Tiziana Caponio (University of Torino)
"Competing Frames of Immigrant Integration in the EU: geographies of social inclusion in Italian regions"
Seminars in Economics Vicente Cunat (LSE)
"Say Pays! Shareholder Voice and Firm Performance"
Seminars in Economics Gazhala Azmat (Queen Mary)
"The Distribution of Talent across Contests"
Monday Lunch Seminars Sandro Brusco (Stony Brook University)
"Reputational Concerns and Price Comovements"
Seminars in Politics and Society Klaus Armingeon (Bern)
"Germany: The trading state unleashed"
Seminars in Economics Peter Neary (Oxford)
"Not so demanding: Preference structure, firm behavior, and welfare"
Monday Lunch Seminars Nicola Branzoli (Bank of Italy)
"Non-linear pricing in the Italian market of bank accounts: market power or insurance?"
Seminars in Statistics Dario Spanò (University of Warwick)
On the ancestral process of long-range seed bank models It has been observed that, in some bacterial species, spores may remain dormant for a long time, to wake up much later, even up to "order of population size" generations later. When they wake up, they can still participate in the population's reproduction. This incredibly relaxed…
Seminars in Statistics Christina Goldschmidt (University of Oxford)
The scaling limit of the minimum spanning tree of the complete graph Consider the complete graph on n vertices with independent and identically distributed edge-weights having some absolutely continuous distribution. The minimum spanning tree (MST) is simply the spanning subtree of smallest weight. It is straightforward to construct the MST using one of several natural…
Seminars in Politics and Society Francesco Giudici (IULM)
"Gendered occupational shifts in the transition to parenthood: The influence of personal networks"
Seminars in Economics of Innovation and Knowledge Richard Langlois (University of Connecticut)
"The Corporation and the Twentieth Century" (at Dipartimento di Economia "S. Cognetti de Martiis")
Monday Lunch Seminars CANCELLED: Nuria Legazpe Moraleja (University of Castilla – La Mancha)
"The Role of Education in Fertility and Female Labour Participation in Spain: A Simultaneous Approach"
Seminars in Politics and Society Pier Luigi Sacco (IULM)
"Culture 3.0: from cultural spillovers to socially embedded cultural participation. The cultural welfare perspective"
Seminars in Economics of Innovation and Knowledge Morris Teubal (Department of Economics, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
"Strategic and 'adaptive' policy targeting: Theory and an example" abstract Israel made a successful transition from an underdeveloped economy whose main exports during the 1960s were oranges and textiles to a high tech powerhouse based on an ICT-oriented Entrepreneurial High Tech Cluster (EHTC) which emerged during 1993-2000, a process leading to Catch Up status in…