Seminars
Seminars
Job Market Seminars Andreas Steinhauer (University of Zurich)
"Identity, Working Moms, and Childlessness: Evidence from Switzerland" Download the paper https://sites.google.com/site/andreassteinhauer/AndreasSteinhauerJMP.pdf
Occasional Seminars Vilfredo Pareto Doctorate in Economics Thesis Defense
Consuelo Nava "Some Advances in Bayesian Modeling and Computation" Andrea Venturini "Information Disclosure and Deliberation Between Strategic Agents" http://www.sde.unito.it/activities/meetings.htm#met_thes_def_20140203
Job Market Seminars Yikai Wang (University of Zurich)
"Will China Escape the Middle-income Trap? A Politico-economic Theory of Growth and State Capitalism" abstract Is China's rapid growth sustainable if the labor and capital market distortions persist? Will democratization occur given that Chinese middle-class are supportive of the regime? To answer the above questions, this paper proposes a politico-economic theory, as follows. In oligarchy,…
Seminars in Politics and Society Fabio Franchino (Università di Milano)
"The Design of Fiscal Governance Rules of the European Union"
Job Market Seminars Joan Monras (Columbia University)
"Immigration and Wage Dynamics: Evidence from the Mexican Peso Crisis"
Seminars in Statistics Hugo Maruri-Aguilar (Queen Mary University of London)
The algebraic method in experimental designs This seminar is part of the 3rd Carlo Alberto Stochastics Workshop
Seminars in Statistics Jim Q. Smith (University of Warwick)
Chain event graphs and the geometry of causation This seminar is part of the 3rd Carlo Alberto Stochastics Workshop
Occasional Seminars CeRP seminar: Margherita Borella
"Cognitve functioning and retirement in Europe"
Seminars in Statistics Bas Kleijn (University of Amsterdam)
Testability and consistency Bayesian consistency theorems come in (at least) three distinct types, e.g. Doob's prior-almost-sure consistency on Polish spaces, Schwartz's Hellinger consistency with KL-priors and the `tailfree' weak consistency of Dirichlet posteriors. In this talk we ask the question how these notions of convergence are related and argue that one characterises them most conveniently…
Seminars in Economics of Innovation and Knowledge Ljubica Nedelkoska (Zeppelin University and Harvard University)
"Learning by Problem-solving" (at Dipartimento di Economia "S. Cognetti de Martiis") abstract We analyze the dynamics of learning by problem-solving at the job. We propose that the exposure to challenging job tasks increases skills and therefore work productivity. As a result, job complexity leads to higher wages. We test our hypotheses using a large panel of German…
Seminars in Economics Alessandra Voena (University of Chicago)
"Prenuptial Contracts, Labor Supply and Household Investments" Abstract This paper examines prenuptial contracts that allow couples in Italy to choose, at virtually no cost, how their assets will be divided in case of divorce. Unique administrative data on marriages and divorces from 1995 to 2011 indicate that the majority of newlyweds (67% in 2011) choose…
Seminars in Statistics Li Ma (Duke University)
Adaptive testing of conditional association through recursive mixture modeling In many case-control studies, a central goal is to test for association or dependence between the predictors and the response. Relevant covariates must be conditioned on to avoid false positives and loss in power. Conditioning on covariates is easy in parametric frameworks such as the logistic…
Seminars in Statistics Yongdai Kim (Seoul National University)
Deviance Information Criteria for the frailty model We are concerned with model selection for the frailty model by use of the deviance information criterion (DIC). The DIC is a Bayesian model selection criterion proposed by Spiegelhalter et al. (2002). A difficulty in applying the DIC to the frailty model lies on the unspecified baseline hazard…
Seminars in Economics of Innovation and Knowledge Dirk Czarnitzki (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven)
"Counterfactual impact evaluation of cohesion policy at the firm level" Abstract The European Cohesion Policy is designed to reduce gaps between developmentlevels of EU regions. Consequently most scholarly research on impacts of Cohesion Policyso far focused on catching-up processes of EU regions. Newly available data, however,allow studying policy effects directly at the recipient level rather…
Seminars in Economics Toan Phan (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill)
"Toxic Asset Bubble" Abstract We show that toxic (i.e., welfare reducing) asset bubbles can emerge in a standard framework of stochastic rational bubble if there is financial friction. The friction generated by limited liability and non-contingent debt contracts prevents banks from fully internalizing the bubble's risk of collapse. Hence boom-bust episodes involving excessively risky bubbles can emerge in equilibrium. We…
Monday Lunch Seminars Daniele Pennesi
"Asset prices in an ambiguous economy" abstract We price assets with ambiguous returns in a Lucas’ tree economy under general ambiguity sensitive inter-temporal utility. We provide intuitive conditions to guarantee existence and to characterize equilibria. Although we relax ambiguity aversion,portfolio inertia and excess volatility may obtain at the equilibrium, extending the results of Epstein and…
Seminars in Politics and Society Steffen Heinrich (University of Duisburg Essen)
"The employment-pension nexus in Coordinated Market Economies: a Comparative Study of Germany and Japan since 2001" abstract This presentation analyses the implications of the pension reforms for employment relationships and HR policies in the two prime examples of coordinated market economies (CME), Germany and Japan, in the past 10 years. While studies of recent public…
Occasional Seminars PhD researchers’ Forum
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Seminars in Economics Kota Saito (Caltech)
"Savage in the Market" Download program Abstract We develop a behavioral axiomatic characterization of Subjective Expected Utility (SEU) under risk aversion. Given is an individual agent's behavior in the market: assume a finite collection of asset purchases with corresponding prices. We show that such behavior satisfies a revealed preference axiom if and only if there exists a…
Seminars in Economics Stefano Gagliarducci (Università di Roma Tor Vergata)
"The Labor Market Returns to Political Connections" abstract In this paper we document the labor market returns to being a family member of a politician in office. To this purpose, we link data for 16 years on the universe of politicians in Italy with a 1/91 random sample of private sector employees, based on the…