Seminars
Seminars
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…
Seminars in Economics Joel Sobel (UC San Diego)
"Why Don't People Lie More" Abstract Economic theory bases its predictions on the assumptions that agents maximize preferences subject to accurate assessments about the environment. A stylized economic agent who cares only about his material payoffs will say and do whatever is necessary to maximize his payoff. Yet in natural and experimental settings, agents do…
Seminars in Economics Roger Lagunoff (Georgetown)
"Dynamic Mechanism Designfor a Global Commons"
Monday Lunch Seminars Federico Boffa (University of Macerata)
"Corruption, Accountability and Efficiency. An Application to Municipal Solid Waste Services" Download the paper
Occasional Seminars Allievi Program Defense Sessions March 2014
15.00 Valentina Garella "Does The Publication Of School Rankings Influence Students' Choices? An Empirical Analysis On Data From Piedmont " 16.00 Simone Fabiole-Nicoletto "Information acquisition and disclosure in an oligopolistic competitive market"
Seminars in Politics and Society Lucio Baccaro (Geneva)
"Small Differences That Matter: The Impact of Discussion Modalities on Deliberative Outcomes"
Seminars in Economics Asher Wolinsky (Northwestern)
"A Common Value Auction with Bidder Solicitation"
Monday Lunch Seminars Matteo Richiardi
"Twisted Kuznets Curves"
Seminars in Politics and Society Anton Hemerijck (Amsterdam)
"Affordable Social investment as no-regret Policy"
Seminars in Economics of Innovation and Knowledge Francesco Lissoni (Université Bordeaux IV and CRIOS-Università Bocconi)
"Innovation and immigration: A patent-based study"
Seminars in Economics Leonid Kogan (MIT)
"Measuring the "Dark Matter" in Asset Pricing Models"
Seminars in Statistics Nicolas Chopin (ENSAE, France)
Sequential Quasi Monte Carlo We develop a new class of algorithms, SQMC (Sequential Quasi Monte Carlo), as a variant of SMC (Sequential Monte Carlo) based on low-discrepancy points. The complexity of SQMC is O(N log N) where N is the number of simulations at each iteration, and its error rate is smaller than the Monte…
Seminars in Politics and Society Stefano Sacchi (Unimi)
"Conservative and innovative policy change in labour market reforms. A policy process-based explanatory framework" abstract The main explanations of labour policy reforms focus on either endogenous or exogenous factors that have triggered change in some specific critical junctures. As such, they seek to explain the introduction of reforms, i.e. why policy change occured. By contrast, building on theories of…
Seminars in Economics of Innovation and Knowledge Lorenzo Cassi (Observatoire des Sciences et des Techniques, Paris)
"Proximity, network formation and inventive performance: in search of the proximity paradox" (at Dipartimento di Economia "S. Cognetti de Martiis")
Occasional Seminars Seminars of the Research Project “Practices and Policies around Parenthood. Work-family balance and childcare in multicultural contexts”
"Practices Around Parenthood" at Campus Luigi Einaudi Chair: Manuela Naldini (DCPS, University of Turin) Sveva Magaraggia (Dept. of Philosophy, Communication and Performing Arts, University of Rome III) The crisis in young parents’ experience: new opportunities of cultural innovation? María José González (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona), Men Anticipating Fatherhood in Spain Sonia Bertolini, Rosy…
Seminars in Politics and Society Livia Olah (Stockholm)
"Gender Equality Perceptions, Division of Paid And Unpaid Work, And Partnership Dissolution In Sweden" at Campus Luigi Einaudi abstract With the increase in female employment and the decrease in gender labor specialization there has also been a marked change in gender role attitudes. An increasing proportion of women and men has come to prefer gender…
Job Market Seminars Matija Jancec (University of Maryland)
"The Costs of Adapting to a New Cultural Environment: Examining Immigrants' Outcomes"
Job Market Seminars Svetlana Pashchenko (University of Virginia)
"Work Incentives of Medicaid Beneficiaries and the Role of Asset Testing." Download the paper http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2323775
Job Market Seminars Philipp Tillman (Chicago University)
"Entry into Electoral Races and the Quality of Representation" Abstract U.S. Congressmen are very likely to be reelected and survey evidence suggests that voters are satisfied with their representatives. On the other hand, a large political science literature interprets the high incumbent reelection rate as evidence of lacking entry by strong challengers, analyzing its sources, consequences, and potential cures.…
Seminars in Politics and Society Marco Simoni (LSE)
"Institutional Roots of Economic Decline: Lessons from Italy"