Seminars
Seminars
Seminars in Economics Matthew Harding (Duke University)
"Sparsity-Based Estimation of a Panel Quantile Count Data Model with Applications to Big Data"
Seminars in Economics of Innovation and Knowledge Kostas Kounetas (University of Patras)
"Technology Gaps in European Regions and factors that affect it: A Meta-Frontier Approach. Is there any convergence?" (at Dipartimento di Economia "S. Cognetti de Martiis")
Seminars in Economics Stepan Jurajda (CERGE-EI)
"Comparing Real Wage Rates using McWages" abstract Thanks to the standardized work protocol and technology of McDonald’s restaurants across the globe, the hourly wage rate of Basic Crew McDonald’s workers offers consistent, easy-to-interpret, and up-to-date wage comparisons. First, the wage rate expressed in a common currency measures the costs of labor in prices of tradables…
Monday Lunch Seminars Marit Hinnosaar (Collegio Carlo Alberto)
"Why taxes on unhealthy food might not lead to healthy behavior?"
Seminars in Statistics Paul Jenkins (University of Warwick)
Exact simulation of the Wright-Fisher diffusion The Wright-Fisher family of diffusion processes is a class of evolutionary models widely used in population genetics, with applications also in finance and Bayesian statistics. Simulation and inference from these diffusions is therefore of widespread interest. However, simulating a Wright-Fisher diffusion is difficult because there is no known closed-form…
Occasional Seminars When Families Turn to the Market … Gender Dimensions of Outsourcing Personal and Household Services: Politics, Markets and Inequalities in East Asian and European Comparison
Organizers: Karen Shire and Margarita Estevez-Abe Day 1 Friday, November 20, 9:00 – 18:30, Sala Rossa, Collegio Carlo Alberto, via Real Collegio 30, Moncalieri (Torino) Day 2 – Continuation of Expert Workshop Saturday, November 21, 9:00 – 17:00, Meeting Room, Hotel Genova, Via Sacchi, Torino
Seminars in Politics and Society Carlo Ruzza (University of Trento)
"Populism and institutionalisation in ethno-nationalist parties"
Seminars in Economics Jean Philippe Platteau (University of Namur)
"Aid Effectiveness Revisited: The Trade-Off Between Needs and Governance" (Note: the seminar is on Thursday @ 12:45) jointly organized with Centro Studi Luca D'Agliano
Seminars in Economics Muhamet Yildiz (MIT)
"Communication with Unknown Perspectives"
Seminars in Economics Navin Kartik (Columbia University)
"Contests for Experimentation"
Seminars in Politics and Society Klaus Armigeon (University of Bern) and Stefano Sacchi (University of Milan)
"Three ways to Austerity" Abstract In 2010-2014, 26 of 31 democratic countries pursued austerity: they consolidated a lean state (Switzerland) or planned to cut back deficits (25 nations, among them Germany, Portugal and Italy). Why do democratic governments embark on austerity policies? A statistical analysis shows that the extent of deficits change is mainly a…
Seminars in Economics of Innovation and Knowledge Giorgio Sirilli (CNR)
"R&D evaluation: An opportunity or a threat" (at Dipartimento di Economia "S. Cognetti de Martiis")
Seminars in Economics Manuel Mueller-Frank (IESE Business School and University of Navarra)
"Price Efficiency and Welfare"
Seminars in Economics Gyongyi Loranth (University of Vienna)
"Multinational Banks and Supranational Supervision" Abstract We study the supervision of multinational banks (MNBs), allowing both for national and supranational supervisions. National supervision leads to insuffi cient monitoring of MNBs due to a coordination problem between supervisors. Supranational supervision solves this problem and generates more monitoring. However, this increased monitoring can have unintended consequences, as it also aff ects…
Seminars in Economics Pietro Veronesi (Chicago Booth)
"Income Inequality and Asset Prices under Redistributive Taxation"
Seminars in Politics and Society Francesco Ramella (University of Torino)
"South European Countries’ Systems of Innovation in Hard Times" at Campus Einaudi (CLE), Dept of Cultures, politics and society, 3rd floor, room D233
Seminars in Economics Jeff Ely (Nothwestern University)
"Dynamic Multi-Agent Persuasion" abstract I study dynamic persuasion mechanisms with multiple agents. A principal privately observes the evolution of a stochastic process and sends messages over time to strategically interacting agents. Filtering information allows the principal to control beliefs and higher order beliefs, thereby influencing the behavior of agents. In a stylized example of a…
Seminars in Economics Rachel Griffith (IFS)
"Estimating Demand Parameters with Choice Set Misspecication" abstract We describe methods to estimate demand parameters in the presence of choice set misspeci-cation due to unobserved individual choice sets. We show that a consumer's probability ofmaking a choice from her true choice set can be written as the probability she makes the samechoice from a universal…
Monday Lunch Seminars Aleksey Tetenov (Collegio Carlo Alberto)
"Equality-Minded Treatment Choice" ABSTRACT Empirical studies in program evaluation often concern policies that aim to reduce economic inequality in the population. A utilitarian policy maximizing the sum of individual outcomes in the population may not be the best choice if it magnifies economic inequality and post-treatment redistribution of income among the subjects is infeasible. This…
Seminars in Economics of Innovation and Knowledge Gaetan de Rassenfosse (Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lousanne)
"R&D offshoring and home industry productivity" abstract We examine the conditions under which offshoring research and development (R&D) activities can benefit home country industry. The analysis uses comprehensive patent based indicator of R&D offshoring and considers industry-level data covering 2-digit manufacturing sectors across 18 OECD countries between 1981 and 2007. We tackle the issue of…