Seminars
Seminars
Seminars in Economics David McAdams (Duke University)
"The Economic Theory of Antibiotics"
Seminars in Economics Andrea Weber (University of Mannheim)
"Does Extending Unemployment Benefits Improve Job Quality?" abstract Contrary to standard search model predictions, prior studies failed to estimate a positive effectof unemployment insurance (UI) on reemployment wages. This paper estimates a positive UIwage effect exploiting an age-based regression discontinuity in Austrian administrative data. Asearch model incorporating duration dependence determines the UI wage effect as…
Monday Lunch Seminars Morris Kleiner (University of Minnesota)
"Analyzing the Influence of Occupational Licensing Duration on Labor Market Outcomes" ABSTRACT We analyze the labor market influence of the duration of occupational licensing statutes for eleven major universally licensed occupations in the U.S. Time from the start of state occupational licensing (i.e. licensing duration) may matter in influencing labor market outcomes. States usually enact…
Seminars in Politics and Society Moreno Mancosu (Collegio Carlo Alberto)
"The strength of weak political ties: Discussion networks and the diffusion of Movimento 5 Stelle in 2013 Italian Elections" Abstract The article aims to analyze the development of vote intentions for a new populist party, Movimento 5 Stelle (the 5 Star Movement), during the campaign for the 2013 Italian general election. The party, headed by…
Occasional Seminars Paolo Vineis (Imperial College London and Hugef)
"Life-course biological pathways underlying social differences in healthy ageing"
Monday Lunch Seminars Toomas Hinnosaar (Collegio Carlo Alberto)
"On the impossibility of protecting risk-takers" Abstract Risk-neutral sellers can extract high profits from risk-loving buyers by selling them lotteries. To limit risk-taking, gambling is heavily regulated in most countries. I show that protecting risk-loving buyers is essentially impossible. Even if buyers are risk-loving only asymptotically, the seller can construct a nonrandom winner-pays auction that ensures unbounded profits. Buyers are asymptotically…
Seminars in Statistics David Rossell (University of Warwick)
Consistency of posterior model probabilities in high-dimensional model selection In recent years there has been an increasing interest in developing Bayesian formulations that remain effective in high-dimensional and non-standard problems. We focus on high-dimensional model selection problems where the number of parameters may grow with the sample size, and review results characterizing the situations under…
Occasional Seminars Allievi Program Defense Sessions
9.00 am: Alice CorteseTitle: "Macroeconmic variables and stock market index. Evidence from Italy."-----9.40 am: Gian Luca SalvaraniTitle: "Is there a convergence among states and regions"-----10.20 am: Simona GiglioliTitle: "Student loans: theoretical analysis and empirical evidence".------11.00 am: Sarah RaviolaTitle: "The Rediscovery of Land"-------11.40 am: Giulia OddoneTitle: "The Solow growth model: evidence from BRIC"-----12.20 pm: Marco SchiavoneTitle:…
Seminars in Politics and Society Monica Ferrin (Collegio Carlo Alberto and University of Zurich)
"Strengthening limits to mobility? The Economic crisis and EU citizens' mobility" Abstract This paper is an attempt to study intra-EU mobility in a context of economic crisis, taking into consideration two opposite forces, i.e.: one which strongly favours it from the European level (and the economic crisis); and another one which tends to be…
Seminars in Economics of Innovation and Knowledge Gabriele Pellegrino (World Intellectual Property Organization)
Does persistence of innovation spur persistence of growth? (at Dipartimento di Economia "S. Cognetti de Martiis")
Seminars in Economics Christian Julliard (LSE)
"Information Asymmetries, Volatility, Liquidity, and the Tobin Tax”
Monday Lunch Seminars Pietro Garibaldi (Collegio Carlo Alberto)
"Dismissal Disputes And Endogenous Sorting"
Seminars in Politics and Society Karen A. Shire (University Duisburg-Essen)
"Family Policy Shifts and the Creation of a Market for Domestic and Care Work in Germany" abstract The introduction of tax credits for purchases of personal, household, and most recently elderly care services is aimed both at supporting dual-earner households and creating jobs in household services. In this talk, recent shifts in German family policy…
Seminars in Economics Jordi Gali (CREI and UPF)
"Insider-Outsider Labor Markets, Hysteresis and Monetary Policy" Abstract I develop a version of the New Keynesian model with insideroutsider labor markets and hysteresis that can account for the high persistence of of European unemployment. I study the implications of that environment for the design of monetary policy. A simple interest rule that includes the unemployment…
Seminars in Economics Francesco Squintani (University of Warwick)
"Information Revelation and Pandering in Elections" Abstract Does electoral competition induce office motivated candidates to commit to policies that reflect their information? Or do candidates hide their information, and pander to the electorate's beliefs? We find that efficient information aggregation is precluded, but candidates' platforms may be informative: Equilibrium policy can at best be based…
Monday Lunch Seminars Sarah Grace See (Collegio Carlo Alberto)
"Parental Inputs, Formal Care, and Child Outcomes" Abstract Child outcomes are believed to be a result of cumulative inputs from both within and outside the family. Taking the theory of skill formation (Carneiro and Heckman, 2003) and the model of child outcome production function (Todd and Wolpin, 2003), earlier endowments especially those of high quality…
Seminars in Statistics Frédéric Lavancier (Université de Nantes)
Determinantal point process models and statistical inference In this talk, I will demonstrate that Determinantal point processes (DPPs) provide useful models for the description of repulsive spatial point processes. Such data are usually modeled by Gibbs point processes, where the likelihood and moment expressions are intractable and simulations are time consuming. I will recall the…
Seminars in Economics of Innovation and Knowledge Rosina Moreno Serrano (Universitat de Barcelona)
"Relatedness and external linkages for Europe’s regional innovation" (at Dipartimento di Economia "S. Cognetti de Martiis")
Monday Lunch Seminars Irina Stefanescu (FED Board)
"Cost Saving and the Freezing of Corporate Pension Plans" Abstract The decision to freeze corporate defined benefit (DB) plans is related to variation in prospective cost saving, and freezing DB plans reduces total corporate compensation costs. Firms that freeze have at least 50% higher 10-year expected DB accruals than matched non-freeze firms. Comparing counterfactual DB…
Monday Lunch Seminars Mascia Bedendo (Audencia School of Management)
"Reputational Shocks and the Information Content of Credit Ratings" (Note: the seminar is on Thursday) ABSTRACT In the last two decades Credit Rating Agencies (CRAs) have faced extensive criticism for their rating practices and business models. We examine to what extent a number of significant reputational shocks suffered by CRAs (i.e. the Enron/WorldCom scandals, the subprime…