Seminars
Seminars
Seminars in Economics of Innovation and Knowledge Rob Axtell (George Mason University and the Santa Fe Institute)
"Endogenous Firm Dynamics with 120 Million Agents" Sala Rossa abstract A model in which purposive agents self-organize into teams is demonstrated to closely reproduce empirical data on the population U.S. firms. There are increasing returns within teams and agents move between teams or start new teams when it is in their self-interest to do so.…
Seminars in Economics Olivier Tercieux (PSE)
"Efficiency and Stability in Large Matching Markets" Abstract We study efficient and stable mechanisms in many-to-one matching markets when the number of agents is large. We first consider an environment where individuals' preferences are drawn randomly from a class of distributions allowing for both common value and idiosyncratic components. In this context, as the market…
Seminars in Politics and Society Martin Whyte (Harvard University)
"Can China Close its Huge Rural-Urban Gap?" abstract China today may have the sharpest social cleavage between its rural and urban citizens of any country on earth, with urban households on average having close to 4 times the income of rural households. Paradoxically, this sharp social cleavage is mainly a legacy of the socialist system…
Seminars in Economics Manuel Bagues (Carlos III)
"The Role of Connections in Academic Promotions"
Monday Lunch Seminars Ylenia Brilli
"Mother or market care? A structural estimation of child care impacts on child development"
Seminars in Economics Paola Giuliano (UCLA Anderson)
"Growing Up in a Recession"
Seminars in Politics and Society Sergio Fabbrini (LUISS Rome)
"Intergovernmentalism and its limits: The implications of the Euro crisis on the European Union"
Seminars in Economics Jonathan Eaton (Penn State)
"International trade: linking micro and macro"
Seminars in Politics and Society Desmond King (Nuffield College, University of Oxford)
"Concealed Advantage: The US Federal Reserve's Financial Intervention after 2007" abstract The Federal Reserve is an outlier in two respects: it enjoys unprecedented autonomy and it controls enormous authority and resources across a broad range of financial issues. That the Fed makes unilateral decisions that commit and impact trillions of public and private funds is…
Monday Lunch Seminars Pierluigi Conzo
"Calamity, Aid and Indirect Reciprocity: the Long Run Impact of Tsunami"
Job Market Seminars Farzad Saidi (New York University)
"The Rise of the Universal Bank: Financial Architecture and FirmVolatility in the United States"
Seminars in Statistics Omar El-Dakkak (Université Paris Ouest)
Exchangeable Hoeffding decompositions: characterizations and counterexamples Since the pioneering work of Hoeffding in 1948, the so-called Hoeffding-ANOVA decompositions proved to be a very effective tool in obtaining limit theorems and have been widely used in various applications. In this talk, we present the main elements of the theory of Hoeffding decompositions for (infinitely extendible) exchangeable…
Seminars in Statistics Giovanni Peccati (University of Luxembourg)
Universality and chaos I will describe some recent advances involving universality results for homogeneous sums, both in a classic and free setting. Many connection with influence functions, as well as applications to random matrices will be highlighted.
Seminars in Economics of Innovation and Knowledge CANCELLED: Morris Teubal (Department of Economics, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
"Strategic Innovation Policy Priorities and Policy Targeting: Some Additional Remarks" (at Dipartimento di Economia S. Cognetti de Martiis)
Seminars in Politics and Society Adrienne Heritier (European University Institute)
"Managing Regulation - A Firm's Perspective" Abstract When dealing with problems of market access, firms are frequently faced with a perplexing number of sectoral and cross-sectoral regulators at the national, European and international level. They have to interact with these regulators in order to obtain decisions necessary for their operations. Given multiple regulators at the…
Job Market Seminars Roberto Marfè (Swiss Finance Institute and University of Lausanne)
"Realized Expectations and the Equilibrium Risk-Return Trade Off"
Job Market Seminars Marco Di Maggio (MIT)
"Market Turmoil and Destabilizing Speculation"
Seminars in Statistics Dan Roy (University of Cambridge)
The combinatorial structure underlying the beta process is that of a continuum of Blackwell-MacQueen urn schemes We uncover a novel urn scheme underlying conditionally independent sequences of Bernoulli processes that share a common beta process hazard measure. As shown by Thibaux and Jordan (2007), in the special case when the underlying beta process has a…
Monday Lunch Seminars Maria Laura Di Tommaso
"Measuring Welfare: Random Scale Models for capabilities. An application to freedom of movement of Italian women." (Note: the seminar is on Thursday) abstract Sen’s capability approach distinguishes between what people are free to do and to be (their ‘capabilities’) and what they do and who they are (their ‘functionings’). In the capability approach, individuals’ well-being…