Seminars
Seminars
Seminars in Politics and Society Marcy Carlson (University of Wisconsin)
"Fathers Unequal: U.S. Men as Partners and Parents in an Era of Rapid Family Change" Abstract While major changes in U.S. family demography—and their growing divergence by socioeconomic status—have received notable attention, less well understood is the extent to which the nature and implications of family change may differ between men and women, mothers and…
Seminars in Economics Anna Fruttero (World Bank)
"The 2015 World Development Report: Mind, Society and Behavior"
Job Market Seminars Pietro Biroli (University of Chicago)
"Genetic and Economic Interaction in the Formationof Human Capital: The Case of Obesity"
Job Market Seminars Mattia Girotti (Toulouse School of Economics)
"How Monetary Policy Changes Bank Liability Structure and Funding Cost"
Seminars in Statistics Jean-Bernard Salomond (CWI, Netherlands)
Bayesian nonparametric testing for embedded hypotheses with application to shape constrains If Bayesian nonparametric methods have received a great interest in the literature, only a few is known for testing nonparametric hypotheses, and especially the asymptotic properties of such tests. The problem of testing between two nonparametric hypotheses is known to be difficult, but the…
Job Market Seminars Kirill Shakhnov (EUI)
"The allocation of talent: finance versus entrepreneurship"
Job Market Seminars Paul Muller (VU University Amsterdam)
"Comparing methods to evaluate the effects of job search assistance"
Monday Lunch Seminars Giuseppe Lopomo (Duke University, Fuqua School of Business)
"Budget-Constrained Procurement'' Abstract We characterize optimal procurement mechanisms for a financially constrained buyer facing suppliers with privately known costs. Optimal mechanisms can be implemented by simple sequential auctions.
Monday Lunch Seminars Andrea Buffa (School of Management Boston University)
"Asset Management Contracts and Equilibrium Prices" (Note: the seminar is on Thursday)
Seminars in Economics of Innovation and Knowledge Lorenzo Zirulia (Università di Bologna)
"How Far from the Tree does the (Good) Apple Fall? Spin-Out Generation and the Survival of High-Tech Firms" (at Dipartimento di Economia "S. Cognetti de Martiis")
Seminars in Economics Theodore Papageorgiou (Mc Gill University)
"Worker Sorting and Agglomeration Economies"
Seminars in Economics Myrto Kalouptsidi (Princeton University)
"Detection and Impact of Industrial Subsidies: TheCase of World Shipbuilding"
Monday Lunch Seminars Roberto Marfè (Collegio Carlo Alberto)
"Income Insurance and the Equilibrium Term-Structure of Equity"
Seminars in Statistics Luis Enrique Nieto-Barajas (ITAM, México)
Spatial gamma processes in disease mapping In this talk we will present Bayesian models based on Markov random fields of gamma type to model the relative risk in disease mapping data. The spatial gamma processes allow for different spatial dependence among neighbours. We describe the properties of ths processes and use them as prior distributions…
Seminars in Statistics Jaeyong Lee (Seoul National University)
Dependent species sampling models We consider a novel Bayesian nonparametric model for density estimation with an underlying spatial structure. The model is built on a class of species sampling models, which are discrete random probability measures that can be represented as a mixture of random support points and random weights. Specifically, we construct a collection…
Seminars in Economics of Innovation and Knowledge Olof Ejermo, CIRCLE, Lund University
"Matching or spillovers? Productivity effects from labor mobility over the careers of inventors"
Seminars in Statistics Taeryon Choi (Korea University)
Generalized partially additive Bayesian spectral analysis regression models In this talk, we present a Bayesian method for generalized partially additive regression using a spectral analysis of Gaussian process priors for the regression function. The smoothing prior distribution for the spectral coefficients incorporates hyper parameters that control the smoothness of the function and the tradeoff between…
Seminars in Statistics James Scott (University of Texas at Austin)
False discovery rate smoothing Many approaches for multiple testing begin with the assumption that all tests in a given study should be combined into a global false-discovery-rate analysis. But this may be inappropriate for many of today's large-scale screening problems, where test statistics have a natural spatial lattice structure (voxels in the brain, distance along…
Seminars in Politics and Society Sebastien Lechevalier (CRJ-EHESS, Paris)
"Revisiting cross-national variations in preference for redistribution. Attitudes to inequalities, social beliefs, and welfare systems" abstract There are significant differences across countries in terms of redistribution by the government and they may correspond to underlying dissimilarities in preference for redistribution across the population of these countries. In particular, previous literature has compared the US and…
Seminars in Economics of Innovation and Knowledge Sandro Montresor (Università di Bologna)
"CO2-reducing innovations and outsourcing: evidence from two green industries in North-East Italy" (at Dipartimento di Economia "S. Cognetti de Martiis")