Seminars
Seminars
Monday Lunch Seminars Juan Ortner (Boston University)
"Making Collusion Hard: Asymmetric Information as a Counter-Corruption Measure"
Seminars in Economics Ilse Lindenlaub (EUI)
"Sorting Multidimensional Types: Theory and Application" abstract This paper studies multidimensional matching between workers and jobs. Workers dier in manualand cognitive skills and sort into jobs that demand dierent combinations of these two skills.To study this multidimensional sorting, I develop a theoretical framework that generalizes theunidimensional notion of assortative matching. I derive the equilibrium in…
Seminars in Economics of Innovation and Knowledge Antonio Andreoni (University of Cambridge and University of Bologna)
"Manufacturing linkages in medical devices clusters: Comparing configurations and hidden competencies of techno-industrial systems" (at Dipartimento di Economia "S. Cognetti de Martiis")
Monday Lunch Seminars Andrea Vindigni
"Forbidden fruits: the political economy of science, religion, and growth"
Seminars in Politics and Society Karin Gottshall (Bremen)
"Still the best of all worlds? Varieties of public employment transformation in Germany, France and Sweden"
Occasional Seminars Allievi Program Defense Sessions May 2014
15.00 Federica Odifreddi "Who gains from on-the-job training? Impact on productivity and wages, from the theory to empirics" 16.00 Giorgio Martini "Paying for Predictions"
Seminars in Politics and Society Arlie Hochschild (UC Berkeley)
"Identity, Emotional Boundaries and Politics" (at Campus Luigi Einaudi, Lungo Dora Siena 100 – Torino, Sala Lauree Blu)
Monday Lunch Seminars Carlo Prato (Georgetown)
"Crises and the Puzzle of Reforms" (Note: the seminar is on Thursday)
Seminars in Economics of Innovation and Knowledge Paula Stephan (Andrew Young School of Policy Studies Georgia State University)
"Estimating the Effects of Federal Funding on Scientific Productivity: the Etoile Project" (at Dipartimento di Economia "S. Cognetti de Martiis")
Seminars in Economics Guido Menzio (Penn)
"Shopping Externalities and Self-Fulfilling Unemployment Fluctuations"
Monday Lunch Seminars Edward Timmons (Saint Francis University)
"More Battles Among Licensed Occupations: Estimating the Effects of Scope of Practice and Direct Access on the Chiropractic, Physical Therapist, and Physician Labor Market"
Seminars in Economics Eddie Dekel (Northwestern/Tel Aviv)
"Optimal Allocation with Costly Veri
Seminars in Politics and Society Heike Solga (WZB Berlin Social Science Center)
"The impact of competencies and certificates on labor market outcomes in advanced societies"
Monday Lunch Seminars Alessandro Barattieri (ESG UQAM)
"Average-Cost Pricing: Some Evidence and Implications" Abstract We present new survey evidence on pricing behavior for more than 14,000 European firms, and study its macroeconomic implications. Among firms that are price setters, roughly 75% respond that their prices are set as a markup on total costs, a business practice termed "full cost pricing''. Only 25%…
Occasional Seminars William Tompson (OECD)
"Urbanising China" Abstract China anticipates an increase in its urban population of around 300 million over the next decades, having seen its urban population more than double to around 712 million between 1990s and 2012. China’s management of this process, which is without precedent in terms of speed or scale, will have huge and lasting…
Seminars in Politics and Society Sven Steinmo (EUI)
"Bringing People Back In: Institutions, History and Culture?"
Seminars in Economics of Innovation and Knowledge Paul David (Institute for Economic Policy Research, Stanford University)
"Rivalry and the Rules of the Game in Collective Problem‐Solving Learning more about Open Innovation processes from research on the microeconomics of computer coding competitions" (at Dipartimento di Economia "S. Cognetti de Martiis")
Seminars in Economics Michel Serafinelli (Toronto)
"Good Firms, Worker Flows and Local Productivity"
Seminars in Economics of Innovation and Knowledge Marco Vivarelli (Università Cattolica di Milano; SPRU, University of Brighton; IZA, Bonn)
"R&D drivers and age: Are young firms different?"