Seminars
Seminars
Seminars in Economics of Innovation and Knowledge Gustavo Crespi, Inter-American Development Bank (IDB)
"Do Financial Constraints explain Innovation Shortfalls? New Evidence from Chile" (at Dipartimento di Economia S. Cognetti de Martiis, Sala Seminari)
Seminars in Economics of Innovation and Knowledge Marco Corsino, Università di Bologna
"External collaborations, on-the-job autonomy and the propensity to use patents to create new firms" abstract We analyze patent spinoffs by looking at the organizational characteristics of the parent organization, i.e. the firm where the patented invention has occurred. Understanding the origin of new technology ventures is important because they are the engine of creative destruction…
Seminars in Statistics Fabrizia Mealli (University of Florence)
Using secondary outcomes and covariates to sharpen inference in randomized experiments with noncompliance Restrictions implied by the randomization of treatment assignment on the joint distribution of a primary outcome and an auxiliary variable are used to tighten nonparametric bounds for intention-to-treat effects on the primary outcome for some latent subpopulations, without requiring the exclusion restriction…
Monday Lunch Seminars Luca Regis
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Seminars in Economics of Innovation and Knowledge Francesco Quatraro, University of Nice-Sophia Antipolis
"Persistence of innovation and knowledge structure: Evidence from a sample of Italian firms" (at Dipartimento di Economia S. Cognetti de Martiis, Sala Seminari)
Seminars in Economics Steve Machin (University College London)
"Rising Wage Inequality and Postgraduate Education"
Monday Lunch Seminars Allan Drazen (University of Maryland, Collegio Carlo Alberto, NBER, CEPR)
"How Do Elected and Appointed Policymakers Act When in Office?Citizens, Candidates, and Leaders"
Seminars in Economics Giovanni Dell’Ariccia (International Monetary Fund)
"Monetary Policy, Leverage, and Bank Risk-Taking"
Seminars in Economics Joan Llull (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona)
"Immigration, Wages, and Education:A Labor Market Equilibrium Structural Model"
Monday Lunch Seminars Esteban Jaimovich (Collegio Carlo Alberto)
"When Warm Glow Burns: Motivational (mis)allocation in the non-profit sector"
Seminars in Economics of Innovation and Knowledge Josh Whitford (Columbia University, New York)
"Pragmatism, practice, and the boundaries of organization" Abstract The article uses a longitudinal qualitative analysis of key transitions in the relationship between Fiat Auto and a major supplier to challenge conventional approaches to the study of activities at the boundary between organizations. It shows, in particular, that scholars focused on the importance of "modular" product…
Seminars in Economics Sebastian Galiani (Washington University in St. Louis)
"Estimating Neighborhood Choice Models: Lessons From The Moving to Opportunity Experiment"
Monday Lunch Seminars Elisa Luciano (Collegio Carlo Alberto & Università di Torino)
"Equilibrium price of immediacy and infrequent trade" abstract The paper studies the equilibrium value of bid-ask spreads and time-to-trade in a continuous-time, intermediated financial market. The endogenous spreads are the price at which brokers are willing to offer immediacy. In case intermediaries pay trading costs, it includes them too. We determine equilibrium trading policies, returns…
Seminars in Statistics Natalia Bochkina (University of Edinburgh)
The Bernstein - von Mises theorem: relaxing its assumptions and extending it to nonregular models The Bernstein - von Mises theorem is an important result in Bayesian asymptotics, giving conditions under which the posterior distribution of a finite-dimensional parameter can be approximated by the Gaussian distribution. On one hand, this result quantifies consistency and efficiency…
Monday Lunch Seminars David Rivers (University of Western Ontario)
"On the Identification of Production Functions: HowHeterogeneous is Productivity?" (Note: the seminar is on Thursday) abstract The estimation of production functions suffers from an unresolved identification problem caused by flexible inputs, such as intermediate inputs. We develop an identification strategy for production functions based on a transformation of the firm’s short-run first order condition that solves…
Seminars in Economics Antonella Trigari (Università Bocconi)
"Financial Markets and Unemployment" abstract We study the importance of financial markets for (un)employment fluctuations in a model with matching frictions where firms issue debt under limited enforcement. Higher debt allows employers to bargain lower wages which in turn increases the incentive to create jobs. The transmission mechanism of `credit shocks' is different from the typical…
Seminars in Statistics Alessandra Giovagnoli (University of Bologna)
Design of experiments: from physical to simulated Since Fisher’s times, the principles for planning scientific experiments correctly have been at the heart of the statistical debate. This is particularly important in a clinical context, for ethical as well as inferential reasons. After a brief excursus through the history of experimental design, this presentation will deal…
Seminars in Economics of Innovation and Knowledge Adam Jaffe, Brandeis University; NBER
"Technology policy and climate change"
Monday Lunch Seminars Giovanni Mastrobuoni (Collegio Carlo Alberto)
"Crime is Terribly Revealing: An Evaluation of Predictive Policing" abstract An increasing number of police departments around the world are trying to use predictive policing as a way to improve clearance rates at times of shrinking budgets. The police department of Milan has been working on a software that predicts future crime since 2008. This…