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Monday Lunch Seminars Luca Flabbi (Georgetown University)

"Simultaneous Search in the Labor and Marriage Markets with Endogenous Schooling Decisions" (Note: the seminar is on Thursday) Abstract Labor market decisions are not taken in isolation when individuals areengaged in stable relationships. There now exist a number of estimatedmodels of household search able to address and estimate the impact of thesedecision processes. However, in these…

Collegio Aperto Collegio aperto: “La diversità territoriale come tratto nazionale. La strategia di sviluppo delle aree interne”

Fabrizio Barca, Ministero dell'Economia e delle Finanze Introduction by Filippo Barbera (Università di Torino, Collegio Carlo Alberto) Video Filippo Barbera Video Fabrizio Barca abstract L'Italia è un paese caratterizzato da un modello territoriale policentrico, dove una fitta rete di relazioni tra aree urbane, rurali e centri minori definisce uno spazio interdipendente in cui i centri maggiori,…

Seminars in Economics Matt Wiswall (Arizona State University)

"Estimation of Children's Skill Formation when Children's. Skills are Unobserved" abstract We develop a new estimator for the process of skill formation where individuals' skills are unobserved (latent) and measured in data with error. Our model of skill formation has a dynamic factor structure where the latent skills of individuals evolve endogenously over the life-cycle…

Seminars in Statistics Luca Tardella (University of Rome “La Sapienza”)

Flexible behavioral capture-recapture modelling We develop some new strategies for building and fitting new flexible classes of para- metric capture-recapture models for closed populations which can be used to address a better understanding of behavioural patterns. We first rely on previous approaches based on a conditional probability parameterization and review how to regard a large…

Seminars in Politics and Society Robert Hancke (LSE)

"The missing link: Labour unions, central banks and monetary integration in Europe" Abstract This paper examines the problems of the single currency in light of the organization of labour relations in the member-states and their interaction with monetary policies. Continental (western) Europe consists of two very different systems of employment and labour relations, roughly coinciding…

Goran Peskir (University of Manchester)

"Optimal Mean-Variance Portfolio Selection" abstract I will present a dynamic formulation of the mean-variance portfolio selection problem and discuss possible ways of solving it.

Jacopo Carmassi (University LUISS Guido Carli, Research Fellow at CASMEF, Arcelli Center for Monetary and Financial Studies; Fellow of the Wharton Financial Institutions Center)

"Corporate Structures, Transparency and Resolvability of G-SIBs" abstract Before the global 2008 financial crisis, most officials appeared not to have anticipated the problems that would need to be addressed if a large cross-border bank should need to be resolved. During and after the financial crisis, this issue surged to the top of the policy agenda. Events made clear…