Events
Monday Lunch Seminars Arthur Van Soest (Tilburg University)
"House Price Expectations" (Note: the seminar is on Thursday) Abstract Utilizing new survey data collected between 2009 and 2014, this paper analyzes American home owners' subjective expectations on future values of…
[Academic Events] Policy panel “Cittadini istruiti in economia e finanza, democrazia più efficente”
Policy panel “Cittadini istruiti in economia e finanza, democrazia più efficente”
Monday Lunch Seminars Amedeo Piolatto (University of Barcelona)
"Online booking and information: competition and welfare consequences of review aggregators" Abstract Online review aggregators (e.g., Yelp or ClubKviar) provide detailed information about experience goods, such as restaurants and hotels. This study fosters our…
Monday Lunch Seminars Sander Heinsalu (University of Queensland)
"Spence meets Holmstrom: Luck and repetition in signalling" Abstract This paper studies repeated costly signalling when luck matters for the outcome. Benefit is obtained from the belief of the market,…
Monday Lunch Seminars Mascia Bedendo (Audencia School of Management)
"Reputational Shocks and the Information Content of Credit Ratings" (Note: the seminar is on Thursday) ABSTRACT In the last two decades Credit Rating Agencies (CRAs) have faced extensive criticism for their…
Monday Lunch Seminars Irina Stefanescu (FED Board)
"Cost Saving and the Freezing of Corporate Pension Plans" Abstract The decision to freeze corporate defined benefit (DB) plans is related to variation in prospective cost saving, and freezing DB…
Seminars in Economics of Innovation and Knowledge Rosina Moreno Serrano (Universitat de Barcelona)
"Relatedness and external linkages for Europe’s regional innovation" (at Dipartimento di Economia "S. Cognetti de Martiis")
Seminars in Statistics Frédéric Lavancier (Université de Nantes)
Determinantal point process models and statistical inference In this talk, I will demonstrate that Determinantal point processes (DPPs) provide useful models for the description of repulsive spatial point processes. Such…
Monday Lunch Seminars Sarah Grace See (Collegio Carlo Alberto)
"Parental Inputs, Formal Care, and Child Outcomes" Abstract Child outcomes are believed to be a result of cumulative inputs from both within and outside the family. Taking the theory of…
Collegio Aperto Collegio Aperto: “Perché facemmo nascere l’Euro?”
Alfonso Iozzo Introduction byPietro Terna Alfonso Iozzo is Vice President of the Robert Triffin International Foundation, Université Catholique de Louvain Pietro Terna is President of the Collegio Carlo Alberto, Università di Torino…
Seminars in Economics Francesco Squintani (University of Warwick)
"Information Revelation and Pandering in Elections" Abstract Does electoral competition induce office motivated candidates to commit to policies that reflect their information? Or do candidates hide their information, and pander…
Seminars in Economics Jordi Gali (CREI and UPF)
"Insider-Outsider Labor Markets, Hysteresis and Monetary Policy" Abstract I develop a version of the New Keynesian model with insideroutsider labor markets and hysteresis that can account for the high persistence…
Seminars in Politics and Society Karen A. Shire (University Duisburg-Essen)
"Family Policy Shifts and the Creation of a Market for Domestic and Care Work in Germany" abstract The introduction of tax credits for purchases of personal, household, and most recently…
Monday Lunch Seminars Pietro Garibaldi (Collegio Carlo Alberto)
"Dismissal Disputes And Endogenous Sorting"
Distinguished Scientific Lectures MAPS – Master in Public Policy and Social Change Commencement Ceremony
Master in Public Policy and Social Change
Seminars in Economics Christian Julliard (LSE)
"Information Asymmetries, Volatility, Liquidity, and the Tobin Tax”
Seminars in Economics of Innovation and Knowledge Gabriele Pellegrino (World Intellectual Property Organization)
Does persistence of innovation spur persistence of growth? (at Dipartimento di Economia "S. Cognetti de Martiis")
Seminars in Politics and Society Monica Ferrin (Collegio Carlo Alberto and University of Zurich)
"Strengthening limits to mobility? The Economic crisis and EU citizens' mobility" Abstract This paper is an attempt to study intra-EU mobility in a context of economic crisis, taking into…
Occasional Seminars Allievi Program Defense Sessions
9.00 am: Alice CorteseTitle: "Macroeconmic variables and stock market index. Evidence from Italy."-----9.40 am: Gian Luca SalvaraniTitle: "Is there a convergence among states and regions"-----10.20 am: Simona GiglioliTitle: "Student loans:…
Seminars in Statistics David Rossell (University of Warwick)
Consistency of posterior model probabilities in high-dimensional model selection In recent years there has been an increasing interest in developing Bayesian formulations that remain effective in high-dimensional and non-standard problems.…