Events
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.…
Monday Lunch Seminars Toomas Hinnosaar (Collegio Carlo Alberto)
"On the impossibility of protecting risk-takers" Abstract Risk-neutral sellers can extract high profits from risk-loving buyers by selling them lotteries. To limit risk-taking, gambling is heavily regulated in most countries. I show…
Occasional Seminars Paolo Vineis (Imperial College London and Hugef)
"Life-course biological pathways underlying social differences in healthy ageing"
Seminars in Politics and Society Moreno Mancosu (Collegio Carlo Alberto)
"The strength of weak political ties: Discussion networks and the diffusion of Movimento 5 Stelle in 2013 Italian Elections" Abstract The article aims to analyze the development of vote intentions…
Monday Lunch Seminars Morris Kleiner (University of Minnesota)
"Analyzing the Influence of Occupational Licensing Duration on Labor Market Outcomes" ABSTRACT We analyze the labor market influence of the duration of occupational licensing statutes for eleven major universally licensed…
Seminars in Economics Andrea Weber (University of Mannheim)
"Does Extending Unemployment Benefits Improve Job Quality?" abstract Contrary to standard search model predictions, prior studies failed to estimate a positive effectof unemployment insurance (UI) on reemployment wages. This paper…