Events
Seminars in Economics Paola Conconi (ECARES and CEPR)
"All Together Now: Integration, Delegation and Management" abstract Abstract Little is known theoretically, and even less empirically, about the relationship between firm boundary choices and the allocation of decision rights within firms. We develop a model in which firms choose which suppliers to integrate, whether to delegate decisions to integrated suppliers or keep them centralized,…
Occasional Seminars Allievi Defense Session
SENIOR ALLIEVI 9.00 Francesco CosentinoTitle: "Stochastic Optimal Control with Financial Applications" JUNIOR ALLIEVI 9.45 Alberto CappelloTitle: "Competition and Innovation: when theory and evidence tell different stories" 10.15 Enrico BelliardoTitle: "Hand-to-Mouth Consumers and Fiscal Stimulus Payments" 10.45 Jonas DalmazzoTitle: "Foreign public debt: theory and evidences" 11.15 Gemma GasseauTitle: "At a minimum, income for all: Minimum Income…
Seminars in Politics and Society Tiziana Nazio (CCA)
"Institutional clocks and family structures on the organization of care for children in Italy" Abstract Using time-use data for Italy (2008-09), on a sample of around 3.800 households with children below 14, this paper assesses the differences in the amount of time parents devote to childcare in differently shaped family structures (marital or cohabiting union,…
Seminars in Economics of Innovation and Knowledge Roberto Antonietti (University of Padua)
"Social capital and regional diversification in Italy" (at Dipartimento di Economia "S. Cognetti de Martiis")
Seminars in Economics Pietro Veronesi (University of Chicago)
"Habits and Leverage" Abstract Many stylized facts of leverage, trading, and asset prices can be explained by a frictionless general equilibrium model in which agents have heterogeneous endowments and external habit preferences. Our model predicts that aggregate leverage increases in good times when stock prices are high and volatility is low, it should predict low…
Seminars in Economics Pietro Tebaldi (University of Chicago)
"Estimating Equilibrium in Health Insurance Exchanges: Price Competition and Subsidy Design under the ACA" Abstract To design premium subsidies in a health insurance market it is necessary to estimate consumer demand and study how different subsidy schemes affect insurers’ incentives. Combining data from the Californian ACA marketplace with a model of insurance demand and insurers’…
Seminars in Economics Shmuel Baruch (David Eccles School of Business)
"Strategic Foundation for the Tail Expectation in Limit Order Book Markets"
Seminars in Politics and Society Birgit Pfau-Effinger (University of Hamburg)
"The Contribution of Cultural Change to Welfare State Change - Tracing Cultural Processes" at Campus Einaudi (CLE) Abstract The presentation aims to discuss the question: How can cultural change contribute to institutional change in welfare state institutions? The role of ideas for institutional change is increasingly discussed. The focus is usually on the ideas that are…
Carlo Alberto Law Seminars Harm Schepel (University of Kent)
"EU Investment Agreements and the End of the Internal Market" at CLE (Campus Luigi Einaudi)
Seminars in Economics Jan Stuhler (Universidad Carlos III Madrid)
"Shift-share instruments and the Impact of Immigration" jointly organised by Collegio Carlo Alberto and Centro Studi Luca d'Agliano within the Migration Observatory Abstract A large number of papers in the immigration literature rely on geographic variation in the concentration of immigrants to identify the impact of immigration. National flows of immigrants are often interacted with…
Monday Lunch Seminars Emilio Paolucci, Paolo Neirotti, Danilo Pesce (Politecnico di Torino)
"ICT-Based Innovation and the Changing Nature of Competition: Evidence from Information Intensive Industries in Italy" Abstract Despite the increasing interest in Information and Communication Technology’s (ICT) potential to transform industry structure and competition, there is still not comprehensive evidence on how ICT-related innovations affect competitive dynamics due to the low number of industry-level studies. Strategic…
Carlo Alberto Law Seminars Panos Papapaschalis (ESMA/ECB)
"EU Administrative Law Seminar: Instruments of Supervisory Convergence in view of CJEU jurisprudence" at CLE (Campus Luigi Einaudi)
CarloAlberto Outreach (past events) Commemorating the Centennial of Herbert Simon’s birth
International Conference: Herbert Simon: the genius of simplicity and boundedness. International Workshop: Behavioral economics nudges and heuristics for public policies. at Campus Luigi Einaudi Program: http://herbertsimonsociety.org/
Occasional Seminars Allievi Defense Session
9.00 Ivan Lagrosa Title: Jobless recovery. How economic upturns can be unhappy
Seminars in Economics of Innovation and Knowledge Johan Bollen (Indiana University)
"Using big data to study well-being and mental health"
Seminars in Economics Piero Gottardi (EUI)
"A Theory of Repurchase Agreements, Collateral Re-use, and Repo Intermediation" Abstract This paper characterizes repurchase agreements (repos) as equilibrium contracts starting from first principles. We show that a repo allows the borrower to augment its consumption today while hedging both agents against future market price risk. As a result, safer assets will command a lower…
Monday Lunch Seminars Toomas Hinnosaar (CCA)
"Rent-seeking contest design" Abstract This paper studies the relationship between information, incentives, and outcomes in rent-seeking contests. A common solution to limiting socially wasteful rent-seeking activities is transparency. I show that information strictly increases efforts in rent-seeking contests. Thus, the socially optimal rent-seeking contest provides as little information as possible about the competition. The model…
Seminars in Politics and Society Davide Barrera (Collegio Carlo Alberto)
"Social Support and Network Composition of the Elderly in Europe"