Events
Occasional Seminars Giuseppe Bertola (University of Torino)
"EEAG Report on the European Economy"
Seminars in Politics and Society Glyn Morgan (Maxwell Syracuse University)
"Is the European Union Imperialist?" abstract A common charge of Eurosceptics is that the project of European Integration constitutes a form of imperialism. In recent years, this charge appeared during the Eurozone Crisis, it was reiterated by “Leavers” both during and after the Brexit campaign, and it can be heard today in Hungary and Poland…
Seminars in Economics Huseyin Yildirim (Duke University)
"Social Pressure, Transparency, and Voting in Committees"
Seminars in Economics CANCELLED: Geert Rouwenhorst (Yale School of Management)
"A Tale of Two Premiums: The Role of Hedgers andSpeculators in Commodity Futures Markets"
Seminars in Economics of Innovation and Knowledge Pierre Mohnen (University of Maastricht, The Netherlands)
"Exploring complementarity between R&D, ICT and organizational change"
Seminars in Economics Francesco Drago (Università degli Studi di Messina)
"Voters' Response to Public Policies: Evidence from a Natural Experiment" abstract How do voters assess policy makers in the presence of incomplete information? We address this question by providing quasi-experimental evidence on voters' electoral response to the realized effects of public policies and by also unmasking the underlying mechanism linking public policies and electoral behavior…
Collegio Aperto COLLEGIO APERTO: “Oro”
Pietro Terna IntroductionPresidente Collegio Carlo Alberto Giorgio Barba Navaretti videoVice Presidente Collegio Carlo Alberto Maurizio Ferraris videoProfessore ordinario di Filosofia Teoretica,Università di Torino Licia Mattioli videoAmministratrice Delegata Mattioli Spa Pietro Terna videoPresidente Collegio Carlo Alberto discutono del nuovo libro di Salvatore Rossi videoDirettore Generale della Banca d'Italia Dibattito video Conclusioni video registrazione onlinehttps://collegioaperto7maggio.eventbrite.it Per informazioni:011.6705000 -…
Monday Lunch Seminars Marit Hinnosaar (Collegio Carlo Alberto)
"How long do healthy habits last? The role of prices" Abstract When a policy gives temporary incentives for healthy behaviors, how long does the impact last? I study the U.S. Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children, which gives vouchers for healthy foods. Using household-level scanner data, I find that the effect of…
Seminars in Statistics Kolyan Ray (King’s College London)
Estimating the mean response in a missing data model We study semiparametric Bayesian estimation of the mean response in a binary regression model with missing observations. We allow some dependence between the missingness and response mechanisms, which we assume are conditionally independent given some measured covariates (i.e. unconfoundedness). This model has applications in biostatistics and…
Carlo Alberto Law Seminars From the European Stability Mechanism to the European Monetary Fund?
Ralf Jansen (ESM), Iñigo Arruga Oleaga (ECB), Giovanna Adinolfi (University of Milan)
Occasional Seminars LTI: “Advanced Risk and Portfolio Management”
Dr. Attilio Meucci (founder of ARPM) at ESOMAS – Università di Torino
Monday Lunch Seminars Juan Carlos Carbajal (UNSW)
"Selling Mechanisms for a Financially Constrained Buyer"
Seminars in Statistics Theodore Kypraios (University of Nottingham)
Latent Branching Trees: Modelling and Bayesian Computation. In this talk a novel class of semi-parametric time series models will bepresented, for which we can specify in advance the marginal distributionof the observations and then build the dependence structure of theobservations around them by introducing an underlying stochastic processtermed as 'latent branching tree'. It will be…
Seminars in Economics Gautam Gowrisankaran (University of Arizona)
“Escalation of Scrutiny: The Gains from Dynamic Enforcement of Environmental Regulations” abstract In the United States, federal and state governments spent nearly $21 billion in 2014 on the enforcement of environmental regulations and laws, including the Clean Air Act and Amendments and the Clean Water Act. The Environmental Protection Agency uses a dynamic approach to…
Seminars in Politics and Society Rhonda Breitkreuz (University of Alberta)
"Closing the gap? Making sense of mothers’ employment in Canada" Abstract In international comparison, Canadian mothers have exceptional educational attainment and above average employment rates. However, Canadian mothers have lower employment rates and lower earnings than their male counterparts. In this lecture, I first provide an overview of the conceptualizations of mothers’ employment. I then…
Seminars in Economics Gur Huberman (Columbia University) and Monica Paiella (Università Parthenope)
10.30-11.30 Gur Huberman (Columbia University): "Monopoly Without a Monopolist: An Economic Analysis of the Bitcoin Payment System" 12.00-13.00 Monica Paiella (Università Parthenope): "P2P Lending: Information Externalities, Social Networks and Loans' Substitution"
Seminars in Economics Mariano Massimiliano Croce (UNC Kenan-Flagler Business School)
"The Leading Premium"
Monday Lunch Seminars Philip J. Cook (Duke University)
"The School-Entry-Age Rule Affects Redshirting Patterns and Resulting Disparities in Achievement" abstract Since, other things equal, older children do better in school, the extent and pattern of delayed entry affects observed patterns in academic performance. This paper provides three new sets of relevant findings, utilizing comprehensive data on birth cohorts of children who enrolled in…