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Seminars in Economics Sergei Severinov (University of British Columbia)

"Bilateral Communication and Matching/Partnership Formation" Abstract We consider match formation between two parties, such as marriage, merger or partnership formation. Each party has private information about the value of the match, which creates friction in the matching process. We focus on the role of bilateral communication in this setting and investigate how such communication should…

Monday Lunch Seminars Alessandro Barattieri (Collegio Carlo Alberto)

"Protectionism and the Business Cycle" Abstract We study the consequences of protectionism for macroeconomic fluctuations. First, using high frequency trade-policy data, we present fresh evidence on the dynamic effects of temporary trade barriers. Estimates from country-level and panel VARs show that protectionism acts as a supply shock, causing output to fall and inflation to rise in the short…

Occasional Seminars Allievi Defense Session

SENIOR ALLIEVI 11.00 Alex SAJA Title: "Development of a mathematical optimization model for the automatic generation of manufacturing layouts" JUNIOR ALLIEVI 10.00 Cecilia ChiesaTitle: Beyond GDP: Social Progress Index 10.30 Marcello LancianiTitle: Majority Game Nash Equilibium on a Network with Communities 11.00 Michele ValinotiTitle: Cooperation in Evolutionary Game Theory  11.30 ZoppiTitle: The Insurance Ruin Problem

Seminars in Politics and Society Stefania Marino (University of Manchester)

"Trade unions action in segmented labour markets: migrant care work in the UK and the NL" abstract The recent ‘Brexit’ decision by the UK has provided a strong illustration of a widespread negative perception of immigration and migrant labour as detrimental to welfare resources and decent employment conditions. However, this debate has often ignored political…

Monday Lunch Seminars Nicolas Roys (Royal Holloway)

"Skills Prices, Occupations and Changes in the Wage Structure for Low Skilled Men" abstract This paper proposes and estimates a model of occupational choice with multi- dimensional skills, time-varying skill prices and labor market frictions to understand the evolution of the wage structure since 1979 for low skilled men. A worker’s multi- dimensional skills are…

Monday Lunch Seminars Toomas Hinnosaar (Collegio Carlo Alberto)

"Dynamic common-value contests" Abstract In this paper, I study dynamic common-value contests. Agents arrive over time and choose costly efforts to compete for prizes. The efforts are publicly disclosed at some points of time. This model has a wide range of applications, including rent-seeking, R&D competitions, oligopoly, and tragedy of commons. I provide a full…