Events
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…
Seminars in Statistics Brunero Liseo (Università di Roma La Sapienza)
Modelling Preference Data with the Wallenius Distribution The Wallenius distribution is a generalisation of the Hypergeometric distribution where weights are assigned to balls of different colours. This naturally defines a model for ranking categories which can be used for classification purposes. Since, in general, the resulting likelihood is not analytically available, we adopt an approximate…
Occasional Seminars Stefano Fenoaltea (CESMEP, Università Torino)
"The Growth of the Italian Economy 1861-1913" at Fondazione Luigi Einaudi
Seminars in Politics and Society Mara Yerkes (Utrecht University)
"Creating capabilities: Childcare policies in comparative perspective" Abstract This paper analyses childcare services in six countries, assessing this policy instrument’s potential to facilitate parents’ real opportunities to arrange childcare. It draws on Sen’s capability approach to investigate cross-national varieties of defamilialism and gender assumptions in a regime perspective. We seek to conceptualise and assess five…
Seminars in Economics of Innovation and Knowledge Vincenzo Butticé (Politecnico di Milano)
"Organization and Finance of Entrepreneurial Ventures: Looking beyond the Surface" abstract In this paper we examine the association between the organization and the modes of financing of entrepreneurial ventures. By means of a mixed-methods study, we show that after receiving outside equity from external investors, entrepreneurial ventures’ top management teams becomes larger and more specialized.…
Monday Lunch Seminars Sarah Grace See (University of York)
"Juggling Work and Family: The Effect of Flexibility on Mental Health" abstract Flexible working practices can help parents maintain work and family life balance that can lead to increased productivity and improved mental health and well-being. However, they can also lead to increased stress and are instead detrimental. Applying a regression discontinuity design, this paper…
Seminars in Economics Federico Ravenna (The Central Bank of Denmark)
"Everyday Reference Prices and Nominal Rigidities"
Monday Lunch Seminars Michalis Drouvelis (University of Birmingham)
"Does revealing personality data affect prosocial behaviour?" Abstract Many modern organisations collect data on individuals’ personality traits as part of their human resource selection processes. We test experimentally whether revealing information on personality data impacts on pro-social behaviour as measured in a one-shot modified dictator game and a public goods game. Our focus is on…
Seminars in Economics Laura Doval (Caltech)
"Sequential Information Design"
[Hosted Events] Hosted events Il Direttore de La Stampa incontra la Circoscrizione1
Il Direttore del quotidiano torinese La Stampa,Maurizio Molinari, incontra la Circoscrizione 1, per confrontarsi con i residenti ele realtà del territorio e per approfondire le tematiche e le criticità che interessano il quartiere Centro e Crocetta, al dibattito parteciperà il Presidente della 1Circoscrizione, Massimo Guerrini. Modera il dibattito Luca Ferrua. La partecipazione è gratuita ed…
Seminars in Economics of Innovation and Knowledge Karl Wennberg (Linköping University, Sweden)
"The Welfare State Paradox for Women’s Entrepreneurship"
Seminars in Economics Ingo Isphording (IZA)
"Achievement Rank Affects Perfomance and Major Choices in College" abstract We study how students' performance and educational choices are affected by their relative academic ability among direct peers. In a quasi-experimental setting we show that students perform better when they rank highly in randomly assigned peer groups. We reject that effects operate through an adjustments of…
Monday Lunch Seminars Filippo De Marco (Bocconi)
"Banks as Patient Lenders: Evidence from a Tax Reform" Abstract We test whether the composition of bank funding, and the share of deposit funding in particular, affects bank risk-taking and loan maturity. For identification, we exploit a tax reform in Italy that created incentives for households to hold deposits rather than bank bonds. Using geographically…
Occasional Seminars Allievi Defense Session
SENIOR DEFENSES 09.30 Gianluca SalvaraniTitle: Home decisions and peer effect 10.15 Jacopo Tozzo Title: APP effects on Eurozone countries 11.00 Riccardo BattistonTitle: Employees and employers: evidence of a complex marriage 11.45 Alice Cortese Title: The power of jury verdicts under strategic voting. Simulation of a jury voting decision.
Seminars in Economics Steven Callander (Stanford Graduate School of Business)
"Communication in a Complicated World" Abstract A layperson seeks advice from an expert about a decision he has to make. The expert is privately informed about the mapping from feasible decisions to outcomes, which takes the form of a realization of a Brownian motion with drift. For each decision, the expert has a hard piece…