Events
Seminars in Statistics Petros Dellaportas (University College London)
High dimensional jump processes with stochastic volatility We deal with the problem of identifying jumps in multiple financial time series using the stochastic volatility model combined with a jump process. We develop efficient MCMC algorithms to perform Bayesian inference for the parameters and the latent states of the proposed models. In the univariate case we…
Seminars in Politics and Society Stefania Ravazzi (University of Torino)
"Deliberative minipublics and policy making. A comparison of two deliberative processes on highly controversial issues" abstract Over the last few decades, deliberative minipublics have been used as inclusive and innovative practices to integrate traditional policy-making. Because of their policy-oriented aim, but also owing to the usually not legally-binding nature, some scholars have recently pointed out the…
Seminars in Economics Nageeb Ali (Pennsylvania State University)
"The Perverse Politics of Polarization"
Monday Lunch Seminars Giacomo Davide De Luca (University of York)
"Ethnic Favouritism: An Axiom of Politics?" NOTE: this is a Tuesday
Seminars in Politics and Society Anton Hemerijk (European University Institute)
Open Lecture: "The Uses of Social Investment" abstract Over the past years, the notion of social investment gained considerable traction in scholarly debates over welfare state futures. While social investment policy prescriptions have been progressively taken seriously in domestic social reform, evident by significant convergence and spending hikes on social investment policies in areas of…
Monday Lunch Seminars Christopher Flinn (NYU)
"Personality Traits, Intrahousehold Allocation and the Gender Wage Gap"
Seminars in Politics and Society Jacqueline O’Reilly (University of Brighton)
"Five Characteristics of Youth Unemployment in Europe. Flexibility, Education, Migration, Family Legacies, and EU Policy" at Campus Luigi Einaudi, aula 3D440 abstract Current levels of youth unemployment need to be understood in the context of increased labor market flexibility, an expansion of higher education, youth migration, and family legacies of long-term unemployment. Compared with previous…
Seminars in Economics of Innovation and Knowledge Federico Caviggioli (Polytechnic of Turin)
"Security interest releases on US collateralized patents in the wake of the global financial crisis" at Department of Economics and Statistics S. Cognetti de Martiis, Seminar Room
[Academic Events] Workshop Workshop on household finance and economic behaviour
May 4, 2017 @ 2:00 pm at School of Management and Economics May 5, 2017 @ 9:15 am at Collegio Carlo Alberto Organizers: PIOTR BIALOWOLSKI and MARIACRISTINA ROSSI Invited Speakers: MICHAEL HALIASSOS (Goethe University Frankfurt) ARTHUR VAN SOEST (Tilburg University) To register for participation please e-mail cerp@carloalberto.org
Seminars in Economics Alex Mas (Princeton University)
"Valuing Alternative Work Arrangements"
Seminars in Politics and Society Livia Garcia Faroldi (Universidad de Malaga)
"The gap between work-family preferences and employment trajectories of mothers in 12 countries" Abstract This study examines the consistency between attitudes towards maternal employment and the actual employment trajectories of partnered mothers in 12 Western and non-Western countries. We compared what mothers considered the best option (working full time, part time or staying at home)…
Seminars in Economics Sarah Auster (Bocconi)*
"Optimal Delegation, Unawareness, and Financial Intermediation" abstract We study the delegation problem between an investor and a financial intermediary. The intermediary has private information about the state of the world that determines the return of the investment. Moreover, he has superior awareness of the available investment opportunities and decides whether to reveal some of them…
Occasional Seminars Marit Hinnosaar
Applied Lunch Seminar
Carlo Alberto Law Seminars Alexandre Skander Galand (Koç University)
"The Legitimacy of the International Criminal Court: a global public goods perspective" at Campus Luigi Einaudi
Seminars in Politics and Society Jürg Steiner (University of Bern)
"Deliberation across Deep Divisions" abstract In group discussions of any kind there tends to be an up and down in the level of deliberation. To capture this dynamic we coined the concept of Deliberative Transformative Moments (DTM). In deeply divided societies deliberation is particularly important in order to arrive at peace and stability, but deliberation is also very…
Seminars in Economics Paolo Pinotti (Bocconi)
"The Political Legacy of Entertainment TV"
Monday Lunch Seminars Marla Ripoll (University of Pittsburgh)
"The Elasticity of Intertemporal Substitution, Parental Altruism and Fertility Choice"
Occasional Seminars Ainhoa Aparicio Fenoll (Collegio Carlo Alberto)
Applied Lunch Seminar: "English Proficiency and Academic Performance of US Immigrant Children"
Seminars in Statistics John Aston (University of Cambridge)
Functions, Manifolds and Statistical Linguistics Functional Data Analysis concerns the statistical study of curves and surfaces. An extension, Functional Object Data Analysis, looks at the statistical analysis of curves and surfaces which live in restricted spaces, such as on manifolds. One particular example of these are the covariance functions associated with the underlying curves. These…
Occasional Seminars Allievi Defense Session
JUNIOR ALLIEVI 09.15 Giovanni Ferraris Title: "How do economists measure happiness? A critical appraisal of the World Happiness Report" SENIOR ALLIEVI 09.45 Andrea Milesi Title: "The impact of railway infrastructure investments on rail freight transport" 10.30 Mattia Duma Title: "Bayesian nonparametric analysis of Shakespeare's poems"