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[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…
Seminars in Economics Wilbert Van Der Klaauw (Federal Reserve Bank New York)
"Echoes of Rising Tuition in Students’ Borrowing, Educational Attainment, and Homeownership in Post-Recession America" Abstract State average enrollment-weighted public college tuition and fees per school year rose by $3,843 (or 81 percent) between 2001 and 2009. How are recent cohorts absorbing this surge in college costs, and what effect is it having on their post-schooling…
Monday Lunch Seminars Kyle Woodward (UNC)
"Uniform Price Auctions with a Last Accepted Bid Pricing Rule" abstract We model multi-unit auctions in which bidders' valuations are multidimensional private information. We show that the last accepted bid uniform-pricing rule admits a unique equilibrium with a simple characterization; in comparison, the commonly-studied first rejected bid uniform-pricing rule admits many equilibria, many of which…
Carlo Alberto Law Seminars Dimitry Kochenov (University of Groningen)
"Protection of the Rule of Law inHungary and Poland"
Seminars in Politics and Society Virginie Guiraudon (Science Po Paris)
"EU borders policies and its effects on migrants" abstract The “state monopolization of the legitimate control of movement” to use John Torpey’s phrase is a recent phenomenon, that can be dated back to the nineteenth century in Europe. Since the 1990s, scholars have sought to analyze the shift of policy-making to supranational venues such as…
Monday Lunch Seminars Luca Picariello (CSEF Naples)
"Talent Discovery, Layoff Risk andUnemployment Insurance"
Seminars in Politics and Society Gilles Pinson (Science Po Bordeaux)
"Beyond neoliberal imposition: State-local cooperation and the blending of social and economic objectives in French urban development corporations" Abstract For more than 15 years, the French central State created Etablissements publics d’aménagement in a series of major cities. These EPAs are in charge of large urban development projects mixing infrastructure, office development and housing projects…
Seminars in Economics Alessandro Pavan (Northwstern University)
"Robust predictions in dynamic screening" Abstract We characterize properties of optimal dynamic mechanisms using a variational approach thatpermits us to tackle directly the full program. This allows us to make predictions for a considerably broader class of stochastic processes than can be handled by the first order, Myersonian,approach", which focuses on local incentive compatibility constraints…
Seminars in Economics of Innovation and Knowledge Michele Pezzoni (Université Côte d’Azur, CNRS, GREDEG, France)
"Is this novel technology going to hit? Genetic markers predicting technological novelty diffusion"