Events
Seminars in Economics David Card (University of California)
"Firms and Labor Market Inequality: Evidence and Some Theory"
Monday Lunch Seminars Chiara Daniela Pronzato (University of Turin and Collegio Carlo Alberto)
"Gender Quotas: Challenging the Boards, Performance and the Stock Market" with Valeria Ferraro (Bocconi University) and Paola Profeta (Bocconi University and Dondena)
Occasional Seminars Allievi Program Defense Sessions
14.00 Enrico Nanotitle: ''Human capital from a multidisciplinary perspective and an application to Neurology"14.45 Alessandro Grandetitle: "Bayesian Inference in Epidemics over Networks"
CarloAlberto Outreach (past events) La Città della Salute e della Scienza e i suoi effetti economici e sociali
Videos: 1 Pietro Terna2 Beppe Russo3 Gian Paolo Zanetta4 Franco Ripa5 Leonello Sambugaro6 Ezio Ghigo7 Dibattito8 Antonio Di Leva9 Guido Boella10 Dibattito11 Mario Rasetti12 Mario Mauro13 Alberto Dal Poz14 Enrico Salza Slides: Beppe RussoAntonio Di Leva
Seminars in Economics of Innovation and Knowledge Bruno Cassiman (Universidad de Navarra)
"In Search of Performance Effects of Industry-Science Links" abstract We study how firms access basic research and translate this into more valuable technologies. Firms looking to access basic research need to bridge the “gap” between scientific and technology communities before basic research can be translated and used for developing new technologies. This gap is particularly…
Monday Lunch Seminars Ignacio Monzon (Collegio Carlo Alberto)
"Observational Learning in Large Anonymous Games" (Note: the seminar is on Thursday)
Seminars in Economics Sydney Ludvigson (New York University)
"Uncertainty and Business Cycles: Exogenous Impulse or Endogenous Response?"
Seminars in Economics Raquel Bernal (Universidad de los andes)
"The Effects of the Transition from Home-based Community Nurseries to Childcare Centers on Children in Colombia" abstract Colombia’s national early childhood strategy launched in 2011 aimed at improving the quality of childcare services offered to socio-economically vulnerable children, and included transferring children from small non-parental family daycare units into large childcare centers in urban areas.…
Monday Lunch Seminars Martina Viarengo (Graduate Institute Geneve)
"Nation-Building Through Compulsory Schooling During the Age of Mass Migration" Abstract By the mid-19th century, America was the best educated nation on Earth: significant financial investments in education were being undertaken and the majority of children voluntarily attended public schools. So why did American states start introducing compulsory schooling laws at this point in time?…
CarloAlberto Outreach (past events) Child Workshop on “Early Investments and Child Outcomes”
Project Funded by FP7 “FamiliesAndSocieties” and Collegio Carlo Alberto
Seminars in Politics and Society Ute Klammer (Univ of Duisburg-Essen, Germany)
"Gender, employment biographies and EU employment and social policy strategies" abstract Within the European Union, a number of demographic trends such as low fertility, rising life expectancy and the aging of the population have widely been discussed. Looking at the labour market, it can be observed that unemployment, the rise of precarious jobs and the…
Seminars in Economics of Innovation and Knowledge Dieter Kogler (University College Dublin)
"The Evolution of Knowledge Spaces: Inventors, Firms, Regions" (at Dipartimento di Economia "S. Cognetti de Martiis")
Occasional Seminars Luca Anderlini (Georgetown University)
"Equilibrium Trust" Sign-up sheet
Occasional Seminars Diego Gambetta (EUI)
"Sharing Compromising Secrets. 'Criminal' Cooperation in the lab" Sign-up sheet
Monday Lunch Seminars Francesca Brusa (Temple University)
"Human Capital, Unemployment Risk, and Asset Prices" Abstract This paper relates the riskiness of human capital to uncertainty in the labour market and documents a role for unemployment as a determinant of human wealth. Starting from the labour market equilibrium outcome, I derive two unemployment-adjusted measures of labour income and rely on U.S. micro-level data…
Occasional Seminars Luca Gambetti (Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona)
"Noisy News in Business Cycles" Sign-up sheet
Seminars in Politics and Society Alexandre Afonso (Univ. of Leiden, Netherlandes)
"Institutional Change in South European Labour Market Regimes After the Crisis" abstract This paper seeks to map and compare change in labour markets regimes in Spain, Italy, Portugal and Greece in the aftermath of the financial crisis. While the extent of austerity policies in terms of fiscal retrenchment in these countries has been the subject of much interest, we still…
Seminars in Economics Matthias Parey (University of Essex)
"The Selection of High-Skilled Migrants"
Seminars in Economics of Innovation and Knowledge Ben Jones (Kellog School of Management, Northwestern University)
"The Reverse Matthew Effect: Catastrophe and Consequence in Scientific Teams" abstract Teamwork pervades modern economies, yet teamwork can make individual roles difficult to ascertain. In the sciences, the canonical "Matthew Effect" suggests that eminent team members garner credit for great works at the expense of less eminent team members. We study this phenomenon in reverse,…