Events
Job Market Seminars Davide Malacrino (Stanford)
"Entrepreneurs’ Wealth and Firm Dynamics" Download the paper abstract Owners of privately-held firms typically invest a large amount of their personal wealth into their firm. In principle, the wealth not invested in the firm may be used as a buffer to smooth shocks to the firm. Is such buffer stock behavior observed among privately-held firm…
Seminars in Economics of Innovation and Knowledge Andy Toole (USPTO)
"The Dynamic Relationship between Investments in Brand Equity and Firm Profitability: Evidence using Trademark Registrations"
[Academic Events] Convegno “L’educazione finanziaria in Italia: oggi e domani”
Convegno “L’educazione finanziaria in Italia: oggi e domani”
Seminars in Economics Neale Mahoney (Booth School of Business, University of Chicago, and NBER)
"Provider Incentives and Health Care Costs: Evidence from Long-Term Care Hospitals"
Collegio Aperto Economic Challenges facing Europe and the World
Policy priorities of the Italian G7 presidency and German G20 presidency in 2017. A panel discussion with Claudia Buch (Deutsche Bundesbank) and Luigi Federico Signorini (Banca d'Italia).Introduction by Alessandro Barattieri (Collegio Carlo Alberto). In 2017, Italy will chair the G7 and Germany the G20. What are the main policy priorities of the two agendas? Are…
Seminars in Economics Stefano Giglio (Chicago Booth)
"Contractionary volatility or volatile contractions?" Note: the seminar in on Monday
Carlo Alberto Law Seminars Hadar Aviram (University of California, Hastings)
"The impact of the Economic Crisis on Prison Policy in The United States" at Campus Luigi Einaudi (CLE)
Seminars in Politics and Society Bruno Cousin (Université de Lille)
"Self-segregation, sociability and the internationalization of European upper classes"
Seminars in Economics of Innovation and Knowledge Claudio Cozza (University of Trieste)
"Are multinationals better at creating technical linkages with local firms and institutions?" (at Dipartimento di Economia "S. Cognetti de Martiis")
Seminars in Statistics Vinayak Rao (Purdue University)
Path and parameter inference for Markov jump processes A variety of phenomena are best described using dynamical models which operate on a discrete state-space and in continuous time. The most common example is the Markov jump processes whose applications range from systems biology, genetics, computing networks and human-computer interactions. Posterior computations typically involve approximations like…
Seminars in Economics Gianluca Violante (New York University)
"Monetary policy according to HANK"
Seminars in Economics Antoine Bommier (ETH Zurich)
"Household Finance and the Value of Life" Abstract We analyze life-cycle saving strategies with a recursive model that is designed to provide reasonable positive values for the value of a statistical life. With a positive value of life, risk aversion amplifies the impact of uncertain survival on the discount rate, and thus reduces savings. Our…
Monday Lunch Seminars Marit Hinnosaar (CCA)
"Price discriminating minorities"
Seminars in Economics of Innovation and Knowledge Marcus Dejardin (Université de Namur)
"Fitting a firm’s strategic position and environmental context with its managers’ personality traits. A configurational study of SME performance" abstract Building upon the person–environment contingency model in combination with its strategy–environment counterpart, we adopt an integrated manager–strategy–environment configurational lens, and explore this perspective empirically by applying fuzzy set Qualitative Comparative Analysis to data from a sample…
Seminars in Economics Erzo Luttmer (Darthmouth)
"The Welfare Cost of Perceived Policy Uncertainty: Evidence from Social Security"
Seminars in Economics Michael Haliassos (Goethe University Frankfurt)
"Financial Literacy Externalities" abstract This paper uses unique administrative data and a quasi-field experiment of exoge- nous allocation of refugees in Sweden to estimate effects of exposure to financially literate neighbors on household financial behavior. The paper contributes evidence of a causal impact of financial literacy on behavior and points to a social multiplier of…
CarloAlberto Outreach (past events) Official Launch of the AXA Chair “The socio-economic risks of financial markets”
Università degli Studi di Torino, Sala Principi d'Acaja (via Verdi 8 - Palazzo del Rettorato)