Events
Seminars in Economics Gian Luca Clementi (NYU Stern School of Business)
"Equilibrium Corporate Finance and Intermediation"
Monday Lunch Seminars Emanuele Felice (UAB)
"The roots of a dual equilibrium: GDP, productivity and structural change in the Italian regions in the long-run (1871-2011)" abstract This paper explores the long-run evolution of regional inequality in Italy over the course of 140 years, from around Unification (1871) until our days (2011). To this scope, a unique and up-to-date dataset of GDP…
Seminars in Politics and Society Alison Koslowski (University of Edimburgh)
"Fathers at work: explaining the gaps between entitlement to leave and flexible working policies and their uptake" abstract Much workplace support to parents offered by employers in the United Kingdom is gender neutral in design, but fathers’ usage rates are generally very low and far below that of mothers. Why are fathers unlikely to use…
Seminars in Economics of Innovation and Knowledge Suelene Mascarini (University of Sao Paulo)
"Territorial aspects of the degree of novelty of the innovation in Brazil" at Department of Economics and Statistics S. Cognetti de Martiis, Seminar Room
Seminars in Economics Simon Board (UCLA)*
"Recruiting Talent"
Monday Lunch Seminars Enrica Maria Martino (Università di Torino)
"Early Childcare and Child Non Cognitive Outcomes" (with Daniela Del Boca and Chiara Daniela Pronzato) abstract In this study, we analyze the impact of formal early childcare on a number ofnon-cognitive child outcomes, conditional on several socio demographic characteristicsof the household and the child. Non cognitive skills were found to be particularlymalleable at young ages…
Carlo Alberto Law Seminars Nora McKeon (Università Roma3)
"Social Movements and Global Governance" at Campus Luigi Einaudi
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…