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[Academic Events] Seminars in Politics and Society Annabelle Berthiaume (McGill University, Montreal, Canada)

"The "Activation" Funnel: Mother's Involvement in Anti-Poverty Intervention in the Era of Social Investment" Abstract How anti-poverty interventions are involving mothers ? Recent redefinition of policies and programs in the social sector has been concomitant with a reconfiguration of responsibilities and responses to poverty from the state, the private sector, community organizations, families and individuals.…

[Hosted Events] Hosted events Presentazione del libro: “Unconstitutional Constitutional Amendments. The Limits of Amendment Powers”

Prof. Yaniv Roznai (Senior Lecturer at the Radzyner School of Law) Discussant: Jörg Fedtke (Università di Passau) Introduce Riccardo De Caria (Università degli Studi di Torino) Dr Roznai earned his Ph.D and is a Senior Lecturer alla Radzyner School of Law. He will present his book, Unconstitutional Constitutional Amendments. The Limits of Amendment Powers (Oxford University Press, 2017). The…

[Academic Events] Monday Lunch Seminars Giovanni Mastrobuoni (Collegio Carlo Alberto)

"Open or Close the Door? Prison Conditions and Recidivism" Abstract The question of how prison conditions affect recidivism is very important. In designing a prison system, one would want to know the answer. We estimate the effect on recidivism of replacing time served in a common closed-cell prison with time served in an open-cell one, mimicking an experiment…

[Academic Events] Seminars in Economics of Innovation and Knowledge CANCELLED: Wes Cohen (Duke University)

"Academics’ motives, opportunity costs and commercial activities across fields" at Department of Economics and Statistics S. Cognetti de Martiis Abstract Scholarly work seeking to understand academics’ commercial activities often draws on abstract notions of the institution of science and of the representative scientist. Few scholars have examined whether and how scientists’ motives to engage in commercial…

[Academic Events] Monday Lunch Seminars Bernardo Fanfani (University of Torino)

 "The effects of collective bargaining on employment and growth" Abstract This paper analyses the employment effects of the Italian sectoral wage bargaining system. The study is based on high-frequency, comprehensive and updated information on employment and wages derived from administrative data on private-sector social security contributions, matched with precise information on the economic content of…

[Academic Events] Seminars in Politics and Society Fabien Accominotti (London School of Economics)

How the Reification of Merit Breeds Inequality: Theory and Experimental Evidence Abstract: In a variety of social contexts, measuring merit and performance are crucial steps toward enforcing meritocratic ideals. At the same time, workable measures are bound to obfuscate the fuzziness and ambiguity of merit, i.e. to reify performance into an artificially crisp and clear-cut…

[Hosted Events] 24 ore del RIUSO

La 24 ore del Riuso presenta gli Stati Generali del Riuso Realizzato da: Tavolo del Riuso Piemonte e Rete ONU (Operatori Nazionali dell'Usato)

[Academic Events] Seminars in Economics Marcin Kacperczyk (Imperial College London)

"Do Foreign Investors Improve Market Efficiency?" Abstract We study the impact of foreign institutional investors on global capital allocation and welfare using firm-level international data. Using MSCI index inclusion as an exogenous shock to foreign ownership, we show that greater foreign ownership leads to more informative stock prices and this effect arises more from increased…