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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…

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…

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…

Monday Lunch Seminars Margherita Calderone (Università di Torino)

"The Intergenerational Effects of Cash Transfers to Groups of Men and Women: Evidence from Northern Uganda" abstract This paper looks at the intergenerational effects of a cash transfer, the Youth Opportunities Program (YOP), on human capital investments in children in conflict-affected Northern Uganda. The YOP was primarily aimed at providing startup money to groups of…

Job Market Seminars Julien Penasse (University of Luxembourg)

"The Missing Risk Premium in Exchange Rates" Job Market Seminar Abstract It is well known that the interest rate differential (the forward premium) predicts currency returns. However, we find that the real exchange rate, not the interest rate differential, is the main predictor of currency returns at longer horizons. We relate this finding to other…