Events
Seminars in Statistics Fernando A. Quintana (Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile)
"Discovering Interactions Using Covariate Informed Random Partition Models"
Hosted events Presentation of the World Bank Report
Toward a New Social Contract: Taking on Distributional Tensions in Europe and Central Asia LEAD AUTHORS MAURIZIO BUSSOLO, (WORLD BANK) MARIA E. DAVALOS, (WORLD BANK) VITOROCCO PERAGINE, (UNIVERSITÀ DI BARI)…
Carlo Alberto Law Seminars Marcelo Granato (Facultades de Campinas, Brasile)
"Vincoli di bilancio a tutela dei diritti sociali? Il caso della Costituzione brasiliana"
Seminars in Economics Aislinn Bohren (Carnegie Mellon university and University of Pennsylvania)
"Social Learning with Model Misspecification: A Framework and a Robustness Result"
Occasional Seminars Allievi Defense Session
JUNIOR ALLIEVI 10.00 Pietro BuriTitle: "Prospect Theory and Game Theory"10.30 Emanuele FerroTitle: "The effects of Italian pension reforms: from a defined benefit (DB) to a defined contribution (NDC) system"
Seminars in Economics Giorgio Brunello (University of Padova)
"The Long Term Payoffs of Having Privileged Peers. Evidence from Siblings in School" abstract By comparing siblings attending the same school at different points of time, we estimate the effects…
Seminars in Statistics Stephanie van der Pas (Leiden University)
"Posterior concentration for Bayesian regression trees and their ensembles"
Collegio Aperto Sixteenth Luca D’Agliano Lecture in Development Economics
"Is Multilateralism Dead?: Trade in the Era of Trump" Robert W. Staiger (Roth Family Distinguished Professor in the Arts and Sciences and Professor of Economics, Dartmouth College)
Monday Lunch Seminars Edoardo Grillo (Collegio Carlo Alberto)
"Dynamic Campaign Spending" Abstract We build a model of electoral campaigning in which two candidates allocate money over time to control the movement of relative popularity. If any gain in…
Seminars in Economics Loriana Pelizzon (Universita Ca Foscari Venice and SAFE-Goethe University Frankfurt)
"Residential mortgage defaults and positive equity: Lessons from Europe" abstract We empirically investigate mortgage default behavior in the European market where mortgages are recourse loans, i.e. borrowers are responsible upon…
Seminars in Economics of Innovation and Knowledge Andrès Rodriguez-Pose (LSE)
"The revenge of places that don’t matter" abstract Persistent poverty, economic decay and lack of opportunities cause discontent in declining regions, while policymakers reason that successful agglomeration economies drive economic…
Hosted events The Lazarus effect
Territorial inequality and the political economy of places left behind
Seminars in Economics Balazs Szentes (LSE)
"Optimal Monitoring Design"
Seminars in Statistics Eduard Belitser (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)
"Robust inference for general projection structures by empirical Bayes and penalization methods"
Monday Lunch Seminars Paolo Ghirardato (Collegio Carlo Alberto) and Daniele Pennesi
"A General Theory of Subjective Mixtures" Abstract We provide a framework for constructing subjective mixtures which requires neither the Certainty Independence nor the Monotonicity axiom, replacing them with much weaker…
Seminars in Economics of Innovation and Knowledge Nicolas Carayol (Université de Bordeaux)
"Team Work Complexity, Scientific Competition and Interdisciplinary Research" Abstract This paper aims at understanding the increasing complexity of researchprojects as one of the possible explanations for the fall in researchers’…