Events
Seminars in Statistics Nicolas Chopin (ENSAE, France)
Sequential Quasi Monte Carlo We develop a new class of algorithms, SQMC (Sequential Quasi Monte Carlo), as a variant of SMC (Sequential Monte Carlo) based on low-discrepancy points. The complexity of SQMC is O(N log N) where N is the number of simulations at each iteration, and its error rate is smaller than the Monte…
Seminars in Politics and Society Stefano Sacchi (Unimi)
"Conservative and innovative policy change in labour market reforms. A policy process-based explanatory framework" abstract The main explanations of labour policy reforms focus on either endogenous or exogenous factors that have triggered change in some specific critical junctures. As such, they seek to explain the introduction of reforms, i.e. why policy change occured. By contrast, building on theories of…
Seminars in Economics of Innovation and Knowledge Lorenzo Cassi (Observatoire des Sciences et des Techniques, Paris)
"Proximity, network formation and inventive performance: in search of the proximity paradox" (at Dipartimento di Economia "S. Cognetti de Martiis")
Occasional Seminars Seminars of the Research Project “Practices and Policies around Parenthood. Work-family balance and childcare in multicultural contexts”
"Practices Around Parenthood" at Campus Luigi Einaudi Chair: Manuela Naldini (DCPS, University of Turin) Sveva Magaraggia (Dept. of Philosophy, Communication and Performing Arts, University of Rome III) The crisis in young parents’ experience: new opportunities of cultural innovation? María José González (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona), Men Anticipating Fatherhood in Spain Sonia Bertolini, Rosy…
Seminars in Politics and Society Livia Olah (Stockholm)
"Gender Equality Perceptions, Division of Paid And Unpaid Work, And Partnership Dissolution In Sweden" at Campus Luigi Einaudi abstract With the increase in female employment and the decrease in gender labor specialization there has also been a marked change in gender role attitudes. An increasing proportion of women and men has come to prefer gender…
Job Market Seminars Matija Jancec (University of Maryland)
"The Costs of Adapting to a New Cultural Environment: Examining Immigrants' Outcomes"
Job Market Seminars Svetlana Pashchenko (University of Virginia)
"Work Incentives of Medicaid Beneficiaries and the Role of Asset Testing." Download the paper http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2323775
Job Market Seminars Philipp Tillman (Chicago University)
"Entry into Electoral Races and the Quality of Representation" Abstract U.S. Congressmen are very likely to be reelected and survey evidence suggests that voters are satisfied with their representatives. On the other hand, a large political science literature interprets the high incumbent reelection rate as evidence of lacking entry by strong challengers, analyzing its sources, consequences, and potential cures.…
Seminars in Politics and Society Marco Simoni (LSE)
"Institutional Roots of Economic Decline: Lessons from Italy"
Job Market Seminars Sander Heinsalu (University of Yale)
"Noisy signalling over time" Download the paper http://sanderheinsalu.com/papers/Noisy%20signalling%20over%20time.pdf
Job Market Seminars Andreas Steinhauer (University of Zurich)
"Identity, Working Moms, and Childlessness: Evidence from Switzerland" Download the paper https://sites.google.com/site/andreassteinhauer/AndreasSteinhauerJMP.pdf
Occasional Seminars Vilfredo Pareto Doctorate in Economics Thesis Defense
Consuelo Nava "Some Advances in Bayesian Modeling and Computation" Andrea Venturini "Information Disclosure and Deliberation Between Strategic Agents" http://www.sde.unito.it/activities/meetings.htm#met_thes_def_20140203
Job Market Seminars Yikai Wang (University of Zurich)
"Will China Escape the Middle-income Trap? A Politico-economic Theory of Growth and State Capitalism" abstract Is China's rapid growth sustainable if the labor and capital market distortions persist? Will democratization occur given that Chinese middle-class are supportive of the regime? To answer the above questions, this paper proposes a politico-economic theory, as follows. In oligarchy,…
Seminars in Politics and Society Fabio Franchino (Università di Milano)
"The Design of Fiscal Governance Rules of the European Union"
CarloAlberto Outreach (past events) SWELL-FER Seminar: “The relative contribution of genetic and environmental factors in explaining individual differences in SWB: an empirical analysis using Italian data coming from the Multiscopo Istat”
Dr. Sara Della Bella The seminar has been funded by the European Research Council under the European ERC Grant Agreement no StG-313617 (SWELL-FER: Subjective Well-being and Fertility, P.I. Letizia Mencarini).
Job Market Seminars Joan Monras (Columbia University)
"Immigration and Wage Dynamics: Evidence from the Mexican Peso Crisis"
[Academic Events] Kick-off meeting of the project “Financial Literacy: a Key Tool to Improve People’s Life Cycle”
Kick-off meeting of the project “Financial Literacy: a Key Tool to Improve People’s Life Cycle”
Seminars in Statistics Hugo Maruri-Aguilar (Queen Mary University of London)
The algebraic method in experimental designs This seminar is part of the 3rd Carlo Alberto Stochastics Workshop
Seminars in Statistics Jim Q. Smith (University of Warwick)
Chain event graphs and the geometry of causation This seminar is part of the 3rd Carlo Alberto Stochastics Workshop
[Academic Events] CarloAlberto Outreach (past events) 3RD CARLO ALBERTO STOCHASTICS WORKSHOP
The "Carlo Alberto Stochastics Workshops" are a series of workshops held at Collegio Carlo Alberto as part of the "de Castro" Statistics Initiative. The 3rd edition will take place on January 10-11, 2014, and the meeting aims at presenting some of the latest advances on ALGEBRAIC STATISTICS. In the last fifteen years, the use of algebraic…