Events
Seminars in Statistics Bartek Knapik (VU Amsterdam)
Convergence rates of posterior distributions in nonparametric inverse problems Since the seminal works of Ghosal, Ghosh and van der Vaart (2000) and Shen and Wasserman (2001), posterior contraction has attracted much attention, resulting in the rich literature on this subject. However, these results are not suitable to deal with trully ill-posed inverse problems, where one…
Seminars in Politics and Society Michael Tahlin (SOFI, Stockholm University)
"Why is youth employment falling? A comparative analysis of skill matching and labor demand in Europe" abstract Youth employment has fallen in many countries in recent decades. How can this development be explained? Potentially important causes include economic recessions, long-term losses of labor demand, upgrading of job structures, educational expansion, and changes in skill matching…
Distinguished Scientific Lectures Inauguration Ceremony Academic Year 2014-2015
Welcome Pietro Terna Opening Address Paolo Ghiradato Inauguration Lecture @ 6:30 p.m. Pietro Garibaldi The Economics of Tenure Related Severance Payments (La teoria economica del contratto a tutele crescenti) Video
Seminars in Economics Arnaud Dupuy (CEPS, INSTEAD)
"Migration in China: to Work or to Wed?" Abstract Why do people migrate? In this paper we study the trade-offs between migrating to work and migrating to wed. To this aim, we develop a marriage matching model in which men and women, are initially distributed over various locations, i.e. were born and raised in various…
Seminars in Economics Francesco Decarolis (Boston University)
"Detecting Bidders Groups in Collusive Auctions"
Seminars in Politics and Society Olivier Thevenon (INED, Paris)
"Do “Institutional Complementaries” Foster Female Labour Force Participation?" Abstract I analyse the response of female labour force participation to policies supporting the work-life balance, with country-level data from the early 1980s for 18 OECD countries. It includes an original analysis of interactions and complementarity between different policy measures, as well as of potential variations in…
Griselda Deelstra (Université Libre de Bruxelles)
"Optimal timing for annuitization, based on jump diffusion fund and stochastic mortality" Abstract Optimal timing for annuitization is developed along three approaches. Firstly, the mutual fund in which the individual invests before annuitization is modeled by a jump diffusion process. Secondly, instead of maximizing an economic utility, the stopping time is used to maximize the…
Seminars in Economics of Innovation and Knowledge Mario Cimoli (CEPAL, Santiago)
"External shocks, productivity gaps and twin deficits in Latin America: today more than ever industrial policy is welcome" (at Dipartimento di Economia "S. Cognetti de Martiis")
Seminars in Politics and Society Piero Tortola (Centro Studi sul Federalismo)
"Multi-level governance: A conceptual analysis"
Occasional Seminars Allievi Program Defense Sessions October 2014
9.30 am Paolo BaudissoneTitle: Modeling autoregressive conditional heteroskedasticity: an empirical application to exchange rates market 10.10 am De AndreaTitle: Income, Education and Health: mutual influences 10.50 Andrea MilesiTitle: Analysis of competitiveness of road-rail combined transport 11.30 am Luca Perdoni:Title: Unitary and Non-Unitary Models of Household Decision-Making 12.10 pm Christian RolloTitle: An analysis of the impact…
Seminars in Politics and Society Bruno Contini (University of Torino and Collegio Carlo Alberto)
"Disposable workforce, long-term employment out-of the labor force or irregular work? Discovering the pathologies of the Italian labor market"
Seminars in Economics Andrea Prat (Columbia University)
"Transparency and Deliberation at the Fed: a Computational Linguistics Approach"
CarloAlberto Outreach (past events) SWELL-FER Workshop: “Personality Traits and Subjective Well-being in the Life Course”
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CarloAlberto Outreach (past events) 7th Annual ESPAnet-Italy Conference: The Italian network for the analysis of Social Policy
"Challenges to citizenship and transformation of the life courses: insecurity, aging and migrations" Campus Luigi Einaudi, Lungo Dora Siena 100 A, Torino How to redefine the forms of social protection in Italy taking into account socio-economic changes such as ageing, modifications of the life courses, migrations, employment insecurity, instability of family relationships, during the economic crisis? To…
Seminars in Economics Theo Diasakos (University of St. Andrews)
"Optimal Mechanism under Adverse Selection: The Canonical Insurance Problem"
Seminars in Economics Salvatore Piccolo (Università Cattolica Milano)
"Organized Crime, Insider Information and Optimal Leniency"
Michael Hasler (University of Toronto)
"Term structure of Disagreement and Predictability over the Business Cycle"
Occasional Seminars Allievi Program Defense Sessions July 2014
10.00 Aleksandra Kolndrekaj "School attendance and child labor as an informal insurance device. An empirical research in Tanzania" 11.00 Vito Musci "Optimal filtering one-dimensional diffusive signals " 12.00 Valerio Perrone "Learning and Generalization in a Perceptron with Discrete Synapses: a Statistical Physics Approach"