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[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…

[Hosted Events] Hosted events Common Constitutional Traditions in Europe

ELI CCT Project Kick-Off Conference Giovanni Pitruzzella, newly-appointed Advocate General at the Court of Justice of the EU, and former head of the Italian Competition Authority, will give a keynote speech. Other speakers include Sabino Cassese, former judge of the Italian Constitutional Court, Giacinto Della Cananea, Professor of Administrative Law at the University of Rome Tor Vergata, Francis Jacobs, former Advocate General…

Seminars in Economics of Innovation and Knowledge Carlos Serrano (UPF)

"How Redeployable are Patent Assets? Evidence from Failed Startups" ABSTRACT Entrepreneurial firms are important sources of patented inventions. Yet little is known about what happens to patents “released” to the market when startups fail. This study provides a first look at the frequency and speed with which patents originating from failed startups are redeployed to…

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’ productivity observedover decades. We conceptualize a research project as an idea and a team of researchers.Each idea is associated to a given knowledge production function…