Events
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…
Occasional Seminars CeRP seminar: Margherita Borella
"Cognitve functioning and retirement in Europe"
Seminars in Statistics Bas Kleijn (University of Amsterdam)
Testability and consistency Bayesian consistency theorems come in (at least) three distinct types, e.g. Doob's prior-almost-sure consistency on Polish spaces, Schwartz's Hellinger consistency with KL-priors and the `tailfree' weak consistency of Dirichlet posteriors. In this talk we ask the question how these notions of convergence are related and argue that one characterises them most conveniently…
Stephane Loisel (Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1)
"Ruin probability for some particular correlated claims, for worsening risks, and risks with infinite mean." Abstract We first give explicit formulas for the infinite time ruin probability for some particular correlated claim amounts or inter-arrival times. We then investigate asymptotics of ruin probabilities when claim distribution is worsening over time, due to phenomena like sectorial inflation…
Seminars in Economics of Innovation and Knowledge Ljubica Nedelkoska (Zeppelin University and Harvard University)
"Learning by Problem-solving" (at Dipartimento di Economia "S. Cognetti de Martiis") abstract We analyze the dynamics of learning by problem-solving at the job. We propose that the exposure to challenging job tasks increases skills and therefore work productivity. As a result, job complexity leads to higher wages. We test our hypotheses using a large panel of German…
Seminars in Economics Alessandra Voena (University of Chicago)
"Prenuptial Contracts, Labor Supply and Household Investments" Abstract This paper examines prenuptial contracts that allow couples in Italy to choose, at virtually no cost, how their assets will be divided in case of divorce. Unique administrative data on marriages and divorces from 1995 to 2011 indicate that the majority of newlyweds (67% in 2011) choose…
Seminars in Statistics Li Ma (Duke University)
Adaptive testing of conditional association through recursive mixture modeling In many case-control studies, a central goal is to test for association or dependence between the predictors and the response. Relevant covariates must be conditioned on to avoid false positives and loss in power. Conditioning on covariates is easy in parametric frameworks such as the logistic…
Seminars in Statistics Yongdai Kim (Seoul National University)
Deviance Information Criteria for the frailty model We are concerned with model selection for the frailty model by use of the deviance information criterion (DIC). The DIC is a Bayesian model selection criterion proposed by Spiegelhalter et al. (2002). A difficulty in applying the DIC to the frailty model lies on the unspecified baseline hazard…
CarloAlberto Outreach (past events) 1st Doctoral Workshop in Economics of Innovation, Complexity and Knowledge
Organised by Vilfredo Pareto Doctorate in Economics & BRICK, Collegio Carlo Alberto Details: http://www.brick.carloalberto.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=122&Itemid=122
Seminars in Economics of Innovation and Knowledge Dirk Czarnitzki (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven)
"Counterfactual impact evaluation of cohesion policy at the firm level" Abstract The European Cohesion Policy is designed to reduce gaps between developmentlevels of EU regions. Consequently most scholarly research on impacts of Cohesion Policyso far focused on catching-up processes of EU regions. Newly available data, however,allow studying policy effects directly at the recipient level rather…
Seminars in Economics Toan Phan (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill)
"Toxic Asset Bubble" Abstract We show that toxic (i.e., welfare reducing) asset bubbles can emerge in a standard framework of stochastic rational bubble if there is financial friction. The friction generated by limited liability and non-contingent debt contracts prevents banks from fully internalizing the bubble's risk of collapse. Hence boom-bust episodes involving excessively risky bubbles can emerge in equilibrium. We…