Events
Seminars in Statistics David Rossell (University of Warwick)
Consistency of posterior model probabilities in high-dimensional model selection In recent years there has been an increasing interest in developing Bayesian formulations that remain effective in high-dimensional and non-standard problems.…
Monday Lunch Seminars Toomas Hinnosaar (Collegio Carlo Alberto)
"On the impossibility of protecting risk-takers" Abstract Risk-neutral sellers can extract high profits from risk-loving buyers by selling them lotteries. To limit risk-taking, gambling is heavily regulated in most countries. I show…
Occasional Seminars Paolo Vineis (Imperial College London and Hugef)
"Life-course biological pathways underlying social differences in healthy ageing"
Seminars in Politics and Society Moreno Mancosu (Collegio Carlo Alberto)
"The strength of weak political ties: Discussion networks and the diffusion of Movimento 5 Stelle in 2013 Italian Elections" Abstract The article aims to analyze the development of vote intentions…
Monday Lunch Seminars Morris Kleiner (University of Minnesota)
"Analyzing the Influence of Occupational Licensing Duration on Labor Market Outcomes" ABSTRACT We analyze the labor market influence of the duration of occupational licensing statutes for eleven major universally licensed…
Seminars in Economics Andrea Weber (University of Mannheim)
"Does Extending Unemployment Benefits Improve Job Quality?" abstract Contrary to standard search model predictions, prior studies failed to estimate a positive effectof unemployment insurance (UI) on reemployment wages. This paper…
Seminars in Economics David McAdams (Duke University)
"The Economic Theory of Antibiotics"
Seminars in Economics of Innovation and Knowledge Gaetan de Rassenfosse (Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lousanne)
"R&D offshoring and home industry productivity" abstract We examine the conditions under which offshoring research and development (R&D) activities can benefit home country industry. The analysis uses comprehensive patent based…
Distinguished Scientific Lectures Inauguration Ceremony Academic Year 2015-2016
Inauguration Lecture by Chiara Saraceno, Collegio Carlo Alberto
Monday Lunch Seminars Aleksey Tetenov (Collegio Carlo Alberto)
"Equality-Minded Treatment Choice" ABSTRACT Empirical studies in program evaluation often concern policies that aim to reduce economic inequality in the population. A utilitarian policy maximizing the sum of individual outcomes…
Seminars in Economics Rachel Griffith (IFS)
"Estimating Demand Parameters with Choice Set Misspecication" abstract We describe methods to estimate demand parameters in the presence of choice set misspeci-cation due to unobserved individual choice sets. We show…
Seminars in Economics Jeff Ely (Nothwestern University)
"Dynamic Multi-Agent Persuasion" abstract I study dynamic persuasion mechanisms with multiple agents. A principal privately observes the evolution of a stochastic process and sends messages over time to strategically interacting…
Seminars in Politics and Society Francesco Ramella (University of Torino)
"South European Countries’ Systems of Innovation in Hard Times" at Campus Einaudi (CLE), Dept of Cultures, politics and society, 3rd floor, room D233
Seminars in Economics Pietro Veronesi (Chicago Booth)
"Income Inequality and Asset Prices under Redistributive Taxation"
Seminars in Economics Gyongyi Loranth (University of Vienna)
"Multinational Banks and Supranational Supervision" Abstract We study the supervision of multinational banks (MNBs), allowing both for national and supranational supervisions. National supervision leads to insuffi cient monitoring of MNBs due to…
Seminars in Economics Manuel Mueller-Frank (IESE Business School and University of Navarra)
"Price Efficiency and Welfare"
Seminars in Economics of Innovation and Knowledge Giorgio Sirilli (CNR)
"R&D evaluation: An opportunity or a threat" (at Dipartimento di Economia "S. Cognetti de Martiis")
Seminars in Politics and Society Klaus Armigeon (University of Bern) and Stefano Sacchi (University of Milan)
"Three ways to Austerity" Abstract In 2010-2014, 26 of 31 democratic countries pursued austerity: they consolidated a lean state (Switzerland) or planned to cut back deficits (25 nations, among them…
Collegio Aperto Collegio aperto: “Il problema educativo nello scenario internazionale”
Piero Cipollone (Banca d’Italia) Introduction by: Anna Maria Poggi (Fondazione per la Scuola della Compagnia di San Paolo) abstract Il 2015 è l’anno entro il quale si dovevano raggiungere i…
Seminars in Economics Navin Kartik (Columbia University)
"Contests for Experimentation"