Events
Monday Lunch Seminars Cristian Bartolucci (Collegio Carlo Alberto)
"A Symmetric Model of Firms and Workers" Abstract In this paper we develop a model in which unemployed searchers may either encountera firm and be considered as a new employee or may generate a business idea in which case they begin their own firm. This is the first paper in which an equilibrium distribution of…
Seminars in Statistics Richard Nickl (University of Cambridge)
Nonparametric Bayesian inference for discretely sampled diffusions We consider the nonlinear statistical inverse problem ofmaking inference on the unknown parameters of a diffusion processdescribing the solution of a stochastic differential equation. Theobservation regime is such that the process is sampled at discretetime points that are a fixed distance apart, and we investigate theasymptotic regime when…
Seminars in Economics of Innovation and Knowledge Peter Warrian (University of Toronto)
"Advanced Materials and the Boundaries of the Firm: The Auto Steel Case" (at Dipartimento di Economia "S. Cognetti de Martiis")
Distinguished Scientific Lectures 2016 Vilfredo Pareto Lecture: “Employment and Wage Insurance within Firms”
Marco Pagano (Università di Napoli Federico II) Introduction by Giovanna Nicodano Video
Occasional Seminars Ainhoa Aparicio Fenoll (Collegio Carlo Alberto)
CHILD seminar: "Immigrant Children and Native Language"
Seminars in Economics of Innovation and Knowledge Paul Jensen (Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research)
"International Patent Examination Outcomes"
Seminars in Politics and Society Christoph Scherrer (Univ. of Kassel, Germany)
"The Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP): Limiting Policy Space?" abstract The EU currently negotiates with the USA a comprehensive trade and investment agreement. The talk will provide a brief overview of the objectives, the differences between the trading partners, and the likely outcome of the negotiations. It will focus on the question to what…
Occasional Seminars Ludovic Renou (University of Essex)
"Revealed preferences over risk and uncertainty" Sign-up sheet
Seminars in Politics and Society Armando Barrientos (University of Manchester)
"Social Assistance in Developing Countries: Progress, innovations, and challenges?" abstract Since the turn of the century, large-scale programmes providing regular and reliable direct transfers to households in poverty have mushroomed in in low- and middle-income countries. By 2010, conservative estimates indicate that around one billion people in low- and middle-income countries lived in households receiving…
Seminars in Economics Paolo Guasoni (Dublin City University)
"Healthcare and Consumption with Aging" Abstract Health-care benefits individuals by slowing the natural growth of mortality, indirectly increasing utility through consumption over a longer lifetime. This paper solves the problem of household dynamic healthcare, consumption, and saving when natural mortality grows exponentially to reflect the Gompertz' law, while both utility and health-care are isoelastic. The…
Monday Lunch Seminars Antonella Tolomeo (Collegio Carlo Alberto)
"Disentangling Overlapping Shocks in Portfolio Choices" abstract In a market where price shocks result from the sum of several mean-reverting shocks, this paper finds the optimal trading policies and their welfare for informed investors, who observe all individual shocks, and uninformed investors, who estimate them from the aggregate shock alone. All investors have constant relative…
Seminars in Statistics Laura Ventura (University of Padua)
Robust Approximate Bayesian Inference The likelihood function is the basis of both frequentist and Bayesian methods. However, the stability of likelihood-based procedures requires strict adherence to the model assumptions: mild deviations from the model can lead to misleading inferential results. A possible Bayesian solution to robustness is to use a of robust pseudo likelihood, such…
Seminars in Politics and Society Brent Simpson (University of South Carolina)
"Moral Judgments, Material Sanctions, and Collective Action" at Campus Luigi Einaudi (Room 3D233) Abstract In group settings individuals can often benefit more by free-riding, letting others make costly contributions to collective efforts. The threat of free-riding makes the marshalling of cooperation from group members a fundamental challenge of social life. Drawing on classical sociological theory,…
Monday Lunch Seminars Edmund Cannon (University of Bristol)
"Adverse selection in the UK annuity market and the 1956 Finance Act" (Note: the seminar is on Thursday) abstract This paper proposes a new price test for evidence of active adverse selection in the insurance market for longevity risks: the annuity market. The test is applied to the exogenous change in taxation of annuity payments following…
Seminars in Politics and Society Anton Hemerijck (VU University, Amsterdam)
"Welfare states in transition and E(M)U crisis management. The imperative of a post-neoliberal consensus" (Note: the seminar is on Tuesday) Abstract Half a decade after the Euro crisis, the EU is in dire need of a growth strategy that is – all at once – economically viable, politically legitimate and thus seen as socially fair. Without…
Seminars in Economics of Innovation and Knowledge Claudio Fassio (University of Lund)
"Imported inputs and variety of exported products among Swedish firms" (at Dipartimento di Economia "S. Cognetti de Martiis")
Seminars in Politics and Society Giuliano Bonoli (Univ of Lausanne)
"The signaling value of labor market programs" Abstract This paper investigates how employers interpret participation in active labor market programs for hiring decisions. Drawing on signaling theory, we assume that employers use program participation as a signal for a candidate’s qualities. On the basis of a factorial survey experiment, we simulated a hiring process for…