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Monday Lunch Seminars Giovanni Mastrobuoni (University of Essex)

"Harsh or Humane? Prison Detention Conditions and Recidivism"   ABSTRACT We use quasi-random variation in the fraction of time served in the Italian"open-cell prison'' of Bollate to estimate the effect of rehabilitation efforts on recidivism. We deal with the endogeneity of rehabilitation assignments by focusing on those sources of variability in the length of exposure…

Monday Lunch Seminars Luca Flabbi (Georgetown University)

"Simultaneous Search in the Labor and Marriage Markets with Endogenous Schooling Decisions" (Note: the seminar is on Thursday) Abstract Labor market decisions are not taken in isolation when individuals areengaged in stable relationships. There now exist a number of estimatedmodels of household search able to address and estimate the impact of thesedecision processes. However, in these…

CarloAlberto Outreach (past events) SEEK – Digital Economy Workshop

The Collegio Carlo Alberto jointly sponsors this conference with ZEW. Organizers: Marit Hinnosaar (Collegio Carlo Alberto), Toomas Hinnosaar (Collegio Carlo Alberto), Michael Kummer (ZEW), Olga Slivko (ZEW), Michael Zhang (HKUST). Registration required. To register, send an email by June 15 to Chiara Girotti at chiara.girotti@carloalberto.org. Program Thursday, June 18, 2015 9:00 - 9:05: Welcome Remarks…

Collegio Aperto Collegio aperto: “La diversità territoriale come tratto nazionale. La strategia di sviluppo delle aree interne”

Fabrizio Barca, Ministero dell'Economia e delle Finanze Introduction by Filippo Barbera (Università di Torino, Collegio Carlo Alberto) Video Filippo Barbera Video Fabrizio Barca abstract L'Italia è un paese caratterizzato da un modello territoriale policentrico, dove una fitta rete di relazioni tra aree urbane, rurali e centri minori definisce uno spazio interdipendente in cui i centri maggiori,…

Seminars in Economics Matt Wiswall (Arizona State University)

"Estimation of Children's Skill Formation when Children's. Skills are Unobserved" abstract We develop a new estimator for the process of skill formation where individuals' skills are unobserved (latent) and measured in data with error. Our model of skill formation has a dynamic factor structure where the latent skills of individuals evolve endogenously over the life-cycle…

Seminars in Statistics Luca Tardella (University of Rome “La Sapienza”)

Flexible behavioral capture-recapture modelling We develop some new strategies for building and fitting new flexible classes of para- metric capture-recapture models for closed populations which can be used to address a better understanding of behavioural patterns. We first rely on previous approaches based on a conditional probability parameterization and review how to regard a large…

Seminars in Politics and Society Robert Hancke (LSE)

"The missing link: Labour unions, central banks and monetary integration in Europe" Abstract This paper examines the problems of the single currency in light of the organization of labour relations in the member-states and their interaction with monetary policies. Continental (western) Europe consists of two very different systems of employment and labour relations, roughly coinciding…

Goran Peskir (University of Manchester)

"Optimal Mean-Variance Portfolio Selection" abstract I will present a dynamic formulation of the mean-variance portfolio selection problem and discuss possible ways of solving it.