Events
Monday Lunch Seminars Nicola Limodio (Bocconi University)
"Deposit Volatility, Liquidity and Long-Term Investment: Evidence from a Natural Experiment in Pakistan"
Seminars in Politics and Society Karoly Takacs (Corvinus, University of Budapest)
"Dynamics of Multiplex Networks in Schools" abstract Previous research has looked at the dynamics of social networks mainly in the context of friendship relations. In this seminar, the benefits of…
Seminars in Economics Francesco Sangiorgi (Frankfurt School)
"Why is capital slow moving? Liquidity hysteresis and the dynamics of limited arbitrage" Abstract Will arbitrage capital flow into a market experiencing a liquidity shock, mitigating the adverse effect of…
Seminars in Economics Marco Casari (University of Bologna)
"Carbon is Forever: a Climate Change Experiment on Cooperation"
Seminars in Statistics John Armstrong (King’s College London)
Stochastic Differential Equations as Jets We explain how Ito Stochastic Differential Equations (SDEs) on manifolds may be defined using 2-jets of smooth functions. We show how this relationship can be…
Occasional Seminars Daniel Klein (Professor of Economics, George Mason University)
"Commutative, Distributive, and Estimative Justice in Adam Smith" organised by Istituto Bruno Leoni
Monday Lunch Seminars Albin Erlanson (Stockholm School of Economics)
"Costly Verification in Collective decisions" Abstract We study how a principal should optimally choose between implementing a new policy and maintaining the status quo when the information relevant for the…
Job Market Seminars Tommaso Sonno (LSE)
"Globalisation and conflicts: the good, the bad, and the ugly of corporations in Africa" Job Market Seminar abstract Using georeferenced data on the affiliates and headquarters of multinational enterprises together…
Seminars in Statistics Davide La Vecchia (University of Geneva)
Saddlepoint techniques for dependent data Saddlepoint techniques provide numerically accurate, higher-order, small sample approximations to the distribution of estimators and test statistics. While a rich theory is available for saddlepoint…
Job Market Seminars Giovanni Nicolò (UCLA)
"Monetary Policy, Expectations and Business Cycles in the U.S. Post-War Period" Job Market Paper Abstract This paper examines the interactions between monetary policy and the formation of expectations to explain…
Job Market Seminars Arnaud Philippe (Toulouse School of Economics)
"Incarcerate one to calm the others?Spillover effects of incarceration among criminal groups" Job Market paper abstract Abstract: What is the effect of incarcerating one member of a group on her…
Seminars in Economics of Innovation and Knowledge Grazia Cecere (Telecom Ecole de Management, Institut Mines Telecom e Université Paris Sud, Paris Saclay)
"STEM and teens: Algorithm bias in the social network. Field experiment to identify any possible algorithm bias in the ad distribution"
Job Market Seminars Arjada Bardhi (Northwestern University)
"Optimal Discovery and Influence through Selective Sampling" abstract Most decisions – from a job seeker appraising a job offer to a policymaker assessinga novel social program – involve the consideration…
Seminars in Economics of Innovation and Knowledge Luc Soete (MERIT – Maastricht University)
"Employment displacement in the fourth industrial revolution: torn between fear and past evidence"
Monday Lunch Seminars Marina Della Giusta (University of Reading)
"Keep calm and carry on: gender differences in endurance"
Seminars in Economics of Innovation and Knowledge Francesco Zirpoli (Università di Venezia)
"Post merger "network" integration: the case of Fiat and Chrysler" abstract I will present a forthcoming book on the merger between Fiat and Chrysler, co-authored with Markus Becker and Josh…
Seminars in Politics and Society Simona Guerra (University of Leicester)
"Public Euroscepticism after the 2016 British referendum: Unleashing emotion" abstract What is Euroscepticism? This presentation will explore how the study of public Euroscepticism has changed since the EU fifth enlargement…
Seminars in Statistics Fabrizio Leisen (University of Kent)
Compound Random Measures Compound Random Measures (CoRM's) have been recently introduced by Griffin and Leisen (2017) and represent a general and tractable class of vectors of Completely Random Measures. This…