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Seminars in Economics Yuliy Sannikov (Princeton University)

"Dynamic Trading: Price Inertia, Front-Running and Relationship Banking" Abstract We build a linear-quadratic model to analyze trading in a market with pri-vate information and heterogeneous agents. Agents receive private endowment shocks and trade continuously. Agents dier in their need for trade as well assize, i.e. the ability to stay away from their ideal positions. In…

Collegio Aperto Collegio aperto: “Reforming the Labor Market: Recent Developments in Italy and Spain”

The conference will be chaired by Elsa Fornero. Welcome and Opening Remarks: Elsa Fornero (Università di Torino and CeRP-Collegio Carlo Alberto) Video Fornero The Spanish Reform: Juan Jimeno (Bank of Spain)Discussant: Juan Dolado (European University Institute) Video Jimeno Video Dolado The Italian Reform: Filippo Taddei (SAIS – The Johns Hopkins University and Collegio Carlo Alberto)Discussant:…

Seminars in Politics and Society Maurizio Carbone (University of Glasgow)

"Explaining variation of EU effectiveness in international development negotiations" abstract This article analyses the role played by the European Union in the changing development architecture, focusing on the negotiation and conclusion of four high-level forums on aid effectiveness, held in Rome (2003), Paris (2005), Accra (2008) and Busan (2011). Drawing on published and unpublished material and…

Arthur Van Soest (Tilburg University)

"Home Production and Retirement in Couples: A Panel Data Analysis" Abstract We analyze the effects of retirement of one partner on home production by both partners in a couple. Using longitudinal data from the German Socio-Economic Panel on couples in the age group 45-75, we control for fixed household specific effects to address the concern that…

Seminars in Economics Michele Pellizzari (University of Geneva)

"Wage compression within the firm" abstract We study the distributional effect of a wage indexation mechanism - the textit{Scala Mobile} (SM) - that heavily compressed the distribution of Italian wages during the 1970s and 1980s. By imposing nominal adjustments to all workers in the economy, the SM increased real wages at the bottom of the…

Seminars in Politics and Society Vasillis Monastiriotis

"The Greek euro-crisis: between government failure and failed government" abstract The presentation seeks to provide an analytical account of the Greek crisis that goes beyond simple and partial explanations of the crisis, which typically focus selectively either on domestic problems and weaknesses (fiscal laxity, corruption, weak administrative capacities, reform resistance) or on external and systemic…

Monday Lunch Seminars Bruno Contini (Collegio Carlo Alberto)

"A neo-keynesian proposal for restoring growth in the Italian economy" abstract A neo-keynesian suggestion aimed at recovering after twenty years of dramatic economic crisis has recently been put forward in Italy. There are reasons to suppose that analogous measures could be reasonably adapted to other EU countries where the wellbeing of the low-middle class is…