Events
Seminars in Economics of Innovation and Knowledge Olof Ejermo, CIRCLE, Lund University
"Matching or spillovers? Productivity effects from labor mobility over the careers of inventors"
Seminars in Statistics Taeryon Choi (Korea University)
Generalized partially additive Bayesian spectral analysis regression models In this talk, we present a Bayesian method for generalized partially additive regression using a spectral analysis of Gaussian process priors for the regression function. The smoothing prior distribution for the spectral coefficients incorporates hyper parameters that control the smoothness of the function and the tradeoff between…
Seminars in Statistics James Scott (University of Texas at Austin)
False discovery rate smoothing Many approaches for multiple testing begin with the assumption that all tests in a given study should be combined into a global false-discovery-rate analysis. But this may be inappropriate for many of today's large-scale screening problems, where test statistics have a natural spatial lattice structure (voxels in the brain, distance along…
CarloAlberto Outreach (past events) Life after being an Allievo – Carlotta went into economic consulting at Frontier Economics
Timeline: 15:15 – Introduction by Pietro Garibaldi 15:20 – Frontier Economics presentation by Carlotta Bonsignori and Federico Cilauro 15:45 – Skills session 16:10 – Any further questions FB: https://www.facebook.com/events/690654634383883/
Seminars in Politics and Society Sebastien Lechevalier (CRJ-EHESS, Paris)
"Revisiting cross-national variations in preference for redistribution. Attitudes to inequalities, social beliefs, and welfare systems" abstract There are significant differences across countries in terms of redistribution by the government and they may correspond to underlying dissimilarities in preference for redistribution across the population of these countries. In particular, previous literature has compared the US and…
Seminars in Economics of Innovation and Knowledge Sandro Montresor (Università di Bologna)
"CO2-reducing innovations and outsourcing: evidence from two green industries in North-East Italy" (at Dipartimento di Economia "S. Cognetti de Martiis")
Seminars in Economics Ed Hopkins (University of Edimburgh)
"Inequality, Gender and Risk-Taking Behaviour" Download the paper
Seminars in Economics Ryan McDevitt (Duke University)
"The Elasticity of Demand for Alternative Financial Services: Evidence from Check-Cashing Price Changes in the South Bronx" Abstract Using proprietary data from customers’ transactions, we estimate the elasticity of demand for check-cashing services. Our identification strategy exploits two key features of the data: one bank unilaterally reduced its check-cashing fees while its nearby competitors maintained…
Monday Lunch Seminars Toomas Hinnosaar (Collegio Carlo Alberto)
"Optimal mechanisms with risk-loving buyers"
Seminars in Economics of Innovation and Knowledge Ivan Savin (Friedrich Schiller University Jena)
"Evolution of the electricity market in Germany: Identifying policy implications by an agent-based model"
Collegio Aperto, Distinguished Scientific Lectures 6th Onorato Castellino Lecture, Pierre-André Chiappori (Columbia University)
"The Economics of Risk: Old Principles, New Challenges" Video Please share this event https://www.facebook.com/events/816723705017321/
CarloAlberto Outreach (past events) CINTIA SECOND CONFERENCE on aging, pensions, retirement and long term care
“Towards a greater financial inclusion: Gender perspectives on savings, borrowing and insurance” The conference will start on Monday, November 24 at 6 pm, with a plenary lecture held by Axel Börsch-Supan (Munich Center for the Economics of Aging), and will continue on November 25 with paper presentations. The conference will end with the Sixth Onorato Castellino Lecture.
[Academic Events] SHARE Wave 5 FRB conference hosted by CeRP
SHARE Wave 5 FRB conference hosted by CeRP
Seminars in Economics Gabriele Camera (University of Basel and Chapman University)
"Money is more than memory"
Seminars in Economics of Innovation and Knowledge Frank Neffke (Harvard University)
"Skill relatedness and the spatial diffusion of industries" (at Dipartimento di Economia "S. Cognetti de Martiis")
Seminars in Politics and Society David Coen (UCL)
"Lobbying the EU"
Monday Lunch Seminars Michael Zhang (HKUST)
"Social Bias in Online Product Ratings - AQuasi-Experimental Study" (Note: the seminar is on Thursday)
Monday Lunch Seminars Pietro Terna (Collegio Carlo Alberto)
"From Agent-based models to network analysis (and return)"