Events
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…
Monday Lunch Seminars Edoardo Grillo (Collegio Carlo Alberto)
"Strategic Sovereign Defaults under International Sanctions" abstract Economic sanctions are often used to destabilize hostile political regimes. We present a model where targeted regimes react to sanctions by initiating a public debt crisis to foster internal political support. The strategy is based on two considerations. Fist, sanctions increase the share of external debt on GDP…
Seminars in Politics and Society Teresa Cappiali (Collegio Carlo Alberto)
"Challenges and Opportunities for Immigrant Workers Organizing in the Globalized Economy: Case Studies from Italy and Spain" abstract This talk focuses on key theoretical issues to examine the challenges and opportunities of migrant workers organizing in the globalized economy from a national comparative perspective. It builds on Adler et al.’s (2014) work on mobilizations by migrant…
Monday Lunch Seminars Nicola Bellomo (Politecnico di Torino)
"On the complex interactions between mathematics and soft sciences. Toward a mathematical theory of behavioural systems" (Note: the seminar is on Tuesday)
Monday Lunch Seminars Andrea Gallice (Universita’ di Torino e Collegio Carlo Alberto)
"Economic and Class Voting in a Model of Redistribution with Social Concerns" abstract We investigate how concerns about social status may affect individuals' preferences for redistribution. In our model, agents are heterogeneous across two dimensions, productivity and social class, and an individual's social status is defined as his relative standing in terms of a weighted…
[Academic Events] Cherry Blossom Financial Education Institute
Cherry Blossom Financial Education Institute
Seminars in Economics of Innovation and Knowledge Francesco Rentocchini (University of Southampton)
"Exploring and Yet Failing Less: learning from past and current exploration in R&D" (at Dipartimento di Economia "S. Cognetti de Martiis")
Seminars in Politics and Society CANCELLED: Blanca Garcés Mascareñas (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona)
"Deservingness frames on citizenship: what gives the right to have rights" abstract In this presentation I will discuss how the boundary between citizens and non-citizens is constantly negotiated at the formal policy and discursive level. By analysing immigration and integration policies as well as current political debates on immigrants and refugees in Europe, I will…
Seminars in Economics Tommaso Frattini (University of Milan)
"Employment of Undocumented Immigrants and the Prospect of Legal Status: Evidence from an Amnesty Program"
Monday Lunch Seminars Leandro Gorno (Getulio Vargas Foundation)
"Revealed preference and identification" abstract I develop a theory of revealed preference based on the assumption that we observe some optimal choices rather than all of them, as is traditionally assumed. I establish sufficient conditions to uniquely recover preferences from behavioral data for three standard cases: ordinal continuous preferences, von Neumann-Morgenstern preferences and qualitative probabilities.…
Seminars in Politics and Society Thomas Paster (Collegio Carlo Alberto)
"Business and Politics: A Relationship of Dominance or of Adaptation?" abstract How influential are business interest groups in politics? Scholars in the field of business and politics try to understand the causes and mechanisms of business influence, such as lobbying, elite networks, political donations, and structural dependence of governments on investments. Thereby, research creates a…
Seminars in Economics Denis Nekipelov (University of Virginia)
"Inference in markets with algorithmic learning agents"
Occasional Seminars Allievi Program Defense Sessions
11.15 Francesca Ferrarotitle: The gender gap in stock market: an empirical analysis among households in Italy 12.00 Marco Ballesiotitle: Indirect Inference for Time-Homogeneous Stochastic Differential Equations Based on Moment Expansions 12.45 Andrea Napolitanotitle: Discussion of "Maximizing the Spread of Influence through a Social Network" by David Kempe, Jon Kleinberg and Eva Tardos
Occasional Seminars Allievi Program Defense Sessions
Cristiano Ventricelli title: Modeling Stochastic volatility in option pricing
Monday Lunch Seminars Piotr Tomasz Bialowolski (Università di Torino)
"Latent-transition approach to evolution of household debt possession patterns"
Seminars in Politics and Society Bea Cantillon (University of Antwerp, Antwerpen)
"Reconceptualizing the welfare state. An empirical investigation of its growing symbiosis and contradiction with capitalism in rich European democracies." abstract The welfare state is often seen too narrowly as a 'moral economy': capitalism with a social face, forged by harsh social conflict. However, the welfare state is also an important way to support the capitalist…
[Academic Events] MOPACT – Active Ageing Forum 3
MOPACT – Active Ageing Forum 3
Monday Lunch Seminars Cornelia Metzig (Imperial College)
"Scaling and Evolutionary Growth in a Macroeconomic Agent-Based Model" abstract I present a simple stock-flow consistent macroeconomic agent-based model for the production cycle, composed of firms, households and a financial sector. Competition of firms in the markets generates a stochastic process for firm evolution, which can be described theoretically. Results are several interrelated distributions for…