Events
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…
[Academic Events] Workshop Workshop “Ageing, Economic Uncertainty, Savings and Long-run Governance of Pension Schemes”
Workshop “Ageing, Economic Uncertainty, Savings and Long-run Governance of Pension Schemes”
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…
Seminars in Economics of Innovation and Knowledge Shai Harel (School of Business Administration, Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
"The implications of the size and diversity of investor syndicates for startup performance" (at Dipartimento di Economia "S. Cognetti de Martiis")
Seminars in Economics Sevi Mora (Edimburgh University)
"The Inheritance of Advantage"
Seminars in Economics Maia Guell (Edimburgh University)
"Correlating Social Mobility and Economic Outcomes"
Occasional Seminars Giulia Fuochi (Collegio Carlo Alberto)
"Is The More Better? Fertility and Life Satisfaction in Rural Ethiopia" at Campus Luigi Einaudi
Occasional Seminars Allievi Program Defense Sessions
9.30 am Alessandro De SanctisTitle: DSGE Models and Reality: Rational Expectations and Fat Tails 10.30 am Lorenzo PiccininiTitle: The Circularity of the Production Process 11.30 am Vincenzo MaccaroneTitle: Unpaid work and the crisis. Empirical evidence from the Modena District 12.30 pm Alberto PellicioliTitle: Overconfidence, speculation and financial bubbles
Seminars in Economics of Innovation and Knowledge Chiara Franzoni (Politecnico di Milano)
"Segmented receivers’ preferences and the response to signals. An empirical test in film-crowdfunding" (at Dipartimento di Economia "S. Cognetti de Martiis")
Seminars in Politics and Society Lucinda Fonseca (Lisbon University)
"Feedback in international migration: Brazilian and Ukrainian migration to Portugal" abstract After the remarkable migration inflows that occurred during the late 1990s and early 2000s, Brazilians and Ukrainians became the two largest foreign nationalities present in Portugal. Since then, there has been a stabilisation and a recent decline of the flow. While the economic crisis…
Seminars in Economics Michelle Sovinsky (Zurich University): CANCELLED
"Marijuana on Main Street? Estimating Demand in Markets with Limited Access"
Seminars in Economics Charles Manski (Northwestern University)
"Interpreting Point Predictions: Some Logical Issues"
Monday Lunch Seminars Tugba Zeydanli (Collegio Carlo Alberto)
"Social Interactions in Job Satisfaction"
Monday Lunch Seminars Massimiano Bucchi (Università di Trento and Collegio Carlo Alberto)
“Norms, competition and visibility in contemporary science: the legacy of Robert K Merton” (Note: the seminar is on Friday) Abstract Can Robert K. Merton’s seminal work in the sociology of science still offer useful insights to understand key features, trends and challenges of science in contemporary societies? This paper focuses on two main topics. It addresses…
Seminars in Politics and Society Denish Walsh and Carol Mershon
"Strategies for Diversifying Academe: Redressing Bias against Women and Minority Scholars in the Social Science Professions"
SHARE-ERIC Council Meeting
SHARE-ERIC Council Meeting
Seminars in Economics Ernesto Villanueva (Bank of Spain)
"Contract Staggering and Unemployment During the Great Recession: Evidence from Spain"
Monday Lunch Seminars Toru Kitagawa (UCL)
"A Test for Instrument Validity" Abstract This paper develops a specification test for instrument validity in the heterogeneous treatment effect model with a binary treatment and a discrete instrument. The strongest testable implication for instrument validity is given by the condition for non-negativity of point- identifiable complier’s outcome densities. Our specification test infers this testable…