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Occasional Seminars Allievi Defense Session

SENIOR ALLIEVI 11.00 Alex SAJA Title: "Development of a mathematical optimization model for the automatic generation of manufacturing layouts" JUNIOR ALLIEVI 10.00 Cecilia ChiesaTitle: Beyond GDP: Social Progress Index 10.30 Marcello LancianiTitle: Majority Game Nash Equilibium on a Network with Communities 11.00 Michele ValinotiTitle: Cooperation in Evolutionary Game Theory  11.30 ZoppiTitle: The Insurance Ruin Problem

Seminars in Politics and Society Stefania Marino (University of Manchester)

"Trade unions action in segmented labour markets: migrant care work in the UK and the NL" abstract The recent ‘Brexit’ decision by the UK has provided a strong illustration of a widespread negative perception of immigration and migrant labour as detrimental to welfare resources and decent employment conditions. However, this debate has often ignored political…

Monday Lunch Seminars Nicolas Roys (Royal Holloway)

"Skills Prices, Occupations and Changes in the Wage Structure for Low Skilled Men" abstract This paper proposes and estimates a model of occupational choice with multi- dimensional skills, time-varying skill prices and labor market frictions to understand the evolution of the wage structure since 1979 for low skilled men. A worker’s multi- dimensional skills are…

Monday Lunch Seminars Toomas Hinnosaar (Collegio Carlo Alberto)

"Dynamic common-value contests" Abstract In this paper, I study dynamic common-value contests. Agents arrive over time and choose costly efforts to compete for prizes. The efforts are publicly disclosed at some points of time. This model has a wide range of applications, including rent-seeking, R&D competitions, oligopoly, and tragedy of commons. I provide a full…

Seminars in Statistics Kazuhiko Kakamu (Kobe University)

How does monetary policy affect  income inequality in Japan? Evidence from grouped data Co-author: Martin Feldkircher (Oesterreichische Nationalbank (OeNB)) Abstract: We examine the effects of monetary policy on income inequality in Japan using a novel  econometric approach that jointly estimates the Gini coefficient based on micro-level grouped data of households and the dynamics of macroeconomic…

Seminars in Politics and Society Sonja Vogt (University of Oxford)

"The seduction of applied conformity with female genital cutting as an example" abstract Female genital cutting puts millions at risk of serious health problems throughout life. It is an ancient practice based on deeply embedded cultural attitudes that are difficult to change. In many countries, female genital cutting continues to be widespread even though governments…

Seminars in Statistics Julien Berestycki (University of Oxford)

Branching Brownian motion with absorption What does the genealogy of a population under selection look like? This question is crucial for ecology and evolutionary biology and yet it is not fully understood. Recently, Brunet and Derrida have conjectured that for a whole class of models of such populations, we can expect the genealogy to be…