Events
Occasional Seminars When Families Turn to the Market … Gender Dimensions of Outsourcing Personal and Household Services: Politics, Markets and Inequalities in East Asian and European Comparison
Organizers: Karen Shire and Margarita Estevez-Abe Day 1 Friday, November 20, 9:00 – 18:30, Sala Rossa, Collegio Carlo Alberto, via Real Collegio 30, Moncalieri (Torino) Day 2 – Continuation of…
Seminars in Statistics Paul Jenkins (University of Warwick)
Exact simulation of the Wright-Fisher diffusion The Wright-Fisher family of diffusion processes is a class of evolutionary models widely used in population genetics, with applications also in finance and Bayesian…
Monday Lunch Seminars Marit Hinnosaar (Collegio Carlo Alberto)
"Why taxes on unhealthy food might not lead to healthy behavior?"
Seminars in Economics Stepan Jurajda (CERGE-EI)
"Comparing Real Wage Rates using McWages" abstract Thanks to the standardized work protocol and technology of McDonald’s restaurants across the globe, the hourly wage rate of Basic Crew McDonald’s workers…
Seminars in Economics of Innovation and Knowledge Kostas Kounetas (University of Patras)
"Technology Gaps in European Regions and factors that affect it: A Meta-Frontier Approach. Is there any convergence?" (at Dipartimento di Economia "S. Cognetti de Martiis")
Seminars in Economics Matthew Harding (Duke University)
"Sparsity-Based Estimation of a Panel Quantile Count Data Model with Applications to Big Data"
Seminars in Politics and Society Teresa Jurado Guerrero (UNED, Madrid)
"Fathering in Construction: What favours a positive paternal involvement in the Spanish context?" abstract Positive paternal involvement (Pleck and Masciadrelli 2004) has become an important concept in research on new…
Monday Lunch Seminars Ainhoa Aparicio Fenoll (Collegio Carlo Alberto)
"Immigrant Networks and Remittances" abstract This paper studies the influence of immigrants' social networks on remittances, both the probability of remitting and the quantity remitted. We use the Spanish Migrant…
Collegio Aperto, Distinguished Scientific Lectures Onorato Castellino Lecture, Carlo Cottarelli
"In lode dell’austerita’ fiscale (… con moderazione)"
Seminars in Economics CANCELLED: Barbara Petrongolo (Queen Mary University)
"Reservation wages and the wage flexibility puzzle" Abstract Wages are only mildly cyclical, implying that shocks to labour demand have a larger short-run impact on unemployment rather than wages, at…
Seminars in Economics Claudia Olivetti (Boston College)
"Three-generation Mobility in the United States, 1850-1940: The Role of Maternal and Paternal Grandparents"
Collegio Aperto Collegio Aperto: “The Greek Crisis and its Impact on the Future of the EU”
Welcome and Introduction: Margarita Estevez-Abe (Syracuse University and Collegio Carlo Alberto) First Part: How We Got to the Crisis: The Problems Embedded in the EU and EMU - The Future…
Seminars in Economics of Innovation and Knowledge Michele Pezzoni (Université Côte d’Azur, CNRS, GREDEG, France)
"What are the factors shaping technological novelty diffusion? The impact of initial conditions" (at Dipartimento di Economia "S. Cognetti de Martiis")
Occasional Seminars Allievi Program Defense Sessions
Alessandro Milazzo title: The Italian Pension Gap: a Stochastic Optimal Control Approach
Monday Lunch Seminars Tiago Pires (UNC)
"Cash-Constrained Households and Product Size"
Distinguished Scientific Lectures Carlo Alberto Lecture: Guido Menzio (University of Pennsylvania)
"The Macroeconomics of Price Dispersion"
Seminars in Economics of Innovation and Knowledge Riccardo Fini (University of Bologna)
"Breaking the career path in academia: does entrepreneurship help?" (at Dipartimento di Economia "S. Cognetti de Martiis")
Occasional Seminars Workshop of the International Herbert A. Simon Society: “Adaptive and Ecological Rationality in Complex Environments”
At Campus Luigi Einaudi, Torino In collaboration with Master in Economics and Complexity of the Collegio Carlo Alberto and University of Turin http://herbertsimonsociety.org/