Events
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…
Seminars in Economics Tommaso Frattini (University of Milan)
"Employment of Undocumented Immigrants and the Prospect of Legal Status: Evidence from an Amnesty Program"
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…
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")
[Academic Events] Cherry Blossom Financial Education Institute
Cherry Blossom Financial Education Institute
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…
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)
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…
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…
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…
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 Anton Hemerijck (VU University, Amsterdam)
"Welfare states in transition and E(M)U crisis management. The imperative of a post-neoliberal consensus" (Note: the seminar is on Tuesday) Abstract Half a decade after the Euro crisis, the EU is…
Monday Lunch Seminars Edmund Cannon (University of Bristol)
"Adverse selection in the UK annuity market and the 1956 Finance Act" (Note: the seminar is on Thursday) abstract This paper proposes a new price test for evidence of active adverse…
Seminars in Politics and Society Brent Simpson (University of South Carolina)
"Moral Judgments, Material Sanctions, and Collective Action" at Campus Luigi Einaudi (Room 3D233) Abstract In group settings individuals can often benefit more by free-riding, letting others make costly contributions to…
Seminars in Statistics Laura Ventura (University of Padua)
Robust Approximate Bayesian Inference The likelihood function is the basis of both frequentist and Bayesian methods. However, the stability of likelihood-based procedures requires strict adherence to the model assumptions: mild…
Monday Lunch Seminars Antonella Tolomeo (Collegio Carlo Alberto)
"Disentangling Overlapping Shocks in Portfolio Choices" abstract In a market where price shocks result from the sum of several mean-reverting shocks, this paper finds the optimal trading policies and their…
Seminars in Economics Paolo Guasoni (Dublin City University)
"Healthcare and Consumption with Aging" Abstract Health-care benefits individuals by slowing the natural growth of mortality, indirectly increasing utility through consumption over a longer lifetime. This paper solves the problem…
Seminars in Politics and Society Armando Barrientos (University of Manchester)
"Social Assistance in Developing Countries: Progress, innovations, and challenges?" abstract Since the turn of the century, large-scale programmes providing regular and reliable direct transfers to households in poverty have mushroomed…
Occasional Seminars Ludovic Renou (University of Essex)
"Revealed preferences over risk and uncertainty" Sign-up sheet