Events
Monday Lunch Seminars Filippo De Marco (Bocconi)
"Banks as Patient Lenders: Evidence from a Tax Reform" Abstract We test whether the composition of bank funding, and the share of deposit funding in particular, affects bank risk-taking and…
Seminars in Economics Ingo Isphording (IZA)
"Achievement Rank Affects Perfomance and Major Choices in College" abstract We study how students' performance and educational choices are affected by their relative academic ability among direct peers. In a quasi-experimental…
Seminars in Economics of Innovation and Knowledge Karl Wennberg (Linköping University, Sweden)
"The Welfare State Paradox for Women’s Entrepreneurship"
[Hosted Events] Hosted events Il Direttore de La Stampa incontra la Circoscrizione1
Il Direttore del quotidiano torinese La Stampa,Maurizio Molinari, incontra la Circoscrizione 1, per confrontarsi con i residenti ele realtà del territorio e per approfondire le tematiche e le criticità che…
Seminars in Economics Laura Doval (Caltech)
"Sequential Information Design"
Monday Lunch Seminars Michalis Drouvelis (University of Birmingham)
"Does revealing personality data affect prosocial behaviour?" Abstract Many modern organisations collect data on individuals’ personality traits as part of their human resource selection processes. We test experimentally whether revealing…
Seminars in Economics Federico Ravenna (The Central Bank of Denmark)
"Everyday Reference Prices and Nominal Rigidities"
Monday Lunch Seminars Sarah Grace See (University of York)
"Juggling Work and Family: The Effect of Flexibility on Mental Health" abstract Flexible working practices can help parents maintain work and family life balance that can lead to increased productivity…
Seminars in Economics of Innovation and Knowledge Vincenzo Butticé (Politecnico di Milano)
"Organization and Finance of Entrepreneurial Ventures: Looking beyond the Surface" abstract In this paper we examine the association between the organization and the modes of financing of entrepreneurial ventures. By…
Seminars in Politics and Society Mara Yerkes (Utrecht University)
"Creating capabilities: Childcare policies in comparative perspective" Abstract This paper analyses childcare services in six countries, assessing this policy instrument’s potential to facilitate parents’ real opportunities to arrange childcare. It…
Occasional Seminars Stefano Fenoaltea (CESMEP, Università Torino)
"The Growth of the Italian Economy 1861-1913" at Fondazione Luigi Einaudi
Seminars in Statistics Brunero Liseo (Università di Roma La Sapienza)
Modelling Preference Data with the Wallenius Distribution The Wallenius distribution is a generalisation of the Hypergeometric distribution where weights are assigned to balls of different colours. This naturally defines a…
Monday Lunch Seminars Philip J. Cook (Duke University)
"The School-Entry-Age Rule Affects Redshirting Patterns and Resulting Disparities in Achievement" abstract Since, other things equal, older children do better in school, the extent and pattern of delayed entry affects…
Seminars in Economics Mariano Massimiliano Croce (UNC Kenan-Flagler Business School)
"The Leading Premium"
Seminars in Economics Gur Huberman (Columbia University) and Monica Paiella (Università Parthenope)
10.30-11.30 Gur Huberman (Columbia University): "Monopoly Without a Monopolist: An Economic Analysis of the Bitcoin Payment System" 12.00-13.00 Monica Paiella (Università Parthenope): "P2P Lending: Information Externalities, Social Networks and Loans' Substitution"…
Seminars in Politics and Society Rhonda Breitkreuz (University of Alberta)
"Closing the gap? Making sense of mothers’ employment in Canada" Abstract In international comparison, Canadian mothers have exceptional educational attainment and above average employment rates. However, Canadian mothers have lower…
Seminars in Economics Gautam Gowrisankaran (University of Arizona)
“Escalation of Scrutiny: The Gains from Dynamic Enforcement of Environmental Regulations” abstract In the United States, federal and state governments spent nearly $21 billion in 2014 on the enforcement of…
Seminars in Statistics Theodore Kypraios (University of Nottingham)
Latent Branching Trees: Modelling and Bayesian Computation. In this talk a novel class of semi-parametric time series models will bepresented, for which we can specify in advance the marginal distributionof…