Events
Monday Lunch Seminars Carlo Prato (Georgetown)
"Crises and the Puzzle of Reforms" (Note: the seminar is on Thursday)
Eva Sierminska (CEPS/INSTEAD Luxembourg)
"Decomposing household wealth portfolios across countries: an age old question?" abstract Using harmonized wealth data and a novel decomposition approach in this area, we show that cohort effects exist in the income profiles of asset and debt portfolios for a sample of European countries, the U.S. and Canada. We find that younger households' participation decisions…
Seminars in Economics of Innovation and Knowledge Paula Stephan (Andrew Young School of Policy Studies Georgia State University)
"Estimating the Effects of Federal Funding on Scientific Productivity: the Etoile Project" (at Dipartimento di Economia "S. Cognetti de Martiis")
Seminars in Economics Guido Menzio (Penn)
"Shopping Externalities and Self-Fulfilling Unemployment Fluctuations"
Monday Lunch Seminars Edward Timmons (Saint Francis University)
"More Battles Among Licensed Occupations: Estimating the Effects of Scope of Practice and Direct Access on the Chiropractic, Physical Therapist, and Physician Labor Market"
CarloAlberto Outreach (past events) SWELL-FER Seminar: “Do parents have a happier life than non-parents? The role of preferences”
Nicoletta Balbo, Dondena Centre, Bocconi University Bruno Arpino, Universitat Pompeu Fabra
Seminars in Economics Eddie Dekel (Northwestern/Tel Aviv)
"Optimal Allocation with Costly Veri
Collegio Aperto Collegio aperto: “Thinking about how to stabilize the global climate, before it is no longer worth trying”
Paul A. DavidProfessor of Economics (Emeritus), Stanford University Introduction by Fabio Montobbio (University of Torino)
Seminars in Politics and Society Heike Solga (WZB Berlin Social Science Center)
"The impact of competencies and certificates on labor market outcomes in advanced societies"
Favilukis Jack (LSE)
"Does wage rigidity make firms riskier? Evidence fromlong-horizon return predictability"
Monday Lunch Seminars Alessandro Barattieri (ESG UQAM)
"Average-Cost Pricing: Some Evidence and Implications" Abstract We present new survey evidence on pricing behavior for more than 14,000 European firms, and study its macroeconomic implications. Among firms that are price setters, roughly 75% respond that their prices are set as a markup on total costs, a business practice termed "full cost pricing''. Only 25%…
Occasional Seminars William Tompson (OECD)
"Urbanising China" Abstract China anticipates an increase in its urban population of around 300 million over the next decades, having seen its urban population more than double to around 712 million between 1990s and 2012. China’s management of this process, which is without precedent in terms of speed or scale, will have huge and lasting…
CarloAlberto Outreach (past events) 26th Review of Economic Studies May Meetings
PROGRAM: May 19, 2014 9:30 – 10:00 Welcome Coffe 10:00 – 11:15 Gautam Rao (Berkeley)"Familiarity Does Not Breed Contempt: Diversity, Discrimination and Generosity in Delhi Schools" 11:15 – 11:45 Coffee Break 11:45 – 13:00 Isaiah Andrews (MIT)"Conditional Linear Combination Tests for Weakly Identified Models" 13:00 – 15:00 Lunch 15:00 – 16:15 Maryam Farboodi (University of Chicago)"Intermediation and Voluntary Exposure…
Collegio Aperto Collegio aperto: “Why Nations fail?”
James RobinsonDavid Florence Professor of Government at Harvard University Introduction by Margarita Estevez-Abe (Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, Syracuse University and Collegio Carlo Alberto)
Elisabetta Cagna ( Symphonia SGR), Giulio Casuccio (Fondaco SGR)
"Risk Parity Portfolios Using Shortfall Risk" (at Dipartimento di Scienze Economico-Sociali e Matematico-Statistiche, classroom 1, corso Unione Sovietica 218 bis) organised by CeRP-Collegio Carlo Alberto and CINTIA Abstract In recent years financial markets have been characterized by high volatility and the issue regarding how to create truly diversified portfolios has prompted great interest. Among all the proposals…
Seminars in Politics and Society Sven Steinmo (EUI)
"Bringing People Back In: Institutions, History and Culture?"
Seminars in Economics of Innovation and Knowledge Paul David (Institute for Economic Policy Research, Stanford University)
"Rivalry and the Rules of the Game in Collective Problem‐Solving Learning more about Open Innovation processes from research on the microeconomics of computer coding competitions" (at Dipartimento di Economia "S. Cognetti de Martiis")
Seminars in Economics Michel Serafinelli (Toronto)
"Good Firms, Worker Flows and Local Productivity"