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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 in in low- and middle-income countries. By 2010, conservative estimates indicate that around one billion people in low- and middle-income countries lived in households receiving…

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 of household dynamic healthcare, consumption, and saving when natural mortality grows exponentially to reflect the Gompertz' law, while both utility and health-care are isoelastic. The…

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 welfare for informed investors, who observe all individual shocks, and uninformed investors, who estimate them from the aggregate shock alone. All investors have constant relative…

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 deviations from the model can lead to misleading inferential results. A possible Bayesian solution to robustness is to use a of robust pseudo likelihood, such…

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 collective efforts. The threat of free-riding makes the marshalling of cooperation from group members a fundamental challenge of social life. Drawing on classical sociological theory,…

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 selection in the insurance market for longevity risks: the annuity market.  The test is applied to the exogenous change in taxation of annuity payments following…

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 in dire need of a growth strategy that is – all at once – economically viable, politically legitimate and thus seen as socially fair. Without…

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 employers use program participation as a signal for a candidate’s qualities. On the basis of a factorial survey experiment, we simulated a hiring process for…

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 public debt crisis to foster internal political support. The strategy is based on two considerations. Fist, sanctions increase the share of external debt on GDP…

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 of migrant workers organizing in the globalized economy from a national comparative perspective. It builds on Adler et al.’s (2014) work on mobilizations by migrant…

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 are heterogeneous across two dimensions, productivity and social class, and an individual's social status is defined as his relative standing in terms of a weighted…

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 formal policy and discursive level. By analysing immigration and integration policies as well as current political debates on immigrants and refugees in Europe, I will…

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 assumed. I establish sufficient conditions to uniquely recover preferences from behavioral data for three standard cases: ordinal continuous preferences, von Neumann-Morgenstern preferences and qualitative probabilities.…