Events
Seminars in Politics and Society Thomas Paster (Collegio Carlo Alberto)
"Business and Politics: A Relationship of Dominance or of Adaptation?" abstract How influential are business interest groups in politics? Scholars in the field of business and politics try to understand the causes and mechanisms of business influence, such as lobbying, elite networks, political donations, and structural dependence of governments on investments. Thereby, research creates a…
Seminars in Economics Denis Nekipelov (University of Virginia)
"Inference in markets with algorithmic learning agents"
Occasional Seminars Allievi Program Defense Sessions
11.15 Francesca Ferrarotitle: The gender gap in stock market: an empirical analysis among households in Italy 12.00 Marco Ballesiotitle: Indirect Inference for Time-Homogeneous Stochastic Differential Equations Based on Moment Expansions 12.45 Andrea Napolitanotitle: Discussion of "Maximizing the Spread of Influence through a Social Network" by David Kempe, Jon Kleinberg and Eva Tardos
Occasional Seminars Allievi Program Defense Sessions
Cristiano Ventricelli title: Modeling Stochastic volatility in option pricing
Monday Lunch Seminars Piotr Tomasz Bialowolski (Università di Torino)
"Latent-transition approach to evolution of household debt possession patterns"
Seminars in Politics and Society Bea Cantillon (University of Antwerp, Antwerpen)
"Reconceptualizing the welfare state. An empirical investigation of its growing symbiosis and contradiction with capitalism in rich European democracies." abstract The welfare state is often seen too narrowly as a 'moral economy': capitalism with a social face, forged by harsh social conflict. However, the welfare state is also an important way to support the capitalist…
[Academic Events] MOPACT – Active Ageing Forum 3
MOPACT – Active Ageing Forum 3
Monday Lunch Seminars Cornelia Metzig (Imperial College)
"Scaling and Evolutionary Growth in a Macroeconomic Agent-Based Model" abstract I present a simple stock-flow consistent macroeconomic agent-based model for the production cycle, composed of firms, households and a financial sector. Competition of firms in the markets generates a stochastic process for firm evolution, which can be described theoretically. Results are several interrelated distributions for…
Seminars in Statistics Emilie Kaufmann (CNRS, France)
The information complexity of sequential resource allocation I will talk about sequential resource allocation, under the so-called stochastic multi-armed bandit model. In this model, an agent interacts with a set of (unknown) probability distributions, called 'arms' (in reference to 'one-armed bandits', another name for slot machines in a casino). When the agent draws an arm,…
Seminars in Economics of Innovation and Knowledge Claudia Ghisetti (University of Ferrara)
"Demand-pull and Environmental Innovations: depicting the effects of innovative public procurement" (at Dipartimento di Economia "S. Cognetti de Martiis")
Job Market Seminars Luca Facchinello (Stockholm School of Economics)
"The Impact of Early Grading on Academic Choices: Mechanisms and Social Implications"
CarloAlberto Outreach (past events) Judge Guido Calabresi (Yale Law School)
"What can economists learn from law scholars?"
Monday Lunch Seminars Giorgio Barba Navaretti (Universita’ di Milano e Centro Luca d’Agliano)
"It takes (more than) a moment: Revisiting the link between firm productivity and aggregate exports" Abstract This paper exploits a unique data set covering a panel of 16 European countries and 21 manufacturing industries to examine within sectors which features of a country's firm productivity distribution are relatedto its aggregate export performance. It provides robust…
Seminars in Politics and Society Giulia Dotti Sani (Collegio Carlo Alberto)
"Two hearts and a loan? Employment insecurity, income and mortgage access among young couples in six European countries" Abstract Homeownership is increasingly being understood by policy makers and social scientists as a fundamental asset against poverty risks, especially in times of economic uncertainty. Yet, in several Western countries, access to homeownership among younger generations appears…
Seminars in Economics Sonia Oreffice (University of Surrey): CANCELLED
(Note: the seminar is on Tuesday)
Seminars in Politics and Society David Stark (Arthur Lehman Professor of Sociology, Columbia University)
"Challenging the Smooth Flow to Calamity: How Ethnic Diversity Deflates Price Bubbles" at Campus Einaudi (CLE), Dept of Cultures, politics and society, 3rd floor, room D233
Seminars in Economics of Innovation and Knowledge Bart van Looy (KU Leuven)
SEIK: "Translating science into technology: does involvement in patenting jeopardize one’s scientific footprint? An analysis of citation flows of patent-paper pairs in biotechnology"