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CarloAlberto Outreach (past events) Pricing Workshop

Participants Sofronis Clerides, Pascal Courty, Andrea Gallice, Daniel Garrett, Alessandro Gavazza, Christos Genakos, Hinnerk Gnutzmann, Paul Heidues, Marit Hinnosaar, Toomas Hinnosaar, John Lazarev, Mario Pagliero, Andrea Pozzi, Ran Spiegler, Tommaso Valletti Schedule Friday, 9 May 2014 9:30 Coffee and registration 10:00 "Speed 2:0: Evaluating access to universal digital highways" Tommaso Valletti 11:00 "The Welfare Effects of…

CarloAlberto Outreach (past events) Childcare Arrangements: Determinants and Consequences

Daniela Bulgarelli (with Paola Molina): "Attendance at Day Cares in Early Infancy and Cognitive and Linguistic Outcomes in Childhood" Tiziana Nazio: "Family Constellations and the Organization of Child Care in Italy" Sarah Grace See: "Child Care and Adolescent Risky Behaviours" Families and Societies Project funded under Socio-economic Sciences & Humanities

Seminars in Economics Fabien Postel-Vinay (UCL)

"Did the Job Ladder Fail After the Great Recession?" Abstract We study employment reallocation across heterogeneous employers through the lens of a dynamic job-ladder model, where moreproductive employers spend more hiring effort and are more likely to succeed in hiring because they offer more. As a consequence, anemployer's size is a relevant proxy for productivity. We exploit…

Seminars in Economics Sven Rady (University of Bonn)

"Strongly Symmetric Equilibria in Bandit Games" Abstract This paper studies strongly symmetric equilibria (SSE) in continuous-time games of strategic experimentation with Poisson bandits. SSE payoffs can be studied via two functional equations similar to the HJB equation used for Markov equilibria that they generalize. This is valuable for three reasons. First, these equations retain the…

Seminars in Economics Debopam Bhattacharya (Oxford)

"Nonparametric Welfare Analysis for Discrete Choice" Abstract We consider empirical measurement of exact equivalent/compensating variation resulting from price-change of a discrete good, using individual-level data. Our set-up comprises utility functions which include unobserved heterogeneity of unknown dimension and are not required to be quasi-linear, parametrically specified or smooth -- thus allowing for extremely general preference-distributions.…

Seminars in Economics Antonio Guarino (UCL)

"Transaction Tax and the Information Efficiency of Financial Markets: A Structural Estimation" abstract We study the effect of a transaction tax on the trading activity of a security. In our model there are informed traders, who receive private information on the value of a security, and noise traders who trade for liquidity reasons. Through a…

Monday Lunch Seminars Edmund Cannon (University of Bristol)

"Surprising selection effects in the UK car insurance market" Abstract We document a large and persistent anomaly in the UK car insurance market over the period 2012-13: insurance companies charged higher premiums for third-party (liability) insurance than comprehensive insurance (where the latter includes third-party). In addition, some companies charged higher prices for comprehensive policies with…

Occasional Seminars Allievi Program Defense Sessions April 2014

9.30 Marta Bruschi "Does business cycle matter for labor market reform? Theory and evidence" 11.00 Federico Petri "Home decisions, homeownership and price volatility" 12.00 Ilaria Febbo "Sustainable high dividend yield portfolio strategy and loss aversion" 13.00 Valentina Garella "Does The Publication Of School Rankings Influence Students' Choices? An Empirical Analysis On Data From Piedmont" 14.00 Stefano Pietrosanti "Financial Sector Stability: a…