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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…

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…