Events
Seminars in Economics of Innovation and Knowledge Sandro Montresor (Università di Bologna)
"CO2-reducing innovations and outsourcing: evidence from two green industries in North-East Italy" (at Dipartimento di Economia "S. Cognetti de Martiis")
Seminars in Economics Ed Hopkins (University of Edimburgh)
"Inequality, Gender and Risk-Taking Behaviour" Download the paper
Seminars in Economics Ryan McDevitt (Duke University)
"The Elasticity of Demand for Alternative Financial Services: Evidence from Check-Cashing Price Changes in the South Bronx" Abstract Using proprietary data from customers’ transactions, we estimate the elasticity of demand for check-cashing services. Our identification strategy exploits two key features of the data: one bank unilaterally reduced its check-cashing fees while its nearby competitors maintained…
Monday Lunch Seminars Toomas Hinnosaar (Collegio Carlo Alberto)
"Optimal mechanisms with risk-loving buyers"
Seminars in Economics of Innovation and Knowledge Ivan Savin (Friedrich Schiller University Jena)
"Evolution of the electricity market in Germany: Identifying policy implications by an agent-based model"
Collegio Aperto, Distinguished Scientific Lectures 6th Onorato Castellino Lecture, Pierre-André Chiappori (Columbia University)
"The Economics of Risk: Old Principles, New Challenges" Video Please share this event https://www.facebook.com/events/816723705017321/
CarloAlberto Outreach (past events) CINTIA SECOND CONFERENCE on aging, pensions, retirement and long term care
“Towards a greater financial inclusion: Gender perspectives on savings, borrowing and insurance” The conference will start on Monday, November 24 at 6 pm, with a plenary lecture held by Axel Börsch-Supan (Munich Center for the Economics of Aging), and will continue on November 25 with paper presentations. The conference will end with the Sixth Onorato Castellino Lecture.
[Academic Events] SHARE Wave 5 FRB conference hosted by CeRP
SHARE Wave 5 FRB conference hosted by CeRP
Seminars in Economics Gabriele Camera (University of Basel and Chapman University)
"Money is more than memory"
Seminars in Economics of Innovation and Knowledge Frank Neffke (Harvard University)
"Skill relatedness and the spatial diffusion of industries" (at Dipartimento di Economia "S. Cognetti de Martiis")
Seminars in Politics and Society David Coen (UCL)
"Lobbying the EU"
Monday Lunch Seminars Michael Zhang (HKUST)
"Social Bias in Online Product Ratings - AQuasi-Experimental Study" (Note: the seminar is on Thursday)
Monday Lunch Seminars Pietro Terna (Collegio Carlo Alberto)
"From Agent-based models to network analysis (and return)"
Seminars in Politics and Society Nicole Scicluna (Collegio Carlo Alberto)
"Journey to the centre of the EU: Does Europe have a core, and does it matter?" abstract What kind of ‘core’, if any, does Europe have? This question has gained new urgency in light of the EU’s ongoing crises, which are reshaping the integration project and leading to a renewal of political discourses around the…
Monday Lunch Seminars Marit Hinnosaar (Collegio Carlo Alberto)
"Sales and nonlinear prices when consumers have time inconsistent preferences" (Note: the seminar is on Thursday)
Seminars in Economics Alex Gershkov (Hebrew University, Surrey University)
"Optimal Voting Rules"
Seminars in Statistics Alexandros Beskos (University College London)
SMC Samplers for Applications in High Dimensions Sequential Monte Carlo (SMC) methods are nowadays routinely applied in a variety of complex applications: hidden Markov models, dynamical systems, target tracking, control problems, just to name a few. Whereas SMC methods have been greatly refined in the last decades and are now much better understood, they are…
Seminars in Politics and Society Klaus Armingeon (Universität Bern)
"Choosing the Path of Austerity: How Policy Coalitions ShapeWelfare-policy Choices in Periods of Fiscal Consolidation" Abstract This paper focuses on the effect of fiscal adjustment programs on public social expenditures.We show that budget consolidations are generally associated with welfare state retrenchment.But do the partisan complexion and the type of government condition the extent to which…
Birgit Rudloff (Princeton University)
“Measures of Systemic Risk" Abstract Systemic risk refers to the risk that the financial system is susceptible to failures due to the characteristics of the system itself. The tremendous cost of this type of risk requires the design and implementation of tools for the efficient macroprudential regulation of financial institutions. In this talk we will…
Seminars in Economics Alp Atakan (Koc University Turkey)
"Market Selection and the Information Content of Prices" Abstract We study a market in which 2k identical and indivisible objects are allocated to z>2k bidders in two separate markets using uniform-price auctions. Before the auctions, each bidder receives an informative but imperfect signal about the state of the world and chooses one of the two…