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Seminars in Economics of Innovation and Knowledge Morris Teubal (Department of Economics, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)

"Strategic and 'adaptive'  policy targeting: Theory and an example" abstract Israel made a successful transition from an underdeveloped economy whose main exports during the 1960s were oranges and textiles to a high tech powerhouse based on an ICT-oriented Entrepreneurial High Tech Cluster (EHTC) which emerged during 1993-2000, a process leading to Catch Up status in…

Seminars in Economics Joel Sobel (UC San Diego)

"Why Don't People Lie More" Abstract Economic theory bases its predictions on the assumptions that agents maximize preferences subject to accurate assessments about the environment.  A stylized economic agent who cares only about his material payoffs will say and do whatever is necessary to maximize his payoff. Yet in natural and experimental settings, agents do…

Occasional Seminars Allievi Program Defense Sessions March 2014

15.00 Valentina Garella "Does The Publication Of School Rankings Influence Students' Choices? An Empirical Analysis On Data From Piedmont " 16.00 Simone Fabiole-Nicoletto "Information acquisition and disclosure in an oligopolistic competitive market"

CarloAlberto Outreach (past events) SWELLFER Seminar: “Forms and dynamics of multiple well-being and deprivation in contemporary Switzerland”

Dr. Mario Lucchini Abstract This paper proposes the application of an innovative technique of clustering and projection – the Self-Organizing Map – in order to identify multidimensional patterns of well-being and deprivation in contemporary Switzerland. Starting from a rich set of non-monetary indicators from the Swiss Household Panel (SHP), a topological map is extrapolated. This…

CarloAlberto Outreach (past events) TESORO PARLIAMONE… Non Può Finire Così!

TESORO PARLIAMONE 2014: three days of debates over the economy, the crisis and reforms. Tesoro Parliamone...Non Può Finire Così For the third year in a row, the students’ union Assemblea di Economia organizes at the Scuola di Management e Economia in Turin a cycle of debates with distinguished guests from the economic and political world.…

Seminars in Statistics Nicolas Chopin (ENSAE, France)

Sequential Quasi Monte Carlo We develop a new class of algorithms, SQMC (Sequential Quasi Monte Carlo), as a variant of SMC (Sequential Monte Carlo) based on low-discrepancy points. The complexity of SQMC is O(N log N) where N is the number of simulations at each iteration, and its error rate is smaller than the Monte…

Seminars in Politics and Society Stefano Sacchi (Unimi)

"Conservative and innovative policy change in labour market reforms. A policy process-based explanatory framework" abstract The main explanations of labour policy reforms focus on either endogenous or exogenous factors that have triggered change in some specific critical junctures. As such, they seek to explain the introduction of reforms, i.e. why policy change occured. By contrast, building on theories of…

Occasional Seminars Seminars of the Research Project “Practices and Policies around Parenthood. Work-family balance and childcare in multicultural contexts”

"Practices Around Parenthood" at Campus Luigi Einaudi   Chair: Manuela Naldini (DCPS, University of Turin)   Sveva Magaraggia (Dept. of Philosophy, Communication and Performing Arts, University of Rome III) The crisis in young parents’ experience: new opportunities of cultural innovation? María José González (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona), Men Anticipating Fatherhood in Spain Sonia Bertolini, Rosy…