Events
Seminars in Economics Vincenzo Galasso (Università della Svizzera Italiana)
"Men Vote in Mars, Women Vote in Venus: Evidence from a Survey Experiment"
Seminars in Politics and Society Hugh Lauder (University of Bath)
"The Global Auction for High Skilled Jobs and the Death of Human Capital" abstract For decades, the idea that more education will lead to greater individual and national prosperity has been a cornerstone of developed economies. Indeed, it is almost universally believed that college diplomas give Americans and Europeans a competitive advantage in the global…
Monday Lunch Seminars Francesca Pongiglione
"Reciprocity or strategy? An analysis of motivation behind conditional cooperation" abstract The goal of this research is the understanding of the dynamics that lead to the rise of motivation to cooperate under limited information about what other people involved are doing. This research is a part of a broader project that analyses motivation for adopting pro-environmental behaviour: climate change is…
Seminars in Statistics Fan Li (Duke University)
Bayesian inference for regression discontinuity designs with application to Italian university grants evaluations Regression discontinuity (RD) designs are usually interpreted as local randomized experiments: A RD design can be considered as though it were a randomized experiment for units with a realized value of a so-called forcing variable falling immediately around a pre-fixed threshold. Motivated…
CarloAlberto Outreach (past events) Biennale Democrazia: “Donne e lavoro una rivoluzione incompleta?”
Daniela Del Boca e Chiara Saraceno Modera Tonia Mastrobuoni Circolo dei Lettori,via Bogino 9 http://biennaledemocrazia.it/
CarloAlberto Outreach (past events) Il futuro dell’Europa: un dialogo su solidarietà, democrazia e integrazione
(at Fondazione Einaudi, Via Principe Amedeo, 34 - Torino) Intervengono: Philippe van Parijs, Université catholique de Louvain Guido Montani, Universita’ di Pavia Modera l’incontro: Flavio Brugnoli, Direttore del Centro Studi sul Federalismo
Seminars in Politics and Society CANCELLED: Fengshi Wu (The Chinese University of Hong Kong)
"The ideational dimension of civil society: an empirical study ofChinese activists and NGO leaders" (at Campus Luigi Einaudi (CLE), University of Torino, Lungodora Siena 100/a, classroom D4) abstract Despite recent policy changes, governmental monitoring and control of grassroots NGOs remain pervasive and effective to a large extent in China. The enforcement of control over NGOs is complicated…
Seminars in Economics Martin Cripps (UCL)
"Queues and Strategic Experimentation"
Monday Lunch Seminars Raphael Levy (University of Mannheim)
"Two-sided reputation in certification markets" Abstract We consider a market where a seller needs to resort to a certifier to overcome adverse selection. There is uncertainty about the certifier'spreferences for disclosing negative information about the seller. The profit of a monopolistic certifier is an inverted U-shaped function of his reputation for transparency: being perceived as more transparent allows him…
Seminars in Politics and Society Marta Fraile (European University Institute)
"Do women know less about politics than men? The gender gap in Political Knowledge" Abstract:This study analyzes the gender differences in political knowledge in a rarely studied area: Europe. The results are obtained via 2-level hierarchical linear models using the 2009 European Election Studies, Voter Study (EES) and show that men provide more correct answers…
Seminars in Economics Nenad Kos (Bocconi University)
"Information in tender offers with a large shareholder"
Seminars in Statistics Benedicte Haas (Université Paris-Dauphine)
On scaling limits of Markov branching trees Probabilists and combinatorists are interested since a long time in the asymptotic description of large random trees, as, for example, large uniform trees (chosen uniformly at random in a certain class of trees) or large conditioned Galton-Watson trees. After recalling classical results on that topic, we will develop…
Seminars in Economics Philippe Jehiel (UCL and PSE)
"Financial reporting and market efficiency withextrapolative investors"
Occasional Seminars Allievi Program Defense Session March 2013
Where: Sala Rossa 15.30 Giulia Devecchi"On first passage time for fractional Brownian motion through a boundary" 16.30 Claudio Di Loreto"Asset allocation under higher moments: an innovative approach" 17.30 Giulia Pasquale"A Liability Driven Investment Portfolio Strategy"
Seminars in Economics Frank Riedel (Universität Bielefeld)
"Ellsberg Games"
Seminars in Politics and Society Susan Stokes (Yale University)
"Brokers, Voters, and Clientelism" abstract Brokers, Voters, and Clientelism studies distributive politics: how parties and governments use material resources to win elections. The authors develop a theory that explains why loyal supporters, rather than swing voters, tend to benefit from pork-barrel politics; why poverty encourages clientelism and vote buying; and why redistribution and voter participation do…
Seminars in Economics of Innovation and Knowledge Rob Axtell (George Mason University and the Santa Fe Institute)
"Endogenous Firm Dynamics with 120 Million Agents" Sala Rossa abstract A model in which purposive agents self-organize into teams is demonstrated to closely reproduce empirical data on the population U.S. firms. There are increasing returns within teams and agents move between teams or start new teams when it is in their self-interest to do so.…
Anna D’Addio (OECD)
"Pension reform, retirement age and subjective well being: evidence from a german natural experiment" abstract This paper examines the effect on the well being of current generations of pensioners of a reform to the public pension system in Germany which increases retirement age gradually to 65 for both men and women. The well-being is evaluated…
Seminars in Economics Olivier Tercieux (PSE)
"Efficiency and Stability in Large Matching Markets" Abstract We study efficient and stable mechanisms in many-to-one matching markets when the number of agents is large. We first consider an environment where individuals' preferences are drawn randomly from a class of distributions allowing for both common value and idiosyncratic components. In this context, as the market…