Events
Seminars in Politics and Society Marcy Carlson (University of Wisconsin)
"Fathers Unequal: U.S. Men as Partners and Parents in an Era of Rapid Family Change" Abstract While major changes in U.S. family demography—and their growing divergence by socioeconomic status—have received notable attention, less well understood is the extent to which the nature and implications of family change may differ between men and women, mothers and…
Seminars in Economics Anna Fruttero (World Bank)
"The 2015 World Development Report: Mind, Society and Behavior"
CarloAlberto Outreach (past events) 2nd Doctoral Workshop in Economics of Innovation, Complexity and Knowledge
We invite PhD students in their 2nd and 3rd year to submit their extended abstract (max 1000 words) on the following link: VPDE-BRICK PhD Workshop
Job Market Seminars Pietro Biroli (University of Chicago)
"Genetic and Economic Interaction in the Formationof Human Capital: The Case of Obesity"
Job Market Seminars Mattia Girotti (Toulouse School of Economics)
"How Monetary Policy Changes Bank Liability Structure and Funding Cost"
Seminars in Statistics Jean-Bernard Salomond (CWI, Netherlands)
Bayesian nonparametric testing for embedded hypotheses with application to shape constrains If Bayesian nonparametric methods have received a great interest in the literature, only a few is known for testing nonparametric hypotheses, and especially the asymptotic properties of such tests. The problem of testing between two nonparametric hypotheses is known to be difficult, but the…
Job Market Seminars Kirill Shakhnov (EUI)
"The allocation of talent: finance versus entrepreneurship"
Job Market Seminars Paul Muller (VU University Amsterdam)
"Comparing methods to evaluate the effects of job search assistance"
Monday Lunch Seminars Giuseppe Lopomo (Duke University, Fuqua School of Business)
"Budget-Constrained Procurement'' Abstract We characterize optimal procurement mechanisms for a financially constrained buyer facing suppliers with privately known costs. Optimal mechanisms can be implemented by simple sequential auctions.
Vincenzo Andrietti (Carlos III Madrid e Università di Pescara)
"Auto-enrollment, Matching andParticipation in 401(k) Plans" Abstract This study uses plan-level data from Form 5500s filed by plan sponsors annuallywith the Internal Revenue Service to analyze the effects of automatic enrollment andemployer matching on 401(k) plan participation rates, and the effect of automaticenrollment on employer matching rates. The potential endogeneity of employerauto-enrollment/matching decisions is addressed…
Monday Lunch Seminars Andrea Buffa (School of Management Boston University)
"Asset Management Contracts and Equilibrium Prices" (Note: the seminar is on Thursday)
Seminars in Economics of Innovation and Knowledge Lorenzo Zirulia (Università di Bologna)
"How Far from the Tree does the (Good) Apple Fall? Spin-Out Generation and the Survival of High-Tech Firms" (at Dipartimento di Economia "S. Cognetti de Martiis")
Seminars in Economics Theodore Papageorgiou (Mc Gill University)
"Worker Sorting and Agglomeration Economies"
Seminars in Economics Myrto Kalouptsidi (Princeton University)
"Detection and Impact of Industrial Subsidies: TheCase of World Shipbuilding"
Monday Lunch Seminars Roberto Marfè (Collegio Carlo Alberto)
"Income Insurance and the Equilibrium Term-Structure of Equity"
Seminars in Statistics Luis Enrique Nieto-Barajas (ITAM, México)
Spatial gamma processes in disease mapping In this talk we will present Bayesian models based on Markov random fields of gamma type to model the relative risk in disease mapping data. The spatial gamma processes allow for different spatial dependence among neighbours. We describe the properties of ths processes and use them as prior distributions…