Events
Seminars in Politics and Society Javier Moreno Fuentes (Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Madrid)
"Immigrant populations and the economic crisis in Spain. The role of the Welfare State" Abstract The economic crisis severely deteriorated the socio-economic situation of immigrant populations in Spain over the last years. Often pushed to the margins of the labor market, they survive with informal jobs in the underground economy and with a precarious access…
Job Market Seminars Michela Giorcelli (Stanford University)
"The Long-Term Effects of Management and Technology Transfer: Evidence from the US Productivity Program” abstract This paper uses a unique historical episode to assess the long-run effects of man-agement and technology transfer on firm performance. During the 1950s, as part of the Marshall Plan, the US administration sponsored management-training trips for European managers to US…
Job Market Seminars Gabriella Santangelo (Yale University)
"Firms and Farms: The Impact of Agricultural Productivity on the Local Indian Economy"
Seminars in Economics of Innovation and Knowledge Valentina Meliciani (LUISS University)
"Regional disparities in the enlarged European Union: Geography, Innovation and Structural Change" (at Dipartimento di Economia "S. Cognetti de Martiis")
Seminars in Politics and Society Matteo Luppi (Collegio Carlo Alberto)
"Dependency and Poverty. The effect of LTC spending on dependent elderly people and their families' income" Abstract This work examines the economic conditions of dependent elderly people and their families in order to investigate the existence of a relation between the condition of dependence and the risk of falling into poverty. For this purpose, we…
Seminars in Politics and Society Tiziana Caponio (University of Torino and Collegio Carlo Alberto)
"Immigrant Integration beyond National Policies? Italian Cities Participation in Transnational Cities Networks" Abstract In the literature on the local dimension of migration policy-making, one can see an emerging interest towards transnational cities networks (TCNs). Networks such as Eurocities can represent policy venues that go beyond the limits of vertical relations between national governments and local…
Job Market Seminars Camilla Roncoroni (Yale University)
"Political Connections and Market Structure"
Job Market Seminars Bruno Salcedo (Penn State University)
"Pricing Algorithms and Tacit Collusion" Abstract There is an increasing tendency for firms to use pricing algorithms that speedily react to market conditions, such as the ones used by major airlines and online retailers like Amazon. I consider a dynamic model in which firms commit to pricing algorithms in the short run. Over time, their algorithms can be revealed…
Job Market Seminars Stefano Sacchetto (London Business School)
"Merger Activity in Industry Equilibrium" ABSTRACT We study a dynamic industry-equilibrium model that features mergers, entry, and exit by heterogeneous firms. We show how different sources of synergies affect merger cyclicality. Improvements in marginal productivity between merging firms generate a procyclical motive for mergers, while reductions in fixed costs of production generate a countercyclical one.…
Job Market Seminars Andres Garcia-Suaza (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid)
"Oaxaca-Blinder type Decomposition Methods for Duration Outcomes"
Job Market Seminars Jorge Vasquez (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
"Crime and Vigilance"
CarloAlberto Outreach (past events) 3rd Doctoral Workshop in Economics of Innovation, Complexity and Knowledge
organised by Vilfredo Pareto Doctorate in Economics & BRICK, Collegio Carlo Alberto (VPDE-BRICK WORKSHOP)
Seminars in Economics of Innovation and Knowledge Jonatan Pinkse (Manchester Business School)
"The role of the government in promoting and steering cluster development: The case of a top-down energy cluster"
Job Market Seminars Ruben Gaetani (Northwestern)
"The Geography of Unconventional Innovation"
Seminars in Economics of Innovation and Knowledge CANCELLED: Francesco Rullani (LUISS University)
"MNC strategies to limit knowledge spillovers: How subsidiaries manage their knowledge source breadth to decrease spillovers" (at Dipartimento di Economia "S. Cognetti de Martiis")
[Academic Events] Kick-off meeting of the project “Financial Literacy: a Key Tool to Improve People’s Life Cycle”
Kick-off meeting of the project “Financial Literacy: a Key Tool to Improve People’s Life Cycle”
[Academic Events] Workshop Workshop “Insurance Scheme: Justice and pragmatism”
Insurance Scheme: Justice and pragmatism