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Seminars in Politics and Society Angela Garcia Calvo (Collegio Carlo Alberto)

"Institutions and upgrading strategies in the global economy: a comparative analysis of Spain and Korea" abstract This talk presents the preliminary argument of a book that examines the roles of states and large firms in fostering economic upgrading in the context of late industrialising, advanced, but not world-leading economies. The empirical analysis is based on…

Seminars in Politics and Society Carol Mershon

"Formal Modeling for Substantive Social Research: The Place of Narratives  in Linking Theory to Models" abstract This talk grows out of Mershon's book manuscript, _Formal Modeling for Substantive Research_, co-authored with Olga Shvetsova. The talk and the book focus on the methodology of using formal models as a systematic component in research design in political…

Seminars in Economics Yuliy Sannikov (Princeton University)

"Dynamic Trading: Price Inertia, Front-Running and Relationship Banking" Abstract We build a linear-quadratic model to analyze trading in a market with pri-vate information and heterogeneous agents. Agents receive private endowment shocks and trade continuously. Agents dier in their need for trade as well assize, i.e. the ability to stay away from their ideal positions. In…

Collegio Aperto Collegio aperto: “Reforming the Labor Market: Recent Developments in Italy and Spain”

The conference will be chaired by Elsa Fornero. Welcome and Opening Remarks: Elsa Fornero (Università di Torino and CeRP-Collegio Carlo Alberto) Video Fornero The Spanish Reform: Juan Jimeno (Bank of Spain)Discussant: Juan Dolado (European University Institute) Video Jimeno Video Dolado The Italian Reform: Filippo Taddei (SAIS – The Johns Hopkins University and Collegio Carlo Alberto)Discussant:…

Seminars in Politics and Society Maurizio Carbone (University of Glasgow)

"Explaining variation of EU effectiveness in international development negotiations" abstract This article analyses the role played by the European Union in the changing development architecture, focusing on the negotiation and conclusion of four high-level forums on aid effectiveness, held in Rome (2003), Paris (2005), Accra (2008) and Busan (2011). Drawing on published and unpublished material and…

Arthur Van Soest (Tilburg University)

"Home Production and Retirement in Couples: A Panel Data Analysis" Abstract We analyze the effects of retirement of one partner on home production by both partners in a couple. Using longitudinal data from the German Socio-Economic Panel on couples in the age group 45-75, we control for fixed household specific effects to address the concern that…