Events
Monday Lunch Seminars Ben Cowan (Washington State University)
"The Effects of Merit-Based Financial Aid on Drinking in College" (Note: the seminar is on Thursday)
CarloAlberto Outreach (past events) Summer School on Gender Economics and Society – 2nd edition
at ITC-ILO Campus, Torino
Monday Lunch Seminars Claudio Campanale (University of Alicante)
"Luxury goods in heterogeneous agents economies" Abstract Most macroeconomic models are based on the assumption of a single homogeneous consumption good. In the present paper we consider a model with two goods: A basic good and a luxury good. We then apply this assumption to a standard general equilibrium heterogeneous agent model. We find a substantial reduction in precautionary…
Distinguished Scientific Lectures Masters’ and Allievi Programs COMMENCEMENT CEREMONY
Lecture by Giuseppe Lavazza, Lavazza SpA
Monday Lunch Seminars Giovanni Mastrobuoni (University of Essex)
"Harsh or Humane? Prison Detention Conditions and Recidivism" ABSTRACT We use quasi-random variation in the fraction of time served in the Italian"open-cell prison'' of Bollate to estimate the effect of rehabilitation efforts on recidivism. We deal with the endogeneity of rehabilitation assignments by focusing on those sources of variability in the length of exposure…
Monday Lunch Seminars Luca Flabbi (Georgetown University)
"Simultaneous Search in the Labor and Marriage Markets with Endogenous Schooling Decisions" (Note: the seminar is on Thursday) Abstract Labor market decisions are not taken in isolation when individuals areengaged in stable relationships. There now exist a number of estimatedmodels of household search able to address and estimate the impact of thesedecision processes. However, in these…
CarloAlberto Outreach (past events) SEEK – Digital Economy Workshop
The Collegio Carlo Alberto jointly sponsors this conference with ZEW. Organizers: Marit Hinnosaar (Collegio Carlo Alberto), Toomas Hinnosaar (Collegio Carlo Alberto), Michael Kummer (ZEW), Olga Slivko (ZEW), Michael Zhang (HKUST). Registration required. To register, send an email by June 15 to Chiara Girotti at chiara.girotti@carloalberto.org. Program Thursday, June 18, 2015 9:00 - 9:05: Welcome Remarks…
Monday Lunch Seminars Mark Machina (University of California, San Diego)
"Analytics of Ambiguity Aversion" (Note: the seminar is on Wednesday)
Monday Lunch Seminars Paola Profeta (Bocconi University)
“From Family Culture to Welfare State Design”
Seminars in Economics of Innovation and Knowledge Pier Paolo Saviotti (INRA GAEL, Université Pierre Mendès-France)
"Education, income distribution and economic development" (at Dipartimento di Economia "S. Cognetti de Martiis")
Distinguished Scientific Lectures Vilfredo Pareto Lecture: “The Bank Capital Controversy”
Jean Charles Rochet (University of Zurich)
Seminars in Economics Sandro Shelegia (University of Vienna)
"Consumer Search with Observational Learning"
Occasional Seminars Allievi Program Defense Sessions
10.00 Marco OdifreddiTitle: "Exploring labor market policies. Insights from a simulation model"11.00 Marco PelosiTitle: "Financial Intermediation with Market Frictions: a Bargaining Approach"
Collegio Aperto Collegio aperto: “La diversità territoriale come tratto nazionale. La strategia di sviluppo delle aree interne”
Fabrizio Barca, Ministero dell'Economia e delle Finanze Introduction by Filippo Barbera (Università di Torino, Collegio Carlo Alberto) Video Filippo Barbera Video Fabrizio Barca abstract L'Italia è un paese caratterizzato da un modello territoriale policentrico, dove una fitta rete di relazioni tra aree urbane, rurali e centri minori definisce uno spazio interdipendente in cui i centri maggiori,…
Seminars in Economics of Innovation and Knowledge Giampaolo Garzarelli (IPEG, University of the Witwatersrand)
"Should I Stay or Should I Go? Natural State Formation through Internal Exit" (at Dipartimento di Economia "S. Cognetti de Martiis")
Seminars in Politics and Society Isabela Mares (Columbia University)
"Vote-buying and coercion in elections: experimental evidence from Eastern Europe"
Seminars in Economics Sylvain Chassang (Princeton University)
"Minimum prices and collusion in procurement auctions: theory and evidence"
Seminars in Economics Matt Wiswall (Arizona State University)
"Estimation of Children's Skill Formation when Children's. Skills are Unobserved" abstract We develop a new estimator for the process of skill formation where individuals' skills are unobserved (latent) and measured in data with error. Our model of skill formation has a dynamic factor structure where the latent skills of individuals evolve endogenously over the life-cycle…