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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…

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 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…

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 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…

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…

Seminars in Politics and Society Martin Whyte (Harvard University)

"Can China Close its Huge Rural-Urban Gap?" abstract China today may have the sharpest social cleavage between its rural and urban citizens of any country on earth, with urban households on average having close to 4 times the income of rural households.  Paradoxically, this sharp social cleavage is mainly a legacy of the socialist system…