Events
Monday Lunch Seminars Igor Livshits (University of Western Ontario)
"Screening as a Unied Theory of Delinquency,Renegotiation, and Bankruptcy"
Seminars in Economics Philipp Kircher (LSE)
"Assortative Matching with Large Firms: Span of Control over More versus Better Workers"
CarloAlberto Outreach (past events) “2013: A FINANCIAL ODYSSEY”
At Scuola di Management ed Economia (room 9, third floor) What is a financial crisis? What is the relationship between finance and real economy? Are financial speculators the only to blame? What is the role of rating agencies?Assemblea di Economia is organizing a conference to discuss these themes with two guests who hold two very…
CarloAlberto Outreach (past events) Seminario CHILD-Collegio Carlo Alberto e Università di Torino: “Diritto di asilo? Investire nella prima infanzia in Italia”
(Palazzo Barolo, via delle Orfane 7 - Torino)
Monday Lunch Seminars Paolo Ghirardato
"Ambiguity in the small and in the large" Abstract This paper considers local and global multiple-prior representations of ambiguity for preferences that are (i) monotonic, (ii) Bernoullian, i.e. admit an affine utility representation when restricted to constant acts, and (iii) locally Lipschitz continuous. We do not require either Certainty Independence or Uncertainty Aversion. We show…
Seminars in Economics of Innovation and Knowledge Federico Tamagni (Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna)
"IPR and interoperability standard setting. What are the determinants of blanket disclosures?" (at Dipartimento di Economia S. Cognetti de Martiis)
Seminars in Economics Vincenzo Galasso (Università della Svizzera Italiana)
"Men Vote in Mars, Women Vote in Venus: Evidence from a Survey Experiment"
Seminars in Politics and Society Hugh Lauder (University of Bath)
"The Global Auction for High Skilled Jobs and the Death of Human Capital" abstract For decades, the idea that more education will lead to greater individual and national prosperity has been a cornerstone of developed economies. Indeed, it is almost universally believed that college diplomas give Americans and Europeans a competitive advantage in the global…
Monday Lunch Seminars Francesca Pongiglione
"Reciprocity or strategy? An analysis of motivation behind conditional cooperation" abstract The goal of this research is the understanding of the dynamics that lead to the rise of motivation to cooperate under limited information about what other people involved are doing. This research is a part of a broader project that analyses motivation for adopting pro-environmental behaviour: climate change is…
Seminars in Statistics Fan Li (Duke University)
Bayesian inference for regression discontinuity designs with application to Italian university grants evaluations Regression discontinuity (RD) designs are usually interpreted as local randomized experiments: A RD design can be considered as though it were a randomized experiment for units with a realized value of a so-called forcing variable falling immediately around a pre-fixed threshold. Motivated…
CarloAlberto Outreach (past events) Biennale Democrazia: “Donne e lavoro una rivoluzione incompleta?”
Daniela Del Boca e Chiara Saraceno Modera Tonia Mastrobuoni Circolo dei Lettori,via Bogino 9 http://biennaledemocrazia.it/
CarloAlberto Outreach (past events) Il futuro dell’Europa: un dialogo su solidarietà, democrazia e integrazione
(at Fondazione Einaudi, Via Principe Amedeo, 34 - Torino) Intervengono: Philippe van Parijs, Université catholique de Louvain Guido Montani, Universita’ di Pavia Modera l’incontro: Flavio Brugnoli, Direttore del Centro Studi sul Federalismo
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…
Seminars in Economics Martin Cripps (UCL)
"Queues and Strategic Experimentation"
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 Economics Nenad Kos (Bocconi University)
"Information in tender offers with a large shareholder"
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…