Events
CarloAlberto Outreach (past events) IV Workshop on Public Policies, Social Dynamics, and Population
(at Bocconi University, Room 43, Via Sarfatti 25)
Seminars in Economics Paola Giuliano (UCLA Anderson)
"Growing Up in a Recession"
Seminars in Politics and Society Sergio Fabbrini (LUISS Rome)
"Intergovernmentalism and its limits: The implications of the Euro crisis on the European Union"
Seminars in Economics Jonathan Eaton (Penn State)
"International trade: linking micro and macro"
Seminars in Politics and Society Desmond King (Nuffield College, University of Oxford)
"Concealed Advantage: The US Federal Reserve's Financial Intervention after 2007" abstract The Federal Reserve is an outlier in two respects: it enjoys unprecedented autonomy and it controls enormous authority and resources across a broad range of financial issues. That the Fed makes unilateral decisions that commit and impact trillions of public and private funds is…
Monday Lunch Seminars Pierluigi Conzo
"Calamity, Aid and Indirect Reciprocity: the Long Run Impact of Tsunami"
Job Market Seminars Farzad Saidi (New York University)
"The Rise of the Universal Bank: Financial Architecture and FirmVolatility in the United States"
Seminars in Statistics Omar El-Dakkak (Université Paris Ouest)
Exchangeable Hoeffding decompositions: characterizations and counterexamples Since the pioneering work of Hoeffding in 1948, the so-called Hoeffding-ANOVA decompositions proved to be a very effective tool in obtaining limit theorems and have been widely used in various applications. In this talk, we present the main elements of the theory of Hoeffding decompositions for (infinitely extendible) exchangeable…
Seminars in Statistics Giovanni Peccati (University of Luxembourg)
Universality and chaos I will describe some recent advances involving universality results for homogeneous sums, both in a classic and free setting. Many connection with influence functions, as well as applications to random matrices will be highlighted.
Seminars in Economics of Innovation and Knowledge CANCELLED: Morris Teubal (Department of Economics, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
"Strategic Innovation Policy Priorities and Policy Targeting: Some Additional Remarks" (at Dipartimento di Economia S. Cognetti de Martiis)
Seminars in Politics and Society Adrienne Heritier (European University Institute)
"Managing Regulation - A Firm's Perspective" Abstract When dealing with problems of market access, firms are frequently faced with a perplexing number of sectoral and cross-sectoral regulators at the national, European and international level. They have to interact with these regulators in order to obtain decisions necessary for their operations. Given multiple regulators at the…
CarloAlberto Outreach (past events) TESORO PARLIAMONE…è l’Europa che ce lo chiede!
A WEEKEND OF DEBATES OVER EUROPE AND THE CRISIS II year When last year edition was finished, in which we gathered over thirty economists, lawyers and entrepreneurs to examine the economical crisis, the budget cuts and the lost jobs in front of a varied audience of students and workers, we had already decided to give…
Job Market Seminars Roberto Marfè (Swiss Finance Institute and University of Lausanne)
"Realized Expectations and the Equilibrium Risk-Return Trade Off"
Job Market Seminars Marco Di Maggio (MIT)
"Market Turmoil and Destabilizing Speculation"
Seminars in Statistics Dan Roy (University of Cambridge)
The combinatorial structure underlying the beta process is that of a continuum of Blackwell-MacQueen urn schemes We uncover a novel urn scheme underlying conditionally independent sequences of Bernoulli processes that share a common beta process hazard measure. As shown by Thibaux and Jordan (2007), in the special case when the underlying beta process has a…
Monday Lunch Seminars Maria Laura Di Tommaso
"Measuring Welfare: Random Scale Models for capabilities. An application to freedom of movement of Italian women." (Note: the seminar is on Thursday) abstract Sen’s capability approach distinguishes between what people are free to do and to be (their ‘capabilities’) and what they do and who they are (their ‘functionings’). In the capability approach, individuals’ well-being…
Job Market Seminars Diego Ronchetti (University of Lugano)
"An Empirical Studyof Stock and American Option Prices"
Job Market Seminars Tim Schmidt-Eisenlohr (European University Institute)
"Towards a Theory of Trade Finance"
Seminars in Politics and Society Anna Leander (Copenhagen Business School)
"Value Neutral Research: Methodological Challenges of Ethnographic Research in Critical Security Studies" abstract This paper grown out of a recurring practical concern for critical approaches to security broadly understood as including the full range of post-linguistic turn approaches to security. Work in these traditions appears to violate one of the most fundamental principles of work…