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CarloAlberto Outreach (past events) CINTIA SECOND CONFERENCE on aging, pensions, retirement and long term care

“Towards a greater financial inclusion: Gender perspectives on savings, borrowing and insurance” The conference will start on Monday, November 24 at 6 pm, with a plenary lecture held by Axel Börsch-Supan (Munich Center for the Economics of Aging), and will continue on November 25 with paper presentations. The conference will end with the Sixth Onorato Castellino Lecture.

Seminars in Politics and Society Nicole Scicluna (Collegio Carlo Alberto)

"Journey to the centre of the EU: Does Europe have a core, and does it matter?" abstract What kind of ‘core’, if any, does Europe have? This question has gained new urgency in light of the EU’s ongoing crises, which are reshaping the integration project and leading to a renewal of political discourses around the…

Seminars in Statistics Alexandros Beskos (University College London)

SMC Samplers for Applications in High Dimensions Sequential Monte Carlo (SMC) methods are nowadays routinely applied in a variety of complex applications: hidden Markov models, dynamical systems, target tracking, control problems, just to name a few. Whereas SMC methods have been greatly refined in the last decades and are now much better understood, they are…

Seminars in Politics and Society Klaus Armingeon (Universität Bern)

"Choosing the Path of Austerity: How Policy Coalitions ShapeWelfare-policy Choices in Periods of Fiscal Consolidation" Abstract This paper focuses on the effect of fiscal adjustment programs on public social expenditures.We show that budget consolidations are generally associated with welfare state retrenchment.But do the partisan complexion and the type of government condition the extent to which…

Birgit Rudloff (Princeton University)

“Measures of Systemic Risk" Abstract Systemic risk refers to the risk that the financial system is susceptible to failures due to the characteristics of the system itself. The tremendous cost of this type of risk requires the design and implementation of tools for the efficient macroprudential regulation of financial institutions. In this talk we will…

Seminars in Economics Alp Atakan (Koc University Turkey)

"Market Selection and the Information Content of Prices" Abstract We study a market in which 2k identical and indivisible objects are allocated to z>2k bidders in two separate markets using uniform-price auctions. Before the auctions, each bidder receives an informative but imperfect signal about the state of the world and chooses one of the two…

Monday Lunch Seminars Alan Kirman (Université d’Aix-Marseille III)

"The Crisis in Economic Theory" abstract This presentation will suggest that we need an alternative approach to economic modeling in general, and macroeconomic modelling in particular, if we are to capture salient characteristics of recent economic developments. There has been an implicit acceptance of the idea that an economy in which individuals are left essentially to their own devices will…