Events
Monday Lunch Seminars Theodoros Diasakos (Collegio Carlo Alberto)
"Informational Herding in the Provision of Public Goods"
Seminars in Economics Tommaso Nannicini (Università Bocconi)
"How Do Voters Respond to Information? Evidence from a Randomized Campaign"
Seminars in Economics of Innovation and Knowledge Anthony Arundel, MERIT, Maastricht
"Understanding innovation in the public sector: Survey results from Europe"
Monday Lunch Seminars Marcello Sartarelli (University of Alicante)
"Do Performance Targets A ffect Financial Support to Schools? Evidence from Discontinuities in Test Scores"
CarloAlberto Outreach (past events) 2nd Carlo Alberto Stochastics Workshop
The "Carlo Alberto Stochastics Workshops" are a series of workshops held at Collegio Carlo Alberto as part of the "de Castro" Statistics Initiative. The 2nd edition will take place on March, 23, 2012, and the meeting aims at presenting some of the latest advances on ALGEBRAIC STATISTICS IN ESTIMABILITY. In the last decade, the use of…
Seminars in Economics Juuso Toikka (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
"Efficiency in Games with Markovian Private Information" (joint with Juan Escobar) abstract We study repeated Bayesian n-player games in which the players' privately known types evolve according to an irreducible Markov chain, type transitions are independent across players, and players have private values. Our main result shows that, with communication, any Pareto-efficient payoff vector above a minmax value can…
Seminars in Economics Chris Taber (University of Wisconsin, Madison)
"Estimation of a Roy/Search/Compensating Di fferentials Model of the LaborMarket"
Monday Lunch Seminars Marina Di Giacomo (Università di Torino)
"Bilateral Trust and the Ownership Structure of Foreign Direct Investments: Evidence from European Firm Level Data" abstract It is often argued that the foreign direct investments (FDIs) have positive effects on host countries. In particular, multinationals tend to have some competitive advantage based on superior technology or other firm-specic knowledge and, therefore, inward FDIs are…
Seminars in Statistics Matthias Birkner (Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Germany)
Ancestral lineages under local regulation The spatial embeddings of genealogies in models with fluctuating population sizes and local regulation are relatively complicated random walks in a space-time dependent random environment. They seem presently not well understood. We use the supercritical discrete-time contact process on Z^d as the simplest non-trivial example of a locally regulated population…
Seminars in Economics Till Von Wachter (Columbia University)
"The Effects of Extended Unemployment Insurance Over the Business Cycle: Evidence from Regression Discontinuity Estimates over Twenty Years"
Seminars in Economics Manuel Bagues (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid)
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Seminars in Economics of Innovation and Knowledge Ari Van-Assche, HEC Montréal
"The role of trade costs in global production networks: Evidence from China's processing trade regime"
Monday Lunch Seminars Roberto Leombruni (University of Torino and LABOR)
"For a Fistful of Euros. Tales of Ordinary unemployment" abstract In most developed countries the insurance against involuntary unemployment is a pivotal policy in the support of workers. In Italy, it has just a marginal role; furthermore, it is currently questioned for the very low coverage it grants to its target population. In this paper we…
CarloAlberto Outreach (past events) Lezione aperta : “La politica fiscale nei paesi avanzati:aggiustamento fiscale, efficienza economica e crescita”
Carlo Cottarelli Introduce Franco Reviglio Accademia delle Scienze, Sala dei Mappamondi, Via Accademia delle Scienze, 6 - Torino
Occasional Seminars Comparing Welfare States: Institutions and Outcomes
1st Carlo Alberto Module - A.A. 2011/2012
CarloAlberto Outreach (past events) “The Economics of the Family, Education, and Social Capital”
Venue: Aula Seminari, Facoltà di Economia “Marco Biagi”, Viale Berengario, 51, Modena, Italy
Monday Lunch Seminars Claudio Campanale (Universidad de Alicante & CeRP), Carolina Fugazza (Università di Torino & CeRP)
"Life-Cycle Portfolio Choice with Liquid andIlliquid Financial Assets"
Francis Kramarz (CREST – ENSAE and Ecole Polytechnique)
"When strong ties are strong"