Events
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…
Seminars in Economics of Innovation and Knowledge Lia Pacelli (Department of Economics, Università di Torino)
"Temporary hires and innovative investments" (at Dipartimento di Economia S. Cognetti de Martiis)
Job Market Seminars Alessandro Dovis (University of Minnesota)
"Efficient Sovereign Default"
Job Market Seminars Nicola Branzoli (University of Wisconsin Madison)
"The Effect of Intermediaries' Market Power in Decentralized Asset Markets"
Seminars in Politics and Society Shiri M. Breznitz (Georgia Institute of Technology)
"Industrial Agglomeration vs. Clusters – “Real” Communication or is it all “in the air”?" Abstract The phenomenon of industrial concentration has many names: agglomeration, industrial districts, and clusters are but a few. Industrial clusters have maintained their importance in today’s economy, but the definition of clusters is vague and inclusive. With two decades of research…
Job Market Seminars Francesc Dilme (University of Pennsylvania)
"Building (and Milking) Trust: Reputation as a Moral Hazard Phenomenon"
Seminars in Economics of Innovation and Knowledge Francesco Di Lorenzo (ESADE Business School and Georgetown University)
"A Behavioral Perspective on Inventors’ Mobility: The Case of Pharmaceutical Industry"
Job Market Seminars Fadi Hassan (London School of Economics)
"The Price of Development"
Job Market Seminars Nicolaj Harmon (Princeton University)
"Are Workers Better Matched in Large Labor Markets?"
Seminars in Politics and Society Piero Tortola (Collegio Carlo Alberto)
"N=2: The comparative study of the EU and the US as a research programme" abstract EU-US comparisons have proliferated in the past two decades or so. Yet by and large this scholarship so far has proceeded without a serious reflection on its own nature, raison d’être, and key characteristics—a lack of ‘self-awareness’ which in turn hampers mutual…
Seminars in Economics of Innovation and Knowledge Massimiliano Mazzanti (Department of Economics and Management, Università di Ferrara)
"Waste-reducing technology adoptions: policy and geographical factors: Evidence from theItalian manufacturing sector" (at Dipartimento di Economia S. Cognetti de Martiis)
Job Market Seminars Marit Hinnosaar (Northwestern University)
"Time Inconsistency and Alcohol Sales Restrictions" Download the paper here
Job Market Seminars Giuliano Antonio Curatola (Swiss Finance Institute and EPFL)
"Asset Prices with Heterogeneous Loss Averse Investors"
Seminars in Statistics Michael Möller (Dortmund University)
Integrals and cubature sums
Seminars in Politics and Society Igor Guardiancich (Collegio Carlo Alberto)
"Social Dialogue in the New Member States and the Great Recession: Only Doom and Gloom?"