Events
Monday Lunch Seminars Dino Gerardi
"A Theory of Slow Trading in Bargaining" AbstractA seller dynamically sells a divisible good to a buyer. It is common knowledge that there are gains from trade and that the gains per-unit are decreasing. Payoffs are interdependent as in Akerlof’'s market for lemons. The seller is informed about the good’s quality. The buyer learns about it only through…
Seminars in Statistics Alessio Farcomeni (University of Rome La Sapienza)
Semiparametric capture-recapture with heterogeneous capture probabilities Capture-recapture experiments are commonly used to estimate the size of a closed population. Link (2003) has underlined identifiability problems when one wants to make inference with heterogeneous capture probabilities in a semiparametric framework. If subject-specific capture probabilities are random effects with no assumption on the mixing distribution, the conditional…
Seminars in Politics and Society Stephen Morgan (Cornell University)
"Taking the Cloak Off the DAG: The New Frontier of Causal Analysis in the Social Sciences" Abstract The counterfactual approach to causal analysis will continue to transform the social sciences in the next decade. The potential outcome model, which was largely developed in statistics and economics between 1975 and 2005, has now been joined by…
Edmund Cannon (University of Bristol)
"Cohort mortality risk or adverse selection in the UK annuity market?"
Seminars in Economics Michael Brennan (UCLA)
"Financing Asset Growth"
Seminars in Economics Iourii Manovskii (University of Pennsylvania)
"Identifying Equilibrium Models of Labor Market Sorting"
Monday Lunch Seminars Andrea Vindigni
"Soldiers and Rebels. Coups and Civil Wars in Weakly-Institutionalized and Fragmented States" Abstract Many ethnically divided societies are ridden with inter-ethnic conflicts which inhibit their economic development. Following Lijphart, many scholars have advocated the adoption of "consensual" political institutions to facilitate the peaceful resolutions of ethnic conflicts. In this paper, we argue that making institutions…
CarloAlberto Outreach (past events) The Organisation, Economics and Policy of Scientific Research
Organised by LEI & BRICK Department of Economics and Statistics "Cognetti de Martiis" Collegio Carlo Alberto
Seminars in Economics Bill Zame (UCLA)
"Experiments on the Lucas Asset Pricing Model"
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…