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Monday Lunch Seminars Valeria Miceli (Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore)

"Do Sovereign Wealth Funds Herd in Equity Markets?" abstract With $4.4 trillion of assets at end-2010, feared and courted by governments all over the world, characterized by low levels of transparency and often accused of hidden motivations, sovereign wealth funds (SWFs) are today among the most controversial players in global financial markets. SWFs are government…

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…

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…

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…