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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 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…

Seminars in Statistics Fan Li (Duke University)

Bayesian inference for regression discontinuity designs with application to Italian university grants evaluations Regression discontinuity (RD) designs are usually interpreted as local randomized experiments: A RD design can be considered as though it were a randomized experiment for units with a realized value of a so-called forcing variable falling immediately around a pre-fixed threshold. Motivated…

Seminars in Politics and Society CANCELLED: Fengshi Wu (The Chinese University of Hong Kong)

"The ideational dimension of civil society: an empirical study ofChinese activists and NGO leaders" (at Campus Luigi Einaudi (CLE), University of Torino, Lungodora Siena 100/a, classroom D4) abstract Despite recent policy changes, governmental monitoring and control of grassroots NGOs remain pervasive and effective to a large extent in China. The enforcement of control over NGOs is complicated…

Monday Lunch Seminars Raphael Levy (University of Mannheim)

"Two-sided reputation in certification markets" Abstract We consider a market where a seller needs to resort to a certifier to overcome adverse selection. There is uncertainty about the certifier'spreferences for disclosing negative information about the seller. The profit of a monopolistic certifier is an inverted U-shaped function of his reputation for transparency: being perceived as more transparent allows him…

Seminars in Politics and Society Marta Fraile (European University Institute)

"Do women know less about politics than men? The gender gap in Political Knowledge" Abstract:This study analyzes the gender differences in political knowledge in a rarely studied area: Europe. The results are obtained via 2-level hierarchical linear models using the 2009 European Election Studies, Voter Study (EES) and show that men provide more correct answers…

Seminars in Statistics Benedicte Haas (Université Paris-Dauphine)

On scaling limits of Markov branching trees Probabilists and combinatorists are interested since a long time in the asymptotic description of large random trees, as, for example, large uniform trees (chosen uniformly at random in a certain class of trees) or large conditioned Galton-Watson trees. After recalling classical results on that topic, we will develop…

Occasional Seminars Allievi Program Defense Session March 2013

Where: Sala Rossa 15.30 Giulia Devecchi"On first passage time for fractional Brownian motion through a boundary" 16.30 Claudio Di Loreto"Asset allocation under higher moments: an innovative approach" 17.30 Giulia Pasquale"A Liability Driven Investment Portfolio Strategy"

Seminars in Politics and Society Susan Stokes (Yale University)

"Brokers, Voters, and Clientelism" abstract Brokers, Voters, and Clientelism studies distributive politics:  how parties and governments use material resources to win elections. The authors develop a theory that explains why loyal supporters, rather than swing voters, tend to benefit from pork-barrel politics; why poverty encourages clientelism and vote buying; and why redistribution and voter participation do…