Events
Seminars in Economics Jerome Adda (European University Institute)
"Career Progression, Economic Downturns and Skills"
Monday Lunch Seminars Edoardo Grillo (Collegio Carlo Alberto)
"Reference Dependence and Electoral Competition" abstract "We consider a model of electoral competition in which two parties compete to get the support of a mass of voters. Each party is represented by a politician whose valence is unobservable. All voters prefer politicians with high valence, but ideological biases may lead them to vote according to party's affiliation. Candidates can…
Monday Lunch Seminars Jeffrey Ely (Northwestern University), Daniel Garrett (Toulouse School of Economics), Toomas Hinnosaar (Collegio Carlo Alberto)
"Overbooking" Abstract We consider optimal pricing policies for airlines when passengers are uncertain at the time of ticketing of their eventual realized willingness to pay for air travel. Auctions at the time of departure efficiently allocate space and a profit maximizing airline can capitalize on these gains by overbooking flights and repurchasing excess tickets from…
Occasional Seminars Allievi Program Defense Sessions September 2012
10.00 Alessandro De Sanctis "Debt-to-Growth Causality? A Matter of Instruments" 10.40 Marco Odifreddi "On the Private provision of public Goods" 11.20 Annamaria Pellerino "Public Debt and Economic Growth in Italy"
Rasmus Lentz (University of Wisconsin)
"An Equilibrium Model of Wage Dispersion and Sorting" Abstract The paper studies contributions to wage dispersion in a model that allows for sorting in firm-worker matches. The model is a general equilibrium on-the-job search model with wage formation similar to that of Cahuc et al. (2006). Workers differ in their permanent skill level and firms…
[Academic Events] Annual Conference: Financial Literacy, Saving and Retirement in an Ageing Society
Annual Conference: Financial Literacy, Saving and Retirement in an Ageing Society
Seminars in Statistics Matteo Marsili (Abdus Salam International Center for Theoretical Physics, Italy)
Collaboration in social networks The very notion of social network implies that linked individuals interact repeatedly with each other. This notion allows them not only to learn successful strategies and adapt to them, but also to condition their own behavior on the behavior of others, in a strategic forward looking manner. Game theory of repeated…
Occasional Seminars An Overview of Longevity and Longevity Risk Management Research
Michael Sherris Professor of Actuarial StudiesChief Investigator, CEPAR (ARC Centre of Excellence in Population Ageing)Australian School of Business, Risk and Actuarial StudiesUniversity of New South Wales, Sydney Download Presentation La partecipazione è libera. Si chiede cortesemente di confermare la propria presenza a chiara.girotti@carloalberto.org - tel 0116705060. Sign up: click here Abstract: This presentation provides an overview of research results on…
Seminars in Economics of Innovation and Knowledge Gustavo Crespi, Inter-American Development Bank (IDB)
"Do Financial Constraints explain Innovation Shortfalls? New Evidence from Chile" (at Dipartimento di Economia S. Cognetti de Martiis, Sala Seminari)
CarloAlberto Outreach (past events) Fifth Italian Doctoral Workshop in Economic Policy and Analysis
For info and participation: http://www.sde.unito.it/activities/idworkshop2012/index.html
CarloAlberto Outreach (past events) Giornate nfa 2012
Sabato 30 giugno: Riformare la tassazione Domenica 1 luglio: Valutazione di scuola e università http://noisefromamerika.org/articolo/giornate-nfa-2012-programma
CarloAlberto Outreach (past events) Eleventh Summer School in International and Development Economics
"Cities, Productivity and Migration" University of Milan, Palazzo Feltrinelli, Gargnano (BS), Italy
Distinguished Scientific Lectures Masters and Allievi Programs Commencement Ceremony a.y. 2011-12
Commencement Lecture by Yves Mény, President of Collegio Carlo Alberto
CarloAlberto Outreach (past events) Workshop Announcement and Call for Papers on: “Re-Imagining Europe: Demand-Driven Innovation and Economic Policy”
Where Schumpeter meets Keynes Program
Distinguished Scientific Lectures 2012 Vilfredo Pareto Conference: “Work/Family: Women, Youngsters and their Labor Market Participation”
at 12.15 p.m. Marianne Bertrand, University of Chicago "The Effects of Affirmative Action on Women's Labor Market and Family Choices: Evidence from the Norwegian Board Quota" Lecture video at 3.00 p.m. Ainhoa Aparicio-Fenoll, Collegio Carlo Alberto "Being young in Southern Europe: Temporary labor contracts, school dropouts and late emancipation" Lecture video