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Anna D’Addio (OECD)

"Pension reform, retirement age and subjective well being: evidence from a german natural experiment" abstract This paper examines the effect on the well being of current generations of pensioners of a reform to the public pension system in Germany which increases retirement age gradually to 65 for both men and women. The well-being is evaluated…

Seminars in Economics Olivier Tercieux (PSE)

"Efficiency and Stability in Large Matching Markets" Abstract We study efficient and stable mechanisms in many-to-one matching markets when the number of agents is large. We first consider an environment where individuals' preferences are drawn randomly from a class of distributions allowing for both common value and idiosyncratic components. In this context, as the market…

Seminars in Politics and Society Martin Whyte (Harvard University)

"Can China Close its Huge Rural-Urban Gap?" abstract China today may have the sharpest social cleavage between its rural and urban citizens of any country on earth, with urban households on average having close to 4 times the income of rural households.  Paradoxically, this sharp social cleavage is mainly a legacy of the socialist system…

Seminars in Politics and Society Desmond King (Nuffield College, University of Oxford)

"Concealed Advantage: The US Federal Reserve's Financial Intervention after 2007" abstract The Federal Reserve is an outlier in two respects: it enjoys unprecedented autonomy and it controls enormous authority and resources across a broad range of financial issues. That the Fed makes unilateral decisions that commit and impact trillions of public and private funds is…

Seminars in Statistics Omar El-Dakkak (Université Paris Ouest)

Exchangeable Hoeffding decompositions: characterizations and counterexamples Since the pioneering work of Hoeffding in 1948, the so-called Hoeffding-ANOVA decompositions proved to be a very effective tool in obtaining limit theorems and have been widely used in various applications. In this talk, we present the main elements of the theory of Hoeffding decompositions for (infinitely extendible) exchangeable…

Seminars in Statistics Giovanni Peccati (University of Luxembourg)

Universality and chaos I will describe some recent advances involving universality results for homogeneous sums, both in a classic and free setting. Many connection with influence functions, as well as applications to random matrices will be highlighted.

Seminars in Politics and Society Adrienne Heritier (European University Institute)

"Managing Regulation - A Firm's Perspective" Abstract When dealing with problems of market access, firms are frequently faced with a perplexing number of sectoral and cross-sectoral regulators at the national, European and international level. They have to interact with these regulators in order to obtain decisions necessary for their operations. Given multiple regulators at the…