Events
Monday Lunch Seminars Edmund Cannon (University of Bristol)
"Adverse selection in the UK annuity market and the 1956 Finance Act" (Note: the seminar is on Thursday) abstract This paper proposes a new price test for evidence of active adverse…
Seminars in Politics and Society Brent Simpson (University of South Carolina)
"Moral Judgments, Material Sanctions, and Collective Action" at Campus Luigi Einaudi (Room 3D233) Abstract In group settings individuals can often benefit more by free-riding, letting others make costly contributions to…
Seminars in Statistics Laura Ventura (University of Padua)
Robust Approximate Bayesian Inference The likelihood function is the basis of both frequentist and Bayesian methods. However, the stability of likelihood-based procedures requires strict adherence to the model assumptions: mild…
Monday Lunch Seminars Antonella Tolomeo (Collegio Carlo Alberto)
"Disentangling Overlapping Shocks in Portfolio Choices" abstract In a market where price shocks result from the sum of several mean-reverting shocks, this paper finds the optimal trading policies and their…
Seminars in Economics Paolo Guasoni (Dublin City University)
"Healthcare and Consumption with Aging" Abstract Health-care benefits individuals by slowing the natural growth of mortality, indirectly increasing utility through consumption over a longer lifetime. This paper solves the problem…
Seminars in Politics and Society Armando Barrientos (University of Manchester)
"Social Assistance in Developing Countries: Progress, innovations, and challenges?" abstract Since the turn of the century, large-scale programmes providing regular and reliable direct transfers to households in poverty have mushroomed…
Occasional Seminars Ludovic Renou (University of Essex)
"Revealed preferences over risk and uncertainty" Sign-up sheet
Seminars in Politics and Society Christoph Scherrer (Univ. of Kassel, Germany)
"The Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP): Limiting Policy Space?" abstract The EU currently negotiates with the USA a comprehensive trade and investment agreement. The talk will provide a brief…
Seminars in Economics of Innovation and Knowledge Paul Jensen (Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research)
"International Patent Examination Outcomes"
Occasional Seminars Ainhoa Aparicio Fenoll (Collegio Carlo Alberto)
CHILD seminar: "Immigrant Children and Native Language"
Distinguished Scientific Lectures 2016 Vilfredo Pareto Lecture: “Employment and Wage Insurance within Firms”
Marco Pagano (Università di Napoli Federico II) Introduction by Giovanna Nicodano Video
Seminars in Economics of Innovation and Knowledge Peter Warrian (University of Toronto)
"Advanced Materials and the Boundaries of the Firm: The Auto Steel Case" (at Dipartimento di Economia "S. Cognetti de Martiis")
Seminars in Statistics Richard Nickl (University of Cambridge)
Nonparametric Bayesian inference for discretely sampled diffusions We consider the nonlinear statistical inverse problem ofmaking inference on the unknown parameters of a diffusion processdescribing the solution of a stochastic differential…
Monday Lunch Seminars Cristian Bartolucci (Collegio Carlo Alberto)
"A Symmetric Model of Firms and Workers" Abstract In this paper we develop a model in which unemployed searchers may either encountera firm and be considered as a new employee…
Seminars in Economics Dov Samet (Tel Aviv University)
"Weak dominance: A mystery cracked" Download the relevant papers: http://www.tau.ac.il/~samet/papers/weak.pdfhttp://www.tau.ac.il/~samet/papers/npce.pdf
Seminars in Economics of Innovation and Knowledge Ben Jones (Kellog School of Management, Northwestern University)
"The Reverse Matthew Effect: Catastrophe and Consequence in Scientific Teams" abstract Teamwork pervades modern economies, yet teamwork can make individual roles difficult to ascertain. In the sciences, the canonical "Matthew…
Seminars in Economics Matthias Parey (University of Essex)
"The Selection of High-Skilled Migrants"
Seminars in Politics and Society Alexandre Afonso (Univ. of Leiden, Netherlandes)
"Institutional Change in South European Labour Market Regimes After the Crisis" abstract This paper seeks to map and compare change in labour markets regimes in Spain, Italy, Portugal and Greece in the…