Events
Seminars in Politics and Society Igor Guardiancich (Collegio Carlo Alberto)
"Social Dialogue in the New Member States and the Great Recession: Only Doom and Gloom?"
Seminars in Politics and Society Stefano Guzzini (Uppsala University)
"The Return of Geopolitics in Europe? Social mechanisms and foreign policy identity crises" abstract The end of the Cold War demonstrated the historical possibility of peaceful change and seemingly showed the superiority of non-realist approaches in International Relations. Yet in the post-Cold War period many European countries have experienced a resurgence of a distinctively realist…
Job Market Seminars Andrea Ferrero (Federal Reserve Bank of New York)
"The Great Escape? A Quantitative Evaluationof the Fed’s Liquidity Facilities"
Seminars in Statistics Silvia Montagna (Duke University)
Computer emulation with non-stationary Gaussian processes Computer codes are used widely in modern scientific research in complex chemical, thermodynamical and astrophysical processes. These codes deterministically map vectors of high-dimensional inputs into a scalar or vector-valued output, and must be run for many different input configurations to provide an adequate knowledge of the response surface. However,…
Seminars in Economics of Innovation and Knowledge Simon Wiederhold, Center for Economic Studies (CES) and the Ifo Institute
"Buying Aircraft or Zucchini? Technological Intensity of Government Demand and Innovation" (at Dipartimento di Economia "S. Cognetti de Martiis")
Seminars in Economics Branko Urosevic (University of Belgrade)
"Globalization, Exchange Rate Regimes and Financial Contagion" abstract The crisis of the Euro zone brought to the fore important questions including: what isthe proper level of financial integration and what are the optimal exchange rate arrangements between countries that are part of tightly knit financial networks. Using a simple Diamond-Dybvig-style theoretical model we show that…
Seminars in Economics Arie Kapteyn (RAND)
"Do Consumers Know How to Value Annuities? Complexity as a Barrier to Annuitization" abstract This paper provides evidence that complexity of the annuitization decision process – rather than a preference for lump-sums –may help explain observed low levels of annuity purchases. We test this using Social Security benefits as our choice setting in an experimental module…
Monday Lunch Seminars Giovanni Mastrobuoni (Collegio Carlo Alberto)
"Optimal Criminal Behavior and the Disutility of Jail: Theory and Evidence On Bank Robberies" abstract Based on unique data on individual bank robberies, this paper estimates the distribution of criminals' disutility of jail. The identification rests on the money versus risk trade-off that criminals face when deciding whether to stay an additional minute while robbing…
Seminars in Politics and Society Mattia Guidi (Collegio Carlo Alberto)
"A formal model of decision-making on independence and accountability of regulatory agencies" abstract This paper aims to analyse, in theoretical terms, the concepts of independence and accountability, and at theorizing their relationship. Until now, the literature has disregarded (or not highlighted to a sufficient extent) the existence of an inverse relationship between independence and accountability.…
Seminars in Economics Andrea Pozzi (EIEF)
"The Effect of Internet Distribution on Brick-and-mortar Sales" abstract I study the introduction of an online shopping service for a large supermarket chain that also operates a wide network of brick-and-mortar stores. The establishment of the Internet channel led to a 13 percent increase in overall revenues, inducing only limited cannibalization on traditional sales. I…
Monday Lunch Seminars Claudio Tebaldi (Universita’ Bocconi)
"Long Run Risk and the Persistence of Consumption Shocks" abstract In a long run risk valuation model, agents observe directly the structural drivers of consumption growth and produce a selective response to these shocks. Persistence heterogeneity complicates the empirical analysis of consumption growth dynamics and the detection of long run risk: the econometrician observes only aggregate quantities and is unable…
Seminars in Politics and Society Bruno Palier (Sciences Po Paris)
Politics and Society special lectures: Citizenship and welfare in a changing Europe "The Age of Dualization" abstract Inequality in most European societies has increased during the past decades. Contrary to those who claim that inequalities are primarily the result of economic trends and necessities, we show that policies matter. Rising inequality is not a direct result of…
Seminars in Politics and Society Rainer Bauböck (European University Institute)
Politics and Society special lectures: Citizenship and welfare in a changing Europe "Citizenship configurations: analysing the multiple purposes of citizenship regimes in Europe" Abstract This paper presents an analysis of the multiple purposes of citizenship regimes in 36 states in Europe. Previous studies on this topic suffer from two methodological deficits which lead to a…
Seminars in Politics and Society Anicia García Álvarez and Dayma Echevarría León (University of Havana)
"Economic reforms and social innovation in Cuba: the self-employment sector" abstract Over the last twenty years, Cuban government has prompted moderate market-oriented reforms in order to confront the severe crisis caused by the collapse of Socialist Block in Eastern Europe. This seminar focuses on reforms on employment structure and its consequences on Cuban society and economy.…