Events
Seminars in Statistics Jean-Bernard Salomond (CWI, Netherlands)
Bayesian nonparametric testing for embedded hypotheses with application to shape constrains If Bayesian nonparametric methods have received a great interest in the literature, only a few is known for testing nonparametric hypotheses, and especially the asymptotic properties of such tests. The problem of testing between two nonparametric hypotheses is known to be difficult, but the…
Job Market Seminars Kirill Shakhnov (EUI)
"The allocation of talent: finance versus entrepreneurship"
Job Market Seminars Paul Muller (VU University Amsterdam)
"Comparing methods to evaluate the effects of job search assistance"
Monday Lunch Seminars Giuseppe Lopomo (Duke University, Fuqua School of Business)
"Budget-Constrained Procurement'' Abstract We characterize optimal procurement mechanisms for a financially constrained buyer facing suppliers with privately known costs. Optimal mechanisms can be implemented by simple sequential auctions.
Vincenzo Andrietti (Carlos III Madrid e Università di Pescara)
"Auto-enrollment, Matching andParticipation in 401(k) Plans" Abstract This study uses plan-level data from Form 5500s filed by plan sponsors annuallywith the Internal Revenue Service to analyze the effects of automatic enrollment andemployer matching on 401(k) plan participation rates, and the effect of automaticenrollment on employer matching rates. The potential endogeneity of employerauto-enrollment/matching decisions is addressed…
Monday Lunch Seminars Andrea Buffa (School of Management Boston University)
"Asset Management Contracts and Equilibrium Prices" (Note: the seminar is on Thursday)
Seminars in Economics of Innovation and Knowledge Lorenzo Zirulia (Università di Bologna)
"How Far from the Tree does the (Good) Apple Fall? Spin-Out Generation and the Survival of High-Tech Firms" (at Dipartimento di Economia "S. Cognetti de Martiis")
Seminars in Economics Theodore Papageorgiou (Mc Gill University)
"Worker Sorting and Agglomeration Economies"
Seminars in Economics Myrto Kalouptsidi (Princeton University)
"Detection and Impact of Industrial Subsidies: TheCase of World Shipbuilding"
Monday Lunch Seminars Roberto Marfè (Collegio Carlo Alberto)
"Income Insurance and the Equilibrium Term-Structure of Equity"
Seminars in Statistics Luis Enrique Nieto-Barajas (ITAM, México)
Spatial gamma processes in disease mapping In this talk we will present Bayesian models based on Markov random fields of gamma type to model the relative risk in disease mapping data. The spatial gamma processes allow for different spatial dependence among neighbours. We describe the properties of ths processes and use them as prior distributions…
Seminars in Statistics Jaeyong Lee (Seoul National University)
Dependent species sampling models We consider a novel Bayesian nonparametric model for density estimation with an underlying spatial structure. The model is built on a class of species sampling models, which are discrete random probability measures that can be represented as a mixture of random support points and random weights. Specifically, we construct a collection…
Seminars in Economics of Innovation and Knowledge Olof Ejermo, CIRCLE, Lund University
"Matching or spillovers? Productivity effects from labor mobility over the careers of inventors"
Seminars in Statistics Taeryon Choi (Korea University)
Generalized partially additive Bayesian spectral analysis regression models In this talk, we present a Bayesian method for generalized partially additive regression using a spectral analysis of Gaussian process priors for the regression function. The smoothing prior distribution for the spectral coefficients incorporates hyper parameters that control the smoothness of the function and the tradeoff between…
Seminars in Statistics James Scott (University of Texas at Austin)
False discovery rate smoothing Many approaches for multiple testing begin with the assumption that all tests in a given study should be combined into a global false-discovery-rate analysis. But this may be inappropriate for many of today's large-scale screening problems, where test statistics have a natural spatial lattice structure (voxels in the brain, distance along…