Events
Occasional Seminars Presentazione di Ernst & Young Financial-Business Advisors
Stefano Battista (partner Ernst & Young)
Occasional Seminars Francesca Pongiglione (University of Bologna)
"Climate change and individual decision-making" abstract In this presentation, three separate yet interconnected components of pro-environmental decision making are considered: (a) knowledge, in the form of scientific understanding and procedural knowledge, (b) risk perception, and (c) self-interest, either monetary or status-driven. Drawing on a variety of sources in public policy, psychology, and economics, I examine…
Seminars in Economics of Innovation and Knowledge Alessandra Voena, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University
"German-Jewish Emigres and U.S. Invention" abstract After Hitler took power in 1933, scientists who had at least one Jewish grandparent were dismissed from German universities. Many of them moved to the United States; their patents make it possible to trace research fields in which U.S. invention benefited from the arrival of German-Jewish émigrés. Difference-in-differences analyses compare changes…
CarloAlberto Outreach (past events) PhD Researchers’ Forum
December 16th, Aula L, Via Plana 10, 14.00-16.00
Seminars in Economics of Innovation and Knowledge Marco Guerzoni, Università di Torino
"Innovation and market dynamics: A two-mode network approach to user-producer relations" (at Dipartimento di Economia "S. Cognetti de Martiis)
Seminars in Economics Jakub Kastl (Stanford University)
"The 2007 Subprime Market Crisis Through the Lens of European Central Bank Auctions for Short-Term Funds" Abstract We study European banks’ demand for short-term funds (liquidity) during the summer 2007 subprime market crisis. We use bidding data from the European Central Bank’s auctions for one-week loans, their main channel of monetary policy implementation. Our analysis…
Seminars in Economics Julian Jamison (Federal Reserve Bank of Boston)
"Measuring Preferences and Predicting Outcomes"
Seminars in Economics of Innovation and Knowledge Bruce Tether, Imperial College London
"Knowledge types and organizational architecture: Configuring space to compete in symbolic and synthetic knowledge-based services" (at Dipartimento di Economia "S. Cognetti de Martiis")
Seminars in Economics Miklós Koren (Central European University)
"Machines and machinists: Capital-skill complementarity from an international trade perspective" Abstract We estimate the effect of imported machines on the wages of machine operators utilizing Hungarian linked employer-employee data. We infer exposure to imported machines from detailed trade statistics of the firm and the occupation description of the worker. We find that workers exposed to…
Monday Lunch Seminars Veruska Oppedisano (University College London, UCL)
"Youngsters' Reaction to Emancipation Incentives"by Ainhoa Aparicio and Veruska Opedisano Abstract We study the income and substitution effects of a rental subsidy together with its effectiveness in promoting youngsters' independence. We exploit the introduction of a sizeable monthly subsidy in Spain in 2008, granted to all youngsters in the 22-29 age brackets who earn a…
Seminars in Economics of Innovation and Knowledge Luigi Benfratello, Università di Torino
"Spatial clustering and nonlinearities in the location of multinational firms" (at Dipartimento di Economia "S. Cognetti de Martiis")
Seminars in Economics Emmanuel Farhi (Harvard University)
"Insurance and Taxation over the Life-Cycle" Download the paper
Occasional Seminars Allievi Program Defense Sessions November 2011
16:00 Katia Sette: “The monetary transmission mechanism: evidence from Italian firms” 17:00 Francesco Grande: “The toric model of reversible Markov chains”