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Occasional Seminars Allievi Defense Session

JUNIOR ALLIEVI 10.00 Debora SesiaTitle: Hidden Markov models and their applications in biology 11.15 Tommaso PortaluriTitle: Channels of Knowledge Transfer at CERN: the case of the PACMAN Marie-Curie project SENIOR ALLIEVI 12.00 Marco MasoeroTitle: "Multi-population mean field games with local coupling"

Seminars in Economics Sonia Oreffice (University of Surrey)

"The Demand for Season of Birth" Abstract We study the determinants of season of birth, for white married women aged 20-45 in the US, using birth certificate and Census data. We also elicit the willingness to pay for season of birth through discrete choice experiments implemented on the Amazon Mechanical Turk platform. We document that the probability…

Seminars in Statistics Bruno Scarpa (University of Padua)

Bayesian modelling of networks in business intelligence problems Complex network data problems are increasingly common in many fields of application. Our motivation is drawn from strategic marketing studies monitoring customer choices of specific products, along with co-subscription networks encoding multiple purchasing behavior. Data are available for several agencies within the same insurance company, and our…

CarloAlberto Outreach (past events) Workshop: “Decentralized Markets with Informational Asymmetries”

Friday November 25th 9:00 9:25 Welcome coffee 9:25 9:30 Welcome address 9:30 10:40 Juan Ortner (Boston University) "Collusion in Auctions with Constrained Bids: Theory and Evidence from Public Procurement" 10:40 11:00 Coffee break 11:00 12:10 William Fuchs (University of California Berkeley) "Information Spillovers in Asset Markets with Correlated Values" 12:10 13:20 Kyungmin Kim (University of Miami) "Trading dynamics…

Seminars in Politics and Society Georg Menz (Goldsmiths University of London)

"Constructing Response Strategies to the Euro Crisis: Groupthink, Identity and Ideas in Decision-Making" abstract The response strategy to the crisis of the single currency came with some delay and was shaped by the respective positions of national governments. There was considerable disunity and disagreement at that level. These disagreements stemmed from ideas about different conceptions…

Seminars in Economics Francesca Cornelli (London Business School)

"Team Stability and Performance: Evidence fromPrivate Equity" abstract We examine the effect of team turnover on performance studying the privateequity industry. Using a unique data set that tracks over time teams in 138PE managers and their performance, we uncover a positive relation betweenturnover and fund performance. We propose and confirm in the data twochannels that…

CarloAlberto Outreach (past events) Workshop: “Resurrection or Reinvention: Industrial Resilience in Traditional Manufacturing Regions”

ll workshop è organizzato da Brick-Collegio Carlo Alberto, Dip.to Cognetti de Martiis - Università di Torino, Politecnico di Torino, Munk School of Global Affairs, ISMEL- Polo del Novecento. L’evento si colloca nel quadro di un progetto internazionale di ricerca che analizza comparativamente con l’Ontario lo sviluppo dell’industria e dell’indotto automobilistico nella regione di Torino. La…

Monday Lunch Seminars Julien Penasse (University of Luxembourg)

"Bubbles and Trading Frenzies: Evidence from the Art Market" abstract We use the art market as a laboratory to test speculative bubble models based on investor disagreement. Several aspects distinguish the art market from other markets: it features unlevered and wealthy investors, financial and technological innovations are absent, and transaction costs are substantial. We find…