Events
Seminars in Statistics Juhee Lee (University of California at Santa Cruz)
Bayesian inference for intra-tumor heterogeneity in mutations and copy number variation Tissue samples from the same tumor are heterogeneous. They consist of different subclones that can be characterized by differences in DNA nucleotide sequences and copy numbers on multiple loci. Inference on tumor heterogeneity thus involves the identification of the subclonal copy number and single…
Seminars in Statistics Harry Crane (Rutgers University)
Relative exchangeability Symmetry arguments lie at the heart of classical considerations in inductive inference and statistics. In statistics, de Finetti's notion of exchangeability is the most prominent symmetry assumption, laying the foundation for Bayesian inference. In practice, many statistical and scientific problems exhibit only partial symmetry determined by some underlying structure in a population. As…
Occasional Seminars Workshop of the International Herbert A. Simon Society: “Adaptive and Ecological Rationality in Complex Environments”
At Campus Luigi Einaudi, Torino In collaboration with Master in Economics and Complexity of the Collegio Carlo Alberto and University of Turin http://herbertsimonsociety.org/
Seminars in Economics of Innovation and Knowledge Riccardo Fini (University of Bologna)
"Breaking the career path in academia: does entrepreneurship help?" (at Dipartimento di Economia "S. Cognetti de Martiis")
Distinguished Scientific Lectures Carlo Alberto Lecture: Guido Menzio (University of Pennsylvania)
"The Macroeconomics of Price Dispersion"
Monday Lunch Seminars Tiago Pires (UNC)
"Cash-Constrained Households and Product Size"
Occasional Seminars Allievi Program Defense Sessions
Alessandro Milazzo title: The Italian Pension Gap: a Stochastic Optimal Control Approach
Seminars in Economics of Innovation and Knowledge Michele Pezzoni (Université Côte d’Azur, CNRS, GREDEG, France)
"What are the factors shaping technological novelty diffusion? The impact of initial conditions" (at Dipartimento di Economia "S. Cognetti de Martiis")
Collegio Aperto Collegio Aperto: “The Greek Crisis and its Impact on the Future of the EU”
Welcome and Introduction: Margarita Estevez-Abe (Syracuse University and Collegio Carlo Alberto) First Part: How We Got to the Crisis: The Problems Embedded in the EU and EMU - The Future of Europe Maurizio Ferrera (Università di Milano) Wolfgang Streeck (Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies) Manos Matsaganis (Athens University of Economics and Business)…
Seminars in Economics Claudia Olivetti (Boston College)
"Three-generation Mobility in the United States, 1850-1940: The Role of Maternal and Paternal Grandparents"
Seminars in Economics CANCELLED: Barbara Petrongolo (Queen Mary University)
"Reservation wages and the wage flexibility puzzle" Abstract Wages are only mildly cyclical, implying that shocks to labour demand have a larger short-run impact on unemployment rather than wages, at odds with the quantitative predictions of the canonical search and matching model. This paper provides an alternative and informative perspective on the wage flexibility puzzle,…
Collegio Aperto, Distinguished Scientific Lectures Onorato Castellino Lecture, Carlo Cottarelli
"In lode dell’austerita’ fiscale (… con moderazione)"
Monday Lunch Seminars Ainhoa Aparicio Fenoll (Collegio Carlo Alberto)
"Immigrant Networks and Remittances" abstract This paper studies the influence of immigrants' social networks on remittances, both the probability of remitting and the quantity remitted. We use the Spanish Migrant Survey, a unique database with detailed information both on immigrant's residence location and remittances. Our methodology accounts for problems of reverse causality, common unobserved factors,…
Seminars in Politics and Society Teresa Jurado Guerrero (UNED, Madrid)
"Fathering in Construction: What favours a positive paternal involvement in the Spanish context?" abstract Positive paternal involvement (Pleck and Masciadrelli 2004) has become an important concept in research on new ways of fathering and its consequences for child development. This presentation draws on data of the Spanish case of the international TransParent research project and…
Seminars in Economics Matthew Harding (Duke University)
"Sparsity-Based Estimation of a Panel Quantile Count Data Model with Applications to Big Data"
Seminars in Economics of Innovation and Knowledge Kostas Kounetas (University of Patras)
"Technology Gaps in European Regions and factors that affect it: A Meta-Frontier Approach. Is there any convergence?" (at Dipartimento di Economia "S. Cognetti de Martiis")
Seminars in Economics Stepan Jurajda (CERGE-EI)
"Comparing Real Wage Rates using McWages" abstract Thanks to the standardized work protocol and technology of McDonald’s restaurants across the globe, the hourly wage rate of Basic Crew McDonald’s workers offers consistent, easy-to-interpret, and up-to-date wage comparisons. First, the wage rate expressed in a common currency measures the costs of labor in prices of tradables…
Monday Lunch Seminars Marit Hinnosaar (Collegio Carlo Alberto)
"Why taxes on unhealthy food might not lead to healthy behavior?"