Events
Seminars in Politics and Society David Coen (UCL)
"Lobbying the EU"
Monday Lunch Seminars Michael Zhang (HKUST)
"Social Bias in Online Product Ratings - AQuasi-Experimental Study" (Note: the seminar is on Thursday)
Monday Lunch Seminars Pietro Terna (Collegio Carlo Alberto)
"From Agent-based models to network analysis (and return)"
Seminars in Politics and Society Nicole Scicluna (Collegio Carlo Alberto)
"Journey to the centre of the EU: Does Europe have a core, and does it matter?" abstract What kind of ‘core’, if any, does Europe have? This question has gained new urgency in light of the EU’s ongoing crises, which are reshaping the integration project and leading to a renewal of political discourses around the…
Monday Lunch Seminars Marit Hinnosaar (Collegio Carlo Alberto)
"Sales and nonlinear prices when consumers have time inconsistent preferences" (Note: the seminar is on Thursday)
Seminars in Economics Alex Gershkov (Hebrew University, Surrey University)
"Optimal Voting Rules"
Seminars in Statistics Alexandros Beskos (University College London)
SMC Samplers for Applications in High Dimensions Sequential Monte Carlo (SMC) methods are nowadays routinely applied in a variety of complex applications: hidden Markov models, dynamical systems, target tracking, control problems, just to name a few. Whereas SMC methods have been greatly refined in the last decades and are now much better understood, they are…
Seminars in Politics and Society Klaus Armingeon (Universität Bern)
"Choosing the Path of Austerity: How Policy Coalitions ShapeWelfare-policy Choices in Periods of Fiscal Consolidation" Abstract This paper focuses on the effect of fiscal adjustment programs on public social expenditures.We show that budget consolidations are generally associated with welfare state retrenchment.But do the partisan complexion and the type of government condition the extent to which…
Birgit Rudloff (Princeton University)
“Measures of Systemic Risk" Abstract Systemic risk refers to the risk that the financial system is susceptible to failures due to the characteristics of the system itself. The tremendous cost of this type of risk requires the design and implementation of tools for the efficient macroprudential regulation of financial institutions. In this talk we will…
Seminars in Economics Alp Atakan (Koc University Turkey)
"Market Selection and the Information Content of Prices" Abstract We study a market in which 2k identical and indivisible objects are allocated to z>2k bidders in two separate markets using uniform-price auctions. Before the auctions, each bidder receives an informative but imperfect signal about the state of the world and chooses one of the two…
Seminars in Economics Eugenio Miravete (University of Texas at Austin)
"European Diesel Automobiles: A Case of Technology ImitationFostering Domestic Competitiveness" Download the paper
Monday Lunch Seminars Alan Kirman (Université d’Aix-Marseille III)
"The Crisis in Economic Theory" abstract This presentation will suggest that we need an alternative approach to economic modeling in general, and macroeconomic modelling in particular, if we are to capture salient characteristics of recent economic developments. There has been an implicit acceptance of the idea that an economy in which individuals are left essentially to their own devices will…
CarloAlberto Outreach (past events) Workshop of the International Herbert A. Simon Society: “Multidimensional Subjective Well-Being”
At Fondazione Rosselli, Torino registration required at simonsociety@ymail.com
CarloAlberto Outreach (past events) Round Table: “Multidimensional Subjective Well-Being”
at Scuola Holden, Torino
Seminars in Politics and Society Pepper Culpepper (EUI)
"Structural Power and Bank Bailouts in the United Kingdom and the United States"
CarloAlberto Outreach (past events) Workshop on Multidimensional Subjective Well-being
At Fondazione Rosselli, Torino Closed Door Meeting
Seminars in Economics of Innovation and Knowledge Stefano Brusoni (Department of Management, Technology and Economics D-MTEC, ETH Zurich)
(at Dipartimento di Economia "S. Cognetti de Martiis")
Seminars in Economics Alexander Wolitzky (Stanford University)
"Mechanism Design with Maxmin Agents: Theory and an Application to Bilateral Trade"
Seminars in Economics Paul Grieco (Penn State University)
"Productivity and Quality in Health Care:Evidence from the Dialysis Industry" Download the paper