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Monday Lunch Seminars Chiara Daniela Pronzato (University of Turin and Collegio Carlo Alberto)
Monday Lunch Seminars Chiara Daniela Pronzato (University of Turin and Collegio Carlo Alberto)
"Gender Quotas: Challenging the Boards, Performance and the Stock Market" with Valeria Ferraro (Bocconi University) and Paola Profeta (Bocconi University and Dondena)
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Seminars in Economics David Card (University of California)
Seminars in Economics David Card (University of California)
"Firms and Labor Market Inequality: Evidence and Some Theory"
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[Academic Events] Elsa Fornero to speak at the CEPS event “Meeting Tomorrow’s Challenges: A new work initiative for Europe”
Elsa Fornero to speak at the CEPS event “Meeting Tomorrow’s Challenges: A new work initiative for Europe”
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Seminars in Economics David Ribar (Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research)
Seminars in Economics David Ribar (Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research)
"A Longitudinal Analysis of Violence and Housing Insecurity" abstract Violence and housing insecurity are horrible events that may be intertwined, with violence possibly forcing victims to abandon their accommodations and housing insecurity depriving people of the safety of a home or placing them in compromised circumstances. This study uses national, prospective, longitudinal data from the…
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Occasional Seminars The Common Core of Legal Systems and the Legal Hegemony of the United States
Occasional Seminars The Common Core of Legal Systems and the Legal Hegemony of the United States
A discussion between Franz Werro, Professor of Law, Fribourg and Georgetown, Faculty Member IUC, Director CTLS, Editor in Chief American J. Comparative Law. Ugo Mattei, Professor of Law, Turin and U.C. Hastings, Academic Coordinator IUC, General Editor of The Common Core of European Private Law Project, Fellow of Collegio Carlo Alberto Chaired byGianmaria Ajani,…
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Occasional Seminars Avidit Acharya (Stanford University)
Occasional Seminars Avidit Acharya (Stanford University)
"Improving the Relationship: A Principal-Agent Model of Progressive Learning and Path Dependence" Abstract We study a dynamic principal-agent relationship with adverse selection and limited commitment. We show that when the relationship is subject to time-varying productivity shocks, the principal may be able to improve her value over time by gradually learning the agent's private information.…
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Seminars in Statistics Natesh Pillai (Harvard University)
Seminars in Statistics Natesh Pillai (Harvard University)
Bayesian Factor Models in High Dimensions Sparse Bayesian factor models are routinely implemented for parsimonious dependence modeling and dimensionality reduction in high-dimensional applications. We provide theoretical understanding of such Bayesian procedures in terms of posterior convergence rates in inferring high-dimensional covariance matrices where the dimension can be larger than the sample size. We will also…
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Seminars in Statistics Steven Scott (Google)
Seminars in Statistics Steven Scott (Google)
Predicting the Present with Bayesian Structural Time Series This article describes a system for short term forecasting based on an ensemble prediction that averages over different combinations of predictors. The system combines a structural time series model for the target series with regression component capturing the contributions of contemporaneous search query data. A spike-and-slab prior…
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Seminars in Politics and Society Barbara Risman (University of Illinois at Chicago)
Seminars in Politics and Society Barbara Risman (University of Illinois at Chicago)
"From Sex Roles to Gender Structure: Understanding Inequality for Social Change" at Campus Einaudi (CLE), Dept of Cultures, politics and society, 3rd floor, room D233 abstract This talk has three major goals. First, I provide a succinct intellectual history of research and theorizing about gender in the social sciences in the 20th Century until today. I do…
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Occasional Seminars Paola Bord on (Universidad de Chile)
Occasional Seminars Paola Bord on (Universidad de Chile)
"Employer Learning, Statistical Discrimination and University Prestige"
Occasional Seminars Dalibor Stevanovic (UQAM)
Occasional Seminars Dalibor Stevanovic (UQAM)
"Dynamic Effects of Credit Shocks in a Data-Rich Environment"
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Occasional Seminars Allievi Program Defense Sessions
Occasional Seminars Allievi Program Defense Sessions
10.30 Danilo Forastiere "Mean field approaches for linear threshold models on graphs" 11.00 Laura Risso "Branching Processes: properties and applications" 11.30 Alessandro Grande "Bayesian Inference in Epidemics over Networks"
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Distinguished Scientific Lectures Masters’ and Allievi Programs Commencement Ceremony a.y. 2015-16
Distinguished Scientific Lectures Masters’ and Allievi Programs Commencement Ceremony a.y. 2015-16
Masters’ and Allievi Programs commencement Ceremony 2016 Program Introduction Pietro Terna President, Collegio Carlo Alberto Commencement Lectures “On Banking, Europe and Innovation” Cav. del Lav. Camillo Venesio CEO and General Manager, Banca del Piemonte "What we talk about when we talk about being an Allievo" Luciano Pomatto Alumnus Allievi Honors Program; Assistant Professor of Economics,…