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Occasional Seminars Daniel Klein (Professor of Economics, George Mason University)
Occasional Seminars Daniel Klein (Professor of Economics, George Mason University)
"Commutative, Distributive, and Estimative Justice in Adam Smith" organised by Istituto Bruno Leoni
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Monday Lunch Seminars Albin Erlanson (Stockholm School of Economics)
Monday Lunch Seminars Albin Erlanson (Stockholm School of Economics)
"Costly Verification in Collective decisions" Abstract We study how a principal should optimally choose between implementing a new policy and maintaining the status quo when the information relevant for the decision is privately held by agents. Agents are strategic in revealing their information, but the principal can verify an agent's information at a given cost.…
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Job Market Seminars Tommaso Sonno (LSE)
Job Market Seminars Tommaso Sonno (LSE)
"Globalisation and conflicts: the good, the bad, and the ugly of corporations in Africa" Job Market Seminar abstract Using georeferenced data on the affiliates and headquarters of multinational enterprises together with georeferenced conflict data, this work is the first to establish a causal link between the activities of multinational enterprises and violence. The results indicate…
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Job Market Seminars Giovanni Nicolò (UCLA)
Job Market Seminars Giovanni Nicolò (UCLA)
"Monetary Policy, Expectations and Business Cycles in the U.S. Post-War Period" Job Market Paper Abstract This paper examines the interactions between monetary policy and the formation of expectations to explain U.S. business cycle fluctuations in the post-war period. I estimate a conventional medium-scale New-Keynesian model, in which I relax the assumption that the central pursued…
Seminars in Statistics Davide La Vecchia (University of Geneva)
Seminars in Statistics Davide La Vecchia (University of Geneva)
Saddlepoint techniques for dependent data Saddlepoint techniques provide numerically accurate, higher-order, small sample approximations to the distribution of estimators and test statistics. While a rich theory is available for saddlepoint techniques in the case of independently and identically distributed observations, only a few results have been obtained for dependent data. In this talk, we explain…
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Job Market Seminars Arnaud Philippe (Toulouse School of Economics)
Job Market Seminars Arnaud Philippe (Toulouse School of Economics)
"Incarcerate one to calm the others?Spillover effects of incarceration among criminal groups" Job Market paper abstract Abstract: What is the effect of incarcerating one member of a group on her criminalpartners? I answer this question using administrative data on all convictions in France between2003 and 2012. I exploit past joint convictions to identify 34,000 groups.…
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Seminars in Economics of Innovation and Knowledge Grazia Cecere (Telecom Ecole de Management, Institut Mines Telecom e Université Paris Sud, Paris Saclay)
Seminars in Economics of Innovation and Knowledge Grazia Cecere (Telecom Ecole de Management, Institut Mines Telecom e Université Paris Sud, Paris Saclay)
"STEM and teens: Algorithm bias in the social network. Field experiment to identify any possible algorithm bias in the ad distribution"
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Job Market Seminars Arjada Bardhi (Northwestern University)
Job Market Seminars Arjada Bardhi (Northwestern University)
"Optimal Discovery and Influence through Selective Sampling" abstract Most decisions – from a job seeker appraising a job offer to a policymaker assessinga novel social program – involve the consideration of numerous attributes of an objectof interest. This paper studies the optimal evaluation of a complex project of uncertainquality by sampling a limited number of…
Seminars in Economics of Innovation and Knowledge Luc Soete (MERIT – Maastricht University)
Seminars in Economics of Innovation and Knowledge Luc Soete (MERIT – Maastricht University)
"Employment displacement in the fourth industrial revolution: torn between fear and past evidence"
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Monday Lunch Seminars Marina Della Giusta (University of Reading)
Monday Lunch Seminars Marina Della Giusta (University of Reading)
"Keep calm and carry on: gender differences in endurance"
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Seminars in Economics of Innovation and Knowledge Francesco Zirpoli (Università di Venezia)
Seminars in Economics of Innovation and Knowledge Francesco Zirpoli (Università di Venezia)
"Post merger "network" integration: the case of Fiat and Chrysler" abstract I will present a forthcoming book on the merger between Fiat and Chrysler, co-authored with Markus Becker and Josh Whitford. This is a book about mergers of large firms which have extensive supply networks who carry out a substantial part of their productive and…
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Seminars in Politics and Society Simona Guerra (University of Leicester)
Seminars in Politics and Society Simona Guerra (University of Leicester)
"Public Euroscepticism after the 2016 British referendum: Unleashing emotion" abstract What is Euroscepticism? This presentation will explore how the study of public Euroscepticism has changed since the EU fifth enlargement (2004-07) and the recent British referendum. It is widely accepted that social learning, interaction and political communication have a significant impact on individual political opinions…
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Occasional Seminars Neil Gandal (Tel Aviv University)
Occasional Seminars Neil Gandal (Tel Aviv University)
"Network-Mediated Knowledge Spillovers: A Cross-Country Comparative Analysis of Information Security Innovations" Abstract A large and growing literature has used patent and patent citation data to measure knowledge spillovers across inventions and organizations, but relatively few papers in this literature have explicitly considered the collaboration networks formed by inventors as a mechanism for shaping and transmitting…
Seminars in Statistics Fabrizio Leisen (University of Kent)
Seminars in Statistics Fabrizio Leisen (University of Kent)
Compound Random Measures Compound Random Measures (CoRM's) have been recently introduced by Griffin and Leisen (2017) and represent a general and tractable class of vectors of Completely Random Measures. This talk aims to provide an overview about CoRM's by illustrating some recent developments about their use in Bayesian nonparametrics.