Events
Week of Events
Monday Lunch Seminars Irina Stefanescu (FED Board)
Monday Lunch Seminars Irina Stefanescu (FED Board)
"Cost Saving and the Freezing of Corporate Pension Plans" Abstract The decision to freeze corporate defined benefit (DB) plans is related to variation in prospective cost saving, and freezing DB plans reduces total corporate compensation costs. Firms that freeze have at least 50% higher 10-year expected DB accruals than matched non-freeze firms. Comparing counterfactual DB…
Seminars in Economics of Innovation and Knowledge Rosina Moreno Serrano (Universitat de Barcelona)
Seminars in Economics of Innovation and Knowledge Rosina Moreno Serrano (Universitat de Barcelona)
"Relatedness and external linkages for Europe’s regional innovation" (at Dipartimento di Economia "S. Cognetti de Martiis")
Seminars in Statistics Frédéric Lavancier (Université de Nantes)
Seminars in Statistics Frédéric Lavancier (Université de Nantes)
Determinantal point process models and statistical inference In this talk, I will demonstrate that Determinantal point processes (DPPs) provide useful models for the description of repulsive spatial point processes. Such data are usually modeled by Gibbs point processes, where the likelihood and moment expressions are intractable and simulations are time consuming. I will recall the…