Events
Week of Events
Monday Lunch Seminars Ainhoa Aparicio Fenoll (Collegio Carlo Alberto)
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,…
Collegio Aperto, Distinguished Scientific Lectures Onorato Castellino Lecture, Carlo Cottarelli
Collegio Aperto, Distinguished Scientific Lectures Onorato Castellino Lecture, Carlo Cottarelli
"In lode dell’austerita’ fiscale (… con moderazione)"
Seminars in Economics CANCELLED: Barbara Petrongolo (Queen Mary University)
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,…
Seminars in Economics Claudia Olivetti (Boston College)
Seminars in Economics Claudia Olivetti (Boston College)
"Three-generation Mobility in the United States, 1850-1940: The Role of Maternal and Paternal Grandparents"
Collegio Aperto Collegio Aperto: “The Greek Crisis and its Impact on the Future of the EU”
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)…