Events
Week of Events
Monday Lunch Seminars Antonella Tolomeo (Collegio Carlo Alberto)
Monday Lunch Seminars Antonella Tolomeo (Collegio Carlo Alberto)
"Disentangling Overlapping Shocks in Portfolio Choices" abstract In a market where price shocks result from the sum of several mean-reverting shocks, this paper finds the optimal trading policies and their welfare for informed investors, who observe all individual shocks, and uninformed investors, who estimate them from the aggregate shock alone. All investors have constant relative…
Seminars in Economics Paolo Guasoni (Dublin City University)
Seminars in Economics Paolo Guasoni (Dublin City University)
"Healthcare and Consumption with Aging" Abstract Health-care benefits individuals by slowing the natural growth of mortality, indirectly increasing utility through consumption over a longer lifetime. This paper solves the problem of household dynamic healthcare, consumption, and saving when natural mortality grows exponentially to reflect the Gompertz' law, while both utility and health-care are isoelastic. The…
Seminars in Politics and Society Armando Barrientos (University of Manchester)
Seminars in Politics and Society Armando Barrientos (University of Manchester)
"Social Assistance in Developing Countries: Progress, innovations, and challenges?" abstract Since the turn of the century, large-scale programmes providing regular and reliable direct transfers to households in poverty have mushroomed in in low- and middle-income countries. By 2010, conservative estimates indicate that around one billion people in low- and middle-income countries lived in households receiving…
Occasional Seminars Ludovic Renou (University of Essex)
Occasional Seminars Ludovic Renou (University of Essex)
"Revealed preferences over risk and uncertainty" Sign-up sheet
Seminars in Politics and Society Christoph Scherrer (Univ. of Kassel, Germany)
Seminars in Politics and Society Christoph Scherrer (Univ. of Kassel, Germany)
"The Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP): Limiting Policy Space?" abstract The EU currently negotiates with the USA a comprehensive trade and investment agreement. The talk will provide a brief overview of the objectives, the differences between the trading partners, and the likely outcome of the negotiations. It will focus on the question to what…
Seminars in Economics of Innovation and Knowledge Paul Jensen (Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research)
Seminars in Economics of Innovation and Knowledge Paul Jensen (Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research)
"International Patent Examination Outcomes"
Occasional Seminars Ainhoa Aparicio Fenoll (Collegio Carlo Alberto)
Occasional Seminars Ainhoa Aparicio Fenoll (Collegio Carlo Alberto)
CHILD seminar: "Immigrant Children and Native Language"
Distinguished Scientific Lectures 2016 Vilfredo Pareto Lecture: “Employment and Wage Insurance within Firms”
Distinguished Scientific Lectures 2016 Vilfredo Pareto Lecture: “Employment and Wage Insurance within Firms”
Marco Pagano (Università di Napoli Federico II) Introduction by Giovanna Nicodano Video
Seminars in Economics of Innovation and Knowledge Peter Warrian (University of Toronto)
Seminars in Economics of Innovation and Knowledge Peter Warrian (University of Toronto)
"Advanced Materials and the Boundaries of the Firm: The Auto Steel Case" (at Dipartimento di Economia "S. Cognetti de Martiis")
Seminars in Statistics Richard Nickl (University of Cambridge)
Seminars in Statistics Richard Nickl (University of Cambridge)
Nonparametric Bayesian inference for discretely sampled diffusions We consider the nonlinear statistical inverse problem ofmaking inference on the unknown parameters of a diffusion processdescribing the solution of a stochastic differential equation. Theobservation regime is such that the process is sampled at discretetime points that are a fixed distance apart, and we investigate theasymptotic regime when…