Events
Week of Events
Monday Lunch Seminars Giovanni Mastrobuoni (Collegio Carlo Alberto)
Monday Lunch Seminars Giovanni Mastrobuoni (Collegio Carlo Alberto)
"Police Patrols and Crime" Abstract An influential literature has used the aftermath of terrorist attacks to estimatelarge effects of police street deployment on crime. However, the elasticities obtainedin these settings may not easily extrapolate to more standard circumstances. Thispaper exploits a natural experiment that aimed to increase police presence in morethan 6,000 well-defined areas, by…
Carlo Alberto Law Seminars David L. Faigman (Distinguished Professor of Law, University of California, Hastings College of the Law)
Carlo Alberto Law Seminars David L. Faigman (Distinguished Professor of Law, University of California, Hastings College of the Law)
"Constitutional Law in the Era of Trump"
Seminars in Economics Diego Garcia (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
Seminars in Economics Diego Garcia (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
"The kinks of financial journalism" Abstract This paper studies the content of financial news as a function of past market returns. As a proxy for media content we use positive andnegative word counts from general financial news columns from the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times. Our empirical analysis allows us to discriminate…
Seminars in Politics and Society Pekka Sulkunen (Università of Helsinki)
Seminars in Politics and Society Pekka Sulkunen (Università of Helsinki)
"Common Good, Common Interest – Public Good, Public Interest. What Do We Promote (and Prevent) with Lifestyle Regulation Policies?" abstract Lifestyle risks account for a major part of the global burden on health as well as on welfare and security. The oldest part of welfare state institutions and policies have been directed at lifestyle issues:…
CarloAlberto Outreach (past events) “L’educazione finanziaria per l’età anziana: buone pratiche e errori da evitare”
Seminars in Statistics Ester Mariucci (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin)
Seminars in Statistics Ester Mariucci (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin)
Wasserstein distances and other metrics for discretely observed Lévy processes We present some upper bounds for the Wasserstein distance of order p between the product measures associated with the increments of Lévy processes with possibly infinite Lévy measures. As an application, we derive an upper bound for the total variation distance between the marginals of…