Events
Week of Events
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.…
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…
[Hosted Events] Hosted events Esposizione ai media e voto: sfide teoriche e metodologiche per le elezioni del 2018
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…
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…