Events
Week of Events
Seminars in Economics of Innovation and Knowledge Michele Pezzoni (Université Côte d’Azur, CNRS, GREDEG, France)
"Is this novel technology going to hit? Genetic markers predicting technological novelty diffusion"
Monday Lunch Seminars Margherita Calderone (Università di Torino)
Monday Lunch Seminars Margherita Calderone (Università di Torino)
"The Intergenerational Effects of Cash Transfers to Groups of Men and Women: Evidence from Northern Uganda" abstract This paper looks at the intergenerational effects of a cash transfer, the Youth Opportunities Program (YOP), on human capital investments in children in conflict-affected Northern Uganda. The YOP was primarily aimed at providing startup money to groups of…
Seminars in Economics Alessandro Pavan (Northwstern University)
Seminars in Economics Alessandro Pavan (Northwstern University)
"Robust predictions in dynamic screening" Abstract We characterize properties of optimal dynamic mechanisms using a variational approach thatpermits us to tackle directly the full program. This allows us to make predictions for a considerably broader class of stochastic processes than can be handled by the first order, Myersonian,approach", which focuses on local incentive compatibility constraints…
Seminars in Politics and Society Gilles Pinson (Science Po Bordeaux)
Seminars in Politics and Society Gilles Pinson (Science Po Bordeaux)
"Beyond neoliberal imposition: State-local cooperation and the blending of social and economic objectives in French urban development corporations" Abstract For more than 15 years, the French central State created Etablissements publics d’aménagement in a series of major cities. These EPAs are in charge of large urban development projects mixing infrastructure, office development and housing projects…