Events
Week of Events
CarloAlberto Outreach (past events) LTI event: “Finance for a more sustainable growth: what role for LTIs?”
Monday Lunch Seminars Edoardo Grillo (Collegio Carlo Alberto)
Monday Lunch Seminars Edoardo Grillo (Collegio Carlo Alberto)
"Dynamic Campaign Spending" Abstract We build a model of electoral campaigning in which two candidates allocate money over time to control the movement of relative popularity. If any gain in a candidate's popularity tends to decay over time (making it harder for the candidate to maintain or increase her lead when she is already ahead)…
Seminars in Economics Loriana Pelizzon (Universita Ca Foscari Venice and SAFE-Goethe University Frankfurt)
Seminars in Economics Loriana Pelizzon (Universita Ca Foscari Venice and SAFE-Goethe University Frankfurt)
"Residential mortgage defaults and positive equity: Lessons from Europe" abstract We empirically investigate mortgage default behavior in the European market where mortgages are recourse loans, i.e. borrowers are responsible upon default for the difference between the value of the outstanding debt and the value of the house. We show that the majority of defaults happen…
Seminars in Economics of Innovation and Knowledge Andrès Rodriguez-Pose (LSE)
Seminars in Economics of Innovation and Knowledge Andrès Rodriguez-Pose (LSE)
"The revenge of places that don’t matter" abstract Persistent poverty, economic decay and lack of opportunities cause discontent in declining regions, while policymakers reason that successful agglomeration economies drive economic dynamism, and that regeneration has failed. This column argues that this disconnect has led many of these ‘places that don’t matter’ to revolt in a…
Hosted events The Lazarus effect
Hosted events The Lazarus effect
Territorial inequality and the political economy of places left behind
Seminars in Economics Balazs Szentes (LSE)
Seminars in Statistics Eduard Belitser (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)
Seminars in Statistics Eduard Belitser (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)
"Robust inference for general projection structures by empirical Bayes and penalization methods"