Events
[Hosted Events] Hosted events Common Constitutional Traditions in Europe
ELI CCT Project Kick-Off Conference Giovanni Pitruzzella, newly-appointed Advocate General at the Court of Justice of the EU, and former head of the Italian Competition Authority, will give a keynote speech. Other speakers include Sabino Cassese, former judge of the Italian Constitutional Court, Giacinto Della Cananea, Professor of Administrative Law at the University of Rome Tor Vergata, Francis Jacobs, former Advocate General…
Monday Lunch Seminars Federico Boffa (UniBolzano)
"Congestion Externality and Autonomous Vehicles"
Seminars in Politics and Society Pedro Ferreira Marques (Universitat Politecnica de Valencia)
"Innovation in less developed regions"
Seminars in Economics of Innovation and Knowledge Carlos Serrano (UPF)
"How Redeployable are Patent Assets? Evidence from Failed Startups" ABSTRACT Entrepreneurial firms are important sources of patented inventions. Yet little is known about what happens to patents “released” to the market when startups fail. This study provides a first look at the frequency and speed with which patents originating from failed startups are redeployed to…
Seminars in Economics Gordon Dahl (UC Berkeley)
"Intergenerational Spillovers in Disability Insurance"
Seminars in Politics and Society David Nicolas Hopmann (University of Southern Denmark, SDU)
"Comparing Political Journalism" at Campus Luigi Einaudi (Aula 3d233)
Seminars in Economics of Innovation and Knowledge Nicolas Carayol (Université de Bordeaux)
"Team Work Complexity, Scientific Competition and Interdisciplinary Research" Abstract This paper aims at understanding the increasing complexity of researchprojects as one of the possible explanations for the fall in researchers’ productivity observedover decades. We conceptualize a research project as an idea and a team of researchers.Each idea is associated to a given knowledge production function…
Monday Lunch Seminars Paolo Ghirardato (Collegio Carlo Alberto) and Daniele Pennesi
"A General Theory of Subjective Mixtures" Abstract We provide a framework for constructing subjective mixtures which requires neither the Certainty Independence nor the Monotonicity axiom, replacing them with much weaker "local'' properties, and which --as we show by means of several examples-- can thus serve as a purely subjective foundation to most of the recent…
Seminars in Statistics Eduard Belitser (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)
"Robust inference for general projection structures by empirical Bayes and penalization methods"
Seminars in Economics Balazs Szentes (LSE)
"Optimal Monitoring Design"
Hosted events The Lazarus effect
Territorial inequality and the political economy of places left behind
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…
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…
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)…
Collegio Aperto Sixteenth Luca D’Agliano Lecture in Development Economics
"Is Multilateralism Dead?: Trade in the Era of Trump" Robert W. Staiger (Roth Family Distinguished Professor in the Arts and Sciences and Professor of Economics, Dartmouth College)
Seminars in Statistics Stephanie van der Pas (Leiden University)
"Posterior concentration for Bayesian regression trees and their ensembles"
Seminars in Economics Giorgio Brunello (University of Padova)
"The Long Term Payoffs of Having Privileged Peers. Evidence from Siblings in School" abstract By comparing siblings attending the same school at different points of time, we estimate the effects of schoolmates’ average parental education on lifetime earnings and other medium and long-term outcomes and investigate whether these effects vary with individual parental education. We…