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Economics Seminars

Summary

2019/2020 academic year.............................................................................................................................................. page 2

2018/2019 academic year.............................................................................................................................................. page 3

2017/2018 academic year.............................................................................................................................................. page 6

2016/2017 academic year.............................................................................................................................................. page 9

2015/2016 academic year............................................................................................................................................ page 12

2014/2015 academic year............................................................................................................................................ page 14

2013/2014 academic year............................................................................................................................................ page 17

2012/2013 academic year............................................................................................................................................ page 20

2011/2012 academic year............................................................................................................................................ page 23

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2019/2020 academic year Date Guest Affiliation Title

22/06/2020

(online)

Gert-Jan

Romensen University of Groningen Rabbits and Study Habits: A Field Experiment on Pacesetters and Student Effort

06/05/2020

(online) Bart Claassen University of Groningen

Structural estimation of nonlinear rational expectations models with recursive

preferences

17/02/2020 V. Radu Craiu University of Toronto Finding our Way in the Dark: Approximate MCMC for Approximate Bayesian

Methods

10/02/2020 Claudio Sardoni Sapienza Università di Roma Banks and finance in modern macroeconomics: A historical perspective

09/12/2019 Larry Kotlikoff Boston University Measuring U.S. Inequality and Fiscal Progressivity Correctly

02/12/2019 Guido Consonni Università Cattolica del Sacro

Cuore, Milano

Bayesian inference of causal effects from observational data in Gaussian graphical

models

25/11/2019 Agnes Kovacs University of Manchester Breaking the Commitment Device: The Effect of Home Equity Withdrawal on

Consumption, Saving, and Welfare

20/11/2019 Rabah Amir Tippie College of Business,

University of Iowa Oligopoly with network effects: Firm-specific versus single network

11/11/2019 Francesco

Lamperti

Sant'Anna Scuola

Universitaria Superiore Pisa

Climate risk, financial impacts and credit policies: evidence from a macro agent-

based model

28/10/2019 Pamela Giustinelli Università Bocconi Milano Precise or Imprecise Probabilities? Evidence from survey response on late-onset

dementia

21/10/2019 Luca Polonio IMT School for Advanced

Studies Lucca The process of choice in games

16/10/2019 Yuri Pettinicchi Max Planck Institute for

Social Law and Social Policy

Job Loss Expectations, Durable Consumption and Household Finances: Evidence

from Linked Survey Data

09/10/2019 Emanuele

Campiglio

Vienna University of

Economics and Business Sustainable finance for a smooth low-carbon transition

07/10/2019 Mujaheed Shaikh Hertie School of Governance

Berlin Marital age, education and domestic violence

02/10/2019 Jay Bhattacharya Stanford University The Economics of Edge Science in Biomedicine

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2018/2019 academic year Date Guest Affiliation Title

25/06/2019 Paolo Pasquariello Ross School of Business,

University of Michigan Speculation with Information Disclosure

10/06/2019 Magne Mogstad University of Chicago Imperfect Competition, Compensating Differentials and Rent Sharing in the U.S.

Labor Market

03/06/2019 Jan Werner University of Minnesota Speculative Bubbles, Heterogeneous Beliefs, and Learning

29/05/2019 Giovanni Facchini University of Nottingham Are political and economic integration intertwined?

27/05/2019 Giovanna

Nicodano

Collegio Carlo Alberto,

Università degli Studi Torino Does bankruptcy increase value? Market efficiency and diversification puzzles

27/05/2019 Phil Tomlinson University of Bath Beyond Brexit: the return of industrial policy in the UK -a place-based perspective

20/05/2019 Michel M.

Dacorogna

Prime Re Solutions Zug,

Switzerland Pro-Cyclicality of Traditional Risk Measurements: Quantifying and Highlighting

13/05/2019 Paolo Pinotti Università Bocconi Milano Revealing Stereotypes: Evidence from Immigrants in Schools

03/05/2019 Justin Yifu Lin Peking University China's Rejuvenation and Its Implication for the World

02/05/2019 David Ardia University of Neuchâtel Textual sentiments aggregation and forecasting

29/04/2019 Sylvia Frühwirth-

Schnatter Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien Sparse Time-Varying Parameter Models – Achieving Shrinkage and Variable

24/04/2019 Marek Weretka University of Wisconsin-

Madison Quasilinear approximations

17/04/2019 Raun van Ooijen University of Groningen Preferences for long-term care: bequests, informal care and health expectations

15/04/2019 Giorgia Barboni University of Warwick Knowing what’s good for you: Can a repayment flexibility option in microfinance

contracts improve repayment rates and business outcomes?

08/04/2019 Sébastien Laurent Aix-Marseille University Volatility Estimation and Jump Detection for Drift-diffusion Processes

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01/04/2019 Jean Robert Tyran Universität Wien Fake News, Voter Overconfidence, and the Quality of Democratic Choice

27/03/2019 Matthijs Breugem Collegio Carlo Alberto /

Università degli Studi Milano Learning from Interest Rates: Implications for Stock-Market Efficiency

25/03/2019 Matthew Salganik Princeton University Bit by Bit: Social Research in the Digital Age

20/03/2019 Catia Nicodemo University of Oxford Are Babies Born in Recessions less Healthy?

18/03/2019 Ariel Dora Stern Harvard Business School The Adoption and Diffusion of Medical Technology: Evidence from Cardiac

Procedure

13/03/2019 Carlo Fezzi Università di Trento Risk preferences and subjective beliefs: implications for crop insurance subsidies

06/03/2019 Titus Galama USC - University of Southern

California Gene-by-SES interplay in health behavior: theory and empirics

04/03/2019 Thomas Lux Kiel University The Dynamics of the Interbank Market: Statistical Stylized Facts and Agent-Based

Models

27/02/2019 Raffaello Seri Università degli Studi

dell'Insubria

Nonparametric Estimation and Inference in Economic and Psychophysical

Experiments

25/02/2019 Marike Knoef Universiteit Leiden Raising pension awareness through letters and social media; Evidence from a

randomized and quasi-experiment

13/02/2019 Marco Tabellini Harvard Business School From Immigrants to Americans: Race and Assimilation during the Great Migration

11/02/2019 Gianmarco

Ottaviano Università Bocconi Milano Comparative Advantage, Competition, and Firm Heterogeneity

04/02/2019 Giorgio Topa Federal Reserve Bank of

New York

Job Seekers’ Perceptions and Employment Prospects: Heterogeneity, Duration

Dependence and Bias

30/01/2019 Riccardo Puglisi Università di Pavia The Revealed Demand for Hard vs. Soft News: Evidence from Italian TV Viewership

28/01/2019 Hermien Dijk University of Groningen Mental Health over the Life Course: Evidence for a U-Shape?

21/01/2019 Gianmaria

Niccodemi University of Groningen Education, Intelligence, and Diseases in Old Age

17/12/2018 Pietro Tebaldi University of Chicago Nonparametric Estimates of Demand in the California Health Insurance Exchange

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26/11/2018 Albrecht Glitz Universitat Pompeu Fabra Industrial Espionage and Productivity

23/11/2018 Antonietta Mira Università della Svizzera

Italiana Statistical Inference on Large-Scale Mechanistic Network Models

19/11/2018 Andrea Ascani Utrecht University Multinational enterprises, service outsourcing and regional structural change

12/11/2018 Marianne

Simonsen Aarhus University

Healthy at Work? Evidence from a Social Experimental Evaluation of a Firm-based

Wellness Program

05/11/2018 Mario Eboli Università degli Studi "G.

D'Annunzio" Chieti Pescara Liquidity flows in interbank networks

31/10/2018 Aldo Montesano Università Bocconi Milano On some aspects of decision theory under uncertainty: rationality, marginal

reservation prices, subjective probabilities and the Dutch book argument

24/10/2018 Alberto Holly Université de Lausanne Double coverage: Healthcare and Health Effects

22/10/2018 Davide Dragone Università di Bologna Testing Rational Addiction: When Lifetime is Uncertain, One Lag is Enough

08/10/2018 Luigi Siciliani University of York The Effect of Market Structure and Patient Choice on Hospital Quality for elective

patients

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2017/2018 academic year Date Guest Affiliation Title

05/07/2018

(Workshop

"Advances

in Bayesian

modelling")

Marco Del Negro Federal Reserve Bank of

New York

The conquest of inflation credibility in the U.S.: a Bayesian approach for inference on

probabilistic surveys

Enrique Ter Horst Universidad de Los Andes de

Bogotà A Bayesian time-varying approach to risk neutral density estimation

Federico Bassetti Polytechnic University of

Milan On the computation of Kantorovich-Wasserstein distances between 2D-histograms

Raquel Prado University of California, Santa

Cruz Bayesian models for complex-valued fMRI

Matteo Iacopini Université Paris I Panthéon-

Sorbonne Essays on the econometric modelling of temporal networks

Bruno Sansó University of California, Santa

Cruz Spatio-temporal modelling using integro-difference equations

27/06/2018 Nicolas Groshenny School of Economics The

University of Adelaide Do we really know that US monetary policy was destabilizing in the 1970s?

18/06/2018 Roberto Tagliaferri Università degli Studi di

Salerno

Computational intelligence methods applied to single and multiview neuroimaging

data

11/06/2018 Petter Lundborg Lund University On the family origins of human capital: Evidence from donor-conceived children

04/06/2018 Andrew C. Harvey University of Cambridge Dynamic Conditional Score (DCS) Models and Realized Variance

29/05/2018 Daniele Bianchi University of Warwick

Business School Large-Scale Dynamic Predictive Regressions

25/05/2018 Stefano Battiston University of Zurich Financial networks: from systemic risk to sustainable finance

22/05/2018 Marcelo C.

Medeiros

Pontificia Universidade

Catolica, Rio de Janeiro

Forecasting Inflation in a Data-Rich Environment: the Benefits of Machine Learning

Methods

21/05/2018 Hillel Rapoport Paris School of Economics Let the knowledge flow. A natural experiment of Yugoslavian refugees in Germany

14/05/2018 Robert Franklin

Engle New York University A Financial Approach to Climate Risk

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09/05/2018 David Levine European University Institute Peer Monitoring, Ostracism and the Internalization of Social Norms

07/05/2018 Antonella Ianni University of Southampton On the heresthetics of salience: competing over voters' inattention

02/05/2018 Atsushi Kajii Kyoto University Efficient Expectations Equilibria: a re-examination of rational expectations

23/04/2018 Michel Beine University of Luxembourg A meta-analysis of the literature on climate and migration

23/04/2018 Christian Robert Université Paris-Dauphine

and University of Warwick Folding MCMC algorithms

20/04/2018 Dominique Guégan Université Paris I Panthéon-

Sorbonne Big Data and Regulatory Learning: How to supervise deep learning models?

18/04/2018 Francesco

Moscone

Brunel University Business

School

Hospital interdependence in a competitive institutional environment: Evidence from

Italy

16/04/2018 Luigi Guiso Einaudi Institute for

Economics and Finance Heterogeneity and persistence in returns to wealth

09/04/2018 Gabriella Conti University College London Workforce quality in early years interventions: Evidence from a large-scale home

visiting program

19/03/2018 Elisabetta De Cao University of Oxford, Nuffield

College The Impact of Unemployment on Child Maltreatment in the United States

14/03/2018 Michele Boldrin Washington St. Luis Reconstructing the Great Recession

12/03/2018 Joseph Doyle MIT Measuring Physician Quality

05/03/2018 Eyal Winter Hebrew University of

Jerusalem Feeling Smart

28/02/2018 Elena Stancanelli Paris School of Economics Partial retirement and partners' hours of work: Learning from a Norwegian retirement

reform

06/02/2018 Zizhong Yan University of Warwick Estimating Average Treatment Effects in Evaluation Studies: Using Dirichlet Process

Mixtures

05/02/2018 Matthijs Katz University of Groningen The Macroeconomic Effects of Bail-in Policy

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25/01/2018 Raymond

Montizaan Maastricht University Disentangling Retirement and Savings Response

15/01/2018 Max Groneck University of Groningen It Sucks to Be Single! Marital Status and Redistribution of Social Security

08/01/2018 Arjan Trinks University of Groningen Greenhouse Gas Emissions Intensity and the Cost of Capital

14/12/2017 Costanza

Meneghetti West Virginia University The Market for Corporate Control and Endogenous Short-Selling Constraints

11/12/2017 Valentino

Dardanoni

Università degli Studi di

Palermo Inferring Cognitive Heterogeneity from Aggregate Choices

04/12/2017 Sylvia Kaufmann Study Center Gerzensee and

University of Basel Factor augmented VAR revisited - A sparse dynamic factor model approach

27/11/2017 Fabio Michelucci CERGE-EI (CZ) Electoral Competition with Dynamic Campaign Contributions

14/11/2017 Alessandro Tarozzi Universitat Pompeu Fabra

(SP)

Knowing (Your) Well? An Evaluation of Alternative Strategies for Selling Well-Water

Arsenic Tests in Sonargaon, Bangladesh

13/11/2017 Matteo Barigozzi London School of Economics

and Political Science, London Sequential testing for structural stability in approximate factor models

06/11/2017 Paul Bingley The Danish National Centre

for Social Research Brothers in arms: Spillovers from a draft lottery

30/10/2017 Alessandro

Martinello Lund University

Liquidity substitutes for unemployment insurance: evidence from the introduction of

home equity loans in Denmark

23/10/2017 Maarten

Lindeboom

Vrjie University of Amsterdam

(NL) Targeting Disability Insurance Applications with Screening

17/10/2017 Christian Robert Université Paris-Dauphin Introduction to Approximate Bayesan Computation

16/10/2017 Fabrizio Ruggeri Italian National Research

Council in Milan Bayesan Inference for Poisson Processes

09/10/2017 Klaus Adam University of Mannheim Stock Prices and Economic Activity

02/10/2017 Jozsef Sakovics The University of Edinburgh To the highest bidder: the market for talent in sports leagues

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2016/2017 academic year Date Guest Affiliation Title

12/06/2017 Guido Imbens Stanford Graduate School of Business

Clustering as a Design Problem

12/06/2017 Susan Athey Stanford University School of Business

Machine Learning and Causal Inference with Generalized Random Forests

05/06/2017 Salvatore Modica University of Palermo Intervention and Peace

17/05/2017 Craig M. Lewis Venderbilt University The Cost of Liquidity Provision in Bond Markets During Periods of Market Stress

22/05/2017 Emanuela Cardia Université de Montréal and CIREQ

Great Depression and the Rise of Female Employment: A New Hypothesis

24/05/2017 Stanislava Nikolova

University of Nebraska-Lincoln

The Bond Pricing Implications of Rating-Based Capital Requirements

24/05/2017 Robert Willis Population Studies Center, University of Michigan

Post-Retirement Paid Work and Changes in Cognitive Performance: The Role of Job Complexity

26/05/2017 Rogier Quaedvlieg Erasmus School of Economics

Realized SemiCovariances: Looking for signs of direction inside realized covariances

15/05/2017 Alessandro Sembenelli

University of Turin Corporate income taxation, leverage and entrepreneurial firm's growth. Evidence from EU firm level data

15/05/2017 Owen O'Donnell Erasmus University Rotterdam

Who can predict their own demise? Heterogeneity in the accuracy of longevity expectations

08/05/2017 /01/C. van Ours Erasmus University Rotterdam

The Wage Penalty of Dialect-Speaking

10/04/2017 Cristiano Villa University of Kent A novel Approach for Objective Priors in Discrete Parameter Spaces

27/03/2017 Marti Subrahmanyam

NYU Stern Coming Early to the Party: High Frequency Traders in the Auction, Pre-Opening and Main Trading Phase of Euronext Paris

27/03/2017 Jun Uno Waseda University Large Quantitative Easing, Scarcity and Spotlight Effects in the liquidity of Government Bond Market

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24/03/2017 Ca’ Foscari University of Venice

BOMOPAV Economics Meeting (in Venice)

20/03/2017 Rachel Griffith University of Manchester and IFS

How well targeted are soda taxes?

20/03/2017 James Banks University of Manchester and IFS

Education, decision-making and economic rationality

27/02/2017 Vincenzo Galasso Bocconi University, Milan (IT)

Old before their time: The role of employers in retirement decisions

10/02/2017 Luigi Mittone University of Trento, Trento (IT)

Social esteem versus social stigma: The role of anonymity in an income reporting game

23/01/2017 Conceptión Ausìn University Carlos III, Madrid (SP)

ABC methods for phase-type distributions with applications in insurance risk problems

23/01/2017 Stefano Tonellato University Ca’ Foscari, Venice (IT)

Sequential clustering based on Dirichlet process priors

23/01/2017 Pedro Galeano University Carlos III, Madrid (SP)

Modelling high dimensional stock dependence using factor copulas

16/01/2017 Rosario Crinò Università Cattolica Milan (IT)

Globalization and Mental Distress

12/12/2016 Stefano Battiston University of Zurich (CH) The Price of Complexity in Financial Networks

19/12/2016 Mauro Costantini Brunel University (UK) Modelling corporate failure dependence of UK public listed firm

05/12/2016 Sonia Oreffice University of Surrey (UK) The Demand for Season of Birth

14/11/2016 Matthias Parey University of Essex The Returns to Admission to Higher Education Institutions

28/11/2016 Lorenzo Cappellari

Università Cattolica, Milan (IT)

Bilingual Schooling and Earnings: Evidence from a Language-in-Education Refor

07/11/2016 Larry Dwyer UNSW Australia Business School (Australia)

The economic impact of Mega-Events: Theory and Results

07/11/2016 Francesco Decarolis

Boston University and EIEF

Past Performance and Procurement Outcomes

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27/10/2016 University Ca' Foscari ESOBE European Seminar on Bayesian Econometrics meeting 2016

28/10/2016 University Ca' Foscari Venice-Groningen PhD Workshop 2016

24/10/2016 Cheti Nicoletti University of York (UK) The response of parental time investments to the child’s skills and health

26/10/2016 Toru Kitagawa University College London (UK)

Uncertain Identification

19/10/2016 Itzhak Gilboa Tel-Aviv University and HEC Paris

On the Role(s) of Economic Models

17/10/2016 Francesco Drago Università di Messina Crime Control Policies and Political Accountability, Evidence from a Natural Experiment

10/10/2016 Marco Pagnozzi Università di Napoli Federico II

Selling Information to Competitive Firms

03/10/2016 Ruey S. Tsay University of Chicago (US)

Some Methods for Analyzing Big Dependent Data in Finance

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2015/2016 academic year Date Guest Affiliation Title

06/06/2016 Dennis Kristensen University College London (UK) Bayesian Indirect Inference and the ABC of GMM

30/05/2016 James Mitchell Warwick Business School (UK) Comparing Alternative Methods of Combining Density Forecasts – with an Application to US Inflation and GDP Growth

25/05/2016 Shoshana Grossbard

San Diego State University (US) Household economics, a field in motion

23/05/2016 Giovanni Mastrobuoni

University of Essex (UK) Criminal Discount Factors and Deterrence

16/05/2016 Stephen Jenkins London School of Economics (UK)

Pareto distributions, top incomes, and recent trends in UK income inequality

02/05/2016 Kim Christensen University of Aarhus (DK) Inference from high-frequency data: A subsampling approach

18/04/2016 Eric Plug University of Amsterdam (NL) Fertility, Labor Supply and Earnings: IV Evidence from IVF Treatments

11/04/2016 Werner Guth Max-Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods, Bonn (DE)

Rationality With(out) Noise Versus (Non) Optimal Satisficing – A Portfolio Choice Experiment

04/04/2016 Nigel Rice University of York (UK) The Health and Well-Being Effects of Commuting: Evidence from Exogenous Shocks

21/03/2016 Dov Samet Tel Aviv University (Israel) Weak dominance: A mystery cracked

07/03/2016 Claudio Zoli Università degli Studi di Verona (IT)

Long term social welfare, mobility, social status, and inequality

02/03/2016 Luca Nunziata Università degli Studi di Padova (IT)

Radioactive Decay, Health and Social Capital, Lessons From The Chernobyl Experiment

22/02/2016 Luca Corazzini Università di Messina (IT) Unpacking the Determinants of Life Satisfaction: A Survey Experiment

08/02/2016 Roberto Renò Università degli Studi di Verona (IT)

Uncovering flash crashes: the Drift Burst Hypothesis

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01/02/2016 Anna Sanz de Galdeano

University of Alicante (ES The Impact of Health Insurance on Stockholding: A Regression Discontinuity Approach

25/01/2016 Judit Vall-Castello CRES at University Pompeu Fabra (ES)

Act Now: the Effects of the 2008 Spanish Disability Reform

18/01/2016 Raffaello Seri Università degli Studi dell’Insubria Varese (IT)

Separable representations in psychological and economic theory

14/12/2015 Ian Crawford University of Oxford (UK) Nonparametric analysis of Reference-Dependence Preferences

30/11/2015 Francesco Fasani Queen Mary – University of London (UK)

Risk Attitudes and Household Migration Decisions

23/11/2015 Giorgio Consigli University of Bergamo (IT) Optimal long-term management of a P&C insurance portfolio with endogenous risk control

16/11/2015 Olivier Scailler Universite de Geneve and Swiss Finance Institute (SUI)

A diagnostic criterion for approximate factor structure

11/11/2015 Giacomo Bormetti Scuola Normale Superiore Pisa (IT)

Smiling with pricing models

02/11/2015 Marc Hallin ECARES, Université Libre de Bruxelles (BE)

Dynamic Factor Models and Volatilities

26/10/2015 Chris Robinson University of Western Ontario (CA)

Ageing and Skill Portfolios: Evidence from Job Based Skill Measures

19/10/2015 Raffaele Miniaci University of Brescia (IT) Linking experimental and survey data for a UK representative sample, structural estimation of risk and time preferences.

12/10/2015 Michele Belot University of Edimburgh (UK) Providing Advice to Job Seekers at Low Cost: An Experimental Study on On-Line Advice

07/10/2015 Tinna Laufey Ásgeirsdóttir

University of Iceland (IS) How much is health worth? Valuing diseases by compensating income variation

14/09/2015 Fabio Michelucci CERGE-EI (CK) How to Boost Revenues in FPAs? The Magic of Disclosing only Winning bids from Past Auctions

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2014/2015 academic year Date Guest Affiliation Title

29/06/2015 Hal Varian Google and UC Berkeley USA Google Tools for Data

25/05/2015 Christopher Ruhm University of Virginia, USA Recessions, Healthy No More

18/05/2015 James Andreoni UCSD

USA Heroes Creating social stability, social change, and social efficiency

15/05/2015 Guido Cazzavillan Workshop

University Ca' Fosari Where do we stand? Workshop in memory of Guido Cazzavillan Workshop program

13/05/2015 Yulia Vymyatnina European University at St. Petersburg

RU Economic underpinnings of the Eurasian Economic Union, business cycles and credit cycles analysis

11/05/2015 Fabrizio Zilibotti University of Zurich CH Sovereign Debt, Structural Reforms, and Austerity Programs

04/05/2015 Matthew Wakefield University of Bologna IT First-time house buying and catch up: A cohort study

29/04/2015 Radu Craiu University of Toronto Bayesian Inference for Conditional Copula models with Continuous and Binary Responses

29/04/2015 Lei Sun University of Toronto Integrating competing but complementary association tests with applications to rare variants analyses and interaction studies

27/04/2015 Wilfred Ethier University of Pennsylvania, USA

A Political Economy of Trade Agreements

20/04/2015 Sylvia Fruewirth-Schnatter

Wirtschafts Universität Wien, Austria

Bayesian Sparse Factor Analysis

16/04/2015 Maria Cristina De Nardi

UCL, UK Medicaid Insurance in old age

13/04/2015 Emilia Del Bono University of Essex, UK Early Interventions and Children’s Educational Attainment. Evaluating the Expansion of Free Pre-School Education in the UK

08/04/2015 Robin Lumsdaine American University, US Caring for Grandchildren and the Timing of Women’s Retirement Decisions

30/03/2015 Tobias Mueller University of Geneva, CH The Effects of the Free Movement of Persons on the Distribution of Wages in Switzerland

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27/03/2015 University of Modena BOMOPAV workshop in Modena

23/03/2015 Leonardo Gambacorta

Bank for International Settlements, LU

Bank profitability and monetary policy

16/03/2015 Orazio Attanasio UCL, UK Estimating the Production Function for Human Capital: Results from a Randomized Control Trial in Colombia

09/03/2015 Rajnish Mehra Arizona State University, USA, and Luxembourg School of Finance

The Macroeconomic Determinants of Financial Predictability

02/03/2015 Herman van Dijk Erasmus University Rotterdam, NL

Bayesian Estimation of Multimodal Density Shapes and Features with Application to DNA and Economics Data

23/02/2015 Paola Profeta Bocconi, IT How Powerful is Information for Women’s Intentions? Experimental Evidence from Childcare

16/02/2015 Davide Fiaschi Università di Pisa, IT Spatial Club in European Regions

09/02/2015 Luc Bauwens UC Louvain, Belgium Forecasting Comparison of Long Term Component Dynamic Models For Realized Covariance Matrices

2/02/2015 Simon Weidenholzer

University of Essex, UK Imperfect Monitoring, Collective Punishment, and Coordination

27/01/2015 Salvatore Modica University of Palermo, IT Collusion, Randomization, and Leadership in Groups

26/01/2015 Matteo Ruggiero University of Torino and Collegio Carlo Alberto, IT

Filtering hidden Markov measures

19/01/2015 Antonio Lijoi University of Pavia, IT Bayesian nonparametric modelling for heterogeneous data

12/01/2015 Anthony Brabazon University College Dublin, IR Natural Computing

22/12/2014 Pietro Millossovich City University London, UK Two Populations Stochastic Mortality Models and Longevity Basis Risk

15/12/2014 Michele Guindani University of Texas, MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, USA

Generalized species sampling priors with latent Beta reinforcements

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Date Guest Affiliation Title

09/12/2014 Marco Del Negro Federal Reserve Bank of New York, USA

When does a central banks’ balance sheet require fiscal support?

01/12/2014 Frederic Vermeulen KU Leuven, Belgium Household consumption when the marriage is stable

24/11/2014 Christos Koulovatianos

University of Luxembourg Fitting Parsimonious Household-Portfolio Models to Data

18/19/11/2014 University Ca' Foscari Workshop on The Policy Implications of Demographic Ageing

17/11/2014 Arthur Schram University of Amsterdam the Netherlands Status Anxiety Makes Women Underperform

10/11/2014 Konstantinos Tatsiramos

University of Nottingham, UK and IZA, DE

Family, Community and Long-Term Earnings Inequality

03/11/2014 Adriaan Soetvent University of Groningen, the Netherlands

Insurance, risk aversion, and loss manipulation. An experiment

27/10/2014 Mike Hurd RAND, USA Keynote lecture AIES conference - The Costs of Dementia

27/10/2014 Joan Costa-Font LSE, UK Keynote lecture AIES conference - Challenges in Long Term Care Funding in Europe and the United States

20/10/2014 Marco Bassetto Chicago Fed, USA Speculative Runs on Interest Rate Pegs

13/10/2014 Stefano Fenoaltea Collegio Carlo Alberto, Torino The Fruits of disaggregation, the general engineering industry in Italy, 1861-1913

06/10/2014 Samuel Bentolila CEMFI, Spain When Credit Dries Up, Job Losses in the Great Recession

22/09/2014 Xuezhong He University of Technology, Sidney

Social Interaction and Financial Market Anomalies

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2013/2014 academic year Date Guest Affiliation Title

07/07/2014 Mingquin Wu South China Normal University, Guangzhou

Does Environmental Regulation Drive away Inbound Foreign Direct Investment? Evidence from a Quasi-Natural Experiment in China

30/06/2014 Ina Simonovska UC Davis Trade Models, Trade Elasticities, and the Gains from Trade

16/06/2014 Antonio Guarino UCL, London Transaction Tax and the Information Efficiency of Financial Markets: A Structural Estimation

09/06/2014 Enrico Moretti University of California, Berkeley, USA

Growth in cities and countries

26/05/2014 Frédéric Docquier UCLouvain, Belgium An Incentive Mechanism to Break the Low-Skill Immigration Deadlock

15/05/2014 Clara Vega Federal Reserve Board, US

The Need for Speed: Minimum Quote Life, Decimalization, Batch Auction Rules and Algorithmic Trading

19/05/2014 Daniele Checchi University of Milan Publish or Perish? Incentives and Careers in Italian Academia

12/05/2014 Christian Brownlees

Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain

Nets, Network Estimation for Time Series

07/05/2014 Rowena Jacobs Centre for Health Economics, University of York, UK

Does higher quality primary care for people with serious mental illness affect hospital admissions and resource use?

05/05/2014 Thomas Siedler Hamburg University, Germany

Reducing binge drinking? The effect of a ban on late-night off-premise alcohol sales on alcohol-related hospital stays in Germany

24/04/2014 Nancy Cartwright Durham University, UK Causal inference and evidence based policy

14/04/2014 Giacomo Corneo Freie Universitat Berlin, Germany

Democratic redistribution and rule of the majority

11/04/2014 Padova BOMOPAV 2014 workshop

07/04/2014 Tobias Klein Tiburg University, Netherlands

Consumption at old age and life time labor supply in rural China

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Date Guest Affiliation Title

31/03/2014 Barbara Rossi Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain

Are Central Banks’ and Private Sector’s Forecasts Rational? Empirical Evidence Based on New Forecast Optimality Tests in the Presence of Instability

24/03/2014 Andrew Jones University of York, UK Long-term health returns to quality of schooling, the roles of selection and heterogenity

17/03/2014 Stanislav Anatolyev New Economic School, Moscow, Russia

Uncovering the skewness news impact curve

12/03/2014 Ricardo M. Sousa University of Minho, Portugal

In search of key drivers of bank CDS spreads, does country-level institutional quality matter?

10/03/2014 Luca Deidda University of Sassari, Italy Debt discharge in personal bankruptcy, and the signaling content of collateral?

03/03/2014 Rosemarie Nagel Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain

De-anchoring Beliefs in Beauty Contest Experiments, Keynesian level–k vs. Keynesian Sentiments

26/02/2014 Marco Del Negro Federal Reserve Bank NY, USA

Dynamic Prediction Pools: An Investigation of Financial Frictions and Forecasting Performance

24/02/2014 Paolo Pin University of Siena, Italy Cooperation, Punishment and Immigration

17/02/2014 Pedro Mira CEMFI, Spain Identification of games of incomplete information with multiple equilibria and common unobserved heterogeneity

10/02/2014 David Hugh-Jones University of Essex, UK Intergroup revenge: a laboratory experiment on the causes

03/02/2014 Pilar Garcia-Gomez Erasmus University Rotterdam, Netherlands

Early life circumstances and earnings over the life-cycle

27/01/2014 Luca Corazzini University of Padova, Italy Allotment in First-Price Auctions: An Experimental Investigation

20/01/2014 Federico Crudu Pontificia Universidad de Valparaiso, Chile

Jackknife instrumental variable estimation with heteroskedasticity

13/01/2014 Alessandro Bucciol University of Verona, Italy Financial risk attitude, business cycles and perceived risk exposure

16/12/2013 Maarten Bosker Erasmus University Rotterdam, Netherlands

Nether Lands: the price of living below sea level

09/12/2013 Alfonso Rosolia Bank of Italy The italian labor market before and after the 2012 reform

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Date Guest Affiliation Title

05/12/2013 S.A.G.A. Seminars

Therese Hesketh Institute for Global Health, University College London, UK

The impact of the ongoing major health reforms in China

02/12/2013 Ana Rute Cardoso

Institute for Economic Analysis, Spanish National Research Council IAE-CSIC

Bargaining and the Gender Wage Gap: A Direct Assessment

25/11/2013 Antonio Nicolò University of Padova, Italy Equilibrium Selection in Sequential Games with Imperfect Information

18/11/2013 Rudolf Winter-Ebmer

University of Linz, Austria The role of firms in retirement decisions

11/11/2013 Radim Bohacek CERGE-EI, Czech Republic

Leverage Bounds with Default and Asymmetric Information

04/11/2013 Carlos Alos-Ferrer University of Cologne, Germany

Preference Reversals: Time and Again

28/10/2013 Gisle James Natvik Norges Bank, Norway An equilibrium model of credit rating agencies

21/10/2013 Claudia Senik Universite’ Paris IV Sorbonne, France

The Great Happiness Moderation

22/10/2013 P. Rey Toulouse School of Economics, France

Intertic Conference with the VIII Intertic Lecture

14/10/2013 Valentino Dardanoni

University of Palermo, Italy

Welfare cost of unpriced heterogeneity in insurance markets

11/10/2013 Colin Aitken University of Edinburg, UK The Evaluation of Evidence for Autocorrelated Data with an Example using Traces of Cocaine on Banknotes

07/10/2013 Vito Cistulli FAO Territorial Perspective of Food and Nutrition Policies in Developing Countries, Theory and Practice

04/10/2013 Neil De Mari Duke, U.S.A. A dealer ring in 1780s Paris to control sale outcomes, lessen investor uncertainty and facilitate low-risk, cross-border arbitrage in paintings?

23/09/2013 Paolo Bertoletti University of Pavia, Italy Federico Etro Ca’ Foscari Monopolistic competition, a dual approach

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2012/2013 academic year Data Relatore Afferenza Titolo

03/06/2013 Elyes Jouini Universite’ Paris-Dauphine, France

On Portfolio Choice with Savoring and Disappointment

27/05/2013 Hashem Pesaran University of Cambridge, U.K.

Modelling Spatial Dependence with Pairwise Correlations

23/05/2013 Douglas Gale New York University, U.S.A

Capital Structure and Investment Dynamics with Fire Sales

20/05/2013 Gene Grossman Princeton University, U.S.A.

Matching and Sorting in a Global Economy

13/05/2013 Yannis Katsoulacos Athens University of Business & Economics, Greece

Legal Uncertainty and the Choice of Enforcement Procedures

06/05/2013 Guido Cozzi University of St. Gallen, Switzerland

Sequential R&D and Blocking Patents in the Dynamics of Growth

29/04/2013 Laetitia Placido Universite’ Paris 1 Pantheon – Sorbonne, France

Ambiguity and compound risk attitudes: an experiment

22/04/2013 Tabea Bucher-Koenen

Max Plank Institute, Munich, Germany

Subjective Life Expectancy and Private Pensions

19/04/2013 BOMOPAV 2013 workshop

15/04/2013 Miguel Ferreira Nova School of Business and Economics, Portugal

Equity Lending, Investment Restrictions and Fund Performance

10/04/2013 Martin Browning University of Oxford, U.K. Do you have time to take a walk together? Private and joint leisure within the household

08/04/2013 John Campbell Harvard University, U.S.A. An Intertemporal CAPM with Stochastic Volatility

25/03/2013 Andrei Malenko MIT Sloan School of Management, U.S.A.

Means of Payment and Timing of Mergers and Acquisitions in a Dynamic Economy

25/03/2013 Canova, van Dijk, Ravazzolo, Casarin, Billio

Workshop on Modern Tools in Macro-Econometrics

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18/03/2013 Paolo Buonanno University of Bergamo, Italy

Poor Institutions, Rich mines: Resource Curse and the Origins of the Sicilian Mafia

11/03/2013 Fulvio Corsi University of Lugano, Switzerland

When Micro Prudence increases Macro Risk: The Destabilizing Effects of Financial Innovation, Leverage, and Diversification

25/02/2013 Lorenzo Rocco University of Padova Does Mental Productivity Decline with Age? Evidence from Chess Players

11/02/2013 Domenico Menicucci

University of Florence Dominance and Competitive Bundling

04/02/2013 Patrizio Tirelli University of Milan, Bicocca

Shadow Economies at Times of Banking Crisis. Empirics and Theory

12/12/2012 Andrei Shleifer Harvard University, U.S.A. Why Does the Government work Better in Some Countries than in Others? – VIDEO OF THE SEMINAR

10/12/2012 Jonathan Skinner Dartmouth College, U.S.A. Physician Beliefs and Patient Preferences: A New Look at Supplier-Induced Demand

29/11/2012 Alberto Alesina Harvard University Carlo Carraro UCF, Daniel McFadden UC Berkeley and Pier Carlo Padoan OECD, Nobels Colloquia

26/11/2012 Piero Gottardi European University Insitute and UCF

Bankruptcy: Is It Enough to Forgive or Must We Also Forget?

19/11/2012 Sally Wallace Georgia State University, U.S.A.

The Impact of Incarceration on Food Security in Households with Children

12/11/2012 Mario Padula UCF Investment in Financial Literacy and Saving Behavior

29/10/2012 Alberto Bisin New York University, U.S.A.

Advances in Microeconomic Theory

22/10/2012 Julio Rotemberg Harvard University, U.S.A. Prominent Job Advertisements, Group Learning and the Distribution of Wages

15/10/2012 Paul Milgrom Stanford University, U.S.A. Auctions, Adverse Selection and Online Advertising

08/10/ 2012 Stephen Pudney University of Essex, U.K. Health-related Loss of Employment

01/10/2012 Massimiliano Marcellino

Bocconi University Structural Analysis with Classical and Bayesian Large Reduced Rank VARs

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21/09/2012 Luigi Zingales University of Chicago, U.S.A.

A Capitalism for the People: Recapturing the Lost Genius of American Prosperity

14/09/2012 Deidre McCloskey University of Illinois at Chicago, U.S.A.

The Death of Statistical Significance – VIDEO OF THE SEMINAR

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2011/2012 academic year Date Guest Affiliation Title

09/07/2012 Lucrezia Reichlin London Business School, U.K. Nowcasting

02/06/2012 Efraim Benmelech Harvard University, U.S.A. Repossession and the Democratization of Credit

28/05/2012 Jonathan Eaton Pennsylvania State University, U.S.A.

International Trade: Linking Micro and Macro

25/04/2012 Olivier Blanchard I.M.F. & Massachusetts Institute of Technology, U.S.A.

The State of the World Economy – VIDEO OF THE SEMINAR

21/04/2012 Gilles Saint Paul Toulouse School od Economics, France

The Possibility of Ideological Bias in Structural Macroeconomic Models

14/04/2012 Andre’ de Palma Ecole Normale Superieure de Cachan, France

Multiplayer, Multiprize, Imperfectly Discriminating Contests

07/04/2012 Paul Segerstrom Stockholm School of Economics, Sweden

In Support of the TRIPs Agreement

26/04/2012 John Vickers Oxford University, U.K. Stability and Competition in UK Banking

23/04/2012 Jacques Francois Thisse

Universite’ Catholique de Louvain, Belgium

Monopolistic Competition in General Equilibrium

16/04/2012 Giovanni Ponti University of Alicante, Spain Social Preferences, Risk Preferences and the Hexagon Condition

02/04/2012 Peter Nijkamp V.U. University of Amsterdam, Netherlands

Migration Impact Assesment: A State of the Art

26/03/2012 Johannes Abeler Oxford University, U.K. Preferences for Truth-telling

20/03/2012 Roberto Rigobon Massachusetts Institute of Technolgy, U.S.A.

Distance and Political Boundaries

19/03/2012 Ben Lockwood University of Warwick, United Kingdom

Incentive Schemes for Local Government

09/03/2012 Utpal Bhattacharya Indiana University, U.S.A. Family Conflicts in Mutual Fund Families

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Date Guest Affiliation Title

05/03/2012 Florencio Lopez-de-Silanes

EDHEC, Paris, France Human Capital and Regional Development

27/02/2012 Pierre Pestieau University of Liege, Belgium The Economics of Increasing Longevity

20/02/2012 Bruno Frey University of Zurich, Switzerland Recent Advances in the Economics of Individual Subjective Well-Being

16/02/2012 Michael Spence New York University, U.S.A. Developing Country Growth and the Changing Structure of the Global Economy

13/02/2012 Francis Kramarz Ecole Politechnique, Paris When Strong Ties are Strong: Networks and Youth Labor Market Entry

06/02/2012 Luigi Pistaferri Stanford University, U.S.A. Consumption Smoothing and Family Labor Supply

30/01/2012 Daniele Franco Bank of Italy High Debt and Low Growth

23/01/2012 John Hey University of York, U.K. Assessing Multiple Prior Models of Behaviour Under Ambiguity

17/01/2012 Tim Crossley University of Cambridge, U.K. Cash by any Other Name? Evidence on labelling from the UK Winter Fuel

09/01/2012 Francesco Giavazzi Bocconi University The Household Effects of Government Spending

19/12/2011 Annamaria Lusardi George Washington University, U.S.A.

Financial Literacy and the Financial Crisis

12/12/2011 Silvia Marchesi University of Milan, Bicocca The Labor Market in the XVII Century Italian Art Sector

05/12/2011 Mark Armstrong Oxford University, U.K. Exploding Offers and Buy-Now Discount

29/11/2011 Marcella Lucchetta UCF Bank Competition and Systemic Risk: A General Equilibrium Exposition

22/11/2011 Chiara Orsini Aahrus University, Denmark The Miracle Drugs

14/11/2011 Sergio Currarini UCF Homophily and Segregation in Social Networks

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07/11/2011 Pierpaolo Benigno Luiss University Unemployment and Productivity in The Long Run

24/10/2011 Mario Forni Universita’ di Modena and Reggio Emilia

Sufficient information in structural VARs

17/10/2011 Ed Nosal Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, U.S.A.

Equilibrium Bank Runs Revisited

11/10/2011 Xavier Vives Iese BusinessSchool, Barcelona, Spain

Innovation and Competitive Pressure

03/10/2011 Helmut Luetkepohl European University Institute Disentangling Demand and Supply Shocks in the Crude Oil Market