1 Economics Seminars till a.y. 2016/2017 Academic Year 2016/2017 Date Speaker 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 5/06/2017 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
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Economics Seminars till a.y. 2016/2017
Academic Year 2016/2017
Date Speaker 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
5/06/2017 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
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Date Speaker Affiliation Title
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
8/05/2017 /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
24/03/2017 University Ca' Foscari 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
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Date Speaker Affiliation Title
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
5/12/2016 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
7/11/2016 Larry Dwyer UNSW Australia Business
School (Australia)
The economic impact of Mega-Events: Theory and Results
7/11/2016 Francesco
Decarolis
Boston University and
EIEF
Past Performance and Procurement Outcomes
27/10/2016 University Ca' Foscari ESOBE European Seminar on Bayesian Econometrics meeting 2016
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Date Speaker Affiliation Title
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
6/10/2016 University Ca' Foscari CREDIT2016 Conference ”Credit Risk Evaluation Designed for Institutional Targeting
in Finance”
3/10/2016 Ruey S. Tsay University of Chicago (US) Some Methods for Analyzing Big Dependent Data in Finance
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Academic Year 2015/2016
Date Speaker Affiliation Title
6/06/2016 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
2/05/2016 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
4/04/2016 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
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Date Speaker Affiliation Title
7/03/2016 Claudio Zoli Università degli Studi di Verona
(IT)
Long term social welfare, mobility, social status, and inequality
2/03/2016 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
8/02/2016 Roberto Renò Università degli Studi di Verona
(IT)
Uncovering flash crashes: the Drift Burst Hypothesis
1/02/2016 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
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Date Speaker Affiliation Title
11/11/2015 Giacomo
Bormetti
Scuola Normale Superiore Pisa
(IT)
Smiling with pricing models
2/11/2015 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
7/10/2015
12.00
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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Academic Year 2014/2015
Date Speaker 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
4/05/2015 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- Wirtschafts Universität Wien, Bayesian Sparse Factor Analysis
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Date Speaker Affiliation Title
Schnatter Austria
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
8/04/2015 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
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
9/03/2015 Rajnish Mehra Arizona State University, USA,
and Luxembourg School of
Finance
The Macroeconomic Determinants of Financial Predictability
2/03/2015 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
10
Date Speaker Affiliation Title
16/02/2015 Davide Fiaschi Università di Pisa, IT Spatial Club in European Regions
9/02/2015 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
9/12/2014 Marco Del Negro Federal Reserve Bank of New
York, USA
When does a central banks’ balance sheet require fiscal support?
1/12/2014 Frederic
Vermeulen
KU Leuven, Belgium Household consumption when the marriage is stable
24/11/2014 Christos University of Luxembourg Fitting Parsimonious Household-Portfolio Models to Data
11
Date Speaker Affiliation Title
Koulovatianos
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
3/11/2014 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
6/10/2014 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
12
Academic Year 2013/2014
Date Speaker Affiliation Title
7/07/2014 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
9/06/2014 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?
13
Date Speaker Affiliation Title
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
7/04/2014 Tobias Klein Tiburg University, Netherlands Consumption at old age and life time labor supply in rural China
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
14
Date Speaker Affiliation Title
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
3/02/2014 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
9/12/2013 Alfonso
Rosolia
Bank of Italy The italian labor market before and after the 2012 reform
5/12/2013 S.A.G.A.
Seminars
Therese Hesketh Institute for
Global Health, University
The impact of the ongoing major health reforms in China
15
Date Speaker Affiliation Title
College London, UK
2/12/2013 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
4/11/2013 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
16
Date Speaker Affiliation Title
of Cocaine on Banknotes
7/10/2013 Vito Cistulli FAO Territorial Perspective of Food and Nutrition Policies in Developing Countries,
Theory and Practice
4/10/2013
14.00
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