Nov 232020

23.07.2022

“On June 30th FARSIG from the British Accounting and Finance has awarded the Sue Hrasky Scholarship Award to our Phd student Mariem Khalfaoui for the best research project presented to the annual international doctoral colloquium. Mariem Khalfaqui, who is attending her first year in our Phd programme under the suprvision of prof. Andrea Melis, has presented her research project on the empirical analysis of the design and disclosure issues related to the integration of sustainability-criteria in the executive compensation contracts in larged listed corporations.”

“Lo scorso 30 giugno il FARSIG della British Accounting and Finance Association, l’accademia britannica di ragioneria e finanza, ha attribuito il Sue Hrasky Scholarship Award alla dottoranda Mariem Khalfaoui per il miglior progetto di dottorato presentato all’annuale doctoral colloquium internazionale. La dottoranda, al primo anno di dottorato sotto la supervisione del prof. Andrea Melis, ha presentato un progetto di ricerca sull’analisi empirica delle problematiche di design ed informazione esterna dei contratti incentivanti basati su indicatori di sostenibilità ambientale e sociale per gli amministratori delegati delle aziende quotate.”

Monday, November 23

11.30 CET. Per Krusell (Stockholm University): Sources of U.S. wealth inequality.

Host: Aix Marseille School of Economics.

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12.00 CET. Harald Fadinger (Universität Mannheim): My Home is My Castle: The Benefits of Working from Home During a Pandemic Crisis — Evidence from Germany.

Host: Universität Mannheim Department of Economics.

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12.30 CET. Thierry Magnac (TSE, Toulouse): Lifecycle Wages: Selection and Missing Data.

Host: Ca’ Foscari University of Venice.

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12.45 CET. John Clegg (University of Chicago): Carceral Legacy of Slavery.
Host: Dondena Center at Bocconi.
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13.00 Amsterdam time. ESA’s job-market candidates’ seminar.

Host: ESA.

Andreas Orland (University of Potsdam): Liquidity Constraints and Buffer Stock Savings: Theory and Experimental Evidence. Discussant: John Hey.

Cornelius Schneider (University of Cologne): The Bright Side of Tax Evasion. Discussant: Rupert Sausgruber.

Rémi Suchon (Université Libre de Bruxelles): It does (not) get better: expected income violation and altruism. Discussant: Arno Riedl.

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13.00 Saint Petersburg time (11.00 in Rome). Ralph Ossa (University of Zurich): Are Trade Agreements Good for You?

Host: HSE.

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13.45 CET. Ruben Durante (Universitat Pompeu Fabra Barcelona): The Virus of Fear: The Political Impact of Ebola in the U.S.

Host: Universität Mannheim Department of Economics.

Zoom link: join here (password Q6vB2R Raum-ID 3216879030)

15.00 CET. Margarita Tsoutsoura (Cornell University): The Labor Costs of Pro-Labor Bias in Bankruptcy: Evidence from Brazil.

Host: Universität Mannheim Department of Economics.

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16.00 CET. Shengwu Li (Harvard University): Investment Incentives in Near-Optimal Mechanisms.

Host: Virtual MD Seminar Series.

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16.00 CET. Raquel Fernandez (New York University): Girls, Boys, and High Achievers.

Host: CEPR / Stockholm University: Gender Economics Seminar Series.

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16.30 CET. Eleonora Patacchini (Cornell): Dynamic Social Interactions and Health Risk Behavior.

Host: Virtual Seminar on the Economics of Risky Health Behaviors (VERB).

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17.00 London time (18.00 in Rome). Symposium: COVID-19 and Global Gender Strategy: if not now, when?

Host: LSE

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17.30 CET. Kirsten Slungaard Mumma (Harvard University): Immigrant Integration in the United States: The Role of Adult English Language Training.

Host: Economics of Migration Seminar.

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Tuesday, November 24

9.45-13.05 CET. Macroeconometrics and Time Series Workshop.

Host: Banque de France.

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12.45 CET. Takuro Yamashita (Toulouse School of Economics): Robust Prediction in Games with Uncertain Parameters.

Host: Bocconi Department of Economics.

Zoom link: by invitation: for information or to receive the invitation link contact erika.somma@unibocconi.it.

13.00 London time (14.00 in Rome). Sin Yi Cheung (Cardiff University): The Violence of Uncertainty: how asylum waiting time undermines refugees’ health.

Host: LSE.

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13.00 CET. Roberto Galbiati (CNR Paris): Wealth Accumulation and Institutional Capture: the Rise of the Medici and the Fall of the Florentine Republic.

Host: Barcelona GSE Applied Economics Seminar Series.

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13.30 CET. Petru Negura (University of Moldova): Institutional trust, support to government and forms of solidarity in Moldova during the early phase of COVID-19 pandemic.

Host: Economics Department of the Leibniz Institute for East and Southeast European Studies (IOS).

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14.30 CET. Dmitry Kuvshinov (UPF-Barcelona GSE): A Long Way Down: Bank Capital and Profitability, 1870 – 2015.

Host: Barcelona GSE Finance Seminar Series.

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14.30 CET. Mariona Segú (University Paris Saclay): Jet setters: blessing or curse for French housing markets? Evidence from the EU aviation liberalization.

Host: Universitat de Barcelona School of Economics.

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15.00 CET. Raquel Bernal (Universidad de Los Andes): The effects of a project and play-based early education program on medium term developmental trajectories of young children in a low-income setting.

Host: University of Bologna Department of Economics.

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15.15 CET. Juliane Begenau (Stanford University): Do Banks Have an Edge?

Host: Universität Mannheim Department of Economics.

Zoom link: join here (password: 660072 Zoom room ID: 9840371383)

15.30 CET. Andrés Daniel Pluas Lopez (Universität Mannheim): Legal or Illegal Cannabis? Hard Drugs Access and Use.

Host: Universität Mannheim Department of Economics.

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16.30 CET. Arieda Muco (Central European University): Corruption, Intimidation, and Whistleblowing: An Empirical Approach.
Host. Bocconi Department of Social and Political Sciences.
Zoom link: By invitation: for information or to receive the invitation link contact chiara.fiaccadori@unibocconi.it

17.00 CET. Vitantonio Mariella (Sapienza University of Rome): Tenancy contracts and social capital at the origins of the North-South divide in Italy.

Host: YSI – Economic History Graduate Webinar.

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17.00 CET. Andrew Foster (Brown University): Start What You Finish! Ex Ante Risk and Schooling Investments in the Presence of Dynamic Complementarities.

Host: CEPR Virtual Development Webinars.

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17.00 CET. Michael Woodford (Columbia University): Optimally Imprecise Memory and Biased Forecasts.

Host: Virtual Behavioral Economics Seminar (VIBES).

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17.30 CET. Fan Li (Yale): Propensity score weighting for covariate adjustment in randomized clinical trials.

Host: Online Causal Inference Seminar.

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18.00 UK time (19.00 in Rome). Flavio Toxvaerd (University of Cambridge): Economics and the Epidemic: Models, Behaviour and Policy.

Host: Clare College, University of Cambridge.

Zoom link: register here.

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Wednesday, November 25

11.00 EDT (17.00 in Rome). Leandro Prados de la Escosura (Carlos III Madrid): Growth, war and pandemics: Europe in the very long-run.

Host: International Macro History Online Seminar.

Zoom link: register here.

12.00 AEDT (2.00 in Rome). Mohammad Akbarpour (Stanford): Just a Few Seeds More:Value of Network Information for Diffusion.

Host: Australasian Microeconomic Theory Seminars.

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12.30 CET. Roberto Rozzi (Ca’ Foscari): Competing Conventions with Costly Acquisition of Information.

Host: Ca’ Foscari University of Venice.

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12.30 CET. Christopher Roth (Warwick): Uncertainty and Information Acquisition: Evidence From Firms and Consumers.

Host: Bocconi Department of Finance.

Zoom link: to receive the invitation link for the online streaming, please contact dip.fin@unibocconi.it.

13.00 CET. Mariapia Mendola (University of Milan Bicocca): The Political Impact of Refugee Migration: Evidence from the Italian Dispersal Policy.

Host: University of Pavia Department of Economics.

Zoom link: contact seminar.dem@unipv.it.

13.00 CET. Ovielt Baltodano (Ca’ Foscari): A Dynamic Stochastic Block Model for the International Trade Network.

Host: Ca’ Foscari University of Venice.

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13.00 CET. Andras Jagadits (UPF-Barcelona GSE): Emigration and local structural change – Evidence from (Austria)-Hungary in the Age of Mass Migration.

Host: Barcelona GSE Internal Applied Lunch Seminar Series.

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13.00 Toronto time (19.00 in Rome). Sumegha Garg (Harvard): The Coin Problem with Applications to Data Streams.

Host: TCS+ online seminars in theoretical computer science.

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14.00 CET. Argyris Sakalis (The University of Sheffield): Property rights, development and agricultural choices: the case of early 20th century Greece.

Host: Universitat de Barcelona School of Economics.

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14.00 CET. Sonia Bhalotra (University of Essex): Job Displacement, Unemployment Benefits and Domestic Violence.

Host: University of Copenhagen Department of Economics.

Zoom link: contact Casper Worm Hansen for Zoom link.

15.00 CET. Minchul Yum (University of Mannheim): Status Externalities and Low Birth Rates in Korea.

Host: Webinar in Gender and Family Economics.

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15.00 CET. Ekaterina Zhuravskaya (Paris School of Economics): Reading Twitter in the Newsroom: How Social Media Affects Traditional-Media Reporting of Conflicts.

Host: Universität Mannheim Department of Economics.

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16.00 London time. Carol Graham (University of Maryland): Unequal Hopes, Lives, and Lifespans in the U.S.: Insights From Well-Being During COVID-19 (With Some Minor Insights on the 2020 Election Outcome).

Host: LSE.

Zoom link: t.sagoo@lse.ac.uk.

16.00 CET. Noemi Mantovan (Bangor Business School): The Dynamic of Domestic Violence: Learning about the Match.

Host: University of Siena Department of Economics.

Meet link: Goodwin Virtual Room.

16.00 CET. Shabnam Mousavi (Max Planck Institute for Human Development – Berlin): Agent, Path, Outcome: framing Individual and collective action in our models.

Host: University of Milan Bicocca.

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16.00 CET. Raffaella Sadun (Harvard Business School): The Changing Nature of the C-suite Job: Evidence from Job Descriptions.
Host: ONLINE Economics Research Seminar at JKU Linz.

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16.00 CET. Andre Veiga (Imperial College Business School): Quality Information and Competitive Selection in Health Care.

Host: CEPR Virtual IO Seminar.

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17.00 CET. Andrés Felipe Barrientos (Florida State University): A Bayesian decision-theoretic approach to uncertain ranks and orderings: Ranking players and lineups.

Host: University of Milan Bicocca.

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17.30 CET. Madeline Zavodny (University of North Florida): Immigration, Working Conditions, and Compensating Differentials.

Host: Economics of Migration Seminar.

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17.30 CET. Chad Jones (Stanford): Recipes and Economic Growth: A Combinatorial March Down an Exponential Tail.

Host: Barcelona GSE Bellaterra Macro Seminar.

Zoom link: contact rauls@movebarcelona.eu

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Thursday, November 26

11.00 CET. Bayram Cakir (PSE): Automation, Skill Premium and Factor Shares: Labor Will Be Back.
Host: PSE Macro Workshop.
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12.15 Oslo time. Andrea Martinangeli (Max Planck Institute for Tax Law and Public Finance): Institutional quality causes social trust: Survey and experimental evidence on trusting under the shadow of doubt.

Host: Norwegian School of Economics FAIR Seminar.

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12.30 CET. Maria Petrova (Barcelona GSE): Automation, Career Values, and Political Preferences.
Host: Paris Empirical Political Economy Seminar.

Zoom link: please contact the organizers Oliver Vanden Eynde (PSE) and Benjamin Marx (Sciences Po).

13.45 CET. Francesco Lippi (LUISS): The Macroeconomics of Sticky Prices with Generalized Hazard Functions.

Host: Bocconi Department of Economics.

Zoom link: by invitation: for information contact patrizia.pellizzari@unibocconi.it.

14.00 CET. Sylvain Dejean (U. La Rochelle): Ideological Isolation in News Consumption: Evidence From France.
Host: Paris Seminar on the Economics of Digitization.

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14.30 London time (15.30 in Rome). Anisha Ghosh (McGill University): Recovering Heterogeneous Beliefs and Preferences from Asset Prices.
Host: QRFE Webinar at Durham University.

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15.00 CET. Martin Kores (KfW) and Michael Cooke (GiveDirectly): Coordination and Implementation of the COVID Programs.

Host: Digital Development Dialogue (3D).

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15.00 CET. Eeva Mauring (University of Bergen): Sequential Search with Limited Price Discrimination.

Host: MaCCI EPoS Virtual IO Seminar.

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16.00 UK time (17.00 in Rome). Nicolas Lambert (MIT): The Power of Referential Advice.

Host: Virtual Seminars in Economic Theory.

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16.30 CET. Natalya Naumenko (George Mason University): The Soviet Great Famine, 1932–33.
Host: EIEF.
Zoom link: email events@eief.it.

16.30 CET. Town Oh (Purdue University): How do High-skilled International Students Impact Domestic Students? An analysis using the post OPT-STEM Extension period.

Host: Applied Young Economists Seminar

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17.00 Kyiv time (16.00 in Rome). Pawel Bukowski (LSE): Social Mobility and Social Regimes: Intergenerational Mobility in Hungary, 1949-2017.

Host: Kyiv School of Economics.

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17.00 CET. Irene M. Buso (LUISS): The Show Must Go On. How to elicit Lablike Data on the effects of COVID-19 lockdown on fairness and cooperation.
Host: Società Italiana degli Economisti.
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18.00 CET. Italo Colantone (Bocconi), We Were the Robots: Automation and Voting Behavior in Western Europe.

Host: MEDEA Seminars.

Zoom link: contact marcella.nicolini@unipv.it.

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Friday, November 27

11.00 Saint Petersburg time(9.00 in Rome). Sascha O. Becker (Monash): Why an EU Referendum? Why in 2016?

Host: HSE.
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12.30 CET. Jean-Marc Robin (Sciences Po): The Anatomy of Sorting – Evidence from Danish Data.

Host: Sciences Po.
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12.30 CET. Piero Gottardi (University of Essex and Ca’ Foscari): Mediation design.

Host: Ca’ Foscari University of Venice.

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15.00 CET. Tarik Roukny (KU Leuven): Vertically Disintegrated Platforms.

Host: Louvain Economics of Digitization (LED) Seminars.

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15.00 CET. Matteo Benetton (University of California, Berkeley): Investors’ Beliefs and Asset Prices: A Structural Model of Cryptocurrency Demand.

Host: CEPR Household Finance Seminar Series.

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15.00 CET. Silvana Tenreyro (London School of Economics): Dominant Currency and the Impact of Monetary Policy.
Host: PSE and Banque de France.
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16.00 CET. Domenico Giannone (Amazon): Economic Predictions With Big Data: The Illusion of Sparsity.

Host: University of Tor Vergata Riccardo Faini CEIS Seminars.

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16.00 CET. Pietro Veronesi (University of Chicago): Self-image Bias and Lost Talent.

Host: Bocconi Department of Finance.

Zoom link: In order to receive the invitation link for the online streaming, please contact dip.fin@unibocconi.it.

16.00 UK time (17.00 in Rome). Karin Kinnerud (Norwegian Business School): Monetary policy and the mortgage market.

Host: University of Essex Department of Economics.

Zoom link: To register your place and gain access to the webinar, please contact the seminar organisers.

17.00 CET. Georgios Tsiachtsiras (Universitat de Barcelona): Rails and innovation: Evidence from China.

Host: Universitat de Barcelona School of Economics.

Zoom link: please contact Ghizlen Ouasbaa by November 26th, 2020.