On February 24, 2020, h. 13.00-14.00, Dr. Michael Schlaile (Universität Hohenheim) will give a talk on “Memetics and evolutionary economics: Why we should take meme theory more seriously”. Abstract In this seminar, we will present the theoretical foundation of and a case for what we call economemetics. Economic theory in general but evolutionary economics in particular has suffered from what could be called […]
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Seminari del Dipartimento di Economia – Seminars of the Department of Economics
On February 26, 2020, 12.30-13.30, Dr. Timothy King (University of Kent) will give a talk on “A Safe Pair of Hands? CEO Career Experience and Risk-taking” (joint with Jens Hagendorff and Abhishek Srivastav). Abstract We exploit the staggered deregulation of interstate banking in the U.S. to show that CEOs who have gained career experience at multiple banks lead riskier banks. […]
On February 26, 2020, 13.30-14.30, Dr. Andrea Incerpi (University of Insubria) will give a talk on “Do transport costs matter? Freights and the Italian foreign trade, 1862-1938”. Abstract Understanding determinants and dynamics of trade is a challenging issue that committed economic historians starting from the 1930’s. Standard gravity models, exploited as the main econometric tool applied to international trade, only […]
On January 21, 2020, 14.00, in Sala Consiglio, Prof. Samuele Centorrino (Stony Brook University) will give a talk on “Two-Step Semiparametric Estimation of Correlated Random Coefficient Models” with A. Ullah. Abstract: We study control function identification and estimation of the average partial effect in a linear correlated random coefficient model with one continuous endogenous regressor. In some empirical applications, distinct […]
On December 16, 2019, 12:30-13:30 – Sala Seminari, Prof. Anne Plunket (Université Paris Sud) will give a talk on “Variety, dissimilarity and recombinant novelty: the interplay between local and extra-regional inventor networks”.
On December 13, 2019, 11:30-12:30 – Sala Seminari, Prof. Valerio Sterzi (University of Bordeaux) will give a talk on “The impact of the abolishment of the professor’s privilege on European university-owned patents ” (joint with Catalina Martínez). Abstract Intellectual property regimes governing university inventions were quite diverse in Europe at the end of the 1990s. Several European countries maintained the so-called […]
On November 14, 2019, 12.00-13.00, in Aula 13 MTG (Monte Generoso), Prof. Matthias Müller (Universität Hohenheim) will give a talk on “Systemic interventions in regional innovation systems: entrepreneurship, knowledge accumulation and regional innovation” with Andreas Pyka and Muhamed Kudic. Abstract: The paper employs a regional innovation system concept and divides system failures into three categories: institutional infrastructure, organizational landscape and […]
On November 11, 2019, 15.45-16.45, in Aula 2 PM (Pad. Morselli), Prof. Matthias Müller (Universität Hohenheim) will give a talk on “How is R&D collaboration affected by the structure of technological knowledge? Insights on knowledge discovery from an agent-based simulation approach” with Muhamed Kudic and Ben Vermeulen. Abstract: This paper studies the impact of the structure of technological knowledge on […]
Martedì 15 ottobre, 15.30-17.30, il prof. Pietro Falletta terrà un seminario dal titolo: Il diritto del web di fronte alle sfide poste dalla sviluppo tecnologico.
On October 2, 2019, 15.30, prof. Samuel Cohen (University of Oxford) will give a talk on “Learning and filtering in an uncertain setting” Abstract: Optimal filtering is a classical method for inferring the distribution of a hidden process from data. As an input it requires a probability model, which needs to be separately estimated. In this talk, we will look […]
On September 6, 2019, 15.30-16.30, Prof. Claudio Macci (University of Tor Vergata, Dept. of Mathematics) will give a talk on “Large deviations for risk measures in finite mixture models” (joint with Valeria Bignozzi and Lea Petrella). Abstract Due to their heterogeneity, insurance risks can be properly described as a mixture of different fixed models, where the weights assigned to each […]
Prof. Laura Riolli (Full Professor of Management – College of Business Administration, California State University, Sacramento) Seminar on: Managerial Decision Making: Can They Really Do? Exploring Frameworks for Decision Making
On May 20, 2019, 13.00-14.00, Prof. Susan Cholette (San Francisco State University,https://cob.sfsu.edu/directory/susan-cholette ) will give a talk on “Publishing in Academia – Some Thoughts from the Trenches”. —— Publishing in Academia – Some Thoughts from the Trenches Most academics have a love-hate relationship with publishing. We devote years to earning our advanced degrees and may spend decades performing in-depth research in our field, all the while writing and submitting articles […]
On May 17, 2019, h. 13.00-14.00, Dr. Simone Vannuccini (SPRU, University of Sussex) will give a talk entitled “On the brink of a fourth industrial revolution? A systemic perspective on technological transformation in the digital age”.
On May 16th, 2019, 13.00-14.00 in Sala Consiglio, Prof. Silvia Massini (The University of Manchester) will give a talk on “Complementarities between trade and innovation efforts in their impact on performance of emerging economy firms” (joint with Lucia Piscitello and Yevgeniya Shevtsova ). You can find some information about Prof. Massini here: https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/silvia.massini.html Abstract Empirical evidence has widely demonstrated the […]