SAN FRANCESCO COMPLEX – PIAZZA S. FRANCESCO 19

Given the School's Rector decrees, after the pandemic outburst, a mixed mode for seminars is activated. People who are unable to attend in-person can join the seminars through the following link http://imt.lu/seminar.

• September 14, 2 pm - Micromotives and macromoves: Political preferences and internal migration in England and Wales - by Vincenzo Bove, University of Warwick

• October 05, 2 pm - Using Machine Learning to Create an Early Warning System for Welfare Recipients - by Dario Sansone, Exeter University 

• October 19, 2pm - Geographic concentration of imports and economic vulnerability of countries - by Florian Mayneris, Université du Québec à Montréal

• November 09, 2pm - Cultural homophily and collaboration in superstar teams - by Gabor Bekes, Central European University

• December 07, 2pm - Is the price right? The role of morals, ideology, and tradeoff thinking in explaining reactions to price surges - by Nicola Lacetera, University of Toronto

• January 18, 2pm - Impact evaluation in a multi-input multi-output setting: Evidence on the effect of additional resources for schools  - by Giovanna D'Inverno, University of Pisa

• February 1, 2pm - Network formation and efficiency in linear-quadratic games: An experimental study - by Gergely Horvath, Duke Kunshan University

• March 1, 2pm - Opportunity-Based Other Regarding Preferences in General Equilibrium - by Antonio Villanacci, University of Florence

• March 29, 2pm - Lie for me: An experiment about delegation, efficiency, and morality- by Matteo Ploner, University of Trento 

• April 19, 2pm - Matching in Vertical Markets - by Francesco De Carolis, Bocconi University

• April 26, 2pm - Optimal treatment assignment of a threshold-based policy: empirical protocol and related issues - by Giovanni Cerulli, IRCrES-CNR

• May 03, 2pm - Markets and the Evolution of Fair Prices - by Heinrich Nax, University of Zurich

• May 17, 2pm - Relationships in Commodity Trade: LNG Contracts - by Catherine Thomas, London School of Economics

• May 31, 2pm - Unionisatio - by Anja Prummer, Queen Mary University of London

• June 14, 2pm - Buyer-Optimal Platform Design - by Daniele Condorelli, University of Warwick

ONLINE

The seminar series aims to provide a platform for promising young economists (close to finishing PhD, recently awarded PhD) to present their work to the IMT community. Each seminar will have a format of a topical mini workshop with a few 40 mins presentations. The seminars will be held online and can be joined at the followin link  http://imt.lu/seminar. 

January 31 - Industrial Organization and Firms' Dynamics

• • 2pm - Antitrust Policy and Innovation - by Giovanni Morzenti, Bocconi University

  • 2:40pm -  Dealer locations, mergers and consumer welfare in the Automobile industry - by Debashrita Mohapatra, KU Leuven

  • 3:20pm -  Factor Misallocation and High-Growth Firms in Spain - by Fernando Riveiro Formoso,Universidad Carlos III de Madrid

February 06 - Machine Learning in Economics

• • 2pm - Forecasting U.S. Recessions. The Yield-Curve – What Else?! - by Maximilian Göbel, ISEG - Universidade de Lisboa

  • 2:40pm -  The emergence, growth and stagnation of cities: France 1760-2020 - by Clément Gorin, University of Toronto

• TBA