VSI Seminar Series 21-22
Students organize three VSI seminars on Applied Micro, Macro Finance and Micro Theory in which they can present papers/topics they're interested, and also invite profs to talk about their experience or research.
Here below you can find the list of seminars held in the spring semester of 2022 (updated weekly).
From Mad Men to Maths Men: Concentration and Buyer Power in Online Advertising (Francesco Decarolis & Gabriele Rovigatti)
| 08 February | Applied Micro | Federica Lupi (VSI) |
| "How to run an RCT: The good, the bad and the last-minute changes" | ||
| 10 February | Macro Finance | Luca Zanotti (VSI) |
| "The Power of Forward Guidance Revisited" | ||
| 15 February | Applied Micro | Filippo Paternollo (VSI) |
| "From Mad Men to Maths Men: Concentration and Buyer Power in Online Advertising" by Francesco Decarolis & Gabriele Rovigatti | ||
| 11 March | Micro Theory | Tanvi Goyal (VSI) |
| "Combinatorial Stochastic Processes" | ||
| 24 March | Macro Finance | Vaasavi Unnava (VSI) |
| "Web 3.0: A New Free Banking Era" | ||
| 25 March | Micro Theory | Nicola Bariletto (VSI) |
| "Dirichlet Process" | ||
| 31 March | Marco Finance | Simone Boldrini (VSI) |
| "Monetary Policy Shocks Identification" | ||
| 6 April | Micro Theory | Pedro Oliboni (VSI) |
| "The Problem of Threshold Selection in Extreme Value Theory" | ||
| 7 April | Marco Finance | Marco Gortan (VSI) |
| "Modeling and detecting rational bubbles" | ||
| 8 April | Applied Micro | Tanvi Goyal (VSI) |
| "Identity Politics" | ||
| 12 April | Applied Micro | Maria Cedro (VSI) |
| "Ethnic conflict and preferences for redistribution" | ||
| 26 April | Applied Micro | Emiliano Sandri (VSI) |
| "Self-employement" (thesis) | ||
| 10 May | Applied Micro | Ruyue Li (VSI) |
| "Bidder Asymmetries in Procurement Auctions: Efficiency vs. Information - Evidence from Railway Passenger Services" by Stefan Weiergraeber and Christoph Wolf |
Here below you can find the list of seminars held in the fall semester of 2021 (updated weekly).
| 05 November | Applied Micro | Tanvi Goyal (VSI) |
| "Inter-generational Cultural Transmission" | ||
| 11 November | Micro Theory | Laure Anique (VSI) |
| "Discussion topics in micro theory" | ||
| 15 November | Macro Finance | Simone Boldrini (VSI) |
| "The transmission channels of monetary, macro- and microprudential policies and their interrelations" |
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| 16 November | Applied Micro | Yanduo Chen (VSI) |
| "Would (dis)incentive schemes backfire and why?" | ||
| 22 November | Macro Finance | Tanvi Goyal (VSI) |
| "Central Bank Balance Sheet Policies and Climate Change" | ||
| 26 November | Micro Theory | Gad Nacamulli (VSI) |
| "On the optimality of privacy in sequential contracting" | ||
| 29 November | Macro Finance | Alessandro Dell'Acqua (VSI) |
| "Departures from Rational Expectation Models" | ||
| 02 December | Applied Micro | Filippo Raschia (VSI) |
| "Populism and Identity Politics" |