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Explore our Past Seminars

On this page, you will find a small survey of the discussions of past years. New research is waiting to be discussed: join us!

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2025/26

Microeconomics

  • Von Neumann’s Minimax Theorem, by Hanchen Li

  • As strong as the weakest node: The impact of misinformation in social networks, by Sara Bernardoni
  • Multinomial Logit Processes and Preference Discovery: Inside and Outside the Black Box, by Sara Bernardoni
  • Reputation and Imperfect Information, by Nurassyl Abdirazak
  • Language-Based Games, by Trace Miller
  • Revenue maximization with a single  sample, by Trace Miller
  • It hurts to ask, by Sara Desideri
  • How to Regulate Carbon Emissions with Climate-Conscious Consumers, by Sebastian Kleine Kuhlmann
  • Free Entry in a Cournot market with Overlapping Ownership, by Sebastian Kleine Kuhlmann
  • Anti‐poaching Agreements in Labor Markets, by Eloisa Versaci
  • Expertise, by Laura Lo Schiavo
  • Cognitive hierarchies for games in extensive form, by Ivan Yepifanov

Applied Economics

  • Expertise, by Roberto Fani

  • The economic cost of Ambiguous Laws by Gabriele Mole’

  • The role of the Ask Gap in Gender Pay Inequality by Federico Casotto

  • What if you see it? Workers perceptions of and reactions to LLMs by Iorgus Cicala

  • Who benefits from surge pricing by Jakub Przewoski

  • A unified framework for measuring preferences for Schools and Neighborhoods by Roberto Fani

  • Large Language Models in Economics by Gabriele Mole’

  • Plausibly exogenous by Federico Cosenza

  • Winning isn't everything: Corruption in Sumo Wrestling by Filippo Loreto

  • The abolition of immigration restrictions and the performance of firms and workers by Titouan Renault

  • Search and Matching by Roberto Fani 

  • Wealth Sorting and Cyclical Employment Risk by Giulia Putrino 

  • The rise of market power and the macroeconomic implications by Enrico Ancona

  • The Gender Wage Gap and Domestic Violence by Mario Schmidt 

  • People's understanding of inflation by Isaac Noweck

  • Job search in local labor market with skill mismatch by Roberto Fani 

  • The use of structural models in econometrics by Federico Casotto

  • Visual bias by Iorgus Cicala

  • Better safe than sorry: referrals in dual labor markets by Federico Pepe and Giulia Putrino 

  • Fiscal Rules and the Selection of Politicians: theory and evidence from Italy by Francesca Condò

Macroeconomics

  • Demographics and Debt, by Sofia Brunetti

  • The Voice of Monetary Policy, by David Herskovits 

  • ​The Allocation of Talent and US Economic Growth, by Zoe Di Lieto and Yael Brianzi

  • Demographics and Real Interest Rates Across Countries and Over Time, by Isaac Cicatto

  • A Model of Unconventional Monetary Policy, by Stefano Graziosi and Pietro Bazzotti

  • Unequal Growth, by Antonio Di Marino

  • The Trouble with Rational Expectations in Heterogeneous Agent Models: A Challenge for Macroeconomics, by Edoardo Isidori

  • A Framework of Geoeconomics, by Filippo Branchi

  • “Solvency Rule” versus “Taylor Rule”: An Alternative Interpretation of the Relation between Monetary Policy and the Economic Crisis, by Davide Barcella

  • Buy Guns or Buy Roses? EU Defense Spending Fiscal Multipliers, by Teodor Nedev

PhD Seminar Series: Applied Economics

On- and Off-the-Job Search around Job Termination

by Francesco Armillei

2024/25

Microeconomics

  • Strategic Differentiation by Business Models: Free-To-Air and Pay-Tv, by Sebastian Kleine Kuhlmann

  • Belief-Dependent Motivations and Psychological Game Theory, by Ginevra Migone
  • A Random Dictator is All You Need, by Ivan Yepifanov
  • A Cognitive Theory of Reasoning and Choice, by Sara Bernardoni

Applied Economics

  • Wage Centralization and Regional Misallocation, by Roberto Fani and Federico Pepe

  • Mean Decrease Accuracy for Random Forests: Inconsistency, and a Practical Solution via the Sobol-MDA, by Valerio Fusco

  • Estimation and Inference of Heterogeneous Treatment Effects Using Random Forests, by Andrea Donazzan

  • Gambling for Re-Election, by Sebastian Kleine Kuhlmann

  • Brahmin Left Versus Merchant Right, by Titouan Renault

  • Refugee Benefit Cuts, by Gregor Lauth

Macroeconomics

  • The Fiscal Theory of the Price Level, by Antonio Grande

  • Regulating Transformative Technologies, by Rishabh Rupani

  • Revisiting the Phillips and Beveridge Curves: Insights from the 2020s Inflation Surge, by Giovanni Cecchi

  • The Output Effect of Fiscal Consolidation Plans, by Giuseppe Spina

  • Redistribution and Social Insurance, by Dzianis Rabchuk

PhD Macro Guest Seminar

Wealth tax, entrepreneurship and market power

by Matteo Cremonini
 

2023/24

Theoretical Microeconomics

  • Quantal Response Equilibria, by Samuele Dotta

  •  Learning from Others’ Outcomes, by Samuele Dotta

  • Modeling Personal Traits in Game Theory: A Context-Independent Approach, by Nicolas Sourisseau
  • The Neurobiology of Context-Dependent Valuation and Choice, by Emma Borgonovo and Samuele Dotta

Applied Microeconomics

  • Opinions as Facts, by Heitor Sousa Borges

  • Economic and Political Liberalizations, by Roberto Fani

  • Stigma and Social Cover a mental health care esperiment in refugee networks, by Arianna Savo and Ada Gianassi

  • The Legacy of Feudalism and Sicilian Low Social Capital, by Gioele Giussani

Macroeconomics

  • High-Frequency Identification of Monetary Non-Neutralit: The Information Effect, by Roberto Patiño

  • Market Size, Trade, and Productivity & Railroads of the Raj: Estimating the Impact of Transportation Infrastructure, by Apolline Duclaux and Pietro Grassano

  • A Model for the U.S. Pandemic-Era Inflation, by Martina Barni and Gioele Giussani

2022/23

Theoretical Microeconomics Guest Seminar

Shaping Institutions

by Prof. Satoshi Fukuda
 

2021/22

Seminars and Workshops

  • Monetary Policy with Heterogeneous Risks, by Roberto Colarieti

  • PhD Programs and Applications, by Pierfrancesco Mei

  • Thesis Award Presentations, by Elias Bellver Albareda, Alfonso Merendino, Roberto Patiño, Lukas Tohoff
     

2020/2021

Applied Microeconomics Guest Seminar

From auction theory to practice: what we can learn from the Nobel 2020

by Prof. Francesco Decarolis

Seminars and Workshops

  • Heterogeneity in Macroeconomics: a quick introduction, by Roberto Colarieti

2019/2020

Applied Microeconomics Guest Seminar

Identity, Beliefs and Political Conflict

by Prof. Nicola Gennaioli

Seminars and Workshops

  • General state space Markov chains and MCMC algorithms, by Beatrice Cantoni

  • Additive logistic regression: a statistical view of boosting, by Leonardo Ruggieri

  • Proxeny: institutions, trade and growth in the ancient economy, by Pier Paolo Creanza

2018/19

Applied Microeconomics Guest Seminar (I)

Education choices of immigrant children

by Prof. Eliana La Ferrara

Seminars and Workshops

  • Austerity and Public Debt dynamics, by Pierfrancesco Mei

2017/18

Economic Growth Guest Seminar (I)

Italy’s Productivity Conundrum. A Study on Resource Misallocation in Italy

by Prof. Gianmarco Ottaviano

Economic Growth

  • Across sector misallocation: an empirical study, by Kristian Romano

Economics and Mathematics

  • The role of Mathematics and the knowledge formation in Economics, by Edvin Maehre

  • The role of sublinearity in the State Preference Model, by Giulio Principi

Political Economy

  • Media Bias in Germany: evidence from Social Media, by Felix Iglhaut

  • Measuring attitudes towards Immigration, by Leonardo D’Amico

  • East versus West on the European Populism Scale, by Jònas A. Gunnarsson

2016/17

International Economics

  • The theory of interstellar trade, by Morgan Alangeh

  • Migrations, by Giovanni Da Frè and Simone Negro

  • Trade, by Giovanni Da Frè and Simone Negro

Macroeconomics and Political Economy

  • The Supply Channel of (Un)conventional Monetary Operations, by Giacomo Cattelan

  • Debt Dynamics and Fiscal Consolidation Plans, by Pierfrancesco Mei

  • Secular Stagnation, by Andrew Funck

  • Output, Debt and Stock Market, by Giacomo Mantegazza

  • Socio-economic effects of distrust, by Andrea Pradelli

Economic Theory

  • Philosophy of Science and Economic Theory, by Francesco Fabbri

  • Certain and risky decision making, by Davide Ferri and Roberta Padovani

  • Strategic interactions and self-confirming equilibria, by Roberto Corrao and Marco Loseto

Original Research Papers

  • Marriage and legal status, by Lorenzo Cattivelli

  • Salience and Intertemporal Choice, by Giorgio Saponaro

  • Politically Connected Directors and the Governance of Banks, by Alessandro Bergamaschini, Beatrice Cantoni and Leonardo D’Amico

2015/16

Internal Seminars

  • Labour Economics, by Evan DiPetrillo

  • Macroeconomics and Consumption, by Sergio Cappellini

  • Nazism and Highways, by Nicolò Marchetti

  • Macroeconomics, by Giorgio Saponaro

  • Monetary Finance, by Alena Jascanka

  • Measuring, electing and ranking, by Giovanni Montanari

  • Competition Policy and Sharing Economy, by Simone Negro and Chiara Motta

It's a bit dusty down here, isn't it?

We have lost track of so many meetings, seminars and workshops. This was just a brief survey of what we have been doing over the past ten years, but we are looking to keep exploring new research. Want to be a part of it? Visit the Join Us section!

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