The Dynamic Effects of Information on Political Corruption: Theory and Evidence from Puerto Rico22 aprile 2013Does the disclosure of information about corrupt activities induce a sustained reduction in...
Network Synchronization in a Noisy Environment with Time Delays: Fundamental Limits and Trade-Offs19 aprile 2013We study the effects of nonzero time delays in stochastic synchronization with linear couplings in...
Oblique Complementarities, Social Norms and the Signaling Value of Parental Behavior15 aprile 2013This paper studies social learning in parent-child relationships; children look at their parents'...
Do Cash Transfers Improve Birth Outcomes? Evidence from Matched Vital Statistics, Program and Social Security Data8 aprile 2013There is limited empirical evidence on whether cash social assistance to poor pregnant women...
Spin-off universitari e imprenditorialità giovanile27 marzo 2013Da più di un decennio sono attive in Italia aziende nate dalle ricerca universitaria. Queste...
Compositionality of Strict, Approximate and Metric Bisimulation in Probabilistic Systems26 marzo 2013We will start by introducing a recently developed Plotkin style SOS specification format for Segala...
Sparse and Redundant Representations: Theory and Applications25 marzo 2013In this talk we describe some of the recent advances in sparse and redundant representations of...
When Credit Dries Up: Job Losses in the Great Recession25 marzo 2013The Great Recession has renewed interest in the real effects of credit supply shocks. In this paper...
The Emergence of Organizations and Markets21 marzo 2013The social sciences have sophisticated models of choice and equilibrium but little understanding of...