Allievo Handbook - Collegio Carlo Alberto

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ALLIEVIPROGRAM 

20122013

the allievo handbook

1. The Collegio 03 

2. AllieVi ProgrAm 05 

3. CAlendAr 11 

4. AllieVi 13 

5. Courses 71 

6. FACulTy 103 

7. reseArCh 149 

8. iniTiATiVes 153 

9. eVenTs 155 

10. ConTACTs 159 

CONTENTS

dear Allievi, 

1_ThE COllEgiO 

it is my greatest pleasure to welcome you at Collegio Carlo Alberto. your committment and 

enthusiasm will be a fundamental part of this enterprise. here you will have the opportunity 

to develop your intellectual skills not only through courses, but also through frequent 

interactions with the researchers of the Collegio. 

Welcome once again, 

ThE COllEgiO 

Pietro garibaldi 

The Collegio Carlo Alberto was created in 2004. it is a foundation jointly established by the 

Compagnia di san Paolo and the university of Torino. its mission is to foster research and 

teaching in economics and the social sciences, upholding the values and best practices of the 

international academic community. 

The Collegio is a dynamic research community formed by faculty of the university of 

Torino, full-time junior and senior faculty, hired on the international academic job market, 

visiting scholars. They conduct interdisciplinary research within the social sciences, with both 

empirical and theoretical emphasis. 

As far as education is concerned, the Collegio promotes and coordinates the “Allievi Program.” 

The Allievi are outstanding students of the university and the Politecnico of Torino who, in 

addition to fulfilling their university requirements, receive advanced training (courses and 

seminars) at the Collegio. The program’s goal is to nurture the best talents, directing them 

towards either the best graduate programs in economics and statistics or successful highlevel 

business careers. 

The Collegio also organizes four master’s degree programs: a master in economics, a master 

in Finance, a master in insurance & risk management and the new program in Public Policy 

and social Change (the latter three in collaboration with the university of Torino). Finally, two 

doctoral Programs of the university of Torino are hosted at the Collegio. 

every two years, the Collegio awards the Carlo Alberto Medal to an outstanding italian 

economist under the age of 40. The medal award ceremony takes place in mid-June alongside 

the Vilfredo Pareto lectures, a series of lectures delivered by distinguished scholars in 

economics and social sciences. 

The Collegio also organizes several outreach events addressed to the general public. The 

Collegio Aperto lectures is a series of lectures on current economic, social, and political 

events, given by leading international scholars and professionals. The annual Onorato 

Castellino lecture, also featuring distinguished scholars and public intellectuals, honors 

the memory of the first President of the Collegio and member of the research unit CerP, 

who bestowed the institution his vision, integrity, and grace. Besides the events listed above, 

research interaction with the international community is fostered by the seminar series and 

numerous conferences that the Collegio organizes during the academic year. 

For those who are interested in economics, finance and other social sciences the Collegio is a 

unique research and educational opportunity, spanning academic research and public policy. 

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2_AlliEVi PrOgrAM 

The Allievi Program of the Collegio Carlo Alberto is a “honors” program that enhances the 

education of outstanding students from the univeristy and the Politecnico of Torino. The 

objective is to help them succeed in their international academic or professional careers. 

The Allievi attend courses and tutorials at the Collegio that are in addition to the students’ 

university requirements. The Allievi Program thus complements and strengthens the 

preparation students get during their college years. 

The Allievi of the Collegio Carlo Alberto are enrolled either in a laurea triennale or in a 

laurea magistrale in economics and related subjects at the university or at the Politecnico of 

Torino. related subjects are widely defined and include, for instance, philosophy, engineering, 

mathematics, political sciences and statistics. These students are expected to fulfill their 

university requirements, as well as to participate in additional activities (classes and tutorials) 

at the Collegio. 

The admission to the Allievi Program is purely merit-based. The Collegio awards a scholarship 

and provides a study station to each student admitted into the program. The Allievi interact 

on a daily basis with faculty members, Fellows and Affiliates of the Collegio. moreover, they 

have access to the Collegio’s facilities and scientific activities, such as seminars, conferences, 

masters and doctoral courses. The studies of each Allievo are supervised by a mentor assigned 

upon enrollment. 

The Allievi are subdivided into: 

• Junior Allievi: these are students enrolled in a laurea triennale program at the university 

or at the Politecnico of Torino. in addition to the university degree, the Junior Allievi who 

successfully fulfill the Collegio requirements are awarded the Allievi diploma from the 

Collegio. 

• Senior Allievi: these are students enrolled in a laurea magistrale program at the university 

or at the Politecnico of Torino. in addition to the university degree, the senior Allievi who 

successfully fulfill the Collegio requirements are awarded the master in economics from 

the Collegio. Alternatively, depending on the Allievi’s interests and inclinations, and in 

agreement with the director of studies, specific study programs may be designed which 

then lead to the award of the master in one of the following three subjects: economics and 

Complexity; Financial economics; statistics and Applied mathematics. 

OrgANiZATiON OF STUDiES 

All lectures held at the Collegio are delivered in english. 

Courses are scheduled in 12-weeks semesters. The first semester runs from the last week of 

september, whereas the second semester starts in mid February. 

The following types of courses are offered: 

• Standard semester courses: these courses meet twice a week and last for 30-40 hours 

overall. The average class size is of 15 students. 

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• Directed studies: a faculty member individually advises an Allievo on a mutually agreed topic. 

• Tutorials: a faculty member advises a small group of Allievi on a topic of mutual interest. 

• Seminar courses: the instructor selects a suitable number of seminars in the Collegio’s 

seminar series relevant for the Allievi’s training; the Allievi are then expected to attend 

these seminars, to meet the speakers, and to discuss the papers presented at the seminars 

with the instructor. 

For each course, the instructor distributes a syllabus detailing the topics to be covered, office 

hours and grading policy. Class attendance is compulsory. At the end of each course there is a 

written test, and the grade earned by the Allievo is reported in her/his academic records at the 

Collegio (both in thirtieth, according to the standard italian university grading system, and in 

letters; see the conversion table at the end of the section with grades’ explanation). 

subject to seating availability and class size limit, the director of studies can authorize 

students of other institutions to attend semester courses at the Collegio. The exchange 

students are expected to be honors students at their home institution. 

DEgrEE rEQUirEMENTS 

The Allievi must enroll either in a laurea triennale or in a laurea magistrale program at the 

university or at the Politecnico of Torino. The additional activities of Junior and senior Allievi 

at the Collegio last, respectively, for three and two years. 

upon enrollment, the director of studies nominates a mentor who supervises each Allievo’s 

studies at the Collegio. The mentor is a faculty member of the Collegio. 

At the beginning of each academic year, the Allievo prepares a study program for the given 

year in accordance with her/his mentor. such a program must comply with the specific rules 

set below and is then submitted, for approval, to the director of studies. 

if an Allievo fails an exam at the Collegio, the director of studies can, at her/his discretion, ask 

the Allievo to either quit the program or take the exam again during the following academic 

year. 

At the end of each academic year, an Allievo is expected to complete at least 75% of her/his 

required university coursework (measured in credits), with an overall grade average of at least 

27/30. otherwise, the director of studies can, at her/his discretion, ask the Allievo to quit the 

program. 

The Allievo who successfully completes her/his course requirements both at the university 

and at the Collegio with an overall average grade of at least 27/30 is admitted to the final 

examination. 

JUNiOr AlliEVi 

The program of studies of a Junior Allievo must include at least two courses per year, for 

an overall course load of at least 60 hours, to be chosen among the courses offered at the 


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For the Junior Allievi, the final examination consists of an oral discussion where the Allievo 

discusses an essay that she/he wrote on a subject of her/his choice. The Allievo’s essay is 

expected to demonstrate that she/he fruitfully attended the Collegio’s courses and that her/ 

his preparation is adequate for undertaking the master’s degree program offered in the second 

level of the Allievi Program – laurea magistrale. The essay is supervised either by a faculty 

member or by a fellow of the Collegio. Based on the oral examination, the exam committee, 

composed by three faculty members, decides whether or not to award the diploma to the 

Allievo (with or without distinction). 

The final examination cannot be taken more than once and must take place by the month 

of december immediately following the official end of the laurea triennale. otherwise, the 

Allievo must quit the program and the diploma cannot be awarded. 

The Junior Allievi who earn the degree with distinction are automatically admitted to the 

master’s program as senior Allievi. Junior Allievi who earn the degree without distinction can 

be admitted to the master’s program only via the regular senior Allievi admission procedure. 

SENiOr AlliEVi 

The program of studies of a senior Allievo must include at least three courses per year, for an 

overall course load of at least 90 hours, to be chosen among the courses offered at the Collegio. 

For the senior Allievi, the final examination consists of an original thesis to be written on a 

subject of her/his choice. its contents are presented in a scientific seminar, called thesis defense, 

to an ad hoc Thesis Committee. The Allievi are expected to master the recent scientific literature 

on the topic and to give some original insight into the problem. The thesis work is supervised 

either by a faculty member or by a fellow of the Collegio. The Allievo is expected to communicate 

to the director of studies the name of her/his supervisor at the latest by the end of the third 

semester. once nominated, the supervisor replaces the mentor. The Thesis Committee acts on 

behalf of the teaching board and consists of three members nominated by the director of studies 

among the Board’s members. 

Based on the quality of the written thesis and of the seminar, the Thesis Committee decides 

whether to recommend to the Collegio’s director to award, with or without distinction, the master 

to the Allievo (the distinction requires a unanimous vote of the Committee). The supervisor is 

expected to attend the final examination seminar and, before the seminar and behind closed 

doors, to present the Allievo and her/his achievements to the Committee. however, she/he does 

not participate in the deliberations of the Committee regarding her/his advisee. The thesis defense 

is open to public. 

The final examination cannot be taken more than once and must take place by the month of 

may immediately following the end of the laurea magistrale. otherwise, the Allievo must quit 

the program. 

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Based on the Thesis Committee’s recommendation, the Collegio’s director decides whether the 

Allievo can be awarded the master, with or without distinction. The Collegio officially awards the 

degrees to the Allievi in a public graduation ceremony. 

After graduation, the senior Allievi become Alumni of the Collegio. As such, they are invited to 

all public ceremonies and events at the Collegio and they have access to the Collegio’s facilities 

and resources. 

FiNANCiAl AiD 

The Collegio may provide an Allievo with individual scholarships that cover: 

• fees and tuitions due to the university; 

• meals (for all students) and lodging (only for students non-resident in the Torino area); 

• teaching and research material (such as books and software) related to the activities performed 

at the Collegio. 

Allievi from outside the Turin area are typically offered single room accommodation at the 

Collegio “r. einaudi” (http://www.collegioeinaudi.it/), a renowned university residence, which 

provides highest standard student accommodation since 1935. 

The director of studies can also award to the Allievi funds to cover their participation to 

conferences and workshops relevant for their final dissertations. 

ADMiSSiON 

Any (italian or foreign) student eligible to enroll in a laurea triennale or magistrale in 

economics or related subjects of the university and of the Politecnico of Torino is entitled to 

apply to the Allievi program. related subjects are widely defined and include, for instance, 

philosophy, engineering, mathematics, political sciences and statistics. 

A call for candidates for a given academic year is typically available starting from February 

of the previous year. 

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PlACEMENT 

Placement of students who completed the Allievi Program after 2009: 

gloria Allione Phd student in economics, university of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia (usA) 

Valentina Barbero reale mutua Assicurazioni, Torino 

giampaolo Caramellino Phd student in economics, london school of economics, london (uK) 

Alberto Ciancio Phd student in statistics, Carnegie mellon university, Pittsburgh (usA) 

mattia Ciollaro Phd student in statistics, Carnegie mellon university, Pittsburgh (usA) 

isabella david Phd student in economics, university College london, londra (uK) 

marta Fana Phd student in economics, sciencesPo Paris, department of economics 

Alberto Frascarolo ernst & young, milano 

michela giorcelli Phd student in economics, stanford university, Palo Alto (usA) 

Francesco grande Phd student in mathematics, Berlin mathematical school, Berlin (germany) 

Fabio iannuzzelli Phd student in economics and Finance, CemFi, madrid (spain) 

ilaria laganà italian embassy, Beirut (libano) 

Fabrizio lecci Phd student in statistics, Carnegie mellon university, Pittsburgh (usA) 

roberto marfè Phd student in Finance, swiss Finance institute and heC, université de 

lausanne (switzerland) 

Chiara margaria Phd student in economics, yale university, new haven (usA) 

diego mattone ernst & young, milano 

silvia montagna Phd student in statistics, duke university, durham (usA) 

Consuelo nava Phd student in statistics and Applied maths, università di Torino, Torino 

Federico Petrini reale mutua Assicurazioni, Torino 

deborah Pistorio Phd student in economics, university College london, londra (uK) 

luciano Pomatto Phd student in managerial economics and strategy, Kellog school of 

management, northwestern university, evanston (usA) 

Alberto racca mcKinsey & Company, milano 

giorgia romagnoli Phd student in economics, new york university, new york (usA) 

Alexandra scudo Phd student in economics, stockholm school of economics, stockholm 

(sweden) 

Katia sette ernst & young, Torino 

emilia soldani Phd student in economics, new york university, new york (usA) 

Federico Tadei Ph.d student in social sciences, California institute of Technology, Pasadena 

(usA) 

Federico Tagliati Phd student in economics, university College london, londra (uK) 

stefano Tracà Phd student in operations research, massachusetts institute of Technology, 

Cambridge (usA) 

Francesco Vercelli Phd student in economics, university of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia (usA) 

Alberto Vigada Bain & Company Consulting 

updates at: www.carloalberto.org/education/allievi/alumni-and-placement 

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CONVErSiON TAblE AND grADES’ ExPlANATiON 

grAdes in ThirTieTh leTTer grAdes gPA eXPlAnATion 

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30 cum laude A+ 4.0 oustanding 

30 A 4.0 excellent 

29 A 4.0 excellent 

28 A- 3.7 Very good 

27 A- 3.7 Very good 

26 B+ 3.3 good 

25 B 3.0 good 

24 B 3.0 good 

23 B- 2.7 satisfactory 

22 C+ 2.3 satisfactory 

21 C 2.0 satisfactory 

20 C 2.0 satisfactory 

19 C- 1.7 Barely satisfactory 

18 d 1.0 low, Pass 

0-17 F 0.0 Fail

3_CAlENDAr 

The Allievi’s courses are organized according to the calendar below and take place in the 

historical building that houses the Collegio. until 1998, it housed a prestigious boarding 

school, the real Collegio Carlo Alberto, founded by King Carlo Alberto in 1838 and run by the 

religious order of the Barnabites. The Allievi Program symbolically follows the long tradition 

of high-level education of the real Collegio. 

FAll semesTer 

instruction Begins August 27 

holiday, Classes suspended november 1 

instruction and exam Period end december 7 

sPring semesTer 

instruction Begins February 18 

holiday, Classes suspended march 29-April 2 

holiday, Classes suspended April 25, may 1 

instruction and exam Period end may 17 

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Matteo bizzarri 

(mentor: ignacio monzón) 

Carlotta bonsignori 

(mentor: Aleksey Tetenov) 

Marta bruschi 

(mentor: Ainhoa Aparicio Fenoll) 

Marco D’Aurelio 


Alessandro De Sanctis 

(mentor: Toomas hinnosaar) 

giulia Devecchi 

(mentor: dino gerardi) 

Claudio Di loreto 


Simone Fabiole-Nicoletto 


ilaria Febbo 

(mentor: Pierpaolo de Blasi) 

Cecilia Ferrando 

(mentor: edoardo grillo) 

Valentina garella 


gianni ghetti 


Marco ghiani 


Aleksandra Kolndrekaj 

(mentor: giovanni mastrobuoni) 

4_AlliEVi 

AlliEVi SENiOr 2012-2013 

Vincenzo Maccarrone 

(mentor: Filippo Taddei) 

giorgio Martini 


Vito Musci 

(mentor: igor Prünster) 

Federica Odifreddi 


Marco Odifreddi 


giulia Pasquale 


Alberto Pellicioli 


Marco Pelosi 


Federico Petri 


lorenzo Piccinini 


Stefano Pietrosanti 


Michele rosenberg 


Francesca Zanichelli 

(mentor: igor Prünster) 

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MATTEO biZZArri 

Contact information 

Collegio Carlo Alberto 

Via real Collegio, 30-10024 moncalieri (Torino), italy 

Tel: +39-011-6705000, Fax: +39-011-6705088 

matteo.bizzarri@carloalberto.org 

www.carloalberto.org/education/allievi/students/senior/bizzarri 

date of birth: 06/05/1989 

education 

• 2011-current: student, laurea magistrale (master’s degree) in mathematics, Facoltà di 

scienze m.F.n., università di Torino 

• 2010-current: Allievo (honors student), Collegio Carlo Alberto 

• 2008-2011: laurea Triennale (undergraduate degree) in mathematics, Facoltà di scienze 

m.F.n., università di Torino. grade 110 cum laude 

• 2003-2008: liceo scientifico statale “Piero gobetti” (high school with emphasis on 

sciences), Torino. grade 100/100 

Fellowship, Awards And grants 

• 2006 e 2008: Concorso “diventiamo cittadini europei” (on contemporary history with 

focus on european integration) 

languages 

• english: good knowledge 

• French: basic knowledge 

seminars, Conferences, summer schools 

• 2007: summer school in Theorethical Physics, università di udine 

• summer school, “studio school of english”, Cambridge 

Working experience 

• 2004-2006: Project “Formare e prevenire con la Peer education- Aids e malattie 

sessualmente trasmesse” (on didactical methods for peer education), ufficio metodologie 

didattiche 

• 2010-current: Assistance to children (9-14 years) with learning (and other) difficulties 

Computer skills 

• office, maple, statistica, matlab, PoVray, C++ 

• lateX

CArlOTTA bONSigNOri 

4_AlliEVi 




Tel: +39-011-6705000, Fax: +39-011-6705088 

carlotta.bonsignori@carloalberto.org 

www.carloalberto.org/education/allievi/students/senior/bonsignori 


education 

• 2010-current: Allieva (honors student), Collegio Carlo Alberto 

• 2010-current: student laurea magistrale (master’s degree) in economics, Facoltà di 

economia, università di Torino. expected graduation: november 2012 

• 2007-2010: Bachelor in international economics and management, Bocconi university, 

milano, final dissertation with the title “how do migration restrictions Affect the skill- 

Content of migration? The experience of italy” in economics of migration. supervisor: Prof. 

T. Boeri. grade: 106/110 

• 2009: exchange student at singapore management university, singapore 

• 2002-2007: liceo Classico “Carlo Botta” (high school with emphasis on humanities), ivrea, 

Torino 

• 2005-2006: exchange student at orchard Park high school, ny, usA 

languages 

• italian: mother tongue 

• english: fluent (Certificates: PeT, FCe, CAe-with grade A) 

• French and spanish: scholastic 

Work experience 

• 2008-2009: Associate and international manager of Jeme Bocconi studenti, the Junior 

enterprise of Bocconi university 


• Competent in both microsoft Windows and mac os X environments 

• Basic knowledge of sTATA, eviews, Python and netlogo 

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MArTA brUSChi 




Tel: +39-011-6705000, Fax: +39-011-6705088 

marta.bruschi@carloalberto.org 

www.carloalberto.org/education/allievi/students/senior/bruschi 


education 

• 2011-current: student, laurea magistrale (master’s degree) in economics, Facoltà di 

economia, università di Torino 


• 2008-2011: student, laurea Triennale (undergraduate degree) in economics, Facoltà di 

economia, università di Torino, 110/110 l 

• 2003-2008: liceo scientifico “Amedeo Avogadro” (high school with emphasis on sciences), 

Biella, 100/100 

languages 


• english: good knowledge (First Certificate) 

• French 


• 2006-2008: internship and freelance journalist for the newspaper “eco di Biella” 

• 2010: Tutor in the library of Facoltà di economia, università di Torino 

• 2010: supervisor in a summer camp (Favaro-Biella) 

other Activities 

• 2011-current: student representative, Facoltà di economia, università di Torino (second term) 

• 2010-2011: student representative, Facoltà di economia, università di Torino (first term) 


• microsoft office 

• internet tools 

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MArCO D’AUrEliO 




Tel: +39-011-6705000, Fax: +39-011-6705088 

marco.daurelio@carloalberto.org 

www.carloalberto.org/education/allievi/students/senior/daurelio 


education 


• 2011-current: student, laurea magistrale (master’s degree) in electronics, Facoltà di 

ingegneria dell’informazione, Politecnico di Torino 

• 2008-2011: doppia laurea Triennale (double Bachelor’s degree) in information Technology 

engineering, Politecnico di Torino-Politecnico di milano, with a monograph in Computer 

science entitled “Cloud static infrastructure sizing for Web application as a function of 

slA”. international program with Tongji university (shanghai). grade: 110 /110 cum laude 

• 2003-2008: liceo scientifico “leonardo da Vinci”-Pni (high school with emphasis on 

sciences), maglie (le). grade: 100/100 cum laude 

Fellowship, Awards and grants 

• 2008: special mention for the 5th placing ex-aequo at the 7th national Certamen of 

Physics and mathematics “Fabiana d’Arpa”, held at liceo scientifico “leonardo da Vinci” 

in maglie (le) 

languages 

• italian: mother tongue; english: ToeFl 2010 (grade 107/120); Chinese: basic (Council of 

europe level A1); german: basic (Council of europe level A1) 


• 2010: Alta scuola Politecnica “summer school” on “managing of innovation” 

• 2007: “Progetto hi TeC 2007” by Politecnico di milano on environmental engineering, 

geodesy, gPs localization and satellite images 

• 2007: “51° Corso di orientamento” by scuola normale superiore 


• 2011: internship in Telecom italia TilAB on Cloud computing 


• office applications: word processor, spreadsheet, publishing and currentation software, laTeX 

• Programming languages: C, matlab and simulink, sPiCe, Vhdl, assembler 

other skills and interests 

• ski, bicycle, trekking, swimming, playing musical instruments, reading 

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AlESSANDrO DE SANCTiS 




Tel: +39-011-6705000, Fax: +39-011-6705088 

alessandro.desanctis@carloalberto.org 

www.carloalberto.org/education/allievi/students/senior/desanctis 


education 

• 2012-current: Allievo senior (honors student), Collegio Carlo Alberto 



• 2011-2012: Allievo Junior (honors student), Collegio Carlo Alberto 

• 2009-2012: student, laurea Triennale (undergraduate degree) in economics, Facoltà di 

economia, università di Torino. graduation expected in september 2012 

• 2004-2009: liceo scientifico statale “Piero gobetti” (high school with emphasis on 


languages 

• english: good knowledge (Council of europe level B2, First Certificate in english 2007) 



• 2008-2011: usher at Auditorium rai, Torino 


• 2007: european Computer driving license (eCdl)-Core full version 


• 2004-2008: Participation in “mathematics days” in Pracatinat (To) 

• 2004-2009: Participation in several editions of the “mathematics olympics” 

• 2009: Participation in the stage “Fisica in gioco” in exilles (To) 

• 2009: Participation in the latin competition “Certamen Ciceronianum Arpinas” 


• reading (literature, sociology and economics), cinema, travelling

giUliA DEVECChi 

4_AlliEVi 




Tel: +39-011-6705000, Fax: +39-011-6705088 

giulia.devecchi@carloalberto.org 

www.carloalberto.org/education/allievi/students/senior/devecchi 


education 

• 2010-current: Allieva (honors student), Collegio Carlo Alberto. 

• 2010-current: laurea magistrale (master’s degree) in mathematics, università di Torino. 

graduation expected in 2012. 

• 2007-2010: laurea Triennale (undergraduate degree) in mathematics for Finance and 

insurance, università di Torino. Thesis supervisor: Prof.ssa laura sacerdote. grade: 110/110 

cum laude. 

• 2002-2007: liceo Classico “Vittorio Alfieri” (high school with emphasis on humanities), 

Asti. grade: 96/100. 

Awards and scholarships 

• 2007: Participation in the XXVii Certamen Ciceronianum Arpinas 

• 2006: Participation in the 4° Certamen Varronianum reatinum 

languages 


• english: good knowledge; PeT (Preliminary english Test) passed with merit (2006) 


• microsoft office (Word, excel, Power Point), C+, matlab, statistica, sAs, laTex. 

extra Curricular Activities 

• 2005-2011: Volunteer of intercultura (hosting coordinator in Asti) 

• 2005: Winner of intercultura scholarship for attending two months in a high school in 

south Africa (durban) 

• 2003: Volunteer in a summer camp for children 

other skills And interests 

• Travelling and reading 

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ClAUDiO Di lOrETO 




Tel: +39-011-6705000, Fax: +39-011-6705088 

claudio.diloreto@carloalberto.org 

www.carloalberto.org/education/allievi/students/senior/diloreto 


education 

• 2010-current: Allievo (honours student), Collegio Carlo Alberto; 

• 2010-current: student laurea magistrale (master’s degree) in Finance & insurance, Facoltà 

di economia, università di Torino. graduation expected in 2012; 

• 2007-2010: laurea Triennale (undergraduate degree) in economia aziendale, Facoltà di 

economia, luiss “guido Carli” rome, with a dissertation on “debito e deleveraging nella 

prima crisi globale degli anni 2000”, supervisor: Prof. ernesto monti. grade 110/110 cum 

laude; 

• 2002-2007: liceo scientifico “democrito” (high school with emphasis on science), rome. 

grade: 96/100. 

Awards And scholarships 

• 2009-2010: scholarship erAsmus for a study exchange program at the strathclyde 

university of glasgow 

• 2004, 2005: scholarship awarded by the “Fondo mario negri” 

languages 

• english: level C1 CeFr 

• French: level B2 CeFr 

Computers skills 

• excel, r, Visual Basic, stata, eviews, matlab 

seminars And Conferences 

• in house day-Finance at unilever (march 2012, rome) 

• Festival delle Città impresa 2009 


• 1996-2007: Basket (competitive) 


• sports, travelling, music 

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SiMONE FAbiOlE-NiCOlETTO 



Via real Collegio, 30 -10024 moncalieri (Torino), italy 

Tel: +39-011-6705000, Fax: +39-011-6705088 

simone.fabiolenicoletto@carloalberto.org 

www.carloalberto.org/education/allievi/students/senior/fabiolenicoletto 


education 

• 2011-current: student, laurea magistrale (master’s degree) in Finance & insurance, Facoltà 

di economia, università di Torino 


• 2008-2011: laurea Triennale (undergraduate degree) in Finance (“Banca, borsa e 

assicurazione”), Facoltà di economia, università di Torino. grade: 110/110 cum laude 

• 2003-2008: liceo scientifico “maria ida Viglino” (high school with emphasis in sciences), 

Pont-saint-martin (Ao). grade: 100/100 


• 2012: Premio optime, unione industriale, Torino 

• 2008: “gianni Padovani” scholarship for excellent students by Valfidi (società consortile 

cooperativa di garanzia collettiva dei fidi delle imprese della Valle d’Aosta) 

languages 

• French: excellent 



• 2011: summer school, The london school of economics and Political sciences. Attended 

course: Further statistics for economics and econometrics. Final mark: A 


• 2010: Waiter in a mountain dew, rifugio gabiet, gressoney la Trinité (Ao) 


• european Computer driving license (eCdl)-Core full version 

• stata (basic knowledge) 

• laTex 


• Basketball, mountain trekking, climbing, skiing 

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ilAriA FEbbO 




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education 



di economia, università di Torino. graduation expected 2013 

• 2008-2011 laurea Triennale (undergraduate degree) in statistics, Facoltà di scienze 

Politiche, università degli studi di Torino. Final dissertation with the title “Analysis of 

missing data for time series: application on environmental data” in economical statistics. 

supervisor: Prof. Pierpaolo de Blasi. grade: 110/110 cum laude 

• 2002-2007: liceo scientifico statale “Carlo Cattaneo” Pni (high school with emphasis on 

sciences), Torino. 


• 2012: menzione optime, unione industriale di Torino (awarded to the best undergraduate 

students of the università di Torino) 

• 2004: Participation at the competition “Fisica e donna: un mestiere possibile”, i won a 

holiday in Trieste (called City of science) 

languages 

• italian: mother tongue; english: good knowledge 


• 2011: internship at “Agenzia regionale per la Protezione dell’Ambiente del Piemonte”, 

grugliasco (To). supervisor: dott. ennio Cadum. studying methods of imputation of 

missing data on environmental data and learning to program with the sAs system 


• 2004-2007: Participation in the host project of liceo “Carlo Cattaneo” 

• 2006: Participation in the physical project “masterclasses” organized by inFn of Torino 

• 2005: Participation in stage “mathesis” 

• 2004: Participation in stage “mathematics days” in Pracatinat 

• 2004: Theatre workshop 


• The sAs system, sPss: good knowledge; r: basic knowledge; 2005 european Computer 

driving licence (eCdl)-Core full version; openoffice: good knowledge 


• hobbies: travelling, cinema, photography, horse-riding 

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,CECiliA FErrANDO 




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education 


• 2010-current: student, laurea Triennale (undergraduate degree) in Architecture, 

Polytechnic of Torino. graduation expected in 2013 

• 2004-2009: liceo Classico “V. gioberti” (high school with emphasis on humanities), Torino. 

grade: 100/100 cum laude 


• 2011-2012: specialization course in Fashion design and Collection, ied Torino 

• 2011: oxford university summer school in Archaeology of Ancient rome 

• 2009: merit award “eccellenze della scuola piemontese”, regione Piemonte 

• 2008: Participation in the scuola normale summer school (after nationwide selection process) 

• ranked 3rd in the 2006 edition of the “Agon” at the liceo Classico “V. Alfieri” 

languages 

• italian (mother tongue) 

• english (good knowledge, FCe grade A) 



• stata (basic knowledge) 

• AutoCAd (2d and 3d modelling), revit Architecture (basic knowledge) 

• sketch up and Vray (3d rendering) 

• Adobe Photoshop, Adobe illustrator 

4_AlliEVi 


• 2011: Participation in the project Torino2020 organised by Compagnia di san Paolo (after selection) 

• 2010: hostess at Conservatorio statale di musica “g. Verdi”, Torino, reAr società cooperativa 

• 2008-2009: matematica all’n-esima Potenza, Progetto diderot, Fondazione CrT 

• Participation in several editions of the “mathematics olympics” 

• Participation in 4 editions of “mathematics days” in Pracatinat 

• Participation in several editions of the “Festa della matematica ” as member of the high school team 

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VAlENTiNA gArEllA 




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education 




• 2008-2011: laurea triennale (undergraduate degree) in economics, Facoltà di economia, 

università di Torino with a dissertation in econometrics entitled “inflation and 

unemployment: an application of the Phillips Curve to italian data”; supervisor: Prof. 

Alessandro sembenelli. grade 110/110 cum laude 

• 2003-2008: i.T.C. “P. sraffa“ (high school with emphasis on economics), orbassano. grade 

100/100 

languages 


• english: good knowledge (2008-PeT) 


• spanish: basic knowledge 


• 2008-current: ice figure skating trainer to “ice Club Torino” 

• 2008-2010: mathematics and economics tutoring for high school students 

• 2007-2011: youth worker in children’s camps in a ecuminical center 

• 2007: internship “studio emmeci s.a.s”-moncalieri-Assistant in an office of business 

consultant 


• 2009: european Computer driving license (eCdl)-Core full version 

• software eviews, html, Pascal 


• lectures, winter sports especially ice skating, opera ballet 

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giANNi ghETTi 




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education 


• 2011-current: student, laurea magistrale (master’s degree) in economics, università di 

Torino. graduation expected in 2013 

• 2008-2011: laurea Triennale (undergraduate degree) in economics, università di milano 

Bicocca. grade: 110/110 cum laude. dissertation on labor economics entitled “Anche 

i supereroi invecchiano! Quale posto per loro nel mondo del lavoro?”, supervisor Prof. 

Piergiovanna natale 

• 2003-2008: liceo scientifico “leonardo da Vinci” (high school with emphasis on sciences), 

Crema (Cr). grade 92/100 

languages 


• english: Proficient user 

• spanish: Basic knowledge 

• Finnish: eilC (erasmus intensive language Course) of the Finnish language 

linguistic experiences 

• erasmus Program-university of Tampere-Finland. 

• lived 2 years in Botswana. Attended regularly an english secondary school 


• Competent in microsoft Windows environment. 

• Proficient in microsoft Word, excel and Powerpoint. 

• Competent in eviews 

• Programming, scripting and markup languages: C, netlogo, Python 


• reading, Traveling, Cooking 

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MArCO ghiANi 




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education 




• 2010: erasmus semester, university of southampton, school of social sciences 

• 2009: diploma in Violin (ten years degree, equivalent to laurea triennale), Cherubini 

Conservatory of music, Florence 

• 2008: london school of economics, summer school 2008, introductory microeconomics 

• 2007-2010: laurea Triennale (undergraduate degree) in scienze economiche, Facoltà di 

economia, università di Pisa, with the dissertation entitled “la teoria delle preferenze 

rivelate”; supervisor: Prof. Paolo scapparone. grade 110/110 cum laude et encomium 

• 2002-2007: liceo scientifico “ulisse dini” (high school with emphasis on science) 

languages 

• english (good knowledge) 


• eCdl start 

• Programs: Pcgive, gretl, eViews, sTATA, sWP 


• 2003-2006: ogu (Pisa university orchestra) several concerts as second Violin 


• Philosophy, literature, Classical music 

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AlEKSANDrA KOlNDrEKAJ 




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aleksandra.kolndrekaj@carloalberto.org 

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education 

• 2011-current: student laurea magistrale (master’s degree) in economics, Facoltà di 

economia, università di Torino. graduation expected in 2013 

• 2009-current: Allieva (honors student) Collegio Carlo Alberto 

• 2011: laurea Triennale (undergraduate degree) in economics (“economia e commercio”), 

Facoltà di economia, università di Torino, with a dissertation in macroeconomics entitled 

“il potere dei sindacati”. supervisor: Prof. margherita Borella. grade 110/110 cum laude 

• 2011: diploma in “economics” Collegio Carlo Alberto 

• 2003/2008: i.T.C. “F.A. Bonelli” (high school with emphasis on business administration), 

Cuneo. grade 100/100 


• 2007: internship “medit sas”-Cuneo-Assistant in an office of business consultant 

• 2006: internship “studio legale serale Aldo”-Cuneo. Assistant in a law office 

languages 

• Albanian: mother tongue 


• english: good knowledge (2008- PeT) 

• French: good knowledge 


• good knowledge of microsoft office, internet tools, netlogo, r, maxima, scilab 


• Playing volleyball, reading, italian literature 

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ViNCENZO MACCArrONE 




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date of Birth: 28/04/1990 

education 




• 2009-2012: student, laurea Triennale in economia e Finanza (undergraduate degree in 

economics and Finance) università di modena e reggio emilia. graduation expected in 

september 2012. Title of dissertation: “Closer to Boston than to Berlin? Assessing neoliberal 

policies in ireland”, supervisor: Professor Paolo Bosi 

• september 2012-december 2012: university College of dublin, Quinn school of Business, 

erasmus student, average grade A/A 

• 2004-2009: liceo Classico “marco minghetti” (high school with emphasis on humanities), 

Bologna. grade 92/100 


• 2012: “unimore” award for academic achievement from the university of modena and 

reggio emilia 


• 2010-current: educator for fair-trade cooperative “exaequo” 

• 2008-current: tutor for high school students 

languages 


• english: 2012 ToeFl (Test of english as a Foreign language), grade 112/120 


• Competent in microsoft Windows, mac os X and linux environments 

• Proficient in microsoft Word, excel 

• Basic knowledge of sTATA and greTl 

interests 

• reading, journalism, cinema

giOrgiO MArTiNi 

4_AlliEVi 




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education 



scienze m.F.n, università di Torino. graduation expected in 2013 

• 2010-2011: Junior Allievo (honors student), Collegio Carlo Alberto. degree awarded: 

diploma in economics, with distinction 

• 2008-2011: student, laurea Triennale (undergraduate degree) in mathematics, Facoltà di 

scienze m.F.n, università di Torino. grade: 110/110 cum laude 

• 2003-2008: s.i.e.s “A. spinelli” (high school with emphasis on mathematics and science), 

Turin. grade: 100/100 

• 2006-2007: exchange program in the united states, granada hills Charter high school, 

los Angeles, California. gPA: 4.0/4.0 


• 2012: Adjunct teacher at a local high school: held five 10-hour modules of statistics (for 

sophomores) and Probability (for seniors), with lectures in english 

• 2009-2012: math tutor at two local high schools: prepared honor students for competition 

in math olympics 

• 2009: math tutor at three-day intensive workshop for high school students, 

Bardonecchia 

languages 

• italian: native 

• english: native (bilingual). Certificate of Proficiency in english (european level C2) awarded with A 

• French: good reading skills; basic writing and speaking skills 


• Competent in both microsoft Windows and mac os X environments. 


• Basic knowledge of maple, mATlAB, sTATisTiCA 

• Programming, scripting and markup languages: laTeX, hTml, Css (excellent); C++, PhP, 

Javascript (good) 

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ViTO MUSCi 




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education 


• 2012-current: student, laurea magistrale (master’s degree) in Aerospace engineering, 

Politecnico di Torino. graduation expected in 2015 

• 2012: exchange student at the “haute école du paysage, d’ingénierie et d’architecture” in 

geneva, switzerland, for final year project 

• 2009- current: student, laurea Triennale (undergraduate degree) in Aerospace engineering, 

Politecnico di Torino. graduation expected in october 2012 

• 2005-2009: liceo scientifico P.n.i. “ricciotto Canudo” (high school with emphasis on 

sciences), gioia del Colle (BA). grade 100/100 cum laude 


• 2011: mathematics spring school, “Progetto diderot-Fondazione CrT” 

• 2010: mathematics summer school, “Progetto diderot-Fondazione CrT” 


• 2012: Part-time collaboration at Politecnico di Torino 

languages 


• english: 2008 CAe (Certificate of Advanced english, level C1) 




• good knowledge of microsoft office and iWork suites. 

• Basic knowledge of sTATA, r, laTeX 

• good knowledge of mATlAB 

• Programming languages: C 


• reading, running and swimming, Travelling 

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FEDEriCA ODiFrEDDi 




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federica.odifreddi@carloalberto.org 

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education 




• 2009-2012: Junior Allieva (honors student), Collegio Carlo Alberto 

• 2008-2011: student, laurea Triennale (undergraduate degree) in economics (“economia 

e commercio”), Facoltà di economia, università di Torino, with a dissertation in economic 

growth entitled “growth through variety expansion and quality ladder: a comparison”. 

supervisor: Prof. Pietro garibaldi. grade 110/110 cum laude 

• 2003-2008: liceo scientifico sant’Anna (high school with emphasis on sciences), Turin, 

grade 100/100 


• 2007: i attended my 4th year of high school in spain, at the “san Pablo Ceu” lyceum of 

madrid. Average grade 9.6/10 


• 2005-2012: intermittent work experience as hostess at conferences and other official events 

• 2007-2009: Assistance to young students with learning difficulties 

languages 

• spanish (exellent): 2008 dele (diploma de espanol como lengue extranjera) level 3/3 

• english (fluent): 2005 FCe (First Certificate in english) degree B2; 2012 ielTs grade 7.5 

(listening 7.5, reading 9.0, writing 6.5, speaking 6.5) 

• French (good): 2003 “delF (diplôme d’etudes de langue Française), degree A3-A4” 


• 2009: student representative, Facoltà di economia, università di Torino 


• 2009: eCdl start; Basic knowledge of eviews and stata 


• reading, traveling, mountaneering sports 

4_AlliEVi 

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MArCO ODiFrEDDi 




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www.carloalberto.org/education/allievi/students/senior/odifreddim 


education 


• 2009-current: student, laurea Triennale (undergraduate degree) in economics, Facoltà di 


• 2004-2009: liceo scientifico sant’Anna (high school with emphasis on sciences), Turin. 

grade: 98/100 


• Actor in movies and shows 

extra curricular activities 

• Participation in several editions of the “mathematics olympics” 

• Participation in 2 editions of “mathematics days” in Pracatinat 

• 2008-2009: afterschool assistance to secondary school students in terms of studying and 

entertainment 

languages 

• english (2006 PeT, 2007 FCe) 

• French (basic knowledge delF A1-A2 expired) 


• Computer, table and strategy games 

• Free-climbing and mountaineering; soccer 

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giUliA PASQUAlE 




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education 

• 2010-current: Allieva (honor student), Collegio Carlo Alberto 

• 2012 (July)-current: internship at eurizon Capital, milan 

• 2011: lse summer school 

• 2010-current: student, laurea magistrale (master’s degree) in Finance, Facoltà di economia, 

università di Torino. graduation expected in 2012. 

• 2007-2010: student, laurea Triennale (undergraduate degree) interfacoltà mathematics 

for Finance and insurance, università di Torino with a dissertation in“Fondamenti di Teoria 

dei giochi e dell’analisi dei mercati”. supervisor: Paolo ghirardato. grade 110/110. 

• 2002-2007: liceo scientifico “g. Peano” (high school with emphasis on sciences), Cuneo. 

grade: 100/100. 

Awards And scholarship 

• 2006: Winner, as a team, of the Progetto diderot-musica with a piece on Johann sebastian 

Bach’s music 

• 2003-2004: student exchange in montréal, Canada 


• 2009-2010: Tutor of numerical Analysis, Facoltà di matematica, università di Torino 

• 2007-2010: Tourist guide of the Filatoio rosso, Associazione Culturale marcovaldo, 

Caraglio (Cn) 

• 2005-current: Volunteer with a tetra-paralysis boy 

languages 

• english: 2006 PeT (Preliminary english Test) passed with merit, 2007 First Certificate score 

B, 2010 ielTs (international english Testing system) score: 7/9 

• French: 2005 delf A2 score: 17/20 


• microsoft office; Programming languages: C++, TeXworks, maple, sAs, matlab 


• sailing, skiing, playing tennis and doing ballet; reading 

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AlbErTO PElliCiOli 




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education 


• 2009-current: student, laurea Triennale (undergraduate degree) in Finance, università di 

Bergamo. graduation expected in october 2012. 

• 2004-2009: liceo scientifico “l. mascheroni” (high school with emphasis on sciences), 

Bergamo. grade 100/100. 


• 2008: Participation to san Pellegrino summer school 

languages 




• Competent in microsoft Windows 

• european Computer driving license 


• Basic knowledge of oxmetrics and eViews 


• Travelling 

• reading 

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MArCO PElOSi 

4_AlliEVi 




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www.carloalberto.org/education/allievi/students/senior/pelosi 


education 


• 2012-current: student laurea magistrale (master’s degree) in Quantitative Finance and 

insurance, università di Torino. graduation expected in 2014 

• 2009-current: student, laurea Triennale (undergraduate degree) in economia aziendale, 

università degli studi di Bergamo. graduation expected in october 2012 

• 2004-2009: iTC “luigi einaudi” (high school with emphasis on economics), Chiari. grade 

100/100 


• 2010 scholarship loan from “Pro universitate Bergomensi” Association 


• september 2011-January 2012: Collaboration in “Progetto accoglienza” of university 

research centre matnet at iTAs “rigoni stern”, Bergamo 

• september 2011-January 2012: Assistant lecturer for Professor gnudi: tutoring in the 

university course of “Complementi di matematica” (seCs-s/06) 

• september 2010-may 2011: Junior sales Professional (stipulation of insurance policy) at 

Alleanza Toro sPA 

• 2007-2010 (summers): Clerk in sales and purchase department 

languages 



• August 2012: advanced certificate (C1) at Bell school, london 



• Competent in microsoft Windows environment 

• Proficient in microsoft Word, excel, Access and Powerpoint 

• Basic knowledge of eViews, oxmetrics 

• Programming, scripting and markup languages: hTml, Css (basic); VBA (basic) 


• Basketball, reading, American TV series 

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FEDEriCO PETri 




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education 


di economia, università di Torino. graduation expected in 2013 


• 2008-2011: laurea Triennale (undergraduate degree) in Finance (“Banca, borsa e 

assicurazione”), Facoltà di economia, università di Torino. graduation 110 cum laude 

• 2005-2008: Certificate in events management, financed by enAiP-ente regionale Piemonte 

• 2003-2008: iPssAr “ giuseppina Colombatto” (hight school with emphasis on business 

administration and tourism), Torino. grade 100/100 


• 2008: regione Piemonte award for excellent students 

languages 

• italian: mother tongue; english: good knowledge; French: good knowledge; Portuguese: basic 


• 2012: organization of cultural and artistic events 

• 2011-2012: Participation in “reading economics”, course sponsored by CrT 

• 2011: Part-time collaboration at università di Torino (student office) 

• 2008: organization of conferences for oxford school 

• 2007: Tourist guide in Brazil, Bahia (Porto seguro) 

• 2006-2008: Assistance to study activities of students 

• 2006: internship at Jolly hotel Ambasciatori, Torino (support activities for marketing and Front office) 

• 2005-2009: Volunteer at Auser Association (help and support for older people) 

• 2003-2008: organization of solidarity activities (i.e. “un dolce per la vita”) 

• 2003: environmental protection, WWF project 


• 2011: european Computer driving licence (eCdl)-Core full version; Familiarity with Windows 

and mac os X operating systems; Basic Knowledge of matlab, sAs, scilab, stata, eviews 


• Travelling (some of the countries visited are: italy, Brazil, Thailand, russia, mexico, Cuba, 

egypt, Tanzania, Turkey, Polynesia, new Caledonia, Argentine, israel), reading, playing 

volleyball, event planning, dancing 

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lOrENZO PiCCiNiNi 

4_AlliEVi 




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education 


• 2012- current: student, laurea magistrale (master’s degree) in economics, università di 

Torino, graduation expected in 2014 

• 2008-2012: student, laurea Triennale (undergraduate degree) in scienze economiche e 

sociali, università di modena e reggio emilia. grade: 110/110 cum laude 

• 2003-2008: liceo Classico “marco minghetti” (high school with emphasis on humanities), 

Place. grade 93/100 


• 2008-2009: Premio di studio per studenti meritevoli (academic achievement award), from 

università di modena e reggio emilia 

• 2009-2010: Premio di studio per studenti meritevoli (academic achievement award), from 

università di modena e reggio emilia 

• 2009: erasmus scholarship (erasmus period spent in rotterdam as exchange student in 

inholland university) 


• march 2012: internship at “Fondazione giacomo Brodolini” 

languages 


• english: 2012 Toefl Certificate grade 111/120 



• Proficient in microsoft Word, excel and Powerpoint 

• Basic knowledge of sTATA 


• member of Cngei (scout association) since 2000; 2008-2011: scout leader 

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STEFANO PiETrOSANTi 




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education 




• 2008-2011: laurea Triennale (undergraduate degree) in economics, Facoltà di economia, 

università di roma “la sapienza”, with a dissertation in Time series Analysis entitled 

“Time series Analysis of the housing market index: the case of roma, milano and napoli”, 

supervisor: Prof. lea Petrella. grade 110/110 cum laude 

• 2003-08: liceo scientifico “g. B. grassi” (high school with emphasis on sciences), latina. grade 100/100 

Awards 

• 2011: Within the five finalists of the 16th edition of the short novels prize Premio Campiello 

giovani, with the publication of the novel in a collected volume by marsilio editore 

• 2007: Within the twenty-five semi-finalists of the 12th edition of the short novels prize 

Premio Campiello giovani 

languages 


• english: Advanced Certificate (C1) 2007 


• 2011-current: Contributor to the monthly review Critica liberale 

• 2011-2012: Contributor to the blog european Alternatives 

• 2011: internship at the library of the economics and law department, Facoltà di economia, 

università di roma “la sapienza” 

other Activieties 

• 2011: eldr Journalists seminar in Brussels 

• 2009-2011: delegate member of gFe (young european Federalists) in the “Commissione 

europa-mondo” of the italian youth Forum 



• Basic knowledge of Python, netlogo, sTATA, r, eviews 


• Politics, philosophy, literature, travelling, skiing 

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MiChElE rOSENbErg 




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michele.rosenberg@carloalberto.org 

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education 

• 01/2011-02/2011: iPsA summer school, usP university, são Paulo, Brazil. Concepts, 

methods and techniques in Political science. Course taken: mixed method design, thought 

by professor max Bergman 

• 2010-current: Allievo (honors student) (master of Arts in economics), Collegio Carlo Alberto 

• 2010-current: student, laurea magistrale (master’s degree) in global studies, international 

sciences, Facoltà di scienze Politiche, università degli studi di Torino. 

• 2009-2010: sciences Po institut d’etudes Politiques de Bordeaux, France. exchange program 

• 2007-2010: laurea Triennale (undergraduate degree) in international studies, Facoltà di 

scienze Politiche di Torino with a dissertation in Theory of international relations entitled 

“on the Concept of unity in the historical evolution of europe: a point of view for the 

international relations”. supervisor: prof. luigi Bonanate. grade: 110 /110 cum laude. 

• 2002-2007: liceo Classico statale “Vittorio Alfieri” (high school with emphasis on 

philosophy, classics civilisations and human sciences), Torino. grade 98/100 


• 02/04/2009: “Talent management and development workshop”, industrial union, Torino 

• 18/12/2008: model of united nations, msoi, Torino. simulation of the un security Council 

on the georgian crisis 

• 16/10/2007: “The internet’s use in the editorial marketing: blog, newsletter, podcast, rss 

feed, sl”, italian Publishers Association-ediser s.r.l., milano 


• 09/2012-current: Junior researcher, richerche & Progetti, Turin, italy 

• 03/2010: Work-shop on the sustainable development with “Vetro”-democrazia 2.0, Torino 

• 09/2007-05/2008: rosenberg & sellier editori in Torino-Web master 

languages 

• italian (mother tongue); english (Fluent); French (fluent); spanish (intermediate) 


• microsoft office software; internet tools, stata 

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• Co- founder of the political association “Vetro”; member of the student movement for the 

international relations; member of the oenological association of the ieP in Bordeaux 

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FrANCESCA ZANiChElli 




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education 



scienze m.F.n., università di Torino. graduation expected in 2013 

• 2007-2011: laurea Triennale (undergraduate degree) in mathematics, Facoltà di scienze 

m.F.n., università di Parma, with a dissertation in econophysics entitled “Kinetic models 

in economies with taxation and redistribution”. supervisor Prof. giampiero spiga. grade 

110/110 cum laude 

• 2002-2007: liceo Classico “ludovico Ariosto” (high school with emphasis on humanities), 

reggio emilia. grade 100/100 cum laude 


• 2004: honorable mention at national mathematics olympics, final round in Cesenatico 

• 2002-2007: Participation in several editions of mathematics olympics, Physics olympics 

and “Campionati internazionali di giochi matematici” organized by università Bocconi 

languages 

• italian: mother tongue; english: good knowledge (Certificates: ToeFl 2011-grade 108/120; 

Trinity College Certificate 2005 level 8); French: basic knowledge 


• 2006: summer schools of scuola normale superiore di Pisa and scuola superiore 

sant’Anna di Pisa (after nationwide selections); 2004 “incontro con la matematica 2004- 

Full immersion stage” organized by unione matematica italiana (after a nationwide 

selection) 


• 2006: internship at Credem Bank, reggio emilia 


• 2002-2007: participation in several editions of Philosophy olympics, Certame Alfieriano 

and italian literature Contests 


• microsoft office: Word, excel and Power Point; other software programs: matlab and laTex; 

Programming languages: C++ (basic knowledge) 


• literature, scientific conferences, traveling 

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Matteo Assandri 


Marco ballesio 


Andrea Cane 


Francesco Cosentino 

(mentor: matteo ruggiero) 

Federico De Andrea 


giuseppe Di benedetto 

(mentor: stefano Favaro) 

Mattia Duma 


luca Falsone 

(mentor: Cristian Bartolucci) 

Augusto Fasano 


Emanuele grossi 


lorenzo Masoero 


Enrico Nano 

(mentor: stefano Favaro) 

Noemi Oggero 


luca Pecce 


luca Perdoni 


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AlliEVi JUNiOr 2012-2013 

Valerio Perrone 


Federico Petronio 


Marco Pontin 


Sarah raviola 


laura risso 


Christian rollo 

(mentor: Andrei savochkin) 

Daniele rosso 


Elisa rubbo 


Alex Antony Saja 


luca Salvarani 


Awa Ambra Seck 

(mentor: Andrei savochkin 

Matteo Sesia 


Martina Spriano 


Andrea Stragiotti 


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MATTEO ASSANDri 




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economia, università di Torino. graduation expected in 2013. 

• 2005-2010: liceo scientifico “e. majorana” (high school with emphasis on sciences), 

moncalieri. grade 100/100 cum laude 


• 2009: merit award “eccellenze della scuola piemontese” by regione Piemonte 

languages 


• english 


• summer 2012: office worker in the università di Torino main archive 

• summer 2009: internship in local newspaper’s ‘’Torino Cronaca Qui’’ editorial staff 


• 2011: eCdl Full 

• Basic knowledge of the main linux tools 


• Basketball, travelling, playing chess

MArCO bAllESiO 

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marco.ballesio@carloalberto.org 

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education 

• 2011-current Allievo (honors student), Collegio Carlo Alberto 

• 2010: laurea Triennale (undegraduate degree) in mathematics for engineering, Politecnico 

di Torino 

• 2005-2010: liceo scientifico statale “Alessandro Volta” (high school with emphasis on 

sicences), biology project, Torino, grade: 100/100 cum laude 

Projects 

• 2009-2010: extreme energy events Project 

• Participation in 4 editions of “mathematics days” in Pracatinat and in Bardonecchia 

seminar, conferences, summer schools 

• 2011: Participation in progetto diderot: alfaclass summer school 

• 2012: Participation in progetto diderot: alfaclass update 

languages 


• english: 2009 FirsT Certificate in english 

• Basic knowledge of French 

Computers skills 

• Programming language: C 

• 2008: eCdl Certificate 


• Playing basketball: 2008/2009, 2009/2010, 2011/2012 serie C2 (semi-Professional 

league) 

• hobbies: reading, music and travelling 

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ANDrEA CANE 




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andrea.cane@carloalberto.org 

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education 

• 2011- current: Allievo (honors student), Collegio Carlo Alberto 

• 2011- current: student, laurea Triennale (undergraduate degree) in ingegneria della 

Produzione industriale, Politecnico di Torino. graduation expected in october 2014 

• 2006-2011: liceo scientifico “ettore majorana” (high school with emphasis on sciences), 

moncalieri (To). grade 100/100 cum laude 


• 2011: included in the 2011 “Albo nazionale delle eccellenze” (national register par 

excellence) 

• 2010: Participation in the summer school of scuola superiore sant’Anna di Pisa (after a 

nationwide selection) 


• 2009-2012: secondary school students tutoring in mathematics, latin and english 

• 2009: Three week-summer internship at studio legale (law Firm) “musumeci, Altara, 

desana e Associati”, Torino 


• 2010: Participation in several summer seminars at department of mathematics, Politecnico 

di Torino 

• 2009: Two week-full immersion course in english language, oxford (uK) 

• 2006-2011: Participation in some editions of “olimpiadi della matematica” 

languages 


• english: 2010 FCe (First Certificate of english, level B2), grade B 

• german: 2009 ZdJ (Zertifikat deutsch für Jugendliche, level B1), grade gut 


• Competent in microsoft Windows environment: good knowledge of microsoft office and 

internet tools; 2011 eCdl (european Computer driving license)-Core Full; C Programming 

interests 

• Tennis, art, travelling, reading novels, creative writing 

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FrANCESCO COSENTiNO 

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www.carloalberto.org/education/allievi/students/junior/cosentino 


education 


• 2012-current: student laurea Triennale (undergraduate degree) in mathematics, interfacoltà 

matematica per la Finanza e l’Assicurazione, università di Torino. graduation expected in 2014 

• 2006-2011: liceo scientifico “niccolò Copernico” P.n.i. (high school with emphasis on 



• 2007 and 2008: award for Participation in “mathematics days” in Pracatinat (To) 

• 2009 and 2010: award for Participation in “mathematics days” in Bardonecchia (To) 

• 2011: Participation in “Fisica in gioco” in Torgnon (Ao) 

• 2006-2011: Participation in several editions of “olimpiadi della matematica” and “Festa 

della matematica” as a member of the high school team 

• 2010-2011: “matematica all’n-sima potenza”, Progetto diderot, Fondazione CrT 

• 2012: “Alpha-class”, Progetto diderot, Fondazione CrT 


• 2011-2012: Tutor for “mathesis”, università di Torino, matematica; teacher in a training course 

for the “olimpiadi di matematica” competition at the following schools: liceo scientifico 

salesiano “Valsalice” (To), liceo scientifico, classico, linguistico “Augusto monti” (To) 

• 2012: evaluation and correction of the “olimipiadi di matematica” competition 

• 2012: Tutor for “mathesis”, università di Torino, matematica; tutor/teacher for “mathematics 

days” in Bardonecchia (To) 

languages 

• italian: mother tongue; english: good knowledge, 2010 P.e.T. (Preliminary english Test, 

level B1); French: basic knowledge. 


• Competent in microsoft Windows, mac os X and linux/unix environments; Proficient in 

microsoft office suite: Word, excel, Powerpoint; 2009 european Computer driving license 

eCdl-Core Full; good knowledge of math software: maple, Cabri 3d; Programming, 

scripting and markup languages: hTml, Python, Pascal; excellent knowledge of C++; 

good knowledge of network and internet. 

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FEDEriCO DE ANDrEA 




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federico.deandrea@carloalberto.org 

www.carloalberto.org/education/allievi/students/junior/deandrea 


education 


• 2011- current: student, laurea Triennale (undergraduate degree) in economics, università 

di Torino. graduation expected in 2014 

• 2006-2011: liceo Classico “C. Cavour” (high school with emphasis on humanities), Place. 

grade 100/100. 


• 2011: Winner of “Progetto diderot-diritto ed economia”, organized by CrT. 

• 2010: two weeks summer school at Anglo european school of english, Bournemouth 

• participation in several editions of the “mathematics olympics” 

• participation in 4 editions of “mathematics days” in Bardonecchia 

languages 


• english: good knowledge-2011 FCe (First Certificate of english, level B2) 



• eCdl full (2011) 


• 2008-2011: tutor for secondary school students with learning difficulties in Ancient greek, 

latin, maths 


• reading, travelling, writing, practicing sports (swimming, tennis, volley-ball), playing classic 

guitar, cinema

giUSEPPE Di bENEDETTO 

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giuseppe.dibenedetto@carloalberto.org 

www.carloalberto.org/education/allievi/students/junior/dibenedetto 


education 


• 2009-2010: student, first year of laurea Triennale (undergraduate degree) in Biomedical 

engineering, Politecnico di Torino 

• 2010-current: student, laurea Triennale (undergraduate degree) in mathematics, università 


• 2004-2009: liceo scientifico “galileo galilei” (high school with emphasis on sciences) 

Pescara. grade 100/100 


• 2011: Participation in Progetto diderot: Alfaclass summer school 

• 2012: Participation in Progetto diderot: Alfaclass update 

languages 


• english: ielTs grade 5,5 2009, First Certificate in english 2012 


• Competent in microsoft Windows environment 

• Basic knowledge of maple 

• Programming, scripting and markup languages: C, C++, laTeX 


• hobbies: reading, travelling, swimming, music 

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MATTiA DUMA 




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mattia.duma@carloalberto.org 

www.carloalberto.org/education/allievi/students/junior/duma 


education 


• 2011-current: student, laurea Triennale (undergraduate degree) in mathematics for 

Finance and insurance, università di Torino. graduation expected in 2014 

• 2006-2011: liceo scientifico statale “galileo Ferraris” (high school with emphasis on 

sciences and P.n.i.), Torino. grade 100/100 


• scholarship “Alla scoperta del diritto e dell’ economia”, diderot project, Fondazione CrT 

• Participation in several edtions of “olimpiadi della matematica”, “olimpiadi della fisica”, 

“olimpiadi della filosofia” 

• Participation in “certamen di storia e letteratura risorgimentale” 

languages 




• good knowledge of microsoft office, microsoft excel, internet tools, Pascal, 

• P.n.i. project at high school: emphasis on statistics and probability 

• Basic knowledge of Python and C++ 

Work experiences 

• 2009-2012: mathematics and english tutoring for high-school students (8-10 hours a 

week) 

• 2009: staff member in a children’ s camp (6-10 years old) 

other interests 

• sports: cycling and running, Japanese culture, teaching

lUCA FAlSONE 

4_AlliEVi 




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luca.falsone@carloalberto.org 

www.carloalberto.org/education/allievi/students/junior/falsone 


education 


• 2007-2012: liceo Classico “V. gioberti” (high school with emphasis on humaties), Torino. 

grade 100/100 

languages 


• english: 2012 FCe (First Certificate of english, level B2), grade C 

extra Curricular experiences 

• 2008: Participation in the stage “mathematics days” in Pracatinat 

• 2009-2012: Participation in the eee project (extreme energy events), at liceo Classico “V. 

gioberti” 

• 2010-2011: held the role of “rapcurrentante degli studenti”, at liceo Classico “V. 

gioberti” 

• 2011-2012: Participation in “Alla scoperta del diritto e dell’economia”, Progetto diderot, 

Fondazione CrT (after regionalwide selection process) 

Work experiences 

• July, 2009: Working as a volunteer in Aquila, Abruzzo, after the earthquake 


• Competent in microsoft Windows 



• Philosophy, politics, reading, travelling, playing football 

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AUgUSTO FASANO 




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augusto.fasano@carloalberto.org 

www.carloalberto.org/education/allievi/students/junior/fasano 


education 


• 2010-current: student laurea Triennale (undegraduate degree) in mathematics for 


• 2005-2010: liceo Classico “V. Alfieri” (high school with emphasis on humanities), Torino. 

• grade: 100/100 cum laude 

languages 


• english: good knowledge (First Certificate in english 2011) 



• 2011: Partecipation in Progetto diderot: Alfaclass summer school 2011 


• 2006-2010: Partecipation in several competitions in latin (Certamina) and greek (Agon) 

language translation 

• 2006-2010: Partecipation in several editions of “olimpiadi della matematica” and “Festa 

della matematica” 


• Programming language: C 

• microsoft office, internet Tools 


• 1994-2004: Karate 

• 2004-2008: soccer, winner of “Campionato Allievi regionale” with Cirié Calcio (2007-2008) 

• 2009: rowing, national final, cat. “esordienti” 

• other activities: ski, snowboard, running, trekking 

• hobbies: reading, cinema, philosophy of science 

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EMANUElE grOSSi 

4_AlliEVi 




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emanuele.grossi@carloalberto.org 

www.carloalberto.org/education/allievi/students/junior/grossi 


education 


• 2011-current: student, laurea Triennale (undergraduate degree) in engineering Physics, 

Faculty of engineering, Politecnico di Torino 

• 2006-2011: liceo scientifico “giacomo ulivi” (high school with emphasis in sciences), 

Parma. grade 100/100 cum laude 


• member of the 2012 italian mathematics olympics commission 

• 2011: Winner of the “Coppa galois 2011”, in the area of the national project for the 

“mathematics olympics” 

• 2011: included in the 2011 “Albo nazionale delle eccellenze” 

languages 




• 2010: stage “T.e.p.”-Parma-organization of the historical archive 


• 2011: italian finalist of the “Campionati internazionali di giochi matematici” 

• 2011: ranked 1st in the “giochi d’Autunno” at the liceo scientifico giacomo ulivi 

• 2011: ranked 2nd in the “semifinali Campionati internazionali di giochi matematici” 

• 2011: ranked 10th in the teams competition of the “mathematics olympics” 

• Partecipation in several editions of the “Physics olympics” 


• good knowledge of internet tools 


• Philosophy, music, Technologies, sport 

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lOrENZO MASOErO 




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lorenzo.masoero@carloalberto.org 

www.carloalberto.org/education/allievi/students/junior/masoero 


education 


• 2012-current: student, laurea Triennale (undergraduate degree) in economics, università 


• 2007-2011: liceo Classico “Vittorio Alfieri” (high school with emphasis on humanities), 

Torino. grade 100/100 


• 2007-2011: Participation in several editions of “olimpiadi della matematica” 

• 2007-2011: Participation in several competitions of latin (Certamina) and greek (Agon) 

language translation 

• 2011: Participation in Progetto diderot: “Alla scoperta del diritto e dell’economia” 


• 2010-2012: mathematics, italian, greek, latin tutoring for secondary school students 

• 2011-current: sailing instructor 

languages 


• english: good knowledge (FCe -degree B2- may 2010, grade A;) 

• german: FiT A.2, may 2006, attended B1 level courses at goethe institute (Torino, 2008-2010) 


• Competent in both microsoft Windows and mac os X environments 



• sports: alpine skiing (taking part in national and international competitions, 2002-2012, 

attending vocational training courses 2012), tennis (regional competitions, 2005-2011), 

sailing (instructor at Centro Velico Caprera, 2011-current). music: bass and guitar playing 

(2004-current), member of the band ‘Foxhound’ (2007-current) 

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ENriCO NANO 

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education 



economia e Commercio, università degli studi di Torino-graduation expected in 2013 

• 2005-2010: liceo Classico ‘V. Alfieri’ (high school with emphasis on humanities and 

communication studies), Torino. grade: 100/100 

scholarships and summer schools 

• 2012: iCWiP, international studies summer school, Pécs (hungary): economics and politics courses 

• 2011: 4 weeks summer Program, ‘higher school of economics’, moscow and st Petersburg, 

russian language, economics and politics courses 

• 2011: 3 weeks summer Program, ‘inha university’, incheon (south Korea), Korean language, 

economics and politics courses 

• 2007: 3 weeks english language full immersion course, ‘Kent school of english’ (uK) 


• 2011-current: Treasurer and founding member, ‘CoPe onlus’, non-Profit organization for 

social work 

• 2011-current: Founding member and editor, ‘oAo’ (observatory of eastern Asia), www. 

osservatorioasiaorientale.org 

• 2009: participated in ‘Agon’ and ‘Certamina’, national competitions in Ancient greek and latin 

• 2004: classical guitar national competition ‘musica d’insieme’, Terno d’isola, first place (98/100) 

• 2003: classical guitar national competition ‘michele Todini’, saluzzo, overall first place (100/100) 


• 2011: barman and waiter, ‘Bar degli Amici’, Torino, temporary job 

• 2007-2010: tutor for secondary school students with learning difficulties in latin, history 

and maths 

• 2007-2008: assistant manager, ‘Andreani srl’, scavolini spa (furniture company), summer internships 

• 2005-current: occasional rural jobs (vine-growing, gardening) 

languages 

• italian: native; english: fluent (ToeiC: 880/990-2011; FCe -degree B2- 2009; PeT -passed 

with merit- 2008); russian: basic 


• 2009: eCdl (european Computer driving license) full version 

• basketball (played for 9 years at a competitive level), triathlon, ski, soccer, travelling, playing 

classical guitar, creative writing, philosophy 

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NOEMi OggErO 




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noemi.oggero@carloalberto.org 

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education 




• 2005-2010: liceo scientifico Pni “Ancina” (high school with emphasis on sciences), 

Fossano. grade: 100/100 


• 2009: Award “eccellenze della scuola piemontese” 

languages 


• english: good knowledge (Fist Certificate of english 2010, grade A) english language course 

at Bell international College, Cambridge (2008) 


• 2011: Apprentice at a company of logistics 

• summer job as fruits-growing and direct seller of fruit 

• 2008-2009: organization of activities for children 


• 2008: european Computer driving license-Core full version 

• good knowledge of microsoft office 


• Philosophy and music

lUCA PECCE 

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luca.pecce@carloalberto.org 

www.carloalberto.org/education/allievi/students/junior/pecce 


education 


• 2012-current: student, laurea Triennale (undergraduate degree) in economics, università 


• 2006-2011 liceo Classico “Baldessano-roccati” (high school with emphasis on humaties), 

Carmagnola (To). grade 100/100 cum laude 


• 2009, 2010, 2011: Participation to greek competition Agon 

languages 


• english: 2009 FCe (First Certificate of english, level B2) 


• Competent in microsoft Windows os environment. 


• good knowledge of internet tools 

• 2012: Full eCdl 


• sport 

• music 

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lUCA PErDONi 




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luca.perdoni@carloalberto.org 

www.carloalberto.org/education/allievi/students/junior/perdoni 


education 


• 2011- current: student, laurea Triennale (undergraduate degree) in economics, Facoltà di 


• 2006-2011: liceo scientifico P.n.i. “A. issel” (high school with emphasis on sciences), Finale 

ligure. grade: 100/100 


• 2010: scuola normale summer school (after nationwide selection process) 

• 2011: Participant in Bocconi Talent scout Program (after nationwide selection process) 

languages 


• english: good knowledge (Certificates: Preliminary english Test 2008-with merit, First 

Certificate of english 2010-grade B) 

• French: good knowledge (delF 2009-level B1) 


• 2009: Two weeks course in english language in dublin 


• 2008: summer internship at Finale ligure municipality (register office) 

• 2009: summer internship at Borgio Verezzi municipality (accounting office) 

• 2009-2011: young student’s tutor on several school subjects 


• Participation in several editions of the “Campionati italiani giochi matematici” organized 

by università “l. Bocconi” 

• 2010: Participation in “Progetto Plus ultra” organized by liceo “A. issel” and Festa dell’ 

inquietudine 

• 2007-2010: Participation in drama workshops organized by liceo “A. issel” as actor and 

playwright 


• 2009: european Computer driving license (eCdl) 

• good knowledge of mathematics software (Texas instrument Ti-nspire CAs, Cabri) 


• Vice-President of hAPAX, cultural association focused on drama and music

VAlEriO PErrONE 

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valerio.perrone@carloalberto.org 

www.carloalberto.org/education/allievi/students/junior/perrone 


education 


• 2011-current: student, laurea Triennale (undegraduate degree) in mathematics for 


• 2006-2011: liceo scientifico “sante simone” P.n.i. (high school with emphasis on sciences), 

Conversano. grade: 100/100 cum laude 


• 2011: Awarded, for excellence in high school studies, “Alfiere del lavoro” by the President 

of the italian republic, giorgio napolitano. 

• 2009: first prize “Concorso l’Abbate” 

languages 


• english: C2 Council of europe level (Certificate of Proficiency in english 2010, Certificate 

in Advanced english 2009, First Certificate in english 2007, Preliminary english Test 2007, 

Trinity 2007) 

• French: basic 


• 2010: orientation camps (after nationwide selections): scuola normale superiore 

(Camigliatello silano); scuola estiva di orientamento a Volterra (sant’Anna); hi-Tec project 

(Politecnico di milano) and summer school at scuola superiore di Catania 


• 2011: Preparation course to juridical studies “Costituzione e diritto” (university of Bari 

“Aldo moro”) 

• 2011: Participation in Certamen “Fabiana d’Arpa” (competition in mathematics and 

physics) 

• 2009: english language Course at london Bridge, eAC. 

• 2008: member of the “special Committee” to award oscar “Boccardi” 


• microsoft office (Word, excel, PowerPoint), Adobe illustrator, internet tools 


• Traveling, table tennis, playing the piano, forum debates, philosophy 

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FEDEriCO PETrONiO 




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federico.petronio@carloalberto.org 

www.carloalberto.org/education/allievi/students/junior/petronio 


education 


• 2011-current: student, laurea Triennale (undergraduate degree) in engineering, Faculty of 


• 2006-2011: liceo scientifico “giacomo ulivi” (high school with emphasis in sciences), 

Parma. grade 100/100. 


• 2011: Winner of the “Coppa galois 2011”, in the national project area of the “mathematics 

olympics” 

• 2010-2012: Winner of two bronze medals in “mathematics olympics” 

• Winner of some provincial editions of “mathematics olympics” 


• 2007-2012: participation in several editions of “mathematics olympiads” 

• 2011: ranked 10th in the “mathematics olympics” team competition 

• 2012: participation in “Phisic olympics” 

languages 


• english (good knowledge, 2011 esol exam “First certificate of english”) 

other skill or interests 

• reading, literature, philosophy, architecture

MArCO PONTiN 

4_AlliEVi 




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marco.pontin@carloalberto.org 

www.carloalberto.org/education/allievi/students/junior/pontin 


education 


• 2012-current: student, laurea Triennale (undergraduate degree) in mechanical engineering, 

Politecnico di Torino. graduation expected in october 2015. 

• 2007-2012- liceo Classico (high school with emphasis on humanities) “C. Cavour”, Torino. 

grade: 100/100 

summer schools 

• 2010: Two week studying holiday in Bournemouth, england 

• 2011: Two week studying holiday in Beckenham, england 

languages 


• english: 2010- PeT Certificate, grade: Passed with merit. 2011- FCe (First Certificate in 

english, level B2), grade: A 


• 2011: eCdl 


• Astronomy, Physics, mathematics, guitar, basketball, designing and building things, i have 

practiced judo for eleven years, chess, skateboard 

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Tel: +39-011-6705000, Fax: +39-011-6705088 

sarah.raviola@carloalberto.org 

www.carloalberto.org/education/allievi/students/junior/raviola 


education 


• 2012-current: student, laurea Triennale (undergraduate degree) in economics (economia 

e Commercio), università di Torino. graduation expected in 2015. 

• 2010-2012: liceo Classico statale “Vincenzo gioberti”-Brocca language project (high 

school with emphasis on foreign languages), Torino. grade: 100/100. 

• 2007-2009: i.T.C. “Blaise Pascal”-Brocca language project (high school with emphasis on 

foreign languages), giaveno (To) 


• 2011: 4 weeks english course in dublin: full immersion course. 

• 2010-2011: 6 months in liège, (Belgium), WeP exchange Program. 

• 2009: 2 weeks english course at the university of Kent, Canterbury 


• 2011: internship at “Accademia Albertina” as librarian 

languages 

• italian: mother tongue. 

• english: very good knowledge (Cambridge Certificate in Advanced english-level C1 2012; 

Cambridge Preliminary english Test-level B1 2010; Trinity College london, level 7 2009). 

• French: very good knowledge (diplôme Approfondi de langue Française (dAlF)- level C1 

2011; delF-level A2 2007). 

• german: quite good knowledge (goethe-Zertifikat: Zertifikat deutsch für Jugendliche 

2012-level B1) 


• good knowledge of internet tools, microsoft Word, excel and Powerpoint. 


• 2011: “Brevetto di salvamento”, Fin. (Pool lifeguard skills award). 

• 2009: participation in the “Treno della memoria” organized by the association “Terra del 

Fuoco”. 

• Travelling; swimming; music (playing accordion, singing); reading; Theatre

lAUrA riSSO 

4_AlliEVi 




Tel: +39-011-6705000, Fax: +39-011-6705088 

laura.risso@carloalberto.org 

www.carloalberto.org/education/allievi/students/junior/risso 


education 


• 2012-current: student, laurea Triennale (undergraduate degree) in mathematics, università 


• 2007-2012: liceo scientifico “g. Arimondi” (high school with emphasis on sciences), 

savigliano. grade 100/100 


• 2009-2011: participation in 3 stages “mathematics days” in Bardonecchia 

• 2010: participation in the workshop “Festa della matematica”, organized by A.s. mathesis, Torino 

• 2011: participation in “scientific summer Academy”, organized by Fondazione Agnelli and 

Centro universitario Agorà scienza, Torino 

• 2011: participation in the event “Pizza col Prof” at “la notte dei ricercatori”, Torino 

• 2012: participation in the lecture “Formazione giovani, diffusione conoscenza e sviluppo 

capitale intellettuale” organized by gruppo Piemontese Cavalieri del lavoro, Torino 


• 2009-2010 internship at the municipal historical Archive and Civic library, savigliano 

• 2009-2011 peer supporter in latin, english and mathematics for young students 

languages 


• english: good knowledge, 2010 FCe (First Certificate of english, level B2), grade A 

• French: basic knowledge, delF (diplôme d’études en langue Française, level A2) 


• 2010: eCdl Certificate (european Computer driving licence) 

• good knowledge of microsoft office and internet tools 


• Tennis, swimming, hiking; Chess, reading, music and cinema; Travelling and meeting 

different cultures 

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ChriSTiAN rOllO 




Tel: +39-011-6705000, Fax: +39-011-6705088 

christian.rollo@carloalberto.org 

www.carloalberto.org/education/allievi/students/junior/rollo 


education 


• 2011-current: student, laurea Triennale (undergraduate degree) in economia e Commercio, 

università di Torino. graduation expected in october 2014 

• 2006-2011: liceo scientifico “giordano Bruno” (high school with emphasis on sciences), 

via marinuzzi 1, Torino. grade 100/100 


• 2011 Finmeccanica scholarship 

languages 


• english: Jun 2010 FCe (First Certificate of english, level B2), grade B 

• english: Jun 2012 ielTs (international english language Testing system), grade 7,5 


• Competent in microsoft Windows environments. 

• 2012: eCdl (european Computer driving license) 


• 2009: Participation in “mathematics days” 



• reading 

• music 

• Cinema 

• Computer games

DANiElE rOSSO 

4_AlliEVi 




Tel: +39-011-6705000, Fax: +39-011-6705088 

daniele.rosso@carloalberto.org 

www.carloalberto.org/education/allievi/students/junior/rosso 


education 

• 2010-current: Allievo Junior (honors student), Collegio Carlo Alberto 

• 2010-current: student, laurea triennale in ingegneria gestionale (undergraduate degree 

in industrial engineering and management), Faculty of engineering, Politecnico di Torino 

• 2005-2010: student, liceo scientifico P.n.i. “norberto Bobbio” (high school with emphasis 

on mathematics, physics and informatics), Carignano (To). grade: 100/100 

languages 


• english: PeT passed with merit (2008); FCe (2009) 

• French: delF A2 (2006); delF B1 (2007) 

• mandarin Chinese: basic knowledge 


• April 2010: Participation in the workshop la fisica in gioco, organized by AiF and the Faculty 

of mathematics, Physics and natural sciences, università di Torino 

• november 2009-February 2010: seminar of physics seminario fisico di aggiornamento e 

didassi, department of general Physics, università di Torino 

• 2008-2009: matematica all’n-esima Potenza, Progetto diderot, Fondazione CrT 


• eCdl-european Computer driving licence (2009) 


• Philosophy of science, American culture and literature, soccer, scuba diving, travelling 

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EliSA rUbbO 




Tel: +39-011-6705000, Fax: +39-011-6705088 

elisa.rubbo@carloalberto.org 

www.carloalberto.org/education/allievi/students/junior/rubbo 


education 

• 2010-current: Allieva (honors student), Collegio Carlo Alberto. graduation expected in 2013 

• 2010-current: student, laurea Triennale (undergraduate degree) in economia e Commercio, 

università degli studi di Torino. graduation expected in 2013 

• 2005-2010: student, liceo Classico statale “C.Cavour” (high school with emphasis on 

humanities), Torino. grade: 100/100 cum laude 

Awards 

• “Vittoria Caffa righetti” award (2007-2008 and 2008-2009) 

• regione Piemonte award for excellent results in studies (2008-2009) 

languages 


• english (good knowledge: Cambridge Certificate in Advanced english, grade A) 

• French (basic knowledge) 


• 2007-2009: secondary school students tutoring for greek, latin, history and geography 


• Playing the piano; Viii year at Conservatorio “giuseppe Verdi”, Torino 


• good Knowledge of Windows, internet tools and microsoft office 

• Basic knowledge of Python, C++, matlab, Cplex and sas 


• reading, practicing sports (skiing, swimming and mountaineering), cinema

AlEx ANTONy SAJA 

4_AlliEVi 




Tel: +39-011-6705000, Fax: +39-011-6705088 

alex.saja@carloalberto.org 

www.carloalberto.org/education/allievi/students/junior/saja 


education 


• 2012-current: student, laurea Triennale (undergraduate degree) in “mathematics for 

engineering”, Politecnico di Torino. graduation expected in october 2015 

• 2007-2012: liceo scientifico “l. da Vinci” (high school with emphasis on sciences). grade 

100/100 


• september 2010: a scholarship for two weeks in Philadelphia (usA) sponsored by the city 

council of gallarate 

• may 2011: participation in the national final of the maths olympics in Cesenatico 

• July 2011: scholarship of a month stay in Texas (usA), sponsored by the lions Club of 

gallarate 

• 2011-2012: member of the twice winning school team of the “Premio Filippini” (a 

competition of Physics organized in the province of Varese, held in Pavia) 

• september 2011: a weekend training course at the “Accademia navale” in livorno 


• 2011: weekly homework repetition for disadvantaged students 

• 2012: voluntary help in a group for disabled people twice a month 

• 2012: math tutoring twice a week 

languages 

• italian: mother tongue; english: advanced knowledge; French: basic knowledge 


• Competent in microsoft Windows. 

• Proficient in microsoft Word and Powerpoint 


• Football; reading; Bike-riding 

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giAN lUCA SAlVArANi 




Tel: +39-011-6705000, Fax: +39-011-6705088 

gianluca.salvarani@carloalberto.org 

www.carloalberto.org/education/allievi/students/junior/salvarani 


education 



economia, università di Torino-graduation expected 2015 

• 2007-2012: liceo scientifico “giacomo ulivi” (high school with emphasis on sciences ) 

Parma. esame di stato: grade 100/100 


• 2011: Participated (after a nationwide selection) in the Bocconi “scopri il tuo Talento”. 

• 2011: Preparation course to juridical and economics studies “other people’s money” 

economia e legalità 


• 2011: Partecipation in “giochi matematici della Bocconi” 

summer schools And seminars 

• 2010-2011: 3 weeks summer schools at rider university, united states, 

• 2011-2012: 3 weeks summer schools at Wagner College, united states, ny, english 

language full immersion course 


• 2010-2012: secondary school students’ tutoring in latin and mathematics. 

languages 


• good knowledge of english (level B2), 


• Competent in microsoft Windows, Windows Xp, Vista, 7, microsoft office, Browser internet 

and mac os X environments 


• soccer (8 years) winner of “Campionato regionale sperimentale Allievi” 

• sailing (3 level of FiV) 

• Philosophy 

• Cinema and Theatre

AwA AMbrA SECK 

4_AlliEVi 




Tel: +39-011-6705000, Fax: +39-011-6705088 

awambra.seck@carloalberto.org 

www.carloalberto.org/education/allievi/students/junior/seck 


education 



economia, università degli studi di Torino. graduation expected in october 2014 

• 2006-2011: liceo scientifico “Alessandro Volta” (high school with emphasis on sciences), 

biology project, Turin. grade 100/100 cum laude 

Projects 

• 2006-2010: Participation in 4 editions of “mathematics days” in Pracatinat and in 

Bardonecchia 

• April 2012-current: Team leader external relations Aiesec Torino 


• June 2009 First place at the journalistic competition “digi.to Fuoirclasse” 


• 4th June 2012-current: model for mood Agency, Turin 

• July 2009-current: waitress and later maître at Berbel restaurant, Turin 

• Jun 2009-dec 2009: Collaboration with the editorial office of digi.to 

languages 




• Competent in microsoft Windows environments 



• Playing the piano, Travelling, Cinema, Journalism 

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MATTEO SESiA 




Tel: +39-011-6705000, Fax: +39-011-6705088 

matteo.sesia@carloalberto.org 

www.carloalberto.org/education/allievi/students/junior/sesia 


education 

• 2011-current: Allievo (honours student), Collegio Carlo Alberto 

• 2010-current. student, laurea Triennale (undergraduate degree) in Physics engineering, 

Politecnico di Torino. expected graduation in 2013. 

• 2009-2010 oak Bay high school, Victoria, BC, Canada. graduated with honours in June 2010. 

• 2006-2009 liceo scientifico “g. Peano” (high school with emphasis on sciences), Cuneo. 


• 2010: oak Bay high school, international student spirit Award 

languages 

• italian: native 

• english: excellent (Council of europe level B2, 2009) 

• French: good (Council of europe level B2, 2009) 


• 2008-2011: Tutoring and peer tutoring on Physics, math, Chemistry and Computer Programming 


• 2012: utrecht summer school in Theoretical Physics 

• 2012: mathematics summer school, “Alfaclass update-Fondazione CrT” 

• 2011: mathematics summer school, “Alfaclass-Fondazione CrT” 

• 2010: euclid mathematics Contest, school Champion 

• 2009: italian olympiads of informatics, qualified to the national Finals 

• 2009:Turing machine Programming Competition, università di Pisa 


• general knowledge of Windows and linux environments 

• 2009: european Computer driving license (eCdl) 

• good experience with C, C++, Java and C# programming 


• Chess; road cycling, mountaineering, tennis

MArTiNA SPriANO 

4_AlliEVi 




Tel: +39-011-6705000, Fax: +39-011-6705088 

martina.spriano@carloalberto.org 

www.carloalberto.org/education/allievi/students/junior/spriano 


education 


• 2011-current: student, laurea Triennale (undergraduate degree ) in economics, Facoltà di 

economia, università di Torino-graduation expected 2014 

• 2006-2011: liceo Classico “V. Alfieri” (high school with emphasis on humanities and 

classical subjects), Torino; esame di stato: grade 100/100 

scholarship and summer schools 

• 2012: 2 weeks summer school Program at lse-PKu (london school of economics), Beijing: 

economics course, with emphasis on “The global economy”. 

• 2009: 3 months in Australia where i attended Kawana Waters high school with good marks 

• 2008: 3 weeks summer school at simmons College, Boston 

• 2007-2006: 2 weeks english language full immersion courses, in ireland 

languages 

• italian: mother tongue; english: excellent knowledge (FCe -degree A, June 2010; PeT with 

merit, June 2008; Trinity grade 4 Passed with merit, may 2005); French: good knowledge 


• 2010: school selection for the 2010 Philosophy olympics (in english): 2nd place 

• 2010: literary competition “Parliamo di rispetto...” organised by la loggia Angelo Brofferiooriente 

di Torino: 4th place 

• 2011: literary competition “le stelle inquiete” planned by Kitchenfilm with Agiscuola, miBAC: 

3rd place with the poetry “malinconia” and special distinction with the poetry “un abbraccio” 

• 2011: school selection for the 2011 Philosophy olympics (in english): 2nd place 

• 2011: literary competition “marco somaglia” entitled “nella storia con un ciak”: 2nd place 

with the script “la morte di Agrippina.” 

• horse riding competitions; horse riding certificate grade B released by F.i.s.e 

• Class president for three years: 2008-2009; 2009-2010; 2010-2011 


• 2010: summer temporary job as riding teacher at il mulino di mattie s.a.s, Bussoleno (To) 

• 2008: summer temporary job as riding teacher at Valborbera, Borghetto(Al) 

other skills and interest 

• horse riding, ski, tennis, basket ball, swimming, sailing 

• travelling, writing poetries and short stories, reading, philosophy, drawing and painting 

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ANDrEA STrAgiOTTi 




Tel: +39-011-6705000, Fax: +39-011-6705088 

andrea.stragiotti@carloalberto.org 

www.carloalberto.org/education/allievi/students/junior/stragiotti 


education 


• 2011-current: student, laurea Triennale (undergraduate degree) in mathematics for 

Finance and insurance, università di Torino 

• 2006-2011: liceo scientifico “galileo Ferraris” (high school with emphasis on sciences), 

Torino. grade 100/100 


• 2011: Bronze medal at italian mathematical olympiad 

• 2010: Bronze medal at italian informatics olympiad 

• 2009: honor mention at italian mathematical olympiad 

• 2011: italian finalist of the “Campionati internazionali di giochi matematici” 

• several training courses of mathematics and Physics (in 2011 a visit to Cern for the eee Project) 


• 2011-2012: Tutor for mathesis (scuola italiana di scienze matematiche e Fisiche) 

• 2010-2011: head Boy at the liceo scientifico “galileo Ferraris” 

languages 





• Competent in microsoft Windows and linux ubuntu environments 

• 2010: eCdl Core Certificate 

• Programming, and markup languages: hTml, Css, C++, Pascal 


• sailing; general interest in Technologies, particularly in Ai development; Videogame 

programming; modelism

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in the academic year 2012-2013, the following courses will be taught in the Allievi Program: 

JUNiOr AlliEVi (1ST AND 2ND yEArS) 

discrete mathematics - Tutorial (i semester) stefano Favaro 

economics of Financial markets (ii semester) edoardo grillo 

economic Principles (ii semester) dino gerardi 

economics - Tutorial (i semester) giovanni mastrobuoni, ignacio monzón 

intermediate mathematics (i semester) elena Vigna 

introduction to Algorithms (ii semester) Fabrizio Altarelli, Alfredo Braunstein 

optimization for economics (i semester) Andrei savochkin 

JUNiOr AlliEVi (3rD yEAr) AND SENiOr AlliEVi 

Applied economics (ii semester) Ainhoa Aparicio Fenoll 

dynamic macroeconomics (i semester) Fabio Cesare Bagliano 

econometric Theory i (i semester) Aleksey Tetenov 

econometric Theory ii (ii semester) Cristian Bartolucci 

game Theory (ii semester) dino gerardi 

general equilibrium Theory (i semester) Andrea gallice 

macroeconomics (ii semester) Filippo Taddei 

mathematics for economics (introductory course) Pierpaolo de Blasi 

measure Theory (i semester) matteo ruggiero 

microeconomics (i semester) ignacio monzón 

Political economics (i semester) edoardo grillo 

Probability (ii semester) Antonio lijoi 

Theory of the Firm (ii semester) Toomas hinnosaar 

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APPliED ECONOMiCS 

spring 2013 

instructor: Ainhoa Aparicio Fenoll 


Collegio Carlo Alberto +39 011 670 5017 

office in Camerata i ainhoa.aparicio@carloalberto.org 

office hours by appointment sites.carloalberto.org/aparicio/ 

Course Description 

This course intends to provide students with basic microeconometric tools to address empirical 

questions, with special emphasis on their application to labor economics. i describe the 

econometric theory behind the different techniques, comment on empirical research papers 

applying these techniques and lead students through the implementation of the econometric 

methods using actual data sets. 

requirements 

At the end of the course, students are expected to be able to discuss the suitability of the 

specifications used in applied economics research, comment on the validity of instrumental 

variable strategies, design difference-in-differences estimations, understand the context in 

which regression discontinuity design is applied and be able to obtain correctly estimated 

standard errors. 

required text 

J. Angrist and J.-s. Pischke, “mostly harmless econometrics.” Princeton university Press, 2009 

Supplementary readings 

• J. Wooldridge, “introductory econometrics: A modern Approach.” south-Western (any edition) 

• J. stock and m. Watson, “introduction to econometrics”, Addison-Wesley, 2007 (2nd edition) 

• g. Borjas, “labor economics”, mcgraw-hill, 2009 (5th edition) 

• P. Cahuc and A. Zylberberg, “labor economics”, miT Press 

TOPiCS 

1. The eQuiVAlenT ideAliZed eXPerimenT 

mhe, Chapters 1-2 

• e. reuben, P. sapienza and l. Zingales, “The glass Ceiling in experimental markets”, Working 

Paper 2010. 

• d. Card, “The impact of the mariel boatlift on the miami labor market,” industrial and labor 

relations review, ilr review, ilr school, Cornell university, vol. 43(2), pages 245-257, 

January 1990. 

2. regression 

mhe, Chapter 3 

• d. A. Black, J. A. smith, m. C. Berger and B. J. noel, “is the Threat of reemployment services

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more effective Than the services Themselves? evidence from random Assignment in the 

ui system,” American economic review, American economic Association, vol. 93(4), pages 

1313-1327, september 2003. 

3. insTrumenTAl VAriABles 


• J. Angrist, “lifetime earnings and the Vietnam era draft lottery: evidence from social 

security Administrative records,” American economic review, June 1990. 

• J. Angrist and A. Krueger, “The effect of Age at school entry on educational Attainment: An 

Application of instrumental Variables with moments from Two samples,” JAsA 87 (June 1992). 

4. FiXed-eFFeCTs, diFFerenCe-in-diFFerenCes And PAnel dATA 


d. Card and A. B. Krueger, “minimum Wages and employment: A Case study of the Fast-Food 

industry in new Jersey and Pennsylvania,” American economic review, American economic 

Association, vol. 84(4), pages 772-93, september 1994. 

5. regression-disConTinuiTy designs 


• g. W. imbens and T. lemieux, “regression discontinuity designs: A guide to practice,” 

Journal of econometrics, elsevier, vol. 142(2), pages 615-635, February 2008. 

• J. Angrist and V. lavy, “using maimonides rule to estimate the effect of Class size on 

scholastic Achievement,” QJe, may 1999. 

6. sTAndArd error issues 

mhe, section 3.1.3 and Chapter 8 

Bertrand, marianne, esther duflo, and sendhil mullainathan, “how much should We Trust 

differences-in-differences estimates?,” QJe 119 (February 2004), 249-275. 

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DyNAMiC MACrOECONOMiCS 

January-February 2013 

instructor: Fabio Cesare Bagliano 



office: TBA fabio.bagliano@unito.it 

office hours: TBA web.econ.unito.it/bagliano 


The course presents basic dynamic macroeconomic models in several specific fields of 

macroeconomics: consumption and investment theory, growth theory and labour economics. 

The aim is to provide key methodological tools for the dynamic analysis of a broad range 

of macroeconomic issues, mainly based on dynamic optimization techniques. lacture note 

handouts and problem sets will be provided throughout the course. All necessary material will 

be made available on the web page of the course. 

Exam 

There will be a two-hour, closed-book, written exam at the end of the course. 

Course outline and material 

The course will cover the following topics: 

1. Dynamic consumption theory 

• Permanent income theory with rational expectations 

• empirical issues and puzzles 

• The role of uncertainty: precautionary savings 

• intertemporal consumption and portfolio allocation 

general references 

• romer (2012), “Advanced macroeconomics”, fourth edition, ch. 8 

• Bagliano F.C.-Bertola g. (2007), “models for dynamic macroeconomics”, ch. 1 

Specific references 

• deaton A. (1992), understanding consumption, especially ch. 3, 4 

• Attanasio o. (1999), “Consumption demand”, in handbook of macroeconomics, vol. 1B, ch. 11 

• Campbell J. (1999), “Asset prices, consumption, and the business cycle”, in handbook of 

macroeconomics, vol. 1C, ch. 19 

• Carroll C. (2001), “A theory of the consumption function, with and without liquidity 

constraints”, Journal of economic Perspectives (“graduate students version” nBer wp 8387) 

• Angeletos et al. (2001), “The hyperbolic consumption model: calibration, simulation and 

empirical evaluation”, Journal of economic Perspectives 

• meghir C. (2004), “A retrospective on Friedman’s theory of permanent income”, economic Journal 

2. Dynamic investment models 

• dynamic optimization in continuous time 

• Adjustment costs and Tobin’s forward-looking “q” 

• investment dynamics, interest rates, productivity and wages in partial equilibrium

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• Bagliano-Bertola (2007), “models for dynamic macroeconomics”, ch. 2 

• “on mathematical methods: Barro-sala-i-martin” (1995), economic growth, mathematical Appendix 


• yoshikawa h. (1980), “on the ‘q’ theory of investment”, American economic review, 70, 4, 739-743 

• hayashi F. (1982), “Tobin’s marginal q and average q: a neoclassical interpretation”, 

econometrica, 50, 1, 213-224 

• Abel A.-Blanchard o.J. (1983), “An intertemporal model of saving and investment”, 

econometrica, 51, 3, 675-692 

• Caballero r. (1999), “Aggregate investment”, handbook of macroeconomics, vol. 1B, ch 12 

3. Economic growth in dynamic general equilibrium 

• Balanced growth, steady state and optimal convergence 

• decentralization of production and investment decisions 

• endogenous growth and market imperfections 


• romer (2012), “Advanced macroeconomics”, fourth edition, ch. 1, 2 (Part A), 3 

• Bagliano-Bertola (2007), “models for dynamic macroeconomics”, ch. 4 


• mankiw n.g., d. romer, d. Weil (1992), “A contribution to the empirics of economic 

growth”, Quarterly Journal of economics, may 

• romer P. (1994) “The origins of endogenous growth”, Journal of economic Perspectives, 8, Winter 

• Barro-sala-i-martin (1995), “economic growth”, ch. 1, 2, 4 

• Aghion-howitt (1998), “endogenous growth Theory”, ch. 1 

4. Flow dynamics in the labour market 

• Participation externalities in the labour market 

• Features of search models of the labour market 

• Job matching and unemployment dynamics 



• Bagliano-Bertola (2007), “models for dynamic macroeconomics”, ch. 5, sections 5.2-5.4 


• Pissarides (2000), “equilibrium unemployment Theory”, 2nd ed., ch. 1-3 

• Petrongolo-Pissarides (2001) “looking into the black box: a survey of the matching 

function”, Journal of economic literature 

• nickell s., nunziata l., ochel W., Quintini g. (2002) “The Beveridge curve, unemployment and 

wages in the oeCd from the 1960s to the 1990s”, Centre for economic Performance, lse 

• hornstein A., Krusell P., g.l. Violante (2005) “unemployment and Vacancy fluctuations 

in the matching model: inspecting the mechanism”, Federal reserve Bank of richmond 

economic Quarterly 

• shimer r. (2005) “The cyclical behavior of equilibrium unemployment and vacancies”, 

American economic review, march 

• hall r. (2005) “employment fluctuations with equilibrium wage stickiness”, American 

economic review, march 

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DiSCrETE MAThEMATiCS 

Fall 2012 

instructor: stefano Favaro 



office n° 7, Camerata iii stefano.favaro@carloalberto.org 

office hours: TBA web.econ.unito.it/favaro/ 

Course description 

The course introduces some basic counting principles after a brief presentation of the 

necessary elements of set theory. The notion of recurrence relation and its connection with a 

finite difference equation is briefly presented. The probability and the conditional probability 

on discrete sample spaces are introduced. The inclusion and exclusion principle, which is a 

basic tool both in combinatorics and discrete probability theory, is extensively treated. 

Textbooks 

There is no required textbook for the course. 

TOPiCS 

1. Basic counting principle 

2. recurrence relations 

3. Finite differences 

4. discrete probability 

5. inclusion and exclusion principle 

6. generating functions

ECONOMETriC ThEOry i 

Fall 2012 

instructor: Aleksey Tetenov 

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office n° 4, Camerata i aleksey.tetenov@carloalberto.org 

office hours: by appointment www.tetenov.com 


This course provides an introduction to essential microeconometric tools, combining theory, 

simulation and empirical examples. 

grades 

Final course grade will be based on problem sets, a midterm exam and a final exam. 

you should work in groups of two or three on the problem sets. 

required textbook 

Cameron and Trivedi, microeconometrics: methods and Applications, Cambridge univ Press, 

2005. 

required software 

sTATA with mATA matrix programming language, version 11 or newer. 

TOPiCS 

1. Asymptotic tools. 

2. linear models. 

3. maximum likelihood estimation, discrete response models. 

4. introduction to nonparametric estimation. 

5. Bootstrap 

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ECONOMETriC ThEOry ii 

spring 2013 

instructor: Cristian Bartolucci 



office n° 1, Camerata ii cristian.bartolucci@carloalberto.org 

office hours: TBA sites.google.com/site/cristianbartolucci/ 

The Course 

in this course we will discuss topics in microeconometrics and empirical modeling that are 

likely to be useful in applied research based on cross-section and panel data. 

general readings 

There is no required textbook for this course. Three recommended textbooks are: 

• Arellano manuel, “Panel data econometrics”, oxford university Press, 2003. 

• Wooldridge Jeffrey, “econometric Analysis of Cross section and Panel data”. miT Press, 2002. 

• A. Colin Cameron and Pravin K. Trivedi, “microeconometrics: methods and Applications”., 

Cambridge university Press, new york, may 2005. 

Tentative Schedule 

1. linear regression Model 

• review of least squares estimation specification, matrix notation, endogenous regressors. 

short introduction to mATA. 

• instrumental Variables. 

• hypothesis tests and specification Test: introduction, Wald test. likelihood based tests, 

Bootstrap and montecarlo. 

specific readings 

• Wooldridge, Chapters 2-5. 

• Angrist J. and A. Krueger. empirical strategies in labor economics. Chapter 23 in o. Ashenfelter 

and d. Card, eds., The handbook of labor economics, Volume iii, north holland, 1999. 

2. generalized Method of Moments 

• generalized method of moments: general Formulation, Consistency and Asymptotic 

normality, 2sls equivalence. 

• Tests of overidentifying restrictions. 

• optimal instruments in Conditional models. 


• Arellano, Appendices A and B. 

• Wooldridge, Chapter 14. 

3. Panel Data Models 

• static models:

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• unobserved heterogeneity: Within-group estimation. 

• error Components. 

• specification Tests. 

• dynamic models: 

• Autoregressive models with individual effects. 

• models with lagged dependent variables and fixed effects, models with 

predetermined variables and fixed effects. 


• Arellano, Chapters 2-4 (static models) and 5-8 (dynamic models). 

• Wooldridge, Chapters 9-11. 

4. Maximum likelihood 

• general formulation intuitions and examples. 

• Censored variables. 

• discrete choice. 

• heckman selection model. 


Wooldridge, Chapters 13 and 15 

Cameron and Trivedi, “microeconometrics”, Chapters 14 and 17 

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ECONOMiCS OF FiNANCiAl MArKETS 

spring 2013 

instructor: edoardo grillo 



office n°: TBA edoardo.grillo@carloalberto.org 

office hours: TBA sites.carloalberto.org/grillo/ 

Description of the Course 

in this tutorial we will overview some fundamental topics in financial economics. We will 

start from questions such as: 

• What is a speculative bubble? What do tulips in the 17th century, radio in 20th century 

and internet between the 20th and 21st century have in common? 

• is it possible to statistically predict the price of a stock and make money? 

• Why do speculators attack a country/currency? do they coordinate? Are they always 

right? 

• What is the role of collateral in the financial system? What is its role in the propagation 

of economic shocks? 

• What are derivatives? Are they useful or harmful for the economy? 

• how did the mortgage crisis lead to the collapse of lehman Brothers? 

in particular, we will address these questions by introducing economic models and by providing 

a conceptual framework that can also be applied to analyze other relevant issues. 

Structure of the Class 

Classes are intended to be interactive. We will read some material in advance and we will start 

from it in our discussion. 

Material 

There is no single textbook for this course and specific references for each topic will be 

provided before each class. some interesting (but non-mandatory) books are: 

A random Walk down Wall street: The Time-Tested strategy for successful investing (Tenth 

edition), W. W. norton & Company, 2012. 

The Big short: inside the doomsday machine, Thorndike Press, 2010. 

Too Big to Fail: The inside story of how Wall street and Washington Fought to save the 

Financial system--and Themselves, Penguin Books, 2010.

ECONOMiC PriNCiPlES 

spring 2013 

instructor: dino gerardi 



office n°: 19 dino.gerardi@carloalberto.org 

office hours: TBA sites.carloalberto.org/gerardi/ 

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Outline 

The course will provide a rigorous survey of microeconomic theory. in the first half of the 

course we will examine the economic behavior of consumers and firms. The second half 

will be devoted to the study of selected topics: game theory, market failures, information 

economics and public choice theory. 

i. introduction 

ii. Choice Under Certainty (5 lectures) 

Preferences and utility (Jr 1.2); The Consumer’s Problem (Jr 1.3); indirect utility and expenditure 

Functions (Jr 1.4); Properties of Consumer demand (Jr 1.5); revealed Preference (Jr 2.3). 

iii. Choice Under Uncertainty (3 lectures) 

objective Probability and expected utility (Jr 2.4); subjective Probability (Jr 2.4); risk Aversion (Jr 2.4). 

iV. Theory of the Firm (2 lectures) 

Production Functions (Jr 3.2); Cost Functions (Jr 3.3); Profit maximization (Jr 3.5). 

V. Partial Equilibrium (1 lecture) 

Perfect Competition (Jr 4.1); equilibrium and Welfare (Jr 4.3). 

Vi. general Equilibrium (5 lectures) 

The edgeworth Box exchange economy (Jr 5.1); exchange economies (Jr 5.2); The efficiency of 

Competitive equilibria (Jr 5.2.2); general equilibrium with Production (Jr 5.3); The Core (Jr 5.4). 

Vii. Asymmetric information and Market Failures (2 lectures) 

information economics (Jr 8); externalities; Public goods. 

Viii. game Theory and imperfect Competition (2 lectures) 

monopoly; game Theory: static games (Jr 7.2); game Theory: dynamic games (Jr 7.3); 

oligopoly (Jr 4.2); Auctions (Jr 9). 

Course Text 

geoffrey Jehle and Philip reny [Jr], “Advanced microeconomic Theory”, 2nd edition, Addison 

Wesley Pub Co, 2001, isBn 0321079167. 

nicholson W. and snyder C., “microeconomic Theory (Basic Principles and extensions)”, 10th 

edition, south Western educational Publ, isBn 0324421621. 

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ECONOMiCS (TUTOriAl) 

Fall 2012 

instructors: giovanni mastrobuoni and ignacio monzón 

Contact information for giovanni Mastrobuoni 


office n° 3, Camerata i giovanni.mastrobuoni@carloalberto.org 

office hours: TBA sites.google.com/site/giovannimastrobuoni 

Contact information for ignacio Monzón 


office nº 13, Camerata i ignacio@carloalberto.org 

office hours: by appointment sites.google.com/site/imonzon/teaching 

Objective of the course 

in this course, we present an introduction to economic problems and, more importantly, 

economic reasoning. our first objective is to illustrate the questions economists aim to 

answer. We show how economics deals with issues of diverse nature, like: 

• What explains differences in prices for goods that cost little to produce, like coffee? 

• how do supermarkets price there goods, and why? 

• Perfect markets and the “World of Truth”: what does truth mean in economic terms? 

• Why are some countries poor? 

• Why do congestion, pollution, etc occur? 

our second objective is to describe the methods economists use to answer these widely 

diverse questions. in this way, we introduce students to economic reasoning. 

Structure of the class 

students and instructors meet weekly to discuss the contents of the class. Before each 

meeting, students should read the assigned material, in order to organize the discussion 

around it. 

Materials 

This course will focus on the following books: 

• robert l. heilbroner, “The Worldly Philosophers”, simon & schuster, 1999 

• malcolm gladwell, “outliers”, little, Brown and Company, 2008 

• Tim hardford, “The undercover economist”, Abacus, 2007

gAME ThEOry 

spring 2013 

instructor: dino gerardi 



office n°: 19 dino.gerardi@carloalberto.org 

office hours: TBA sites.carloalberto.org/gerardi/ 

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Outline 

The course will provide a mathematical treatment of choice under uncertainty and game 

theory. We will develop and solve formal models of strategic interactions among economic 

agents. We will consider several economic applications, such as imperfect competition, 

auctions, public goods and bargaining. 

i. introduction 

ii. Decision Theory 

dominance, beliefs and “never Weak Best response” strategies. 

iii. Strategic Form games 

dominance, nash equilibrium, mixed strategies. 

iV. Extensive Form games 

Corresponding strategic forms, behavioral strategies, backwards induction, subgame perfect 

equilibrium. 

V. games of incomplete information 

normal-form representation of static games of incomplete information, Bayesian nash 

equilibrium, perfect Bayesian equilibrium. 

Vi. repeated games 

Folk theorems. 

Vii. Mechanism Design 

design of the optimal auction, the revenue equivalence theorem. 

Course Text 

• martin J. osborne and Ariel rubinstein, “An Course in game Theory”, The miT Press. 

• martin J. osborne, “An introduction to game Theory”, oxford university Press. 

• roger B. myerson, “game Theory”, harvard university Press. 

• macho stadler and Perez Castillo, “An introduction to the economics of information”, 

oxford university Press, 2001, 2nd edition. 

• mas-Collel, Whinston and green, “microeconomic Theory”, oxford university Press. 

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iNTErMEDiATE MAThEMATiCS 

Fall 2012 

instructor: elena Vigna 



office nº 10, Camerata iii elena.vigna@econ.unito.it 

office hours: by appointment web.econ.unito.it/gma/elena.htm 


This is an introductory course on ordinary differential equations with some applications. 

Fundamental prerequisites are elementary calculus and linear algebra. The main objective of 

the course is to become familiar with a wide range of ordinary differential equations, which 

typically arise in economic and financial modelling, and to be able to approach them and 

solve the easiest ones. Although elementary integration should be part of basic calculus, i will 

nevertheless give an adequate introduction to riemann integrals, before starting with the 

core topics of the course. Complex numbers will also be introduced as preliminary material 

for the course. Thus, the course will consist of two main parts: preliminaries (integrals and 

complex numbers) and ordinary differential equations. 

Problem Sets 

A number of problem sets will be assigned after the completion of each main part. The 

problem sets are intended to help students to familiarize with the introduced techniques, in 

preparation for the final exam: assignments will not be collected and marked. 

Exam 

There will be a final exam at the end of the course (in the first or second week of december). 

Course outline 

1. Preliminaries 

(a) riemann integrals 

1. introduction: the integral as an area 

2. Analytic definition of the integral 

3. Characterization of integrable functions 

4. Class of integrable functions and properties of integrals 

5. The mean value theorem for integrals 

6. The fundamental theorem of calculus 

7. elementary integrals 

8. integration techniques: integration by substitution and by parts, integration of 

rational functions 

9. some results on elementary functions that can be integrated explicitly 

(b) Complex numbers 

1. Algebraic form and polar form of complex numbers

2. de moivre’s formula and the roots of a complex number 

3. exponential form of complex numbers and euler formulae 

4. The fundamental theorem of algebra 

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2. ordinary differential equations (odes) 

(a) Preliminary examples: population models 

(b) definitions and terminology: n-th order differential equations and systems of odes 

(c) The initial-value problem (iVP) or Cauchy problem 

(d) The existence and uniqueness theorem for the iVP 

(e) solution of some common first-order odes: linear, exact differential, separable, homogeneous 

equations, Bernoulli, riccati 

(f) linear differential equations: general solution of homogeneous and complete linear ode 

(g) solution of some common higher order odes: linear differential equations with constant 

coefficients, euler equations 

Textbooks 

For the preliminaries: 

• Courant r., Fritz, J. “introduction to Calculus and Analysis” vol. i, reprint of the 1989 ed., 

springer, Berlin, 1999. 

• rudin W., “Principles of mathematical Analysis”, mcgraw-hill, new york, 1976. 

For ordinary differential equations: 

• Boyce W.e., di Prima r.C., “elementary differential equations and Boundary Value Problems”, 

Wiley, new york, 1977. 

• Braun m., “differential equations and Their Applications”, springer Verlag, new york, 

1978. 

• Coddington e.A., “An introduction to ordinary differential equations”, Prentice-hall, 

englewood Cliffs, 1981. 

• rainville e.d., Bedient P.e., “elementary differential equations”, mac millan, new york, 1974. 

• reiss e.l., Callegari A.J., Ahluwalia d.s., “ordinary differential equations with Applications”, 

holt rinehart and Winston, new york, 1976. 

• ross s.l., “introduction to ordinary differential equations”, Wiley, new york, 1989. 

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iNTrODUCTiON TO AlgOriThMS 

spring 2013 

instructor: Fabrizio Altarelli and Alfredo Braunstein 

Contact information for Fabrizio Altarelli 


office nº 2, Camerata iii fabrizio.altarelli@polito.it 

office hours: TBA areeweb.polito.it/ricerca/cmp/people/fa 

Contact information for Alfredo braunstein 


office nº 1, Camerata iii alfredo.braunstein@polito.it 

office hours: TBA areeweb.polito.it/ricerca/cmp/people/ab 


Part i 

This course provides a hands-on introduction to some key mathematical problems that can 

be solved thanks to a computer, and to the techniques that allow to do it. The course will 

start with an introduction to graph theory and optimization problems defined on a graph, 

and classical and/or general approaches to deal with them. A significant part of the time 

will be spent writing programs to solve practical examples of the above problems. This will 

give us the opportunity to discuss some “ancillary” topics, covering the basics of effective 

programming (illustrated with matlab) and some general concepts and techniques. 

Part ii 

The second part concerns “complicated” probability distributions, involving many variables 

with non-trivial correlations. The problems of generating samples from such a distribution 

and computing the average of some function over it will be discussed, as well as their solution 

thanks to the monte Carlo technique and the connection with optimization. We will also 

investigate some properties of random graphs. A significant part of the time will be spent 

writing programs to solve practical examples of the above problems. This will give us the 

opportunity to discuss some “ancillary” topics, covering the basics of effective programming 

(illustrated with matlab) and some general concepts and techniques. 

Course outline 

First Part 

mAin ToPiCs: 

• graphs: definitions 

• Computing connected components 

• Bipartite graphs 

• shortest paths 

• spanning trees

• maximum Flow 

• dynamic Programming and examples 

• sorting 

• Complexity classes 

AnCillAry ToPiCs: 

• introduction to matlab and programming 

• Control structures 

• Functions 

• data structures 

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Second Part 

mAin ToPiCs: 

• random graphs and their properties: percolation, k-cores, loops, etc. 

• gradient descent 

• simulated annealing 

• linear programming / integer programming 

• Branch-and-bound 

• markov Chains 

• detailed balance, metropolis algorithm 

• ergodicity 

• sampling and average computations 

• Accelerated algorithms, importance sampling, rejectionless monte-carlo 

• examples and applications 

AnCillAry ToPiCs: 

• Pseudo-random numbers 

• numerical precision 

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MACrOECONOMiCS 

spring 2013 

instructor: Filippo Taddei 


Collegio Carlo Alberto +39 011 6705072 

office n° 8, Camerata i filippo.taddei@carloalberto.org 

office hours: TBA sites.google.com/site/filippotaddei 


This is an advanced macroeconomics course, comparable to 1st year Phd level. The objective is 

to familiarize students with a number of tools relevant to understand the relationship between 

macroeconomics and the credit markets and to apply them to topics relevant to macroeconomics 

and international finance. 

remain up to date: check my webpage regularly. 

Problem Sets 

There will be 4 problem sets assigned throughout the course. 

Problem sets must be submitted and there are no late submissions: no submission implies a 5% 

penalty on the total final score. 

grading 

There will be a single midterm and final exam in may. The grade will be determined by: 

• midterm (30%) 

• final exam (60%) 

• bad day insurance (10%) to be added to max (final exam, midterm) 

Failure to complete the final exam will result in a failing grade. 

Failure to complete the midterm will lead to zero being assigned for that evaluation. 

There are no make-up exams or alternative dates. 

Attending Class 

you are strongly encouraged to attend all classes. do not plan travel, take other classes, enroll in 

internships or make other commitments that conflict with class dates. 

TOPiCS 

1. FOUNDATiONS OF gENErAl EQUilibriUM 

• mas-Colell, A., and Whinston m. and J. green, “microeconomic Theory”, oxford university Press, 1995. 

2. OVErlAPPiNg gENErATiONS MODEl AND grOwTh 

• Acemoglu, d. “introduction to modern economic growth”, Princeton university Press, 2009, 

Chapter 9. 

• Barro, r. “Are government bonds net wealth?,” Journal of Political economy, 1095-1117, 1984. 

• Bewley, T. “general equilibrium, overlapping generations models, and optimal growth theory”, 

harvard university Press, 2007, Chapters 9-10. 

• Blanchard, o., and s. Fischer, lectures on macroeconomics, miT Press, 1989, Chapter 3.

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• diamond, P., “national debt in a neoclassical growth model”, American economic review, 1126- 

1150, 1965. 

• samuelson, P. “An exact consumption-loan model of interest with or without the social 

contrivance of money”, Journal of Political economy, 467-482, 1958. 

• Tirole, J., “Asset Bubbles and overlapping generations,”1985, econometrica, 53, pp. 1499-1528. 

3. CrEDiT MArKETS iMPErFECTiONS AND ASyMMETriC iNFOrMATiON 

• Azariadis, C., and B. smith, “Adverse selection in the overlapping generations model: the case of 

pure exchange,” Journal of economic Theory, 60, 277-305, 1993. 

• Azariadis, C., and B. smith, “Financial intermediation and regime switching in business cycles”, 

American economic review, 88, 516-536, 1998. 

• Bencivenga, V. and B. smith “some consequences of credit rationing in an endogenous growth 

model,” Journal of economic dynamics and Control, 17, 97-122, 1993. 

• Bernanke, B., and m. gertler, “Agency Costs, net Worth and Business Fluctuations,” American 

economic review, 79, 14-31, 1989. 

• Bernanke, B., gertler, m., and gilchrist, “The financial accelerator in a quantitative business 

cycle framework,” in John Taylor and michael Woodford (eds.), handbook and macroeconomics, 

Amsterdam: north holland, 1999. 

• de meza, d. and Webb, d., “Too much investment: a problem of Asymmetric information”, The 

Quarterly Journal of economics, 102, 281-292, 1987. 

• holmström, B., and J. Tirole, “Financial intermediation, loanable funds, and the real sector,” 

Quarterly Journal of economics, 112, 663-91, 1997. 

• holmström, B., and J. Tirole, “Private and public supply of liquidity,” Journal of Political economy, 

106, 1-40, 1998. 

• Kiyotaki, n., and J. moore, “Credit Cycles”, Journal of Political economy, 105, 211-248, 1997. 

• reichlin, P., “Credit markets and the macroeconomy,” in Bhattacharya, s., Boot, A. and Thakor, 

A. (eds.), Credit, intermediation and the macroeconomy-readings and Perspectives in modern 

Financial Theory, oxford university Press (2004). 

• stiglitz, J., and A. Weiss, “Credit rationing in markets with imperfect information,” American 

economic review, 71, 393-410, 1981. 

4. FiNANCiAl FriCTiONS, glObAliZATiON AND ThE FiNANCiAl CriSiS 

• Caballero, r., and A. Krishnamurthy, “international and domestic collateral constraints in a 

model of emerging market crises,” Journal of monetary economics, 48, 513-48, 2001. 

• Caballero, r. and Krishnamurthy, A., “global imbalances and Financial Fragility”, American 

economic review Papers and Proceedings, 99, 584-588, 2009. 

• Caballero, r. and Krishnamurthy, A., “Bubbles and Capital Flow Volatility: Causes and risk 

management”, January 2006, Journal monetary of economics, 53, 35-53, 2006. 

• Caballero, r., “The “other imbalance and the Financial Crises”, 2010, nBer Working Paper no. 

15636. 

• matsuyama, K., “Financial market globalization, symmetry-Breaking and endogenous inequality 

of nations”, 2004, econometrica, 72(3), pp. 853-884. 

• martin, A. and Ventura, J., “economic growth with Bubbles”, Forthcoming, American economic 

review. 

• martin, A. and Taddei, F., “international Capital Flows and Credit market imperfections: a Tale of 

Two Frictions”, Forthcoming, Journal of international economics. 

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MAThEMATiCS FOr ECONOMiCS 

september 2012 

instructors: Pierpaolo de Blasi 



office 8, Camerata iii pierpaolo.deblasi@unito.it 

office hours: by appointment sites.google.com/a/carloalberto.org/pdeblasi/ 

Class Times: mon/Wed/Fri: 10am-12am, 3pm-5pm 

Schedule 

The course will take place during the first three weeks of september, 5 classes per week of 2 

hours each for a total of 30 hours. 


The purpose of this course is to provide basic mathematical tools used in macro and 

microeconomics. Knowledge of elementary calculus is assumed. The main topics are linear 

algebra and multivariate calculus. A detailed course outline is attached to the end of this 

document. Problem sets will be assigned throughout the course; some of them will be solved 

in the afternoon problem sessions. i will not be collecting these assignments, however, i 

recommend trying to solve them prior to the problem sessions. Attendance to all classes is 

mandatory. 

Exam 

There will be a final exam during the forth week of september. it will consist of a series of 

exercises to be solved in 3 hours time. no lecture material will be allowed. 

Course Outline 

i. linear algebra 

• elements of vector and matrix algebra l ch i.1—i.4, ii.1—ii.2, ii.5 

sB ch 10.1—10.4, 8.1—8..4 

• systems of linear equations l ch ii.3—ii.6 

sB ch 7.1—7.3 

• Vector spaces, linear independence and basis l ch iii.1—iii.5 

sB ch 11.1—11.3, 27.1—27.2, 27.6 

• rank, linear mappings and kernel l ch iii.6, iV.1—iV.5 

sB ch 7.4, 13.3, 27.3—27.5 

• determinant l ch Vii.1—Vii.5 

sB ch 9.1—9.2, 26.1—26.3

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• eigenvectors, eigenvalues and symmetric matrices l ch Viii.1, Viii.2 

sB ch 23.1—23.3, 23.7, 23.8 

ii. Calculus of several variables 

• limits and open sets in r m sB ch 12.2—12.5 

• Functions of several variables sB ch 13.1—13.3, 13.5, 16.1—16.2 

• Continuous functions, derivatives and differentials sB ch 13.4, 14.1—14.6 

• mean Value Theorems, Taylor polynomials sB ch 14.8, 30.1—30.3, 21.1—21.2 

• implicit Function Theorem sB ch 15.1, 15.2 

Textbooks 

• lang, s. (1986), “introduction to linear Algebra” (2 edn). springer. 

• simon, C. P. and Blum l. (1994), “mathematics for economists”, W. W. norton & Company. 

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MEASUrE ThEOry 

Fall 2012 

instructor: matteo ruggiero 



office n° 16 A, Camerata iii matteo.ruggiero@unito.it 

office hours: TBA web.econ.unito.it/ruggiero 


The course introduces to the theory of lebesgue integration. After defining appropriate 

structures of sets such as algebras, semi- and sigma-algebras, we provide the notion of 

lebesgue-stieltjes measures, and their construction from semi-algebras to sigma-algebras. 

We then constructively define integrals with respect to a lebesgue-stieltjes measure and 

state their most relevant properties. The relationship with classical riemann integration and 

the connection with probability theory are also examined. 

Exam 

Written exam at the end of the course. 


• Classes of subsets: algebras, semi-algebras, sigma-algebras, monotone classes 

• measures: definition and properties, finite- and sigma-additivity; construction of measures 

on sigma-algebras; completions of measures; lebesgue-stieltjes measures 

• measurable functions 

• lebesgue-stieltjes integrals: construction and properties 

• Convergence theorems 

• null-measure sets and properties holding almost everywhere 

• Comparison with riemann integration 

• radon-nikodym’s Theorem 

Textbooks 

detailed lecture notes will be provided. some reference books are: 

• Billingsley, P. (1986). Probability and measure. Wiley. 

• dudley, r.m. (2004). real analysis and probability. Cambridge university Press. 

• Folland, g.B. (1999). real analysis. Wiley. 

• Kolmogorov, A.n. and Fomin, s.V. (1975). introductory real analysis, dover. 

• royden, h.l. (1988). real analysis. Prentice hall. 

• rudin, W. (1976). Principles of mathematical analysis. mcgraw-hill. 

• rudin, W. (1970). real and complex analyis. mcgraw-hill.

gENErAl EQUilibriUM ThEOry 

January/February 2013 

instructor: Andrea gallice 



office n° 1, Camerata i andrea.gallice@carloalberto.org 

office hours: TBA www.andreagallice.eu 

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Objective of the course: 

The course introduces and explores general equilibrium theory and the welfare properties of 

competitive equilibria. 

Contents: 

1. introduction: some history of geT, partial vs. general equilibrium, revision of basic 

microeconomic concepts (preferences, utility maximization, production, profit 

maximization) 

2. A first example of ge: a pure exchange economy 

3. A second example of ge: a one-consumer, one-producer economy 

4. Competitive equilibria and the first and second fundamental theorem of welfare 

5. existence, uniqueness and stability of the equilibrium 

6. The core 

7. ge under uncertainty: the Arrow-debreu equilibrium 

Exam: 

There will be no final exam. A number of problem sets will be distributed during the course. 

The final mark will be a convex combination of the marks the student obtains in the problem 

sets and of the student’s participation in class. 

Textbook: 

mas-Colell, A., Whinston, m.d. and J. r. green (1995). microeconomic Theory. ouP, 1995. 

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MiCrOECONOMiCS 

Fall 2012 

instructor: ignacio monzón 



office n° 13, Camerata i ignacio@carloalberto.org 

office hours: drop by, or send me an email sites.google.com/site/imonzon/teaching 

and we set up an appointment 

introduction 

This class presents a formal analysis of microeconomic theory focused on decision theory, 

consumption, production, aggregation, and choice under uncertainty. The objective pursued 

is to introduce, carefully and in depth, the analytical tools used in microeconomic theory. 

The introduction of these topics in a meticulous way serves the following purposes. First, 

mastering the theory of consumption and production is fundamental to understand (and 

work on) applied and theoretical labor economics, public economics or industrial organization. 

Consequently, students interested in these topics should invest in learning microeconomic 

theory. second, the theory of choice under uncertainty permeates all economic research. in 

particular, uncertainty plays a key part in game theory, which is introduced in its own course 

in the fall semester. Third, the microeconomic theory of consumption and production is used 

in international economics and macroeconomics. specifically, this class tackles the issue of 

aggregation: it analyses under which conditions we can focus on aggregate entities and 

disregard the individual problem. last but not least, microeconomic theory is fascinating by 

itself: it deals on how to build simple models that capture our intuition to study complex 

phenomena. 

Prerequisites 

This class builds on prior exposure to economic concepts and to mathematical reasoning. 

regarding mathematics, as a guide, traditional mathematics sequences in multivariable 

calculus and some real analysis should suffice. There are concepts used in this class, 

however, that are not covered in such sequences. These concepts are introduced as needed. 

it is, therefore, necessary for students to have enough mathematical ability to acquire the 

necessary knowledge “on the fly”. required prior exposure to economics is at a similar level. 

An intermediate course on microeconomics would be a good background. yet, students whose 

economics is limited to one introductory and one intermediate microeconomics courses may 

find both the material and the pace of this course rather daunting. 

requirements and grading 

Formal requirements for the course include regular attendance and participation in lectures, 

weekly problem sets, a midterm exam and a final exam. Problem sets are demanding, 

mandatory and an essential part of the course. Problem sets’ solutions provide students 

with a guide on how well they are grasping the material on a “real time” basis. students are

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encouraged to work in groups on the problem sets. however, students should understand the 

material on their own, and hand in their own problem sets. The course grade is determined by 

the midterm, the final and the problem sets. no late submissions of problem sets are accepted. 

There are no make-up exams or alternative dates. do not plan travel, take other classes, enroll 

in internships or make other commitments that conflict with class dates. 

To account for possible unexpected problems, the lowest grade in a problem set will be 

dropped. There are three possible grades in each problem set, (+), which corresponds to 10/10, 

(√), which corresponds to 7/10 and (–), which corresponds to 4/10. if the problem set is not 

handed in the corresponding grade is 0/10. 

The final grade will be a combination of the problem sets grades (15%), the midterm exam 

grade (40%) and the final exam grade (45%). 

Textbooks 

The main text for the course is: 

• Andreu mas-Colell, michael d. Whinston and Jerry r. green, “microeconomic Theory”, 

oxford university Press, 1995 (Mwg) 

Alternate textbooks that students might also find useful are: 

• hal r. Varian, “microeconomic Analysis”, W.W. norton & Co., 1992 

• geoffrey Jehle and Philip reny, “Advanced microeconomic Theory”, Addison Wesley, 2000 

• rubinstein, Ariel, lecture notes in microeconomic Theory, 2007 (available online at: http:// 

arielrubinstein.tau.ac.il/rubinstein2007.pdf) 

Material: We will cover chapters 1 through 6 of Mwg. 

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OPTiMiZATiON FOr ECONOMiCS 

Fall 2012 

instructor: Andrei savochkin 



office n° 6, Camerata i andrei.savochkin@carloalberto.org 

office hours: TBA sites.carloalberto.org/savochkin 

1. Description 

The goal of this course is to provide students with mathematical tools that are necessary 

for understanding modern economics, doing research or practical work. The object of 

study in this course-a problem of finding an optimal course of actions subject to feasibility 

constraints-appears in almost every subfield of economics, the theory of firm, consumption 

choice problem, macroeconomics, industrial organization, labor economics, just to name few. 

The art of solving such problems, however, is usually “too applied” to find space in a purely 

mathematical curriculum. 

The course is based on two equally important components, lectures, where theory is presented 

and typical problems are solved, and weekly problem sets to build the necessary problem 

solving skills. 

2. Prerequisites 

The course syllabus assumes a good command of single variable calculus and linear algebra. 

3. requirements 

Formal course requirements include attendance of the lectures, weekly problem sets, a 

midterm and a final exam. The final grade will consist of 

• 50% of the final exam grade, 

• 30% of the midterm grade, 

• 20% of problem sets grades. 

students are encouraged to discuss the material among themselves; however, problem sets 

are designed to be skill-building, and are expected to be solved individually. Plagiarism will 

not be tolerated. 

4. Outline 

1. Primer: continuity and derivatives of functions of several variables, higher-order 

derivatives. 

2. unconstrained optimization: necessary conditions and sufficient conditions for optima. 

3. Constrained optimization: lagrangean function and multiplier.

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4. Comparative statics: maximum theorem, implicit function and its derivative, envelope theorem. 

5. elements of optimization without differentiability: convex analysis, monotone comparative 

statics. 

5 Textbooks 

There is no required textbook for this course — all material will be presented in lectures. 

supplemental reading for those who wish to study some of the topics deeper will be suggested 

along the way. 

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instructor: edoardo grillo 



office: TBA edoardo.grillo@carloalberto.org 

office hours: TBA sites.carloalberto.org/grillo/ 

Description of the Course 

Political economics is an interdisciplinary field that focuses on the interactions between 

political institutions, economic agents and legal systems. The primary goal of this course is 

to provide a formal and rigorous analysis of key topics in political economics and to provide 

answers to policy-relevant questions, such as: 

• under which conditions does a society that decides through majoritarian voting make 

coherent decisions? 

• how does electoral competition affect taxation, public-good provision and other 

redistributive policies? 

• how does bargaining power affect the allocation of a fixed surplus between two parties? 

• how does the outcome of legislative bargaining change as we modify the bargaining 

protocol (closed vs. open amendment rule)? 

• To what extent can lobbies affect politicians’ decisions in their own favor? 

A secondary goal is to provide students with a tool-kit they can use to further advance their 

understanding of this field. 


1. introduction (½ class) 

2. social Choice Theory (2 and ½ class) 

2.1. Arrow’s impossibility theorem. 

2.2. majoritarian voting: single-peakedness and single-crossing. 

3. electoral Competition and Voting (3 classes) 

3.1. downsian electoral model. 

3.2. Probabilistic voting model. 

3.3. Partisan politicians and citizen-candidate models. 

4. redistribution and electoral Competition (3 classes) 

4.1. income-based redistribution: distortionary taxation and electoral incentives. 

4.2. Age-based redistribution: pension systems in a model with overlapping generations. 

4.3. labor-based redistribution: unemployment benefits and labor market regulations. 

5. Bargaining (2 classes) 

5.1. Bargaining between two agents: rubinstein’s model.

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5.2. legislative bargaining: Baron and Farejohn’s model. 

6. lobbying (2 classes) 

7. Additional Topics (if time remains, we will cover some of these topics. students are 

encouraged to suggest different topics) 

7.1. Political Transitions: Acemoglu and robinson’s model. 

7.2. The effect of the electoral rule on the size of government. 

7.3. The paradox of abstention: Palfrey and rosenthal’s model. 

references and Course Material 

The essential references for each topic are listed below (additional, non-mandatory references 

may be suggested during the course). 

2. social Choice Theory 

mas-Colell, A., Whinston, d. W., and green, J.r., 1995, “microeconomic Theory”, new york, 

oxford university Press, Chapter 21. 

gans, J. s., and smart, m., 1996, “majority Voting with single-Crossing Preferences”, Journal 

of Public economics, 59(2), pp. 219-237. 

3. electoral Competition 

Persson, T., and Tabellini, g., 2002, “Political economics: explaining economic Policy”, 

Cambridge, The miT Press, Chapter 3. 

downs, A., 1957, “An economic Theory of democracy”, new york, harper and row. 

lindbeck, A., and Weibull, J., 1987, “Balanced-budget redistribution as the outcome of political 

economy”, Public Choice, 52, pp. 273-297. 

osborne, m.J., and slivinsky, A., 1996, “A model of political competition with citizencandidates”, 

Quarterly Journal of economics, 111, pp 65-96. 

Besley, T., and Coate, s., 1997, “An economic model of representative democracy”, Quarterly 

Journal of economics, 112, pp. 98-114. 

4. redistribution 



meltzer, A. h., and richard, s. F., 1981, “A rational Theory of the size of government”, 89(51), 

pp. 914-927. 

saint-Paul, g., 1993, “on the Political economy of labor market Flexibility”, nBer 

macroeconomics Annual 1193, 8, pp. 151-196. 

saint-Paul, g., Bean, r. C. and Bertola, g., 1996, “exploring the Political economy of labor 

market institutions”, economic Policy, 11(23), pp. 263-315. 

5. Bargaining 

rubinstein, A., 1982, “Perfect equilibrium in a Bargaining model”, econometrica, 50(1), pp. 97-110. 

Baron, d. P., and Farejohn, J. A., 1989, “Bargaining in legislatures”, American Political science 

review, 83(4), pp. 1181-1206. 

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grossman, g., and helpman, e., 1996 “Protection for sale”, American economic review, 84, pp. 

833-850. 

grossman, g., and helpman, e., 1996 “electoral Competition and special interest politics”, 

review of economics studies, 63, pp. 265-286. 

7. Additional Topics 

Acemoglu, d., and robinson, J. A., 2001, “A Theory of Political Transitions”, American economic 

review, 91(4), pp. 938-963. 

Persson, T., and Tabellini, g., 1999, “The size and scope of government: Comparative Politics 

with rational Politicians”, european economic review, 43(4-6), pp. 699-735. 

Palfrey, T. r., and rosenthal, h., 1983, “A strategic Calculus of Voting”, Public Choice, 41, pp. 7-53. 

Palfrey, T. r., and rosenthal, h., 1985, “Voter Participation and strategic uncertainty”, American 

Political science review, 79(1), pp. 62-78. 

grading and Course requirements 

your final grade will be a weighted average of problem sets (30%) and a final exam (70%). 

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instructor: Antonio lijoi 

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office n° TBA lijoi@unipv.it 

office hours: TBA http://economia.unipv.it/alijoi 


The course offers a broad overview of some standard topics in theoretical probability. students 

will be introduced to probabilistic tools and models that are routinely used in a wide variety of 

research areas ranging from statistics to econometrics, mathematical Finance to economics. 

After dealing with some basic elements on random variables and random sequences, lectures 

will focus on their main core, namely conditional expectation and martingales. As a prerequisite, 

students are assumed to know the contents of an introductory course in measure theory. 

TOPiCS 

• events and classes of events. Probability spaces. 

• limits of sequences of events and the first Borel-Cantelli lemma. 

• random variables. distributions functions and existence of random variables with a given 

distribution function. random vectors. generated sigma-algebras. sequences of random 

variables. examples. 

• independence. The second Borel-Cantelli lemma. Tail sigma-algebra and the Kolmogorov 

0-1 law. 

• expectation. inequalities: markov, Jensen, schwarz and hölder. l2 spaces. uniform 

integrability. 

• Conditional expectation. definition and properties. Conditional expectation as leastsquares 

best predictor. regular conditional probabilites. examples. 

• martingales. stopping times. stopped submartingales and supermartingales. doob’s 

optional stopping theorem. 

• doob’s upcrossing lemma and convergence theorem. 

grading 

There will be a single final exam consisting of a written test in which students will be asked 

to provide solutions to a set of exercises. 

Textbook 

• Williams, d. (1991), “Probability with martingales”. Cambridge university Press. 

• resnick, s. (1998). A probability path. Birkhäuser, Boston. 

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spring 2013 

instructor: Toomas hinnosaar 



office n°: TBA toomas.hinnosaar@carloalberto.org 

office hours: TBA http://toomas.hinnosaar.net 

1 Description of the Course 

industrial organization extends the theory of the firm by analyzing market frictions, imperfect 

competition, limited information and regulations. in the first part of the course we will study 

behavior of monopolies: how they set prices in static and dynamic settings, what are the 

optimal ways to sell products, how they choose product quality and how monopolies can 

affect social welfare. in the second part we extend the analysis to multiple firms and study the 

behavior of oligopolies. The major interest is in different forms of competition and collusion. 

The third part of the course is devoted to entry and exit behavior. next we will analyze a 

particular class of industries and see how network effects and standardization can be studied 

using the tools we have learned in the course. Finally, we extend the analysis to the situations 

where the buyers are boundedly rational: how to treat buyers that are present-biased, unable 

to make very complex comparisons, or whose choices are sensitive to reference points. 

2 Topics 

1. Monopoly: Posted prices, price discrimination, multiproduct pricing, durable goods, 

quality, auctions, welfare considerations. 

2. Oligopoly: Cournot model, Bertrand model, price competition with differentiated goods, 

dynamic price competition and tacit collusion. 

3. Dynamic models: entry, strategic investments, entry deterrence. 

4. Network industries: network effects, standardization, compatibility. 

5. bounded rationality: rational buyer model, time-inconsistency, making complex 

choices, reference dependence. 

3 requirements 

requirements include regular attendance and participation in lectures, weekly problem sets, 

a midterm, and a final exam. 

4 Textbooks 

main text: 

1. Jean Tirole. The Theory of industrial organization. The miT Press, January 1988. 

For some of the topics we will use chapters from: 

2. Xavier Vives. oligopoly Pricing: old ideas and new Tools. The miT Press, march 2000. 

3. rakesh Vohra and lakshman Krishnamurthi, Principles of Pricing: An Analytical Approach, 

Cambridge university Press, 1 edition, march 2012. 

4. ran spiegler, Bounded rationality and industrial organization, oxford university Press, 

usA, 1 edition, February 2011.

Director 


Program Coordinators 

igor Prünster, Filippo Taddei 

Faculty 

Ainhoa Aparicio Fenoll 

Cristian Bartolucci 

dino gerardi 

edoardo grillo 

Toomas hinnosaar 

giovanni mastrobuoni 

ignacio monzón 

Andrei savochkin 

Filippo Taddei 

Aleksey Tetenov 

Adjunct Faculty 

Fabrizio Altarelli 

Fabio Bagliano 

Alfredo Braunstein 

Pierpaolo de Blasi 

stefano Favaro 

Andrea gallice 

Antonio lijoi 

matteo ruggiero 

elena Vigna 

Administrative Coordinator 

Federica gai 

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FAbriZiO AlTArElli 

June 2012 

Address 

Politecnico di Torino +39 011 0907388 

Corso duca degli Abruzzi 24 fabrizio.altarelli@polito.it 

10129 Torino (italy) www.polito.it/cmp/people/fa 

Education 

2004-2007 Ph.d. in theoretical physics at the university of rome “la sapienza” (italy). 

1997-1999 msc in physics at harvard university, Cambridge (mA, usA). 

1997 laurea in physics at the university of rome “la sapienza” (italy). 

research interests 

Combinatorial optimization and probabilistic inference-stochastic optimization, messagepassing 

techniques and algorithms for distributed computing and their applications to 

problems coming from technology and economics. 

languages 

• italian (native) 

• French (good) 

• english (good) 

Previous work Experience and Teaching 

2010-Today Politecnico di Torino, post-doctoral research fellowship (assegno di ricerca) at 

CmP group, Physics department. 

2008-2009 isi Foundation, post-doctoral research fellowship (eVergroW network). 

1999-2004 mcKinsey & Company, management consultant. 

1997-1999 harvard university, teaching assistant in the courses introduction to 

electromagnetism, introduction to quantum mechanics and Biological physics. 

refereed Publications on Journals and books 

• Altarelli F, Braunstein A, ramezanpour A, Zecchina r, “statistical physics of optimization 

under uncertainty”, submitted to Physical review letters (2010) 

• Altarelli F, monasson r, semerjian g, Zamponi F, “A review of the statistical mechanics 

approach to random optimization Problems”, in “handbook of satisfiability” edited by 

Biere A, heule m, van maaren h, Walsh T. ios Press (2009) 

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• Altarelli F, Braunstein A, realpe-gomez J, Zecchina r, “statistical mechanics of budgetconstrained 

auctions”, Journal of statistical mechanics: Theory and experiment 2009 

P07002 (2009) 

• Altarelli F, monasson r, Zamponi F, “relationship between clustering and algorithmic phase 

transitions in the random k-XorsAT model and its nP-complete extensions”, Journal of 

Physics: Conference series 95 012013 (2008) 

• Altarelli F, monasson r, Zamponi F, “Can rare sAT formulae be easily recognized? on the 

efficiency of message-passing algorithms for K-sAT at large clause-to-variable ratios”, 

Journal of Physics A: mathematical and Theoretical 40 867 (2007) 

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June 2012 

Address 


Via real Collegio, 30 ainhoa.aparicio@carloalberto.org 

10024 moncalieri (To), italy sites.carloalberto.org/aparicio/ 

Academic Position and Professional Affiliation 

2010-present Assistant Professor, Collegio Carlo Alberto 

2010-present research Affiliate, iZA 

2010-present research Fellow, Child 

Education 

2007-10 Ph.d. in economics, universitat Pompeu Fabra 

Thesis supervisor: libertad gonzález luna 

dissertation Title: “The spanish labor market: Temporary employment, immigration 

and the Construction Boom” 

2009 Visiting Ph.d. student, Columbia university (April 2009) 

2008-09 Visiting Ph.d. student, Toulouse school of economics (sept. 2008-Jan. 2009) 

2004-05 First and second year Ph.d. courses in economics, universidad Carlos iii 

1999-04 undergraduate degree in economics, universidad de murcia, Average grade: A 


labor economics, Applied econometrics and industrial organization 

Fellowships, grants and honors 

2007-10 spanish ministry of education Fellowship for graduate studies 

2007 Advanced studies diploma, universitat Pompeu Fabra 

2007 Catalan government Fellowship for graduate studies 

2006-07 Fellowship for graduate studies, universitat Pompeu Fabra 

2005-06 ramón Areces Foundation Fellowship for graduate studies 

2004-05 Fellowship for graduate studies, universidad Carlos iii 

2004 undergraduate studies extraordinary Award, universidad de murcia 

2003-04 research Assistantship, department of Applied economics, universidad de murcia 

research 

• “The effect of Product market Competition on Job instability”, Child WP 08/2010 

• “network effects and remittance Cultures”, iZA dP no. 5657, 2011 

• “high-school dropouts and Transitory labor market shocks”, iZA dP no. 5139, 2010 

• “Fostering the emancipation of young People: The spain’s rental subsidy”, with Veruska 

oppedisano (uCl), mimeo 

Teaching 

2010-11 Collegio Carlo Alberto 

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instructor: Tutorial in economics, Applied economics 

2006-09 universitat Pompeu Fabra, department of economics and Business. instructor: 

Computer tools, sTATA (master). Teaching Assistant: labor economics, human 

resources, Wage setting systems, Public Finance, introduction to economics 

(undergraduate) 

2005-06 universidad de murcia, department of Applied economics. instructor: labor 

economics (undergraduate) 

2004-06 universidad Carlos iii, department of economics. Teaching Assistant: introduction 

to macroeconomics, introduction to microeconomics, spanish economy 

(undergraduate) 

Conference Presentations 

2012 Vilfredo Pareto Conference, Torino, italy (with marianne Bertrand); Parental 

and Public investments and Child outcomes, Child Workshop, Torino, italy 

(discussant); Theory and Practice of Program evaluation, CePs/insTeAd Workshop, 

luxembourg 

2011 XXVi symposium of economic Analysis, malaga, spain; XXVi Aiel Conference 

of labour economics; 13Th iZA/CePr european summer symposium in labour 

economics, Buch am Ammerse; netspar international Pension Workshop, Torino, 

italy (discussant); Cesifo economic studies Conference on housing Taxation and 

regulation, munich 

2010 XXV symposium of economic Analysis, madrid, spain; 5th Ph.d. meeting of The 

royal economic society, london, united Kingdom 

2009 XXiV symposium of economic Analysis, Valencia, spain; 24th Jornadas de 

economía industrial, Vigo, spain; 64th european meeting of the econometric 

society, Barcelona, spain; XXiii Conference of the european society for Population 

economics, seville, spain 

2008 XXiii symposium of economic Analysis, Zaragoza, spain; Xi encuentro de economía 

Aplicada, salamanca, spain 

Seminar Presentations 

2009-10 universitat Pompeu Fabra, universitat de Barcelona, universitat de les illes Balears, 

Banca d’italia, university of the Basque Country, iZA, universitat Autònoma de 

Barcelona, university of groningen, universitat rovira, i Virgili, universidad de 

Valencia, Collegio Carlo Alberto 

2008-09 Toulouse school of economics, universitat Pompeu Fabra 

2006-08 universitat Pompeu Fabra 

referee Activities 

labour (x2), review of economics of the household (x1), international Journal of manpower (x1) 

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Address 


Via real Collegio 30 fabio.bagliano@unito.it 

10024 moncalieri (To), italy web.econ.unito.it/bagliano 

Education 

1995 Ph. d. in economics, london school of economics 

1987 master of science in economics, london school of economics (distinction) 

1985 laurea in economics-università di Torino (honors and distinction) 

Professional Activities and Affiliations 

2001-current Professor of economics, department of economics and statistics, university 

of Torino 

1999-2001 Associate Professor of monetary economics, department of economics and 

Public Finance, university of Torino 

1998-1999 Associate Professor of monetary economics, department of economics, 

university of Teramo 

1991-1998 Assistant Professor of economics, department of economics and Public 

Finance, university of Torino 

1999-current research Fellow CerP, Collegio Carlo Alberto, moncalieri (italy) 

2009-2012 deputy director, department of economics and statistics, university of Torino 

2005-2009 Fellow, Collegio Carlo Alberto, moncalieri (italy) 

Publications 

• “The great recession: us dynamics and spillovers to the world economy”, Journal of Banking 

and Finance, 2012, 36(1), 1-13 (with C. morana) 

• “macro-finance interactions in the us: a global perspective”, in Balling m. and llewellyn d.T. 

(eds.), new Paradigms in monetary Theory and Policy?, suerF studies 2012/1, larcier, Vienna, 

2012, chapter 9, 141-162 (with C. morana) 

• “The effects of us economic and financial crises on euro area convergence”, in W. meeusen 

(editor), The economic Crisis and euro Area integration, edward elgar, uK, 2011, chapter 7, 

99-122 (with C. morana) 

• “Pension funds, life-cycle asset allocation, and performance evaluation” in r. hinz, h. 

rudolph, P. Antolin and J. yermo (eds.) evaluating the Financial Performance of Pension 

Funds, oeCd-World Bank, 2010, 159-201 (with C. Fugazza and g. nicodano) 

• “Permanent and transitory dynamics in house prices and consumption:some implications 

for the real effects of the financial crisis”, Applied Financial economics, 20(1), 2010, 151-170 

(with C. morana) 

• “Business Cycle Comovement in the g-7: Common shocks or Common Transmission 

mechanisms?”, Applied economics, 2009, 42(8), 2327-2345 (with C. morana) 

• “international macroeconomic dynamics: a factor vector autoregressive approach”, economic 

modelling, 2009, 26(2), 432-444 (with C. morana) 

• “Factor Vector Autoregressive estimation: A new Approach”, Journal of economic interaction 

and Coordination, 2008, 1, 15-23 (with C. morana) 

• “inflation and monetary dynamics in the us: a quantity-theory approach”, Applied economics, 

2007, 39(2), 229-244 (with C. morana) 

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• “inflation modelling in the euro Area”, in r. Beetsma, C.A. Favero, A. missale, V.A. muscatelli, 

P. natale and P. Tirelli (editors), monetary Policy, Fiscal Policies and labour markets. 

macroeconomic Policy making in the emu, Cambridge university Press, 2004, (with r. 

golinelli and C. morana) 

• “The cyclical behavior of inventories: european cross-country evidence from the early 1990s 

recession”, Applied economics, 2004, 36(18), 2031-2044 (with A. sembenelli) 

• “measuring us core inflation: a common trends approach”, Journal of macroeconomics, 

2003, 25(2), 197-212 (with C. morana) 

• “A common trends model of uK core inflation”, empirical economics, 2003, 28(1), 157-172 

(with C. morana) 

• “Core inflation in the euro area”, Applied economics letters, 2002, 9(6), 353-357 (with r. 

golinelli and C. morana) 

• “Bank competition and eCB’s monetary policy”, Journal of Banking and Finance, 2000, 24(6), 

967-983 (with A. dalmazzo and g. marini) 

• “liquidity, trading size and the coexistence of dealership and auction markets”, economic 

notes, 2000, 29(2), 179-199 (with A. Brandolini and A. dalmazzo) 

• “information from financial markets and VAr measures of monetary policy”, european 

economic review, 1999, 43(5), 825-837 (with C. A. Favero) 

• “measuring core inflation in italy”, giornale degli economisti e Annali di economia, 1999, 

58(3-4), 301-328 (with C. morana) 

• “liquidation risks in the rotemberg-saloner implicit collusion model”, economics letters, 

1999, 62, 69-74 (with A. dalmazzo) 

• “measuring monetary policy in VAr models: an evaluation’’, european economic review, 

1998, 42(6), 1069-1112 (with C.A. Favero) 

• “stock returns, the interest rate and inflation in italy: a long-run perspective’’, giornale degli 

economisti e Annali di economia, 1997, 56(3-4), 139-167 (with A. Beltratti) 

• “money demand in a multivariate framework: a system analysis of italian money demand in 

the `80s and early `90s’’, economic notes, 1996, 25(3), 425-464 

• “heterogeneous behavior in exchange rate crises’’, in Jeffrey Frenkel, giampaolo galli and 

Alberto giovannini (a cura di), The microstructure of Foreign exchange markets, national 

Bureau of economic research, university of Chicago Press, Chicago, 1996, 229-253 (with A. 

Beltratti and g. Bertola) 

• “do anticipated tax cuts matter? Further evidence from the united Kingdom’”, research in 

economics, 1994, 48(2), 87-108 

• “money demand instability, expectations and policy regimes. A note on the case of italy 

1964- 1986’’, Journal of Banking and Finance, 1992, 16(2), 331-349 (with C. A. Favero) 

• “Cointegration and simultaneous models. An application to the italian money demand”, in 

m. Bertocchi and l. stefanini (editors), large-scale economic and financial applications: new 

tools and methodologies, Franco Angeli, milano, 1991, 219-235 (with C.A. Favero and V.A. 

muscatelli) 

• “on the role of monetary factors in business cycle models”, recherches economiques de 

louvain/louvain economic review, 1991, 57(1), 3-19 (with g. marini) 

• “structural stability, short-run dynamics and long-run solutions in feedback models. The case 

of the money demand function for italy: 1964-1986”, giornale degli economisti e Annali di 

economia, 1988, 47(11-12), 575-599 (with C.A. Favero) 

books 

• “economia monetaria”, Bologna: il mulino, 2010 (with g. marotta) 

• “models for dynamic macroeconomics”, oxford: oxford university Press, 2007 (with g. Bertola) 

• “metodi dinamici e fenomeni macroeconomici”, Bologna: il mulino, 1999 (with g. Bertola) 

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Address 


Via real Collegio 30 cristian.bartolucci@carloalberto.org 

10024 moncalieri (To), italy sites.google.com/site/cristianbartolucci 

Professional Activities 

2009-current Assistant Professor-Collegio Carlo Alberto 

2009-current research Fellow, Child (Centre for household, income, labour and 

demographic economics) 

Education 

2006-2009 Ph.d. in economics, CemFi, madrid. Thesis supervisor: manuel Arellano. 

2004-2006 m.Phil. in economics, CemFi, madrid. 

1998-2003 B.A. (licenciado) in economics, unT (universidad nacional de Tucumán), 

Argentina 


microeconometrics, labor economics, development economics 

research and Teaching Experience 

2010- (Fall) lecturer, labor economics ii, university of Torino 

2010- (spring) lecturer, econometric Theory ii (microeconometrics), Collegio Carlo Alberto. 

2008 (Fall) Visiting Ph.d. scholar, uCl, london, uK 

2008 (may) guest researcher, FdZ (research data Centre of the german Federal 

employment Agency), nuremberg, germany 

2007 (Fall) Teaching Assistant, microeconometrics (graduate level), CemFi, madrid 

2007 (may) guest researcher, FdZ (research data Centre of the german Federal 

employment Agency), nuremberg 

2007 (spring) research Assistant for Prof. manuel Arellano, CemFi, madrid 

2005 (summer) internship, Bank of spain, madrid 

2003 Teaching Assistant, macroeconomics (undergraduate), unT, Tucumán 

2002 research Assistant, inVeCo (economic research institute), unT, Tucumán 

honours and Scholarships 

2006-2009 CemFi (madrid): graduate studies Fellowship for the Ph.d. program at 

CemFi 

2004-2006 Fundación Carolina (madrid): graduate studies Fellowship for the master 

program at CemFi 

2002-2003 CiunT (Centro de investigaciones de unT, Tucumán), research fellowship 

working Papers 

• “Business Cycles and Wage renegotiation” forthcoming labour economics. 

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• “Credible Threats in a Wage Bargaining model with on-the-job search” forthcoming 

economics letters. 

• “gender Wage gaps reconsidered: A structural Approach using matched employeremployee 

data” (revised and resubmitted to Journal of human resources). 

• “understanding the native-immigrant Wage gap using matched employer-employee 

data: evidence from germany” (revised and resubmitted to industrial and labor relations 

review). 

• “income and democracy: revisiting the evidence” with enrique moral-Benito. (submitted) 

• “Better Workers move to Better Firms: A simple Test to identify sorting” with Franceso 

devicienti. (submitted) 

work in Progress 

• “Who migrates and Why?” with Claudia Villosio and mathis Wagner. 

• “sorting and the hold-up Problem” with ignacio monzón. 

invited Seminars 

eieF (rome, scheduled), CemFi (madrid, 2011), Tinbergen institute (Amsterdam, 2011), Bank 

of spain (madrid, 2011), university of milan-Bicocca (milan, 2011), uCl-CreAm (london, 

2010), university of milan (milan, 2010), Bank of Canada (ottawa, 2009), uppsala university 

(uppsala, 2009), Collegio Carlo Alberto (Torino, 2009), iZA (Bonn, 2009), Bank of italy (rome, 

2009), Paris school of economics (Paris, 2009), Bank of France (Paris, 2009), uQAm (montreal, 

2009), university College london (london, 2008), university of Tucuman (Tucumán, 2008). 

Presentations in Conferences 

Workshop on legal, illegal and criminal migration (Torino, 2012), iZA-sole (munich, 2012), 

sole (Chicago, 2012), spanish economic Association meetings (malaga, 2011), 23th Annual 

meeting of eAle (Pafos, 2011) 65th european meeting of the econometric society (oslo, 2011), 

isnie (stanford, 2011), italian Congress of econometrics and empirical economics (Pisa, 2011), 

spanish economic Association meetings (madrid, 2010), 11th iZA/CerP essle (munich, 2009), 

64th european meeting of the econometric society (Barcelona, 2009), 24th Annual Congress 

of the european economic Association (Barcelona, 2009), Cosme-Workshop (madrid, 2009), 

Workshop on Wages and Firms: new research using linked employer-employee datasets 

(Budapest, 2009), eC-squared conference on “structural microeconometrics” (rome, 2008), 

spanish economic Association meetings (Zaragoza, 2008), 11th iZA-essle (munich, 2008). 

referee 

european economic review, european Journal of Comparative economics, Journal of the 

european economic Association, labour economics, labour, Ciencia hoy. 

languages 

spanish (native), French (fluent), english (fluent), italian (basic). 

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AlFrEDO brAUNSTEiN 

August 2012 

Address 


Via real Collegio 30 alfredo.braunstein@polito.it 

10024 moncalieri (To), italy www.polito.it/cmp/people/ab 

Education 

2004 Ph.d. at scuola internationale superiore di studi Avanzati (sissA), Functional 

Analysis and Applied mathematics department. Thesis title: “survey Propagation”. 

2000-2001 diploma Course “modeling and simulation of Complex realities” at the 

international Centre for Theoretical Physics, Trieste, italy. 

1999 laurea mathematics degree at universidad de Buenos Aires (uBA). 

Former work Experience, Teaching, Fellowships 

2011-2012 Politecnico di Torino. Assistant Professor (ricercatore), disAT. 

2010-2011 human genetics Foundation. senior researcher in the statistical inference and 

computational biology group. 

2010-2011 Collegio Carlo Alberto. Teaching in the Allievi Course introduction to Algorithms 

2009 Politecnico di Torino. Teaching on graph theory and algorithms in the course 

Foundamentals of discrete mathematics. 

2008-2010 Post-doctoral research fellowship (assegno di ricerca) at CmP group, Physics 

department, Politecnico di Torino. 

2006-2007 Post-doctoral research fellowship (eVergroW network) at isi Foundation, Torino. 

2005 Post-doctoral research fellowship (eVergroW network) in the Condense matter 

and statistical Physics section at the international Centre for Theoretical Physics, 

Trieste. 

2002-2003 international Centre for Theoretical Physics, Trieste. Teaching assistant in the course 

Combinatorial optimization and algorithms in the master’s degree programme 

modeling and simulation of complex realities. 

2001-2004 sissA Ph. d. scholarship. 

1998-1999 universidad nacional de general sarmiento, Buenos Aires. Teaching assistant in 

the following courses: matemática i, matemática ii, Álgebra lineal and matemática 

iii. 

1998-1999 universidad de Buenos Aires research scholarship, student category. 

1997-1999 universidad de Buenos Aires, math department. Teaching assistant in the following 

courses: Análisis i (Calculus), Análisis real (lebesgue measure), Cálculo Avanzado 

(metric spaces), Álgebra lineal (linear Algebra). 

refereed Publications on Journals and books 

• “Performance of a cavity-method-based algorithm for the prize-collecting steiner tree problem on 

graphs.” Accepted, Phys. rev. e 2012, With i. Biazzo and r. Zecchina 

• “efficient data compression from statistical physics of codes over finite fields.” Phys. rev. e, 

84:051111, nov 2011. http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/Physreve.84.051111. With F. Kayhan and r. 

Zecchina. 

• “stochastic optimization by message passing.” Journal of statistical mechanics: Theory and 

experiment 2011, P11009. With A. ramezanpour, F. Altarelli and r. Zecchina 

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• “stochastic matching Problem”. Prl 2011;106:190601, with F. Altarelli, A. ramezanpour, r. 

Zecchina. 

• “inference and learning in sparse systems with multiple states”. Phys. rev. e 2011;83:056114. 

With A. ramezanpour, r. Zecchina, P. Zhang 

• “Finding undetected protein associations in cell signaling by belief propagation”. Proceedings 

of the national Academy of sciences, 2010. With m. Bailly-Bechet, C. Borgs, J. Chayes, A. 

dagkessamanskaia, J.m. François and r. Zecchina. 

• “inference of sparse combinatorial-control networks from gene-expression data: a message 

passing approach”. BmC Bioinformatics, 11(1):355, 2010. http://www.biomedcentral. 

com/1471-2105/11/355. With marc Bailly-Bechet, Andrea Pagnani, martin Weigt and 

riccardo Zecchina. 

• “Aligning graphs and finding substructures by a cavity approach”. ePl (europhysics letters), 

89(3): 37009, 2010. With s. Bradde, h. mahmoudi, F. Tria, m. Weigt and r. Zecchina. 

• “Clustering with shallow trees”. Journal of statistical mechanics: Theory and experiment, 

page 17pp, 2009. With m. Bailly-Bechet, s. Bradde, A. Flaxman, l. Foini and r. Zecchina. 

• “statistical mechanics of budget-constrained auctions”. Journal of statistical mechanics: 

Theory and experiment, 2009(07):P07002 (27pp), 2009. With F. Altarelli, J. realpe-gomez and r. 

Zecchina. 

• “estimating the size of the solution space of metabolic networks”. BmC Bioinformatics, 

9(1):240, 2008. With r. mulet and A. Pagnani. 

• “inference algorithms for gene networks: a statistical mechanics analysis”. Journal of statistical 

mechanics: Theory and experiment, 2008(12):P12001, 2008. With A. Pagnani, m. Weigt and r. 

Zecchina. 

• “A rigorous analysis of the cavity equations for the minimum spanning tree”. Journal of 

mathematical Physics, 49(12):125206, 2008. With m. Bayati and r. Zecchina. 

• “statistical mechanics of steiner trees”. Physical review letters, 101(3):37208, 2008. With m. 

Bayati, C. Borgs, J. Chayes, A. ramezanpour and r. Zecchina. 

• “efficient supervised learning in networks with binary synapses”. Proceedings of the national 

Academy of sciences, 104(26):11079-11084, 2007. With C. Baldassi, n. Brunel and r. 

Zecchina. 

• “learning by message-passing in networks of discrete synapses”. Prl 96:030201, 2006. With r. 

Zecchina. 

• “Constraint satisfaction by survey propagation”. Computational Complexity and statistical 

Physics, Volume 9, page 424. oxford university Press, 2005. With m. mézard, m. Weigt and r. 

Zecchina. 

• “source coding by efficient selection of ground-state clusters”. Phys rev e. stat nonlin soft 

matter Phys, 72:015103, 2005. With d. Battaglia, J. Chavas and r. Zecchina. 

• “survey propagation: an algorithm for satisfiability. random structures and Algorithms”, 

27:201-226, 2005. With m. mézard and r. Zecchina. 

• “survey and belief propagation on random k-sat”. lecture notes in Computer science, 

2919:519-528, 2004. With r. Zecchina. 

• “survey propagation as local equilibrium equations”. Journal of statistical mechanics: Theory 

and experiment, 6:P06007, 2004. With r. Zecchina. 

• “Polynomial iterative algorithms for coloring and analyzing random graphs”. Phys. rev. e, 

68:036702, 2003. With r. mulet, A. Pagnani, m. Weigt and r. Zecchina. 

• “Complexity transitions in global algorithms for sparse linear systems over finite fields”. 

Journal of Physics A mathematical and general, 35(35):7559-7574, 2002. With m. leone, F. 

ricci-Tersenghi and r. Zecchina. 

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PiErPAOlO DE blASi 

July 2012 

Address 


Via real Collegio 30 pierpaolo.deblasi@unito.it 

10024 moncalieri (To) sites.google.com/a/carloalberto.org/pdeblasi 

Education 

2002 laurea in economics, Bocconi university, milan 

2006 Ph.d. in statistics, Bocconi university, milan 


2010-current Assistant Professor of statistics, university of Torino. 

2010-current Carlo Alberto Affiliate, Collegio Carlo Alberto 

2007-2010 mathematics and statistics instructor, Allievi Program, Collegio Carlo Alberto 

2006-2009 Post-doctoral Fellow in statistics, university of Torino, department of statistics 

and Applied mathematics 

2005-2006 Post-doctoral Fellow in statistics, university of oslo, department of Biology 

Awards 

2011 Visiting Fellow of the research Programme week on Bayesian nonparametrics, 

Veracruz, mexico, July 2011 

2009 Visiting Fellow of the Carlo Alberto research Programme in Bayesian 

nonparametrics, Collegio Carlo Alberto, moncalieri, June-July 2009 

2007 Visiting Fellow of the isaac newton institute, Cambridge, uK, July-August 2007 

2006 honourable mention, leonard J. savage Award for outstanding doctoral 

dissertation 

2006 laha Award 2007, institute of mathematical statistics 

Papers 

• de Blasi, P., Walker, s.g. (2012). “Bayesian asymptotics with misspecified models”. satistica 

sinica, in press. 

• de Blasi, P., James, l.F. and lau, J.W. (2010), “Bayesian nonparametric estimation and 

consistency of mixed multinomial logit choice models”, Bernoulli, 16, 679-704. 

• de Blasi, P., Favaro, s. and muliere, P. (2010), “A class of neutral to the right priors induced by 

superposition of beta processes”, Journal of statistical Planning and inference 140, 1563-1575. 

• de Blasi, P., Peccati, g. and Prünster, i. (2009), “Asymptotics for posterior hazards”. The 

Annals of statistics 37, 1906-1945 

• de Blasi, P. and hjort, n.l. (2009), “The Bernstein-von mises theorem in semiparametric 

competing risks models”. Journal of statistical Planning and inference 139, 2316-2328. 

• de Blasi, P. and hjort, n.l. (2007), “Bayesian survival analysis in proportional hazard models 

with logistic relative risk”. scandinavian Journal of statistics 34, 229-257. 

• de Blasi, P. (2007), “simulation of the beta-stacy process with application to analysis of 

censored data”. encyclopedia of statistics in Quality and reliability, F. ruggeri, r.s. Kennet 

and F. Faltin (ed). John Wiley & sons ltd., Chichester, uK, pp. 1814-1819. 

Conference Proceedings and Other Publications 

• nardone, r., de Blasi, P., Zuccoli, g., Tezzon, F., golaszewski, s., Trinka, e. (2012). “Transient 

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beneficial effects of theta burst stimulation in a patient with phonological agraphia after 

left supramarginal gyrus infarction”. Brain and language 120, 422-426. 

• nardone, r., de Blasi, P., seidl, m., Caleri, F., lochner, P., Tezzon, F., ladurner, g., golaszewski, 

s., Trinka, e. (2011). “Cognitive function and cholinergic transmission in patients with 

subcortical vascular dementia and microbleeds: a Tms study”. Journal of neural 

Transmission 118(9), 1349-1358. 

• nardone, r., de Blasi, P., Bergmann, J., Caleri, F., Tezzon, F., ladurner, g., golaszewski, s., 

Trinka, e. (2011). “Theta burst stimulation of dorsolateral prefontal cortex modulates 

pathological language switching: A case report”. neuroscience letters 487, 378-382. 

• nardone, r., Bergmann, J., Kronbichler, m., de Blasi, P., lochner, P., Caleri, F., Tezzon, F., 

ladurner, g., golaszewski, s. (2010). “Cholinergic dysfunction and amnesia in patients with 

Wernicke-Korsakoff syndrome: a Tms study”. Journal of neural Transmission 117, 385- 

391. 

• nardone, r., Bergmann, J., Kronbichler, m., de Blasi, P., Caleri, F., Tezzon, F., ladurner, g., 

golaszewski, s. (2010). “Functional involvement of the cerebral cortex following paramedian 

bithalamic infarction”. neurocase, 16, 286-292. 

invited talks at conferences 

isBA regional meeting 2012, Varanasi, india (January 2013); Workshop on Bayesian 

nonparametrics, iCerm, Brown university, Providence usA (september 2012); isBA 2012 

World meeting, Kyoto, Japan (June 2012); 1st Conference of the international society for 

nonparametric statistics, Chalkidiki, grecia (June 2012); 58th isi World statistics Congress, 

dublin, ireland (August 2011); erCim’10, university of london (2010); 2010 Joint statistical 

meeting, Vancouver (2010); s.Co. 2009, Politecnico di milano (2009); 27th ems, university 

of Toulouse (2009) [contributed]; 7th Workshop on Bayesian nonparametrics, Collegio Carlo 

Alberto (2009); Workshop on random measures an Bayesian nonparametrics, university of 

Paris ouest (2008); isBA 2008 World meeting, hamilton island, Australia (2008) [contributed], 

12th young statisticians meeting, Piran, slovenia (2007); Workshop on Construction and 

Properties of Bayesian nonparametric regression models, Cambrdige, uK (2007); Joint 

statistical meetings 2007, salt lake City, utah us (2007); 5th BisP Workshop, Valencia, spain 

(2007); iX symposium on Probability and stochastic Processes, guanajato, mexico (2006); 

13th eysm, debrecen, hungary (2005); 5th Workshop on Bayesian nonparametrics, Jeju, 

south Korea (2006) [discussant]. 

Seminars 

luiss guido Carli, roma (2008) ; università dell’insubria, Varese, (2008); hong Kong university 

of science and Technology, hK (2007); isaac newton institute, Cambridge, uK (2007), Bocconi 

university, milano (2007); unAm, méxico City, mexico (2006) ; mrC Biostatistic unit, 

Cambridge, uK (2006) ; Politecnico di Torino (2006) ; duke university, north Carolina, us 

(2005); university of oslo, norway (2004). 

Editorial Activity 

reviewer for: Annals of statistics, Asia Pacific management review, Bernoulli, Biometrika, 

electronic Journal of statistics, Journal of the American statistical Association, Journal of 

Applied statistics, mediterranean Journal of mathematics, Quality Technology & Quantitative 

management, scandinavian Journal of statistics, statistics and Probability letters. 

Scientific Societies membership 

società italiana di statistica (sis), institute of mathematical statistics (ims), international 

society for Bayesian Analysis (isBA). 

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STEFANO FAVArO 

July 2012 

Address 


Via real Collegio 30 stefano.favaro@unito.it 

10024 moncalieri (To), italy web.econ.unito.it/favaro 

Education 

2009 Ph.d. in statistics, Bocconi university, milano, italy. 

2003 laurea in statistics, university “Ca’ Foscari”, Venezia, italy. 


2010-current Affiliate at Collegio Carlo Alberto, moncalieri, Torino. 

2008-current Assistant Professor of statistics, department of statistics and Applied 

mathematics, university of Torino, italy. 


Bayesian nonparametric statistics; random probability measures; combinatorial stochastic 

processes with application in biological sciences; markov chains on graphs; functionals of random 

probability measures; stochastic equations and perpetuities. 

Publications in refereed Journals 

• “A new estimator of the discovery probability”, with A. lijoi and i. Prünster. Biometrics, 2012. To appear. 

• “on the stick-breaking representation of normalized inverse gaussian priors”, with A. lijoi and 

i. Prünster. Biometrika, 2012. To appear. 

• “slice sampling sigma-stable Poisson-Kingman mixture models”, with s.g. Walker. Journal of 

Computational and graphical statistics, 2012. To appear. 

• “Conditional formulae for gibbs-type exchangeable random partitions”, with A. lijoi and i. 

Prünster. The Annals of Applied Probability, 2012. To appear. 

• “Asymtotics for a Bayesian nonparametric estimator of species richness”, with A. lijoi and i. 

Prünster. Bernoulli, 2012. To appear. 

• “A class of normalized random measures with an exact predictive sampling scheme”, with l. 

Trippa. scandinavian Journal of statistics, 2012. To appear. 

• “Alpha-diversity processes and normalized inverse gaussian diffusion”, with m. ruggiero and 

s.g. Walker. The Annals of Applied Probability, 2012. To appear. 

• “A class of measure-valued markov chains and Bayesian nonparametrics”, with A. guglielmi and 

s.g. Walker. Bernoulli, 2012. Vol. 18, pp. 1002-1030. 

• “on a generalized Chu-Vandermonde identity”, with i. Prünster and s.g. Walker. methodology 

and Computing in Applied Probability, 2012. Vol. 14, pp. 253-262. 

• “on a class of distributions on the simplex”, with g. hadjicharalambous and i. Prünster. Journal 

of statistical Planning and inference, 2011. Vol. 141, pp. 2987-3004. 

• “on a class of random probability measures with a general predictive structure”, with i. Prünster 

and s.g. Walker. scandinavian Journal of statistics. Vol. 38, pp. 359-376. 

• “A class of neutral to the right priors induced by superposition of beta processes”, with P. de Blasi 

and P. muliere. Journal of statistical Planning and inference, 2010. Vol. 140, pp. 1563-1575. 

• “on the distribution of sums of exponential random variables via Wilk’s integral representation”, 

with s.g. Walker. Acta Applicandae mathematicae, 2010. Vol. 109, pp 1035-1042. 

• “Bayesian nonparametric inference for species variety with a two parameter Poisson-dirichlet 

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process prior”, with A. lijoi, r.h. mena and i. Prünster. Journal of the royal statistical society B, 

2009. Vol. 171, pp. 993-1008. 

• “A gibbs-sampler based random process in Bayesian nonparametrics”, with m. ruggiero and 

s.g. Walker. electronic Journal of statistics, 2009. Vol. 3, pp. 1557-1567. 

• “A generalized constructive definition for the dirichlet process”, with s.g. Walker. statistics and 

Probability letters, 2008. Vol. 78, pp. 2836-2838. 

Conference Proceedings and Other Publications 

• “on some issues related to species sampling problems”, with A. lijoi, r.h. mena and i. Prünster. 

in Proceedings of the 7th Conference of statistical Computing and Complex systems-sCo 20 1. 

• “superposition of beta processes”, with P. de Blasi and P. muliere. in Proceedings of the 6th 

Conference of statistical Computing and Complex systems-sCo 2009. 

• “Contributions to the dirichlet process and related classes of random probability measures”. 

Ph.d. Thesis, department of decision sciences, Bocconi university. 

• “genetic approaches for data clustering”, with s. Paterlini and T. minerva. Proceedings of the 

3rd scientific meeting of the Classification and data Analysis group- ClAdAg 2001. 

Preprints 

• “reinforced urn processes indexed by the vertices of a recombinat binary tree”, with d. Ait 

Aoudia and P. muliere, 2010. 

• “mCmC for normalized random measure mixture models”, with y.W. Teh, 2012. 

• “Bayesian nonparametric analysis of reversible markov chains”, with s. Baccalado and l. Trippa, 2012. 


reviewer for: Journal of nonparametric statistics, Canadian Journal of statistics, Bayesian Analysis, 

scandinavian Journal of statistics, Computational statistics and data Analysis, electronic Journal 

of statistics. 

invited talks and conferences 

international society of Bayesian Analysis World meeting (invited speaker), Kyoto, Japan, 2012; 1st 

Conference of the international society for nonparametric statistics (invited speaker), Chalkidiki, 

greece, 2012; 9th international Conference on Computational management science (invited 

speaker), london, united Kingdom, 2012; 4th international Conference on Computing and statistics 

(invited speaker), london, united Kingdom, 2011; 7th Conference on statistical Computation and 

Complex systems (invited speaker), Padova, italy, 2011; XiX Conference of unione matematica 

italiana (contributed talk), Bologna, italy, 2011; 8th Workshop on Bayesian nonparametrics (invited 

speaker), Veracruz, mexico, 2011; department of mathematics, university of Pavia (invited seminar), 

italy, 2010; 3rd international Conference on Computing and statistics (invited speaker), london, 

united Kingdom, 2010; department of statistics, university Ca’ Foscari (invited speaker), Venezia, 

italy, 2010; 27th european meeting of statisticians (contributed talk), Toulose, France, 2009; 6th 

Workshop on Bayesian inference in stochastic Processes (invited speaker), Bressanone, italy, 

2009; statistcal laboratory, university of Cambridge (invited seminar), united Kingdom, 2008; 

department of mathematics, imperial College (invited seminar), united Kingdom, 2008. 

Teaching Activity 

Academic year 2010-2011 and 2011-2012: numerical and statistical methods for Finance, Faculty 

of economics, university of Torino, italy; Quantitative methods for economics, Faculty of economics, 

university of Torino, italy. 

Academic year 2009-2010: mathematics for Finance, Faculty of economics, university of Torino, 

italy; Quantitative methods for economics, Faculty of economics, university of Torino, italy. 

Academic year 2008-2009: stochastic processes, Phd Program in statistics and Applied 

mathematics, doctoral school of economics “V. Pareto”, university of Torino, italy 

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FEDEriCA gAi 

July 2012 

Address 


Via real Collegio 30 

10024 moncalieri (To), italy 

Phone +39 011 6705200 

email federica.gai@carloalberto.org 

Website www.carloalberto.org/people/staff/secretariat/gai 

Education 

1997 Professional institute “Valentino Bosso”, Torino. 

high school diploma specialization “Tourism.” 

work Experience 

2009-current Collegio Carlo Alberto 

Assistant responsible for educational Programs (master and Allievi Program) 

organizational secretariat for master and Allievi program 

Teaching organization, support material and equipment for courses 

Collaboration with competent offices at the university of Torino 

interpersonal relationships with university professors and students 

1998-2009 CoriPe Piedmont 

Assistant responsible for educational Programs (master) 

organizational secretariat for master program 

Teaching organization, support material and equipment for courses 

Collaboration with competent offices at the university of Torino 

interpersonal relationships with university professors and students 

languages 

• english: good both written and spoken. 

Courses attended: 2000-2001, 2000-2002: shenker institute 

• iTAliAn: mother tongue 

it Skills 

• operating systems: Windows, linux 

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• software packages: microsoft Word, microsoft excel, microsoft Power Point 

• databasea: File maker Pro 

• internet: 

Browser: internet explorer, mozilla Firefox, google Chrome 

email: eudora, mozilla Thunderbird, outlook express 

hobbies 

• reading, cinema, sport, travelling 

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ANDrEA gAlliCE 

August 2012 

Address 


Via real Collegio 30 andrea.gallice@carloalberto.org 

10024 moncalieri (To), italy www.andreagallice.eu 

Education 

2007 Phd in economics, european university institute 

2002 msc in economics, university College of london 

2001 laurea in economics, university of Torino 

Professional activities 

2010-current Assistant Professor of economics, departmet of economics and statistics, 

university of Torino 


research fields 

industrial organization, Auction Theory, game Theory. 

Publications in refereed journals 

• “The neglected effects of demand Characteristics on the sustainability of Collusion”, 

research in economics, Vol. 64 (4), pp. 240-246, 2010. 

• “education, dynamic signalling and social distance”, oxford economic Papers, Vol. 61 (2), 

pp. 304-326, 2009. 

• “Best responding to What? A Behavioural Approach to one shot Play in 2x2 games”, in A. 

innocenti and P. sbriglia (eds.), games, rationality and Behaviour. essays on Behavioural 

game Theory and experiments, Palgrave mcmillan, ny, pp. 184-203, 2008. 

• “some equivalence results between mixed strategy nash equilibria and minimax regret in 

2x2 games”, economics Bulletin, Vol. 3 (29), pp. 1-8, 2007. 

• “un Bilancio dell’esperienza umTs in europa: fu Collusione?”, mercato Concorrenza regole, 

Vol. 2, pp. 309-327, 2002. 

working papers 

• “strategic announcements of reference points in disputes and litigations”, dept. of 

economics and statistics, working paper n. 3, 2012. 

• “self-serving Biased reference Points”, Carlo Alberto notebooks, n. 223. 

• “Price reveal Auctions on the internet”, Carlo Alberto notebooks, n. 147. 

• “lowest unique Bid Auctions with signals”, Carlo Alberto notebooks, n. 112. 

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• “some social Welfare implications of Behavioral Preferences”, CePr discussion Papers, n. 

6572. 

• “Preempting versus Postponing: the stealing game”, iCer working papers, n. 2/08. 

Teaching experience 

• general equilibrium Theory (master & Ph.d.), Collegio Carlo Alberto and university of 

Torino, 2012. 

• microeconomics (undergraduate), university of Torino, 2011 & 2012. 

• microeconomics (Ph.d.), university of Torino, 2010 & 2011. 

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PiETrO gAribAlDi 

April 2012 

Address 


Via real Collegio 30 pietro.garibaldi@carloalberto.org 

10024 moncalieri (To), italy sites.carloalberto.org/garibaldi 

Education 

1996 Ph.d. in economics, london school of economics 

1993 master of science in economics, london school of economics 

1992 laurea in economics, university of Torino (110/110 cum laude, honors and distinction) 

Present Position 

2006-current director, Collegio Carlo Alberto, moncalieri (italy) 

2005-current Professor, department of economics and Public Finance, university of Torino 

Other Affiliations 

Fellow, Collegio Carlo Alberto, moncalieri (italy) (2006-current); research Fellow, Centre for 

economic Policy research (CePr) (2002-current); research Fellow, institute for the study of labor 

(iZA) (2002-current); head of labor studies, Fondazione rodolfo debenedetti, milano (2000current); 

research Fellow, innocenzo gasparini institute for economic research, milano (2000current) 

Previous Academic Activities 

2004 Visiting scholar, Faculty of economics and Politics, Cambridge university 

2003-2004 Visiting Professor, ecares, universitè libre de Bruxelles 

2000-2004 Associate Professor, department of economics, università Bocconi, milano 

1999-2000 Assistant Professor, department of economics, università Bocconi, milano 

Expert/Policy Positions 

2007-current supervisory Board and Audit Committee member, intesasanPaolo 

2004-2005 economic Counselor to the italian minister of Finance 

2000-2006 Visiting scholar, research department, international monetary Fund (3 visits) 

1998-1999 economist in the research department, international monetary Fund 

1996-1998 economist Program, international monetary Fund 

Published Articles 

• “Workers and Firms sorting into Temporary Jobs”, (2012) economic Journal, with Fabio Berton. 

Forthcoming. 

• “Behind the lighthouse effect”, (2011) review of income and Wealth, with Tito Boeri, review of 

income and Wealth, Vol. 57, pp. s54-s78, 2011. 

• “College Cost and Time to Complete a degree: evidence from Tuition discontinuities” (2011) 

review of economics and statistics, with Andrea ichino, Francesco giavazzi and enrico rettore, 

posted on line April 2011. 

• “Job to Job movements in a simple search model.” American economic review, 100(2): 343-47 

(may 2010), with espen r. moen. 

• “Beyond eurosclerosis”. economic Policy Vol. 25 issue 52 (2009), 409-461, with Tito Boeri. 

• “do larger severance Payments increase individual Job duration?” 2008, labour economics, 15, 

no. 2 (2008): 215-245 with lia Pacelli. 

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• “Two Tier reforms of employment Protection legislation. A honeymoon effect?” economic 

Journal (June 2007): F357-F385, with Tito Boeri. 

• “Are labor markets in new member states sufficiently Flexible for emu? Journal of Banking and 

Finance 30 (2006): 1393-1407, with Tito Boeri. 

• “shadow sorting.” in nBer international seminar on macroeconomics series, edited by J. Frenkel 

and C. Pissarides. Cambridge, mass: miT Press (2005), with Tito Boeri. 

• “The employment effects of severance Payments with Wage rigidities.” economic Journal 115 

(2005): 799-832, with gianluca Violante. 

• “gross Credit Flows.” review of economic studies 72, no. 3 (2005): 665-685, with giovanni 

dell’Ariccia. 

• “equilibrium search unemployment, endogenous Participation and labor market Flows.” Journal of the 

european economic Association 3, no. 4 (2005): 851-882, with etienne Wasmer. 

• “raising Female employment: reflections and Policy Tools.” Journal of the european economic 

Association 2, no. 2 (2004): 320-330, with etienne Wasmer. 

• “search unemployment with Advance notice.” macroeconomic dynamics 8, no. 1 (2004): 51-75. 

• “employment Protection legislation and the size of Firms.” giornale degli economisti e Annali 

di economia (2004), with lia Pacelli and Andrea Borgarello. 

• “Anatomy of employment growth.” economic Policy 34 (2002), with Paolo mauro. 

• “What moves Capital to Transition economy?” imF staff Papers (2002), Vol. 48, pp. 109-145, 

with nada mora, ratna sahay, and Jeromin Zettlemeyer. 

• “Wages and the size of Firms in dynamic matching models.” review of economic dynamics 4 

(2001): 335-368, with giuseppe Bertola. 

• “Job Flows and Cross-sectional Firm dynamics: Traditional measures and Alternative econometric 

Techniques.” labour economics (2000). 

• “Job Flow dynamics and Firing restrictions.” european economic review 42, no. 2 (1998): 245-75. 

• “labor market institutions and unemployment dynamics in Transition economies.” imF staff 

Papers (1998), Vol. 45, pp. 269-308, with Zuzana Brixiova. 

• “The Asymmetric effects of monetary Policy on Job Creation and destruction.” imF staff Papers 

(1997), Vol. 44, pp. 557-87. 

books 

• “riforme a Costo Zero”, Chiarelettere, with Tito Boeri, 2011. 

• “health Ageing and Productivity” (Pietro garibaldi, olivier Joaquim oliveira and Jan Van ours, 

eds) forthcoming, oxford: oxford university Press, 2010. 

• “un nuovo Contratto per Tutti”, Chiarelettere with Tito Boeri, 2008. 

• “education and Training in europe” (giorgio Brunello, Pietro garibaldi, and etienne Wasmer, 

eds). oxford: oxford university Press, 2007. 

• “Personnel economics in imperfect labor markets”. oxford: oxford university Press, 2006. 

• “economia delle risorse umane”. Bologna: il mulino, 2005. 

• “The information economy: Productivity gains and the digital divide”, edited by daniel Cohen, 

Pietro garibaldi, and stefano scarpetta. oxford: oxford university Press, 2004. 

referee Activity 

• referee for: American economic review, economic Journal, european economic review, imF 

staff Papers, Journal of economic dynamic and Control, Journal of the european economic 

Association, labour, oxford Bulletin for economic and statistics, Quarterly Journal of economics, 

review of economic dynamic, review of economic studies. 

Columnist/Editorials 

• 2002-current editor (and founder) of www.lavoce.info 

• 2007-2010 Columnist for la stampa 

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DiNO gErArDi 

July 2012 

Address 


Via real Collegio 30 dino.gerardi@carloalberto.org 

10024 moncalieri (Torino) sites.carloalberto.org/gerardi 

Education 

2001 northwestern university, Ph.d. (economics). 

dissertation Title: “strategic decision-making and information Transmission.” 

dissertation Committee: Asher Wolinsky (Chair), david Austen-smith, Timothy 

Feddersen and roger myerson. 

1995 università luigi Bocconi, m.A., summa cum laude (economics). 

1994 università luigi Bocconi, B.A., summa cum laude (economics). 

Employment and Affiliations 

2010-current Carlo Alberto Chair in economic organization and scientific innovation, 

Collegio Carlo Alberto. 

2006-2010 Associate Professor of economics, yale university. 

2001-2006 Assistant Professor of economics, yale university. 

2001-2010 Cowles Foundation for research in economics. 

Awards and Fellowships 

• n.s.F. grant “social memory: A game Theoretic Approach,” 2006-2008. 

• yale university Junior Faculty Fellowship, 2003. 

• review of economic studies european Tour, 2001. 

• northwestern university dissertation year Fellowship, 2000-2001. 

• dissertation research support, Center for the study of industrial organization, 

northwestern university, 2000. 

research Papers 

A. Published Articles 

• “A Principal-Agent model of sequential Testing,” (with lucas maestri), forthcoming in 

Theoretical economics. 

• “Communication and learning,” (with luca Anderlini and roger lagunoff), review of 

economic studies, 2012, 79, 419-450. 

• “social memory, evidence, and Conflict” (with luca Anderlini and roger lagunoff), review 

of economic dynamics, 2010, 13, 559-574. 

• “Aggregation of expert opinions,” (with richard mclean and Andrew Postlewaite), games 

and economic Behavior, 2009, 65, 339-371. 

• “Costly expertise,” (with leeat yariv), American economic review Papers and Proceedings, 

2008, 98(2), 187-193. 

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• “A ‘super’ Folk Theorem for dynastic repeated games,” (with luca Anderlini and roger 

lagunoff), economic Theory, 2008, 37, 357-394. 

• “information Acquisition in Committees,” (with leeat yariv), games and economic Behavior, 

2008, 62, 436-459. 

• “deliberative Voting,” (with leeat yariv), Journal of economic Theory, 2007, 134, 317-338. 

• “sequential equilibria in games with Communication,” (with roger myerson), games and 

economic Behavior, 2007, 60, 104-134. 

• “unmediated Communication in games with Complete and incomplete information,” 

Journal of economic Theory, 2004, 114, 104-131. 

• “Communication and Voting with double-sided information,” (with ulrich doraszelski and 

Francesco squintani), Contributions to Theoretical economics, 2003, 3. 

• “Jury Verdicts and Preference diversity,” American Political science review, 2000, 94, 395-406. 

b. Papers under review 

• “The role of Commitment in Bilateral Trade,” (with Johannes hörner and lucas maestri). 

• “A Principal-Agent model of sequential Testing,” (with lucas maestri), Cowles Foundation, 

2008, discussion Paper number 1680. 

• “get out the (Costly) Vote: institutional design for greater Participation,” (with margaret 

mcConnell, Julian romero and leeat yariv). 

referee Service 

American economic review, American Journal of Political science, American Political 

science review, B.e. Journals in Theoretical economics, economic Journal, economic 

Theory, econometrica, games and economic Behavior, international economic review, 

international Journal of game Theory, Journal of economic Theory, Journal of economics & 

management strategy, Journal of Political economy, Journal of Public economics, national 

science Foundation, rand Journal of economics, social Choice, review of economic studies, 

Theoretical economics. 

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EDOArDO grillO 

June 2012 

Address 


Via real Collegio 30 edoardo.grillo@carloalberto.org 

10024 moncalieri (To), italy sites.carloalberto.org/grillo 

Education 

2012 Ph.d. in economics, Princeton university, Princeton, nJ, usA. 

2009 m.A. in economics, Princeton university, Princeton, nJ, usA. 

2006 m.sc. in economics and social sciences, Bocconi university, milan, italy. 

2004 B.A. in economics and social sciences, Bocconi university, milan, italy. 

Academic Position 

2012-Present: Foscolo europe Fellow, unicredit & universities Foundation at Collegio Carlo 

Alberto, moncalieri, italy. 

Areas Of interest 

game Theory, Political economy, Behavioral economics, mechanism design, Financial 

economics. 

Published Papers 

• “interactive epistemology and solution Concepts for games with Asymmetric information,” 

The B.e. Journal of Theoretical economics, Berkeley electronic Press, 11(1) Advances, page 

6, joint with P. Battigalli, A. di Tillio and A. Penta. 


• “reference dependence, risky Projects and Credible information Transmission”, 2011. 

• “electoral speeches and reference dependence: Can Politicians’ Announcements be 

Credible?”, 2011. 

• “irrationality and War” joint with A. Acharya, 2011. 


2012 Collegio Carlo Alberto, exeter Business school, mcgill university, Paris heC, 

universitat Pompeu Fabra. 

2011 Princeton university. 

Fellowships And Awards 

2012-present Foscolo europe Fellowship, unicredit & universities Foundation. 

2007-2012 Princeton university graduate school Fellowship. 

2004-2006 Bocconi university graduate merit Award. 

refereeing Activity 

econometrica, games and economic Behavior, Journal of economic Theory. 

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Teaching Experience 

graduate 

2010-2012 Phd microeconomics, Teaching Assistant, Princeton university, usA. 

2007 msc game Theory, Teaching Assistant, Bocconi university, italy. 

Undergraduate 

2009-2012 Junior Thesis, Assistant Advisor, Princeton university, usA. 

2007 microeconomics, Teaching Assistant, Bocconi university, italy. 

Non-Academic Professional Experience 

2005 intern, european investment Bank, directorate of Financial engineering and 

Advisory services, luxembourg, summer 2005. 

languages 

italian: mother Tongue 

english: Fluent 

german: Beginner 

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TOOMAS hiNNOSAAr 

June 2012 

Address 


Via real Collegio 30 toomas.hinnosaar@carloalberto.org 

10024 moncalieri (To), italy http://toomas.hinnosaar.net 

research Fields 

microeconomic theory: mechanism design, networks, applied microeconomics 

Academic Positions 

sept 2012-present : Assistant Professor, Collegio Carlo Alberto, italy 

Education 

2012 Ph.d., economics, northwestern university, evanston, il 

Committee Chairperson: Professor Jeffrey ely 

2009 m.A.: economics, northwestern university, evanston, il 

2002 m.A.: economics, university of Tartu, estonia 

2001 B.A.: economics, university of Tartu, estonia 


• “Calendar mechanisms”, 2012 

• “Penny auctions are unpredictable”, 2010 

• “overbooking” with Jeffrey ely and daniel garret (in progress) 

• “strategic linking” with marit hinnosaar (in progress) 

• “Authority Bias” with marit hinnosaar (in progress) 

Fellowships And Awards 

2006-2012 Fellowship, northwestern university 

2009-2010 robert eisner memorial Fellowship (joint with daniel garrett) 

2003 Award by Bank of estonia in memoriam of urmas sepp (for m.A. thesis) 


2007-2010 Teaching Assistant, northwestern university 

microeconomics, introduction to macroeconomics (undergraduate), 

mathematical methods (graduate) 

2001-2005 Teaching Assistant, university of Tartu 

international Finance, introduction to economics, Public Finance, 

Principles of mathematical economics, system Analysis and design 

2002-2006 lecturer, university of Tartu 

Advanced macroeconomics, Advanced microeconomics, mathematical 

methods in economics, specialized course in economic Theory, economics of 

information goods 

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research Experience 

Fall 2009, summer 2011 research Assistant, Center of economic Theory 

Fall 2008, summer 2011 research Assistant to Professor eddie dekel 

Winter 2011 research Assistant to Professor Todd sarver 

summer 2008, spring 2009 research Assistant to Professor Jeffrey C. ely 

referee Activity 

games and economic Behavior, Theoretical economics, management science, Journal of 

economics & management strategy, Quantitative economics, review of economic studies 

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ANTONiO liJOi 

July 2012 

Address 

university of Pavia +39 0382 986220 

Via san Felice, 5 lijoi@unipv.it 

27100 Pavia, italy economia.unipv.it/alijoi 

Education 

1999 Ph.d. in statistics at the university of Trento (italy) 

1994 laurea in economics, university “l. Bocconi”, milano 


2012-current Professor, university of Pavia, department of economics and Business 

2010-current research Affiliate, “de Castro” statistics initiative, Collegio Carlo Alberto 

2005-current research Fellow, institute of Applied mathematics and information Technology, 

national research Council (imATi-Cnr) 

2006-2011 Associate Professor, university of Pavia, department of economics and Quantitative 

methods 

1999-2006 Assistant Professor, university of Pavia, department of economics and Quantitative methods 

honors and Awards 

2009 Visiting Fellow, Collegio Carlo Alberto 

2007 Visiting Fellow, isaac newton institute of mathematical sciences, Cambridge, u.K. 

Editorial activity 

2010-current Associate editor of statistical methods and Applications 

2006-2009 Associate editor of the international Journal of statistics and management 

systems 


• Favaro, s., lijoi, A. and Prünster, i. (2012). “A new estimator of the discovery probability”. 

Biometrics, to appear. 

• Favaro, s., lijoi, A. and Prünster, i. (2012). “on the stick-breaking representation of normalized 

inverse gaussian priors”. Biometrika, to appear. 

• Favaro, s., lijoi, A. and Prünster, i. (2012). “Conditional formulae for gibbs-type exchangeable 

random partitions”. The Annals of Applied Probability, to appear. 

• Favaro, s., lijoi, A. and Prünster, i. (2012). “Asymptotics for a Bayesian nonparametric estimator 

of species richness”. Bernoulli, to appear. 

• lijoi, A. and Prünster, i. (2011). “A conversation with eugenio regazzini”. statistical science 26, 647-672. 

• leisen, F. lijoi, A. and Paroissin, C. (2011). “limiting behaviour of the search cost distribution for 

the move-to-front rule in the stable case”. statistics & Probability letters, 81, 1827-1832. 

• leisen, F. and lijoi, A. (2011). “Vectors of two-parameter Poisson-dirichlet processes”. Journal of 

multivariate Analysis, 102, 482-496. 

• epifani, i. and lijoi, A. (2010). “nonparametric priors for vectors of survival functions”. statistica 

sinica, 20, 1455-1484. 

• James, l.F., lijoi, A. and Prünster, i. (2010). “on the distribution of means of nonparametric prior 

processes”. Bernoulli, 16, 155-180. 

• lijoi, A. and Prünster, i. (2009). “distributional properties of means of random probability 

measures”. statistics surveys, 3, 47-95. 

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• Favaro, s., mena, r., lijoi, A. and Prünster, i. (2009). “on Bayesian nonparametric inference in 

species sampling models”. Journal of the royal statistical society, series B, 71, 993-1008. 

• James, l.F., lijoi, A. and Prünster, i. (2009). “Posterior analysis for normalized random measures 

with independent increments”. scandinavian Journal of statistics, 36, 76-97. 

• James, l.F., lijoi, A. and Prünster, i. (2008). “distributions of linear functionals of two parameter 

Poisson-dirichlet random measures”. The Annals of Applied Probability, 18, 521-551. 

• lijoi, A., Prünster, i. and Walker, s.g. (2008). “Bayesian nonparametric estimators derived from 

conditional gibbs structures”. The Annals of Applied Probability, 18, 1519-1547. 

• lijoi, A., mena, h. and Prünster, i. (2008). “A Bayesian nonparametric approach for comparing 

clustering structures in esT libraries”. Journal of Computational Biology, 15, 1315-1327. 

• lijoi, A., Prünster, i. and Walker, s.g. (2008). “investigating nonparametric priors with gibbs 

structure”. statistica sinica, 18, 1653-1668. 

• lijoi, A., Prünster, i. and Walker, s.g. (2008). “Posterior analysis for some classes of nonparametric 

models”. Journal of nonparametric statistics, 20, 447-457. 

• lijoi, A., mena, h. and Prünster, i. (2007). “Controlling the reinforcement in Bayesian 

nonparametric mixture models”. Journal of the royal statistical society, series B, 69, 715-740. 

• lijoi, A., mena, h. and Prünster, i. (2007). “Bayesian nonparametric estimation of the probability 

of discovering a new species”. Biometrika, 94, 769-786. 

• lijoi, A., mena, h. and Prünster, i. (2007). “A Bayesian nonparametric method for prediction in 

esT analysis”. BmC Bioinformatics, 8: 339. 

• Walker, s.g., lijoi, A. and Prünster, i. (2007). “on rates of convergence for posterior distributions 

in infinite-dimensional models”. The Annals of statistics, 35, 738-746. 

• lijoi, A., Prünster, i. and Walker, s.g. (2007). “Bayesian consistency for stationary models”. 

econometric Theory, 23, 749-759. 

• lijoi, A., Prünster, i. and Walker, s.g. (2007). “on convergence rates for nonparametric posterior 

distributions”. Australian & new Zealand Journal of statistics, 49, 209-219. 

• James, l.F., lijoi, A. and Prünster, i. (2006). “Conjugacy as a distinctive feature of the diriclet 

process”. scandinavian Journal of statistics, 33, 105-120. 

• lijoi, A., mena, r. and Prünster, i. (2005). “hierarchical mixture modelling with normalized 

inverse gaussian priors”. Journal of the American statistical Association, 100, 1278-1291. 

• lijoi, A., Prünster, i. and Walker, s.g. (2005). “on consistency of nonparametric normal mixtures for 

Bayesian density estimation”. Journal of the American statistical Association, 100, 1292-1296. 

• Walker, s.g., lijoi, A. and Prünster, i. (2005). “data tracking and the understanding of Bayesian 

consistency”. Biometrika, 92, 765-778. 

• lijoi, A., mena, r. and Prünster, i. (2005). “Bayesian nonparametric analysis for a generalized 

dirichlet process prior”. statistical inference for stochastic Processes, 8, 283-309. 

• lijoi, A. and regazzini, e. (2004). “means of a dirichlet process and multiple hypergeometric 

functions”. The Annals of Probability, 32, 1469-1495. 

• lijoi, A., Prünster, i. and Walker, s.g. (2004). “extending doob’s consistency theorem to 

nonparametric densities”. Bernoulli, 10, 651-663. 

• lijoi, A. and Prünster, i. (2004). “A note on the problem of heaps”. sankhya, 66, 234-242. 

• Conti, P.l., lijoi, A. and ruggeri, F. (2004). “long-range dependance and performance in telecom 

networks”. Applied stochastic models in Business and industry, 20, 305-321. 

• regazzini, e., lijoi, A. and Prünster, i. (2003). “means of normalized random measures with 

independent increments”. The Annals of statistics, 31, 560-585. 

• lijoi, A. (2003). “Approximating priors by mixtures of conjugate distributions for an exponential 

family”. Journal of statistical Planning and inference, 113, 419-435. 

• epifani, i., lijoi, A. and Prünster, i. (2003). “exponential functionals and means of neutral-tothe-right 

priors”. Biometrika, 90, 791-808. 

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Address 


Via real Collegio 30 giovanni.mastrobuoni@carloalberto.org 

moncalieri (To), italy sites.google.com/site/giovannimastrobuoni 

Education 

2006 Princeton university, Ph.d. economics 

2005 Princeton university, m.A. economics 

2001 university of rome Tor Vergata, m.A. Quantitative methods for economists 

2000 university of rome Tor Vergata, laurea summa cum laude in economics 


sep 2007-current Assistant Professor, Collegio Carlo Alberto 

Apr 2008-current research Fellow of neTsPAr 

sep 2006-current Fellow, CerP 

oct 2011—current iZA research Fellow 

Feb-Jul 2013 Visiting Fellow, Princeton university, new Jersey (forthcoming) 

Jul—Aug 2012 Visiting Fellow, rAnd Corporation, los Angeles 

Jul and sep 2011 Jemolo Fellow (forthcoming), nuffield College, oxford university 

sep 2010-dec 2010 Visiting Fellow at the italian Academy, Columbia university 

sep 2009-sep 2010 Acting-director of the master in economics 

Jun-July 2010 Visiting Fellow at inside, institute for economic Analysis, Barcelona 

sep 2007-sep 2009 Vice-director of the Allievi (honor students) Program 

mar-may 2008 Visiting research Fellow at the einaudi institute for economics and Finance 

2006-August 2007 research Fellow, Collegio Carlo Alberto 

Fields of interest 

Public economics, labor economics, economics of Crime, Applied econometrics 

honors, grants, and Fellowships 

2012 erC starting grant Finalist 

2011 Princeton university, Albert rees Prize, 2011 

2010 Principal investigator, neTsPAr research grant 

2010-2011 Principal investigator, Collegio Carlo Alberto grant 

2010 upjohn institute mini-grant, $5,000 

2009 Co-Principal investigator, regione Piemonte grant, €449,000. 

2009 Carlo giannini Prize for the best paper presented at the italian Congress of 

econometrics and empirical economics 

2008 steven h. sandell grant Award 

2007 honorable mention dissertation Award from upjohn institute for employment research 

2007 national Academy of social insurance’s heinz dissertation Award 

summer 2006-07 rAnd summer institute scholarship 

2004−2006 Princeton university industrial relations section Fellowship 

2001−2004 Princeton university graduate Fellowship 

2001 m.A. Quantitative methods for economists Fellowship 

2000 “Angelo Costa Award,” Prize for outstanding B.A. thesis. 

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Publications (refereed) 

• “lessons from the economics of Crime”, with Philip Cook, steven machin, olivier marie in lessons from 

the economics of Crime, ed. P. Cook, s. machin, o. marie and g. mastrobuoni, miT Press forthcoming 

• “Centralized vs. decentralized Police hiring in italy and the us”, with Paolo Buonanno, in lessons from 

the economics of Crime, ed. P. Cook, s. machin, o. marie and g. mastrobuoni, miT Press forthcoming 

• “organized Crime networks: an Application of network Analysis Techniques to the American 

mafia”, with eleonora Patacchini, review of network economics, forthcoming 

• “The role of information for retirement Behavior: evidence Based on the social security 

statement,” Journal of Public economics, vol. 95(7-8), 913-925, August 2011 

• “labor supply effects of the recent social security Benefit Cuts: empirical estimates using Cohort 

discontinuities,” Journal of Public economics, vol. 93(11-12), 1224-1233, december 2009 

• “heterogeneity in intra-monthly Consumption Patterns, self-Control, and savings at retirement,” 

with matt Weinberg, American economic Journal: economic Policy, vol. 1(2), 163-89, August 2009 

• “The euro Changeover and its effects on Price Transparency and inflation,” with Wioletta dziuda, 

Journal of money, Credit, and Banking, 41(1), 101-129, February 2009 

• “Public Pensions in italy and germany: A Comparison based on Panel data,” la rivista di Politica 

economica, december 2000 


• “optimizing Behavior during Bank robberies: Theory and evidence on the Two minute rule”, nov 2011 

• “The incapacitation effect of incarceration: evidence from several italian Collective Pardons”, 

with Alessandro Barbarino (r&r AeJ eP), February 2011 

• “Police and Crime: evidence from dictated delays in Centralized Police hiring”, with Paolo 

Buonanno, February 2012 

• “Political economy of the social security disability insurance”, with radha K. iyengar, october 

2010 (revised and resubmitted, Journal of law and economics) 

• “rational suicides: evidence from Changes in inmates’ expected sentence length”, with Theo 

diasakos and nadia Campaniello (submitted), April 2012 

• “Police and Clearance rates: evidence from recurrent redeployments Within a City”, July 2012 

• “Price as a signal of Product Quality: some experimental evidence”, with Franco Peracchi, and 

Alex Tetenov, August 2011 

• “The economics of election officers”, with gani Aldashev, January 2011 

• “Age Before Beauty? Productivity and Work vs. seniority and early retirement”, with Filippo Taddei 

• “The relative utility hypothesis With and Without self-reported reference Wages”, with Adrian 

de la garza, Atsushi sannabe, and Katsunori yamada, (submitted) July 2012 

• “migration restrictions and Criminal Behavior: evidence from a natural experiment”, with 

Paolo Pinotti, november 2010 

• “do social security recipients smooth Consumption Between Checks? evidence using new 

data With Variation in Pay dates”, with matt Weinberg, January 2010 

• “The social security earnings Test removal. money saved or money spent by the Trust Fund?” Aug 2006 

• “does social Cohesion Affect mortality?” march 2003 

referee reporting 

American economic review, American economic Journal: economic Policy, econometrica, 

economic Journal, european economic review, industrial & labor relations review, european 

Journal of Criminal Policy and research, Journal of human resources, Journal of Quantitative 

Criminology, Journal of the european economic Association, Journal of Pension economics 

and Finance, Journal of Policy Analysis and management, Journal of Public economics, labour, 

labour economics, management science, oxford Bulletin of economics and statistics, review of 

economics and statistics, review of economic studies, scandinavian Journal of economics, social 

security Bulletin, The manchester school, deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft. 

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igNACiO MONZóN 

July 2012 

Address 


Via real Collegio 30 ignacio@carloalberto.org 

10024 moncalieri (To), italy sites.google.com/site/imonzon 

Academic Position 


Education 

2010 Ph.d. in economics, university of Wisconsin-madison 

Committee: Bill sandholm (Primary Advisor), dan Quint, marzena rostek, 

ricardo serrano-Padial and James montgomery 

2007 m.s. in economics, university of Wisconsin-madison 

2002 m.s. in economics, universidad de san Andrés 

2001 B.s. in economics, universidad de Buenos Aires 

research Fields 

microeconomic Theory, game Theory, evolutionary games 


• “observational learning with Position uncertainty”, with michael rapp, Jan 2012 

• “Aggregate uncertainty Can lead to herds”, Jan 2012 


• “social learning in games”, with michael rapp 

• “sorting and the hold-up Problem”, with Cristian Bartolucci 

Awards and Distinctions 

2008 nsF grant to attend the 3rd meeting of nobel laureates at lindau 

2007-2008 richard e. stockwell graduate student Fellowship in economics, university of 

Wisconsin-madison 

2004-2005 economics merit scholarship, university of Wisconsin-madison 

2002 graduate Fellowship, universidad de san Andrés 

2000 undergraduate research Fellowship (Beca uBACyT), universidad de Buenos Aires 


2011-2012 einaudi institute for economics and Finance (scheduled) 

2010-2011 universidad de san Andrés (scheduled) 

2009-2010 Collegio Carlo Alberto, luiss guido Carli, northern illinois university, ryerson 

university, universidad de Alicante 


2011-2012 universidad de san Andrés, Alumni Conference 

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2010-11 AsseT 2010 (universidad de Alicante), midwest economic meetings, economic 

Theory, notre dame 

2009-10 XXXiV simposio de la Asociacion espanola de economıa (universitat de Valencia), 

midwest economic meetings, economic Theory (Penn state), Theory Workshop 

(uW madison) 

2008-09 Third World Congress of the game Theory society, Kellogg school of Business, 

northwestern university 

2007-08 Fourth meeting on “mathematical models of economic Behavior”, universidad 

de san Andrés, Buenos Aires, Argentina 

work Experience 

2007 and 2010 Project Assistant to Prof. Bill sandholm, university of Wisconsin–madison 

2002 research Assistant, Facultad latinoamericana de Ciencias sociales, Buenos 

Aires, Argentina 

2001 Policy Adviser, Federal secretary for Competition Policy, Buenos Aires, 

Argentina 

1999-2000 research Assistant, institute for economic research, universidad de 

Buenos Aires 


• graduate instructor: microeconomic Theory (Collegio Carlo Alberto) 

• graduate TA: microeconomic Theory sequence (uW–madison, uBA & udesA) 

• undergraduate instructor: general equilibrium seminar (udesA) and microeconomics (uBA) 

• undergraduate TA: econometrics, industrial organization, international economics, 

microeconomics, Probability and statistics 

refereeing 

Journal of economic Theory, decisions in economics and Finance, Journal of economic 

Behavior & organization, The review of economic studies 

languages 

english (fluent), spanish (native), French (advanced) and italian (intermediate) 

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igOr PrÜNSTEr 

July 2012 

Address 


Via real Collegio 30 igor@econ.unito.it 

moncalieri (To), italy sites.carloalberto.org/pruenster 

Education 

1998 laurea in economics, Bocconi university, milan (italy) 

2003 Ph.d. in mathematical statistics, university of Pavia, Pavia (italy) 


2011-current Professor, university of Torino, department of statistics and Applied mathematics 

2010-current deputy director for education, Collegio Carlo Alberto 

2007-current Vice-director of studies, Allievi Program (honors Program), Collegio Carlo Alberto 

2007-2011 Associate Professor, university of Torino, department of statistics and Applied 

mathematics 

2001-2007 Assistant Professor, university of Pavia (2001-05) & university of Torino (2005-07) 

honors and Awards 

2012 Awarded an european research Council (erC) starting grant 

2007 Visting Fellow of the isaac newton insitute, Cambridge, uK (August 2007) 

2004 Prize for the best Ph.d. thesis in statistics awarded by the italian statistical society 

2004 Finalist of the “l.J. savage Award” for the best Ph.d. thesis in Bayesian statistics 

2004 laha Award assigned by institute of mathematical statistics 


• member of the Board of directors (2012-2014) and of the Program Council (2010-2012), 

international society of Bayesian Analysis 

• Associate editor: Bayesian Analysis, The electronic Journal of statistics, sankhya 


• Favaro, s., lijoi A. and Pruenster, i. (2012). “on the stick--breaking representation of normalized 

inverse gaussian priors”. Biometrika, 99, 663-674. 

• Favaro, s., Prünster, i., and Walker, s.g. (2012). “on a generalized Chu-Vandermonde identity”. 

methodology and Computing in Applied Probability, 14, 253-262. 

• lijoi, A., Prünster, i. (2011). “A conversation with eugenio regazzini”. statistical science, 26, 647-672. 

• Favaro, s., hadjicharalambous, g. and Prünster, i. (2011). “on a class of distributions on the 

simplex”. Journal of statistical Planning and inference, 141, 2987-3004. 

• Favaro, s., Prünster, i., and Walker, s.g. (2011). “on a class of random probability measures with 

general predictive structure”. scandinavian Journal of statistics, 38, 359-376. 

• James, l.F., lijoi, A., and Prünster, i. (2010). “on the posterior distribution of classes of random 

means”. Bernoulli, 16, 155-180. 

• Favaro, s., lijoi A., mena, r.h., Prünster, i. (2009). “Bayesian nonparametric inference for species 

variety with a two parameter Poisson-dirichlet process prior”. Journal of the royal statistical 

society-series B, 71, 993-1008. 

• lijoi A., Prünster, i. (2009). “distributional properties of means of random probability measures”. 

statistics surveys, 3, 47-95. 

• de Blasi, P., Peccati, g., Prünster, i. (2009). “Asymptotics for posterior hazards”. The Annals of 

statistics, 37, 1906-1945. 

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• James, l.F., lijoi, A., Prünster, i. (2009). “Posterior analysis for normalized random measures with 

independent increments”. scandinavian Journal of statistics, 36, 76-97. 

• nieto-Barajas, l.e., Prünster, i. (2009). “A sensitivity analysis for Bayesian nonparametric density 

estimators”. statistica sinica, 19, 685-705. 

• lijoi A., mena, r.h., Prünster, i. (2008). “A Bayesian nonparametric approach for comparing 

clustering structures in esT libraries”. Journal of Computational Biology, 15, 1315-1327. 

• Peccati, g., Prünster, i. (2008). “linear and quadratic functionals of random hazard rates: an 

asymptotic analysis”. The Annals of Applied Probability, 18, 1910-1943. 

• lijoi, A., Prünster, i, Walker, s.g. (2008). “Posterior analysis for some classes of nonparametric 

models”. Journal of nonparametric statistics, 20, 447-457. 

• lijoi, A., Prünster, i., Walker, s.g. (2008). “Bayesian nonparametric estimators derived from 

conditional gibbs structures”. The Annals of Applied Probability, 18, 1519-1547. 

• lijoi, A., Prünster, i, Walker, s.g. (2008). “investigating nonparametric priors with gibbs structure”. 

statistica sinica, 18, 1653-1668. 

• James, l.F., lijoi, A., Prünster, i. (2008). “distributions of Functionals of the Two Parameter 

Poisson-dirichlet Process”. The Annals of Applied Probability, 18, 521-551. 

• nardone, r., golaszewski, s., Bergmann, J., Venturi, A., Prünster, i., Bratti, A., ladurner, g. and 

Tezzon F. (2008). “motor cortex excitability changes following a lesion in the posterior columns 

of the cervical spinal cord”. neuroscience letters, 434, 119-123. 

• lijoi A., mena, r.h., Prünster, i. (2007). “A Bayesian nonparametric method for prediction in esT 

analysis”. BmC Bioinformatics, 8: 339. 

• lijoi, A., mena, r.h., Prünster, i. (2007). “Bayesian nonparametric estimation of the probability of 

discovering a new species”. Biometrika, 94, 769-786. 

• lijoi, A., Prünster, i, Walker, s.g. (2007). “on convergence rates for nonparametric posterior 

distributions”. Australian and new Zealand Journal of statistics, 49, 209-219. 

• lijoi A., mena, r.h., Prünster, i. (2007). “Controlling the reinforcement in Bayesian nonparametric 

mixture models”. Journal of the royal statistical society-series B, 69, 715-740. 

• Walker s.g., lijoi, A., Prünster i. (2007). “on rates of convergence for posterior distributions in 

infinite-dimensional models”. The Annals of statistics, 35, 738-746. 

• lijoi, A., Prünster, i, Walker, s.g. (2007). “Bayesian consistency for stationary models”. econometric 

Theory 23, 749-759. 

• James, l.F., lijoi, A., Prünster, i. (2006). “Conjugacy as a distinctive feature of the dirichlet 

process”. scandinavian Journal of statistics, 33, 105-120. 

• Walker, s.g., lijoi, A., Prünster, i. (2005). “data tracking and the understanding of Bayesian 

consistency”. Biometrika, 92, 765-778. 

• lijoi, A., Prünster, i., Walker, s.g. (2005). “on consistency of nonparametric normal mixtures for 

Bayesian density estimation”. Journal of the American statistical Association, 100, 1292-1296. 

• lijoi, A., mena, r.h., Prünster, i. (2005). “Bayesian nonparametric analysis for a generalized 

dirichlet process prior”. statistical inference for stochastic Processes, 8, 283-309. 

• lijoi, A., mena, r.h., Prünster, i (2005). “hierarchical mixture modelling with normalized inverse 

gaussian priors”. Journal of the American statistical Association, 100, 1278-1291. 

• nieto-Barajas, l.e., Prünster, i., Walker, s.g. (2004). “normalized random measures driven by 

increasing Additive Processes”. The Annals of statistics, 32, 2343-2360. 

• lijoi, A., Prünster, i. (2004). “A note on the problem of heaps”. sankhya-The indian Journal of 

statistics, 66, 234-242. 

• lijoi, A., Prünster, i., Walker, s.g. (2004). “extending doob’s consistency theorem to nonparametric 

densities”. Bernoulli, 10, 651-663. 

• epifani, i., lijoi, A., Prünster, i. (2003). “exponential functionals and means of neutral-to-theright 

priors”. Biometrika, 90, 791-808. 

• regazzini, e., lijoi, A., Prünster, i. (2003). “distributional results for means of normalized 

random measures with independent increments”. The Annals of statistics, 31, 560-585. 

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MATTEO rUggiErO 

July 2012 

Address 


Via real Collegio 30 matteo.ruggiero@unito.it 

10024 moncalieri (To), italy web.econ.unito.it/ruggiero 

Education 

2007 Ph.d. in statistics,, Bocconi university, milan (italy) 

2003 laurea in economics, Bocconi university, milan (italy) 


2011-current Assistant Professor, university of Torino, department of economics and statistics 


2010-current research Affiliate, “de Castro” statistics initiative 

2010-current Adjunct Faculty, Allievi honors Program, Collegio Carlo Alberto 

2007-current instructor, Phd Program in Theoretical economics, Finance and statistics, 

university of Torino 

2008-2011 Assistant Professor, university of Pavia, department of economics and 

Quantitative methods 

2007-2008 Postdoctoral fellow, university of Torino, department of statistics and Applied 

mathematics 


• ruggiero, m., Walker, s.g. and Favaro, s. (2012). “Alpha-diversity processes and normalized 

inverse-gaussian diffusions”. The Annals of Applied Probability, in press. 

• Prünster, i. and ruggiero, m. (2012). “A Bayesian nonparametric approach to modeling market 

share dynamics”. Bernoulli, in press. 

• mena, r.h., ruggiero, m. and Walker, s.g. (2011), “geometric stick-breaking processes for 

continuous-time Bayesian nonparametric modeling”, Journal of statistical Planning and 

inference 141, 3217-3230. 

• martinelli, A., ruggiero, m. and Walker, s.g. (2010), “A note on convergence rates for posterior 

distributions via large deviations techniques”, statistical Papers 51, 337-347. 

• Favaro, s., ruggiero, m. and Walker, s.g. (2009), “on a gibbs sampler based random process in 

Bayesian nonparametrics”, electronic Journal of statistics 3, 1556-1566. 

• ruggiero, m. and Walker, s.g. (2009), “Countable representation for infinite-dimensional 

diffusions derived from the two parameter Poisson-dirichlet process”, electronic Communications 

in Probability 14, 501-517. 

• ruggiero, m. and Walker, s.g. (2009), “Bayesian nonparametric construction of the Fleming- 

Viot process with fertility selection”, statistica sinica 19, 707-720. 

Conference proceedings and working papers 

• ruggiero, m. (2012). “species dynamics in the two-parameter Poisson-dirichlet diffusion model”. 

Carlo Alberto notebook no. 249. 

• ruggiero, m. (2012). “on the role of normalized inverse-gaussian priors in continuous time 

models”. Proceedings of the 46th meeting of the italian statistical society. 

• ruggiero, m. (2011). “on a prediction problem for an infinite-dimensional hidden markov 

model”. Proceedings of the s.Co. 20 1 Conference. 

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• ruggiero, m. (2009). Bayesian nonparametric construction of Fleming-Viot models in population 

genetics. Proceedings of the 15th european young statisticians meeting, Bernoulli society. 

• Favaro, s., ruggiero, m., spanò, d. and Walker, s.g. (2007). The neutral population model and 

Bayesian nonparametrics. iCer Working Paper 18/2007. 

Visiting positions 

inst. for Computational and experimental research in mathematics, Brown university, usA (sepoct 

2012); dept. of economics and Business, universitat Pompeu Fabra, spain (Jul 2012); Visiting 

Fellow, Collegio Carlo Alberto (sep-dec 2010); dep.to de Probabilidad y estadìstica, iimAs, unAm, 

mèxico (Jan 2010); dep.to de métodos Cuantitativos, universidad de navarra (nov 2009); inst. of 

mathematics, statistics and Actuarial science, university of Kent (sep 2005-Jun 2006, Feb-Jun 

2007, nov 2008). 

recent Conferences 

36th Conference on stochastic Processes and their Applications, Boulder, usA (2013); Workshop 

on random measures and measure-Valued Processes, Banff international research station, 

Canada (2013); 59th World statistics Congress, hong Kong, China, (2013); isBA regional 

meeting & international Workshop/Conference on Bayesian Theory and Applications, Varanasi, 

india, (2013); 5th erCim international Conference on Computing and statistics, oviedo, spain, 

(2012); The impact of statistical thinking in economics and life sciences, milan, italy (2012); 46th 

meeting of the italian statistical society (contributed), rome, italy, (2012); 35th Conference on 

stochastic Processes and their Applications, oaxaca, mexico (2011); 8th Workshop on Bayesian 

nonparametrics, Veracruz, mexico (2011); s.Co. 2011, Padova, italy. 

Editorial activity 

referee for: Applied mathematics e-notes; Biometrika; Journal of Applied statistics; Journal of the 

American statistical Association; Journal of the royal statistical society; Psychometrika; Quality 

Technology and Quantitative management; statistical methods & Applications; statistics and 

Probability letters; stochastic models; stochastic Processes and Their Applications. 

reviewer for: mathematical reviews/mathscinet (American mathematical society) (from 2010). 

Teaching 

2011-current statistics, undergraduate, university of Torino 

2007-current measure Theory, Phd Program in Theoretical economics, Finance and statistics, 

university of Torino, and Allievi honors Program, Collegio Carlo Alberto 

2007-current statistical inference, Phd Program in Theoretical economics, Finance and statistics, 

university of Torino, and Allievi honors Program, Collegio Carlo Alberto 

2009-2011 stochastic Processes, graduate, university of Pavia 

2008-2011 data Analysis, undergraduate, university of Pavia 

Current local administrative duties 

• executive Board member, department of economics and statistics, un. of Torino (from Feb 2012) 

• statistics seminars coordinator, Collegio Carlo Alberto (from sep 2010) 

• Website administrator, “de Castro” statistics initiative (from sep 2010) 

Events organization 

• organizing Committee member, 2nd Carlo Alberto stochastics Workshop, Collegio Carlo Alberto, 2012. 

• organizing Committee member, Carlo Alberto stochastics Workshop, Collegio Carlo Alberto, 2010. 

• local organizing Committee member, 7th Workshop on Bayesian nonparametrics, Collegio 

Carlo Alberto, 2009. 

• local organizing Committee member, Carlo Alberto research Programme in Bayesian 

nonparametrics, Collegio Carlo Alberto, 2009. 

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ANDrEi SAVOChKiN 

August 2012 

Address 


Via real Collegio 30 andrei.savochkin@carloalberto.org 

10024 moncalieri (To), italy sites.carloalberto.org/savochkin 

Education 

Phd in economics, new york university stern school of Business 

mA in economics, new economic school, moscow, russia 

Phd in mathematics/Cs, moscow state university, moscow, russia 


decision Theory, game Theory, mechanism design, experimental economics 


• “dynamically stable Preferences” (with Anna gumen) 

• “Preferences With grades of indecisiveness” (with stefania minardi) 

• “decision-making under subjective risk” (with Anna gumen and efe A. ok) 

• “smooth Ambiguity and second-order Beliefs” (with stefania minardi) 


refereeing for: American economic review, Journal of economic Theory, Journal of 

mathematical economics, Theoretical economics, Theory and decision 

Awards and honors 

2008-2012 doctoral Fellowship, nyu stern 

2008 don Patinkin Award for exceptional Achievements in Academic Performance, 

Teaching and research, new economic school 

Best master’s Thesis Award, new economic school 

2007-2008 nestle Fellowship, new economic school 

invited Talks and Conference Presentations 

• “d-day” conference, yale university, 2011 

• risk uncertainty and decision conference, 2011 

• duke university, 2012 

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Teaching 

Fall 2012 Collegio Carlo Alberto: optimization for economics (masters and honors 

undergrad) 

spring 2011 nyu Business school TA: intermediate microeconomics (undergrad) 

spring 2008 new economic school TA: econometrics (masters) 

Fall 2007 new economic school TA: Contract Theory (masters), statistics (masters) 

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FiliPPO TADDEi 

may 2012 

Address 


Via real Collegio 30 filippo.taddei@carloalberto.org 

10024 moncalieri (To), italy sites.google.com/site/filippotaddei 

Academic Positions 

2012-present Assistant Professor, school of Advanced international studies, Johns hopkins 

university 

2007-2012 Assistant Professor, Collegio Carlo Alberto 

2008-2012 Vice director Allievi Program, Collegio Carlo Alberto 

2005-2007 lecturer, school of international and Public Affairs (siPA), Columbia university 

Education 

2005 Ph.d. in economics (with distinction), Columbia university 

dissertation Title: essays on Capital markets 

Committe: John donaldson, Alessandra Casella, ronald Findlay and Paolo siconolfi 

2003 m.Phil. in economics, Columbia university 

2002 m.A. in economics, Columbia university 

2000 laurea in economics (cum laude), university of Bologna, italy 


macroeconomics, Financial economics, international Finance 

Fellowships, grants And honors 

2012 lamfalussy Fellowship, european Central Bank 

2012 Advisor, “youth unemployment in europe”, european Commission 

2011-12 Principal investigator, grant “Adverse selection and international Flows”, 

Collegio Carlo Alberto (CCA) 

2010-12 Co-investigator, grant “stochastic modeling in economics via Bayesian 

nonparametrics”, CCA 

2010-11 Co-investigator, grant “Pension systems and labor markets”, neTsPAr 

2009-11 Co-investigator, grant for “Aging”, regione Piemonte, italy 

2008 honorary mention, 12th Conference on macroeconomics and international Finance 

2006 young economist Award, european economic Association meeting 

2006 summer research grant, CiBer, Columbia university 

2005-2007 research grant, university of Bologna 

2005 dissertation Fellowship, Columbia university 

2003-2004 summer research Fellowship, Columbia university 

2003 scholarship, ente luigi einaudi, italy 

2003 Wueller research Award, Columbia university 

2002 scholarship, Fondazione einaudi, italy 

Articles in refereed Journals and Papers Submitted to Journals 

• “international Capital Flows and Credit market imperfections: A Tale of Two Frictions” (with 

Alberto martin), Forthcoming, Journal of international economics 

• “indexed sovereign debt” (with guido sandleris and horacio sapriza), revised and resubmit, 

Journal of international economics 

• “innovation, growth and Aggregate Volatility from a Bayesian non Parametric Perspective” 

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(with Antonio lijoi, Pietro muliere and igor Pruenster), submitted 

• “liquidity and economic Fluctuations”, submitted 

• “Collateral, Financial Arrangements and Pareto optimality”, submitted 

• “real estate Prices: the role of Bequest Taxation” (with giorgio Bellettini), submitted 

working Papers and work-in-Progress 

• “What really matters about financial frictions? Asymmetric information, limited pledgeability 

and their interaction” (with Alberto martin), 2012 

• “The Welfare Analysis of international Capital Flows: the interaction of Credit market 

imperfections” (with Alberto martin), 2012 

• “Age Before Beauty? Productivity and Work Vs seniority and early retirement” (with giovanni 

mastrobuoni), 2011 

• “inefficient Credit Cycles” (with matteo ruggiero e igor Pruenster), 2011 

• “What if Ageing was the only investment? The role of Credit markets imperfections and the 

Age Profile of earnings”, 2009 

• “liquidity and the Allocation of Credit: Business Cycle, government debt and Financial 

Arrangements”, 2004 

• “equity Premium: Belief heterogeneity and distribution of Wealth”, 2003 

Teaching 

2011-12 international monetary Theory, Johns hopkins university 

2008-12 macroeconomics, Allievi Program and master in economics, Collegio Carlo Alberto 

2010-12 macroeconomics, Phd program, university of Torino, 

monetary economics, laurea, university of Torino 

2005-07 economics and Policy Analysis, master of Public Affairs, siPA, Columbia university 

2006 international Finance and monetary Theory, master of international Affairs, siPA, Cu 

2005-06 macroeconomics, Program in economic and Policy management, siPA, Cu 


2012 19th mitsui Finance symposium, university of michigan 

2011 Workshop “macro dynamics: Theory and Applications”, Bologna; XX international 

Tor Vergata Conference on “money, Banking and Finance”, roma; CePr institutions 

and international Capital Flows Workshop, Barcelona; nBer international Finance 

and macroeconomics summer institute, Boston; 11th sAeT Conference, Ancao (Faro); 

2011 neTsPAr Pension Workshop, Torino; 9th inFiniTi Conference 2011, dublin; CePr 

“european symposium in international macroeconomics”, Bank of switzerland; Xii 

Workshop in international economics and Finance, lima 

2010 moncasca Workshop, Bocconi university, milano; mnB-CePr Workshop on Financial 

Frictions, Central Bank of hungary, Budapest; eCB Workshop “What Future for Financial 

globalisation?”, Frankfurt; swiss society of economics and statistics, Friburg 

2009 CePr 10th Bank of Finland Conference “Credit Crunch and the macroeconomy”, helsinki; 

CerP 10th Annual Conference “saving for old Age”, Collegio Carlo Alberto; CePr 

“european symposium in international macroeconomics”, Banque de France; CePr-imF- 

FrdB “structural reforms without Prejudice”, università Bocconi 

2008 AsseT Annual meeting, european university institute; european economic Association Annual 

meeting, università Bocconi; Workshop “monetary and Financial economics”, halle institute 

for economic research; 4th european Workshop on macroeconomics, university of glasgow; 

12th international Conference macro Analysis and international Finance, university Crete 

refereeing Activity 

decisions in economics & Finance, economic Theory, review of economic studies, labor economics, 

Journal of mathematical economics, Journal of the european economic Association. 

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AlEKSEy TETENOV 

June 2012 

Address 


Via real Collegio 30 aleksey.tetenov@carloalberto.org 

10024 moncalieri (To), italy www.tetenov.com 



Education 

2008 Ph.d. in economics, northwestern university (evanston, il) 

dissertation: essays in statistical decision Theory of Treatment Choice 

Committee Chair: Prof. Charles F. manski 

2004 m.A. in economics, northwestern university (evanston, il) 

2002 B.A. in economics, Wheaton College (Wheaton, il) 

Fellowships and awards 

2008 northwestern university, econometrics Center Fellowship 

2002-2006 northwestern university, graduate Fellowship 

Publications in refereed journals 

• “statistical Treatment Choice Based on Asymmetric minimax regret Criteria,” Journal of 

econometrics 166 (2012), 157-165. 

• “Admissible Treatment rules for a risk-Averse Planner with experimental data on an 

innovation,” with C.F. manski, Journal of statistical Planning and inference 137 (2007), 

1998-2010. 

working papers 

• “measuring Precision of statistical inference on Partially identified Parameters” (revise and 

resubmit, Journal of Business & economic statistics) 

• “identification of Positive Treatment effects in randomized experiments with non- 

Compliance” 

• “Price as a signal of Product Quality: some experimental evidence” (with giovanni 

mastrobuoni and Franco Peracchi) 

• “The Persistence of new hope’s labor market impacts: how long? how real?” (with greg 

duncan and heather hill) 

work in progress 

• “statistical hypothesis testing and private information” 

• “Treatment Choice using empirical risk minimization” 

• “The demand for Adoption” (with mario Pagliero) 

• meta-Analysis of the spouse Abuse replication Program experiments (with Zahra siddique) 

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invited seminars 

2011-12 univ. of namur 

2009-10 nyu, univ. of Arizona, univ. of Virginia 

2008-09 Cambridge, einaudi institute for economics and Finance, Toulouse school 

of economics, uCl 

2007-08 Caltech, Collegio Carlo Alberto, Cornell, georgetown, northwestern, univ. of 

Arizona 

Conferences 

2011-12 Parental and Public investments and Child outcomes, Collegio Carlo 

Alberto 

Partial identification and statistical decisions, Cornell univ. 

2010-11 4th italian Congress of econometrics and empirical economics, Pisa 

(eC)2 identification in econometrics, Theory and Applications, Toulouse 

2009-2010 european meeting of statisticians, Piraeus 

econometric society european meeting, Barcelona 

2008-2009 Conference on identification and decisions, northwestern 

3rd italian Congress of econometrics and empirical economics, Ancona 

latin American meeting of the econometric society, rio de Janeiro 

refereeing 

games and economic Behavior, Journal of Business and economic statistics, Journal of 

econometrics, Journal of statistical Planning and inference, national science Foundation, 

Public opinion Quarterly, Quantitative economics, review of economic studies. 

Courses and tutorials at Collegio Carlo Alberto 

2008-2012 econometric Theory i (for Allievi, master in economics, and Phd students) 

2010 Tutorial in economics (for 1st year Junior Allievi students) 

2009, 2010 Tutorial in real Analysis (for senior Allievi students) 

institutional service 

2009-present Co-organizer of seminars in economics, Collegio Carlo Alberto 

2008-2010 Junior recruiting committee, Collegio Carlo Alberto 

2008-present Website committee, Collegio Carlo Alberto 

2008-2011 Working paper series coordinator, Collegio Carlo Alberto 

2007-2008 research and administrative computing committee, northwestern 

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ElENA VigNA 

July 2012 

Address 


Via real Collegio 30 elena.vigna@econ.unito.it 

10024 moncalieri (To), italy web.econ.unito.it/gma/elena.htm 

Current Position 

2000-current: Assistant Professor in “mathematical methods for economics and Actuarial and 

Financial sciences”, university of Torino. 

Education 

1996 laurea in matematica, university of Torino (italy) 

1999 Postgraduate Certificate in Actuarial management, City university, london 

(uK) 

2000 Ph.d. in “matematica per le decisioni economiche”, university of Trieste (italy) 

research and teaching grants 

10/96-2/97 research and teaching grant by imQ, Bocconi university 

11/99-2/00 research grant by university of Torino 

Affiliations 

2002-current honorary Visiting Fellow of the Faculty of Actuarial science, Cass Business 

school, london 

2003-current member of the steering Committee of the Phd in “decisions in insurance and 

Finance” of the university of Torino 

2009-current research Fellow at CerP 

2010-current Carlo Alberto Affiliate 

Awards 

2002 “edward A. lew Award” by American society of ctuaries for the research 

project “management of de-Accumulation risks in a defined Contribution 

environment modeling project” 


• “on efficiency of mean-variance based portfolio selection in dC pension schemes” to appear 

in Quantitative Finance, 2012. 

• “delta and gamma hedging of mortality and interest rate risk”, with e. luciano and l. regis, 

insurance: mathematics and economics, 50, 402-412, 2012. 

• “on the sub-optimality cost of immediate annuitization in dC pension funds” with m. di 

giacinto, Central european Journal of operations research, 20, 497-527, 2012. 

• “Choosing the optimal annuitization time post retirement” with r. gerrard and B. højgaard, 

Quantitative Finance 12, 1143-1159, 2012. 

• “mortality risk via affine stochastic intensities: calibration and empirical relevance”, with e. 

luciano, Belgian Actuarial Bulletin 8, 5-16, 2008. 

• “modelling stochastic mortality for dependent lives”, with e. luciano and J. spreeuw, 

insurance: mathematics and economics 43, 234-244, 2008. 

• “The management of de-cumulation risks in a defined Contribution Pension scheme”, with 

r. gerrard and s. haberman, north American Actuarial Journal 10 (1), 84-110, 2006. 

• “optimal investment choices post retirement in a defined contribution pension scheme”, 

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with r. gerrard and s. haberman, insurance: mathematics and economics 35, 321-342, 

2004. 

• “optimal investment strategies and risk measures in defined Contribution Pension 

schemes” with s. haberman, insurance: mathematics and economics 31, 35-69, 2002. 

• “optimal investment strategy for defined Contribution Pension schemes” with s.haberman, 

insurance: mathematics and economics 28, 233-262, 2001. 

Conference Proceedings and other Publications 

• “A switch criterion for defined contribution pension schemes”, with B. Arts, Proceedings of 

the 13th international AFir Colloquium, 261-290, 2003. 

• “Convenienza finanziaria dei fondi pensione: confronto tra lavoratore aderente e lavoratore 

non aderente a un fondo aziendale”, inPdAP-rivista bimestrale dell’istituto nazionale di 

Previdenza per i dipendenti dell’Amministrazione Pubblica-n: 4/98, pag. 121-132, luglio/ 

agosto 1998. 


• “natural delta gamma hedging of longevity and interest rate risk”, with e. luciano and l. regis, 

iCer wp 21/2011. 

• “Cross-generational comparison of stochastic mortality of coupled lives”, with e. luciano and J. 

spreeuw, Carlo Alberto notebook 187/2010. 

• “Constrained portfolio choices choices in the de-cumulation phase of a pension plan”, with m. di 

giacinto, s. Federico and F. gozzi, Carlo Alberto notebook 155/2010, preprint of ssrn, available 

at http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract\underline{ }id=1600130. 

• “mean-variance inefficiency of CrrA and CArA utility functions for portfolio selection in defined 

contribution pension schemes”, Carlo Alberto notebook 108/2009 and CerP WP 89/09. 

• “mean-variance portfolio selection and efficient frontier for defined contribution pension 

schemes” with B. højgaard, 2007, Technical report r-2007-13. department of mathematical 

sciences. Aalborg university. 

• “non mean reverting affine processes for stochastic mortality”, with e. luciano, 2005, Collegio 

Carlo Alberto notebook 30/2006. 

• “The income drawdown option: quadratic loss”, with r. gerrard, s. haberman and B. højgaard, 

Actuarial research Paper no. 155, Cass Business school, City university, london, 2004. 


referee for: Annals of operations research, Applied mathematics and optimization, AsTin 

Bulletin, decisions in economics and Finance, insurance: mathematics and economics, 

international Journal of managerial Finance, international Journal of Theoretical and Applied 

Finance, Journal of economics dynamics and Control, Journal of Pension economics and 

Finance, north American Actuarial Journal, macroeconomic dynamics, mathematical Finance, 

Quantitative Finance, siAm Journal on Financial mathematics, The european Journal of 

Finance. 

Organizational Activities 

2012 organizer and chairman of the session “Pension funds” in the stream of 

Actuarial science and stochastic methods at 25th european Conference on 

operational research (euro XXiV), Vilnius. 

2010 organizer and chairman of the session “Pension funds” in the stream of 

Actuarial science and stochastic methods at 24th european Conference on 

operational research (euro XXiV), lisbon. 

2009-current organizer of the series of Workshops in Capital markets, CerP and Collegio 

Carlo Alberto 

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The Collegio is, first and foremost, a research institution. research activity is carried out by the 

community of scholars gathered around the Collegio. 

ChAirS FEllOwS AFFiliATES 

dino gerardi Cristiano Antonelli Filippo Barbera 

margarita estévez-Abe Fabio Bagliano davide Barrera 

daniela del Boca giangiacomo Bravo 

rESiDENT FACUlTy Pietro garibaldi Tiziana Caponio 

Ainhoa Aparicio Fenoll Aldo geuna Pierpaolo de Blasi 

Cristian Bartolucci Paolo ghirardato Francesco devicienti 

edoardo grillo elisa luciano maria laura di Tommaso 

Toomas hinnosaar letizia mencarini stefano Favaro 

esteban Jaimovich manuela naldini Andrea gallice 

giovanni mastrobuoni giovanna nicodano Tiziana nazio 

ignacio mónzon igor Prünster mario Pagliero 

Filippo Taddei Alessandro sembenelli silvia Pasqua 

Aleksey Tetenov riccardo Zecchina Chiara Pronzato 

matteo richiardi 

POST DOCTOrAl FEllOwS SENiOr hONOrAry FEllOwS matteo ruggiero 

Ciara o’dwyer Bruno Contini mariacristina rossi 

mónica Ferrín Pereira elsa Fornero stefano sacchi 

igor guadiancich luigi montrucchio davide Vannoni 

mattia guidi Chiara saraceno elena Vigna 

Andrei savochkin 

Pier domenico Tortola 

giovanna Zincone 

SENiOr rESEArCh FEllOwS 

Allan drazen 

Christopher Flinn 

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Name/Affiliation Visiting Dates 

dan Breznitz, 

Aug 1, 2012-Jul 31, 2013 

georgia institute of Technology 

shiri Breznitz, 

Aug 1, 2012-Jul 31, 2013 

georgia institute of Technology 

Benjamin Cowan, 

Jun 1, 2013-Jun 30, 2013 

Washington state university 

stefano guzzini, 

sep 1, 2012-Jun 30, 2013 

uppsala university 

Anna leander, 

sep 1, 2012-Jun 30, 2013 

Copenhagen Business school 

stephen morgan, 

Jan 15, 2013-Jul 15, 2013 

Cornell university 

hONOrAry FEllOwS 

oriana Bandiera enrico moretti 

marco Battaglini nicola Persico 

Fabio maccheroni 

rECENT CArlO AlbErTO NOTEbOOKS (2012) 

Bruno ConTini And elisA grAnd 

long Term youth unemployment or disposable Workforce? 

no. 260, Aug 2012 

CrisTiAn BArToluCCi And FrAnCesCo deViCienTi 

Better Workers move to Better Firms: A simple Test to identify sorting 

no. 259, Jul 2012 

elisA luCiAno, JAAP sPreeuW And elenA VignA 

evolution of coupled lives’ dependency across generations and pricing impact 

no. 258, Jun 2012 

elisA luCiAno, luCA regis, elenA VignA 

single and cross-generation natural hedging of longevity and financial risk 

no. 257, Jun 2012 

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giAngiAComo BrAVo, elenA VAllino, AlessAndro K. CeruTTi, mAriA BeATriCe PAiroTTi 

Alternative scenarios of green consumption in italy: An empirically grounded model 

no. 256, Jun 2012 

PAolo ghirArdATo And mArCiAno sinisCAlChi 

Ambiguity in the small and in the large 

no. 255, Jun 2012 

dAnielA del BoCA And ChrisToPher J. Flinn 

household Behavior and the marriage market 

no. 254, Jun 2012 

sTeFAno FAVAro, AnTonio liJoi And igor PruensTer 

A new estimator of the discovery probability 

no. 253, may 2012 

doriAnA ruFFino 

resuscitating Businessman risk: A rationale for Familiarity-Based Portfolios 

no. 252, may 2012 

emiliA del Bono And ChiArA dAnielA PronZATo 

does breastfeeding support at work help mothers and employers at the same time? 

no. 251, Apr 2012 

PAolo BuonAnno And mATTeo m. gAliZZi 

Advocatus, et non latro? Testing the supplier-induced demand hypothesis for the italian 

Courts of Justice 

no. 250, Apr 2012 

mATTeo ruggiero 

species dynamics in the two-parameter Poisson-dirichlet diffusion model 

no. 249, Apr 2012 

Kyungmin Kim And AnTonio PenTA 

A robustly efficient Auction 

no. 248, Apr 2012 

nAdiA CAmPAniello, Theodoros diAsAKos And gioVAnni mAsTroBuoni 

rational suicides: evidence from Changes in inmates’ expected sentence length 

no. 247, Apr 2012 

PAolo BuonAnno And mArCo rAnZAni 

Thank you for not smoking: evidence from the italian smoking ban 

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no. 246, mar 2012 

ignACio monZÓn 

Aggregate uncertainty Can lead to herds 

no. 245, Feb 2012 

PAolo BuonAnno And gioVAnni mAsTroBuoni 

Police and Crime: evidence from dictated delays in Centralized Police hiring 

no. 244, Feb 2012 

AnTonio liJoi And igor PruensTer 

A conversation with eugenio regazzini 

no. 243, Feb 2012 

esTeBAn JAimoViCh 

import diversification along the growth Path 

no. 242, Feb 2012 

sTeFAno FAVAro, AnTonio liJoi And igor PruensTer 

on the stick-breaking representation of normalized inverse gaussian priors 

no. 241, Feb 2012 

giAngiAComo BrAVo, FlAminio sQuAZZoni And KÁroly TAKÁCs 

intermediaries in Trust: An experimental study on incentives and norms 

no. 240, Feb 2012 

AnTonio liJoi And BernArdo niPoTi 

A class of dependent random hazard rates 

no. 239, Jan 2012 

AnTonio liJoi And BernArdo niPoTi 

Two classes of bivariate distributions on the unit square 

no. 238, Jan 2012 

see www.carloalberto.org/research/working-papers for the complete list. 

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CArlO AlbErTO MEDAl 

8_iNiTiATiVES 

The Collegio has instituted the Carlo Alberto medal to be awarded to a young italian economist 

(resident in italy or abroad) under the age of 40 for her/his outstanding research contributions 

to the field of economics (broadly defined). After the first five editions, in which the prize has 

been awarded annually, it has now become biennial. 

The recipient delivers the Carlo Alberto lecture and is nominated honorary Fellow of the 


ObJECTiVE 

The prize represents the public recognition given to a young scholar for the scientific results 

attained. For young scholars at italian universities, it provides a further incentive to pursue 

their research activity with renewed commitment. For italian scholars who work at universities 

and research institutions abroad, the prize is a public recognition on the part of the country 

of origin. 

SElECTiON COMMiTTEE 

From 2010 to 2012, the members of the selection committee are: 

• orazio Attanasio (university College london) 

• maristella Botticini (Bocconi university) 

• luigi guiso (università di roma-Tor Vergata and eui-Firenze) 

• Christopher Pissarides (london school of economics) 

• Thomas J. sargent (new york university) 

• guido Tabellini (igier, università Bocconi) 

• Fabrizio Zilibotti (university of Zurich) 

Paolo ghirardato, deputy director for research, coordinates the nomination process and the 

selection procedure. 

AwArD PrOCEDUrE 

The prize is awarded to one person only. The award procedure consists of two phases: 

nomination 

economists of all nationalities are invited to submit their nominations through the Collegio’s 

web site. 

selection 

The selection Committee chooses the recipient of the prize among the nominated 

candidates. 

wiNNErS 

2011 oriana Bandiera (Professor of economics, london school of economics) 

2010 Fabio maccheroni (Professor of mathematical economics, Bocconi university) 

2009 marco Battaglini (Professor of economics, Princeton university) 

2008 enrico moretti (Professor of economics, university of California, Berkeley) 

2007 nicola Persico (Professor of economics, new york university) 

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9_EVENTS 

Collegio Carlo Alberto is an active part of the international scientific community. every year 

many scholars from international research institutions visit the Collegio to give seminars, 

lectures and interact with the Collegio scholars and students. 

The Collegio organizes: 

• seminars in economics 

• Workshops in Capital markets 

• statistics seminars 

• Collegio aperto 

• distinguished scientific lectures: 

- Vilfredo Pareto lectures in economics and social sciences 

- Carlo Alberto lecture 

- onorato Castellino lecture 

All these events are open to the public. 

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SEMiNArS iN ECONOMiCS, FAll 2012-2013 

Tuesday & Wednesday, 12:00-1:15 p.m. 

Coordinator: Paolo ghirardato 

october 9 Jerome Adda european university institute 

october 23 Fabiano schivardi Cagliari and eieF 

october 30 debopam Bhattacharya university of oxford 

november 6 Pieter gautier Vu university Amsterdam 

november 14 Karl schlag university of Vienna 

november 20 roberto galbiati Cnrs and sciences Po 

november 21 John Ven reenen london school of economics 

december 4 Andrea Pozzi eieF 

december 5 marzena rostek university of Wisconsin–madison 

JUNiOr JOb MArKET SEMiNArS 

Available at: 

www.carloalberto.org/events/seminars/job-market/ 

Coordinator: Paolo ghirardato 

STATiSTiCS SEMiNArS 

Available at: 

www.carloalberto.org/events/seminars/statistics/ 

Coordinator: matteo ruggiero 

wOrKShOPS iN CAPiTAl MArKETS, FAll 2012-2013 

Thursday, 12:00-1:15 p.m. 

september 27 rasmus lentz university of Wisconsin-madison 

october 11 An Chen university of ulm 

november 22 gabriella Berloffa university of Trento 

Coordinators: Carolina Fugazza, maria Cristina rossi and elena Vigna 

All the seminar schedules of spring 2012 will be posted at 

www.carloalberto.org/events/seminars/ 

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COllEgiO APErTO 

9_EVENTS 

Collegio aperto is a lecture series open to the public on current economic, social and political 

topics. guest speakers are leading international scholars and professionals. 

2012 

Alejandro Portes Princeton university 

2011 

ruth Ben ghiat nyu 

michael s. lewis-Beck university of iowa 

Alejandro Portes Princeton university 

2010 

guido Barilla Barilla holding s.p.A. 

John geanakoplos yale university 

romano Prodi un-Au Panel for Peacekeeping in Africa 

Walter russell mead Bard College 

2009 

Alberto Alesina harvard university 

mario draghi governor, Bank of italy 

diego gambetta university of oxford 

sir david King university of oxford 

glenn loury Brown university 

2008 

lorenzo Bini smaghi executive Committee, european Central Bank 

Wolfgang munchau Associate editor, Financial Times 

raghuram rajan university of Chicago gsB 

michael Walzer institute for Advanced study, Princeton 

2007 

niall Ferguson harvard 

VilFrEDO PArETO lECTUrES iN ECONOMiCS AND SOCiAl SCiENCES 

The Vilfredo Pareto lectures in economics and social sciences are delivered in June by two 

distinguished scholars to honour Vilfredo Pareto (1848-1923), an alumnus of the university 

and of the Politecnico of Torino and a towering figure in the social sciences. 

2012 

marianne Bertrand university of Chicago 

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2011 

ricardo Caballero massachusetts institute of Technology 

2010 

Angus deaton Princeton university 

Charles Plott California institute of Technology 

2009 

James J. heckman university of Chicago 

eric s. maskin iAs, Princeton 

2008 

michael Kremer harvard university 

Thomas J. sargent new york university 

2007 

daron Acemoglu miT 

Jean Tirole idei, Toulouse 

CArlO AlbErTO lECTUrE 

The Carlo Alberto lecture is delivered every other year in June by the recipient of the Carlo 

Alberto medal, awarded to a young italian economist under the age of 40 for her/his outstanding 

research contributions to the field of economics. 

ONOrATO CASTElliNO lECTUrES 

2012 

elsa Fornero minister of labour, social Policies and equal opportunities 

2010 

Annamaria lusardi Joel Z. and susan hyatt Professor of economics, dartmouth College 

2009 

mario draghi governor, Bank of italy 

2008 

mario monti Bocconi university 

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Director 


+39 011 670 5003, pietro.garibaldi@carloalberto.org 

Deputy Director for Economic Sciences 

Paolo ghirardato 

+39 011 670 5220, paolo.ghirardato@carloalberto.org 

Deputy Director for Social and Political Sciences 

Margarita Estevez-Abe 

+39 011 670 5092, margarita.estevez@carloalberto.org 

Administration and Control 

Elisa Clauser, head of office 

+39 011 670 5016, elisa.clauser@carloalberto.org 

Fulvia Ferrucci 

+39 011 670 5201, fulvia.ferrucci@carloalberto.org 

Valeria rosa 

+39 011 670 5002, valeria.rosa@carloalberto.org 

general Service 

luigi Favale, head of office 

+39 011 670 5020, luigi.favale@carloalberto.org 

lucio Coda Moscarola 

+39 011 670 5019, lucio.codamoscarola@carloalberto.org 

Alberto galvan 

+39 011 670 5019, alberto.galvan@carloalberto.org 

Front Desk 

+39 011 670 5000 

Mariangela raco 

mariangela.raco@carloalberto.org 

Vito Valente 

vito.valente@carloalberto.org 

Statistical Office 

roberto Quaranta 

+39 011 670 5067, roberto.quaranta@carloalberto.org 

Elisa grand 

+39 011 670 5067, elisa.grand@carloalberto.org 

10_CONTACTS 

Events and External relations 

Cinzia Agliani, head of office 

+39 011 670 5284, cinzia.agliani@carloalberto.org 

Secretariat and institutional Affairs 

Francesca Valle, head of office 

+39 011 670 5003, francesca.valle@carloalberto.org 

Valentina Falanga 

+39 011 670 5289, valentina.falanga@carloalberto.org 

Alessandra Ferrero 

+39 011 670 5090, alessandra.ferrero@carloalberto.org 

Federica gai 

+39 011 670 5200, federica.gai@carloalberto.org 

Chiara girotti 

+39 011 670 5060, chiara.girotti@carloalberto.org 

Silvia Maero 

+39 011 670 5040, silvia.maero@carloalberto.org 

Angela Marrocu 

+39 011 670 5001, angela.marrocu@carloalberto.org 

web Management 

giovanni bert 

+39 011 670 5015, giovanni.bert@carloalberto.org 

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The Collegio is committed to develop and maintain a sustainable and environmentally responsible way 

of working and minimizing waste. each of us can reduce the impact of the Collegio on the environment 

by adopting simple low-cost and even no-cost measures. 

visit www.carloalberto.org/environment 

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