MEDEA Seminars

A series of talks hosted by the Master in Energy and Environmental Management and Economics (MEDEA) organized in collaboration with the Scuola Enrico Mattei-Eni Corporate University (ECU) and the Department of Economics and Management (DEM) of the University of Pavia

Scheduled Talks

November 6th, 2025 (5:00 p.m. CET): Matteo Tranchero (Wharton), TBA

April 14th, 2026 (5:00 p.m. CET): Michele Fioretti (Bocconi), TBA

May 12th, 2025 (5:00 p.m. CET): Do Yoon Kim (Boston College), Nudging Customers to Select High Stock Delivery Windows via Information Sharing (joint with Dmitry Mitrofanov and Benjamin Knight)

February 24th, 2025 (5:00 p.m. CET): Francesca Truffa (Ross School of Business), Motherhood and the Gender Gap in Self-Employment (joint with Mery Ferrando, Teodora Tsankova, Ashley Wong)

February 10th, 2025 (5:00 p.m. CET): Raffaella Sadun (HBS), Training within Firms (joint with Brayan Diaz,  Andrea Neyra-Nazarrett, Julian Ramirez, and Jorge Tamayo)

November 4th, 2024 (5:00 p.m. CET): Gemma Dipoppa (Brown), Fascist Ideology and Migrant Exploitation (joint with Mario Carillo and Shanker Satyanath) 

April 15th, 2024 (1:00 p.m. CET): Chiara Farronato (HBS), Vertical Integration and Consumer Choice: Evidence from a Field Experiment (joint with Andrey Fradkin and Alexander MacKay)

April 8th, 2024 (5:00 p.m. CET): Mateo Montenegro (TSE), Job Retention at Scale (joint with Alexander Hijzen)

December 4th, 2023 (5:00 p.m. CET): Jaime Arellano-Bover (Yale), The Role of Firms and Job Mobility in the Assimilation  of Immigrants: Former Soviet Union Jews in Israel 1990–2019 (joint with Shmuel San)

November 13th, 2023 (5:00 p.m. CET): Astrid Marinoni (Georgia Tech), Loss of Peers and Individual Worker Performance: Evidence from H-1B Visa Denials (joint with Prithwiraj Choudhury, Kirk Doran, and Chungeun Yoon) 

March 8th, 2023 (6:00 p.m. CET): Diana Moreira (UC Davis), Who Benefits from Meritocracy? (joint with Santiago Pérez)

February 8th, 2023 (5:00 p.m. CET): Nikita Melnikov (Nova SBE), Mobile Internet and Political Polarization

November 30th, 2022 (5:00 p.m. CET): Ro'ee Levy (Tel Aviv University), The Effects of Social Movements: Evidence from #MeToo (joint with Martin Mattsson)

October 19th, 2022 (5:00 p.m. CET): Mara Squicciarini (Bocconi), Dealing with Adversity: Religiosity or Science? Evidence from the Great Influenza Pandemic (joint with Enrico Berkes, Davide Coluccia, and Gaia Dossi)

May 18th, 2022 (1:00 p.m. CET): Luigi Minale (Universidad Carlos III), Unpacking social capital (joint with Ruben Durante, Nicola Mastrorocco, and Jim Snyder)

April 22nd, 2022 (3:30 p.m. CET): Nicola Lacetera (University of Toronto), Is the price right? The role of morals, ideology and tradeoff thinking in explaining reactions to price surges (joint with Julio Elías and Mario Macis)

March 9th, 2022 (6:00 p.m. CET): Maria Carreri (UCSD), Economic and Political Effects of Fiscal Rules: Evidence from a Natural Experiment in Colombia (joint with Luis Martinez)

April 22nd, 2021 (2:00 p.m. CET): Mattia Nardotto (KU Leuven), Identity, media and consumer behavior (joint with Sandra Sequeira, LSE)

March 25th, 2021 (6:00 p.m. CET): Helios Herrera (University of Warwick), Brexit: Brinkmanship and Compromise (joint with Antonin Macé and Matías Núñez) 

February 11th, 2021 (2:00 p.m. CET): Elena Esposito (HEC - Lausanne), Reconciliation Narratives: the Birth of a Nation after the US Civil War (joint with Tiziano Rotesi, Alessandro Saia and Mathias Thoenig)

Novembre 26th, 2020 (6:00 p.m. CET): Italo Colantone (Bocconi), We Were the Robots: Automation and Voting Behavior in Western Europe (joint with Massimo Anelli and Piero Stanig)

November 5th, 2020 (2:00 p.m. CET): Michela Giorcelli (UCLA),  The Dynamics and Spillover Effects of Management Interventions (joint with Nicola Bianchi)