Past Seminars

Unless otherwise noted, seminars begin at 16:00 and finish around 18:00. Room Camille Joset (401), 4th floor, Rempart de la Vierge, 8.

Economics Seminars 2006-2007

 co-organized by CERPE, CRED and CEREFIM

Fall

 Oct. 3. Kjetil BJORVATN (NHH). Resource rents and political outcomes in polarized societies: separation or unity, democracy or dictatorship.

Oct. 10. Georg KIRCHSTEIGER (ECARES, ULB). On the evolution of market institutions: the platform design paradox.

Oct. 11. Andrew CLARK (Paris-Jourdan). Deliver us from evil: religion as insurance.

Oct. 13. 12:45. Scott ROZELLE (UCDavis). Governance reform and public goods investment: the case of China.

Oct. 17. Axel GAUTIER (FUSL). Efficient access pricing and endogenous market structure.

Oct. 24. Lucia DALLA PELLEGRINA (Bocconi). The effects of peer monitoring on investment. A comparison between group lending and informal credit.

Oct. 31. Tessa BOLD (U. of Oxford). Risk-sharing in insurance groups in rural Ethiopia.

Nov. 9. Special Seminars:

12:45. Jean-Paul AZAM (U. of Toulouse 1). Civil wars in Africa : the point of view of an economist.

14:30. Maurice SCHIFF World Bank). Migration, trade and investment: substitutes or complements?

Dec. 5. Hans DEGRYSE (Tilburg U.). Bans on price discrimination by a dominant firm.

Dec. 15. Andrea GUAZZINI (U. Florence). Opinion dynamics: the role of affinity and social temperature.

Dec. 19. Raphael SOUBEYRAN (MOISA, INRA). Political cycles: issue ownership and the opposition advantage.

Winter

Jan. 31. 12:45. Room 402. Jaime DE MELO (U. of Geneva). Openness, inequality, and poverty: endowments matter.

Feb. 6. Oriana BANDIERA (LSE). Active and passive waste of public funds: evidence from a procurement policy reform.

Feb. 20. Estelle CANTILLON (ECARES, ULB). How and when markets tip? Lessons from the Battle of the Bund.

Feb. 27. Marta REYNAL (U. Pompeu Fabra). The colonial origin of civil wars.

Mar. 6. Kristian BEHRENS (CORE). Testing the home market effect in a multi-country world. 

Mar. 13. Jonathan CONNING (CUNY). Social investment: grants, subsidies and loan guarantees in a theory of financial market development.

Mar. 20. Rohini SOMANATHAN (U. Delhi). Understanding the spatial allocation of public goods in India.

Spring

Mar. 23. 12:45. Juan Antonio MORALES (Universidad Católica Boliviana). Financial deepening and economic development in Bolivia.

Mar. 27. Clive BELL (Heidelberg U.) Economic growth, education and AIDS in Kenya: a long-term analysis.

Apr. 17. 17:00. Günter COENEN (ECB). Taxreform and labour-market performance in the Euro area: a simulation-based analysis using the New Area-Wide Model.

Apr. 24. Jan Willem GUNNING (Free U. Amsterdam). Is aid effective? Assessing budget support with statistical impact evaluation.

May. 8. Eric VERHOOGEN (Columbia). Class size and sorting in market equilibrium: theory and evidence.

May. 15. Rocco MACCHIAVELLO (LSE). Competition, sorting and relational contracts: theory and evidence from Chilean wine exports to UK.

May. 22. Martina BJORKMAN (Bocconi). Power to the people: evidence from a randomized field experiment of a community based monitoring project in Uganda.

Jun. 8. Ashok RAI (Williams College). Cosigners help.

Unless otherwise noted, seminars begin at 16:00 and finish around 18:00. Room Camille Joset (401), 4th floor, Rempart de la Vierge, 8.

Economics Seminars 2007-2008

 co-organized by CERPE, CRED and CEREFIM

Fall

Oct. 2 - Christophe Chamley (PSE, Paris) - Complementarities in Information Acquisition With Short-term Trades

Oct. 16 - Sébastien Laurent (FUNDP, Namur) - Testing Conditional Asymmetry. A Residual-Based Approach 

Oct. 23 - Doctoral Workshop

Oct. 30 - Sabien Dobbelaere (UGent), Panel data estimates of the production function and product and labor market imperfections (joint with Jacques Mairesse).

Nov. 6 - Aude Pommeret (HEC-Université de Lausanne) - "Abatement Technology Adoption under Uncertainty", joint with Katheline Schubert.

Nov. 13 - Diego MOCCERO (l'OCDE) - Monetary policy and inflation expectations in Latin America: Long-run effects and volatility spillovers

Nov. 27 - Valentino Larcinese (LSE, UK) - Partisan bias in economic news: evidence on the agenda-setting behavior of U.S. newspapers.

Nov. 30 - 14h30 - Michael Carter (University of Wisconsin) - Poverty Trap and Social Protection

Dec. 11 - Doctoral Workshop

Dec. 18 - Vincenzo Verardi - Untalented but successful

Winter

Jan. 22 - Daniel Li Chen (Harvard Law School & University of Chicago) - Does Economic Distress Stimulate Religious Fundamentalism?

Feb. 12 - Doctoral Workshop

Feb. 19 - Luisito Bertinelli (Université du Luxembourg) - Trends in rainfall and economic growth in Africa: A neglected cause of the African growth strategy.

Feb. 26 - Marco Marini  (Université d'Urbino e Rome III) - Endogenous Timing with Coalitions of Agents

March 4 - Luc Bauwens (Université Catholique de Louvain-La-Neuve) - The resistible decline of European Science

March 11 - 14h30 - Nicolas Coeurdacier (London Business School) - International Portfolios with Supply, Demand and Redistributive Shock

March 18 - 16h00 - Elsa Artadi (Université de Bocconi) - Determinants and Impact of Foreign Aid

March 18 - 17h30 - Stefan AMBEC (Université de Toulouse) - Regulatory instruments to protect the commons: an experimental investigation (co-écrit avec A. Garapin, L. Muller et C. Sebi)    

Spring

Apr. 8 - Armin Schwienbacher (University of Amsterdam and Université catholique de Louvain) - The Political Origin of Pension Funding - co-écrit avec Enrico Perotti (University of Amsterdam, NETSPAR and CEPR)

Apr. 15 - Catherine Guirkinger (Facultés Universitaires Notre-Dame de la Paix Namur) - The Coexistence of Formal and Informal Credit Markets in Rural areas of Developing Countries

Apr. 22 - Doctoral Workshop

Apr. 29 - Alexander Sebald (ECARES, Stockholm University) - Procedural Concerns in Psychological Games

May 6 - Marc Bellemare (Duke University) - Household attitudes to price risk with multiple commodities : evidence from rural Ethiopia 

May 20 - Matteo Cervellati (University of Bologna) - Insurance, Human Capital and Technological Change: A Theory on The Economic Role of Religious Norms - co-écrit avec Marcel Jansen (Universidad Carlos III, Madrid) et Uwe Sunde (University of St. Gallen CEPR, London)

May 27 -  Rohini Pande -  (Harvard University) - Powerful Women : Does Exposure Reduce Bias ? 

Unless otherwise noted, seminars begin at 16:00 and finish around 18:00. Room Camille Joset (401), 4th floor, Rempart de la Vierge, 8.

Economics Seminars 2008-2009

 co-organized by CERPE, CRED and CEREFIM

Fall

Oct. 7 - 16h30 - Miguel Urquiola (Columbia University) - The consequence of going to a better school

Oct. 7 - 12h45 - John Wallis (University of Maryland) - Violence and Social Order"

Oct. 21 - Klaus Desmet (Universidad Carlos III) - The Evolution of Markets and the Revolution of Industry

Oct. 28 - Carlo Rosa - (CORE - UCL) - Talking Less and Moving the Market More: Is this the Recipe for Monetary Policy Effectiveness? Evidence from the ECB and the Fed

Nov. 4 - Hanan Jacoby (The World Bank) - Bride Exchange and Women's Welfare in Rural Pakistan?

Nov. 18 - David McKenzie  (The World Bank) - Are Women More Credit Constrained ? Experimental Evidence on Gender and Microenterprise Returns

Nov. 25 - Olivier Gergaud (Université de Paris 1 et Université de Reims) - "Strategic Forecasting in Rank-Order Tournaments: Evidence from Horse-Racing Tipsters"

Dec. 09 - Johannes Muenster (WZB in Berlin) - Long Live the King? On Dictatorship and Development

Dec. 16 - Catherine Dehon  (ULB - ECARES - CKE) - Quantifying Academic Excellence, What do the Shanghai Ranking Measure? (Paper : joint with  Alice McCathie and Vincenzo Verardi)

Winter

Feb 10 - Flore Gubert (DIAL – Paris) - Migration, Self-selection and Returns to Education in the WAEMU

Feb 17 - Paul Belleflamme (CORE - UCL) - Intermediation and Invesment Incentives  

Feb. 24 - Kurt Schmidheiny (Universitat Pompeu Fabra) - Do Agglomeration Economies Reduce the Sensitivity of Firm Location to Tax Differentials?

March 9, 2009 (14h00 - 18h00) PAI-UAP Workshop on Public Economics :  Political Economy of  Reforms and Labor Market Institutions ?    

14h00 - 15h00 - Gille Saint Paul (Toulouse School of Economics) - The Role of Beliefs and Ideologies in the Political Economy of Reforms

15h00 - 16h00 - Vincenzo Galasso (Bocconi University) - The Euro and Structural Reforms ? (Joint with Alberto Alesina and Silvia Ardagna)

16h00 - 16h30 - Coffee break

16h30-17h30 - Andrew Clark (Paris School of Economics) - Public Employment and Political Pressure: The Case of French Hospitals ? (Joint with Carine Milcent)

March 10 - Nelly Exbrayat  (WZB - Berlin) - How Labour market rigidities shape business taxation ?

March 17 - Elise Huillery (Paris School of Economics) - The Impact of European Settlement within French West Africa : Did pre-colonial prosperous areas fall behind ?

March 24 - Giovanni Mastrobuoni (Collegio Carlo Alberto - Turin) - Everybody Stay Cool, This Is a Robbery ! Evidence on Deterrence Effects from Instantaneous Tradeoffs During Bank Robberies

Spring

April 21 - Esteban Jaimovich (Collegio Carlo Alberto - Turin) - Private Sector Growding out Through Excessive Public Sector Employment  

April 28 - Paul De Grauwe (KU Leuven) - Animal Spirits and Monetary Policy

May 5 - Stephane Straub (Université de Toulouse) - "La Patria Contratista": Public procurement and Rent-Seeking in Paraguay

May 12 - Milo  Bianchi (Paris School of Economics) - Financial Development, Enterpreneurship, and Job Satisfaction

June, 15: 16:30-18:00 - Rema Hanna (Harvard Kennedy School) - "Measuring Discrimination in Education ?"

June, 16 : 17:00-18:30 - Berk Özler (World Bank) - "Designing cost-effective cash transfer programs in Sub-Saharan Africa?" 

Unless otherwise noted, seminars begin at 16:00 and finish around 18:00. Room Camille Joset (401), 4th floor, Rempart de la Vierge, 8.

Economics Seminars 2009-2010

 co-organized by CERPE, CRED and CEREFIM

Fall

Sept. 29 - Marc Bellemare (Duke University) - Not Worth the Paper They Are Printed On: Land Rights and Productivity in Madagascar

Oct. 13 - Giorgio Zanarone (CUNEF, Madrid) - Fiat without Authority in Firms (and Markets)

Oct. 20 - Romain Houssa (FUNDP, Namur) - Identification of Macroeconomic Factors in Large Panels

Oct. 27 - Eric Toulemonde (FUNDP, Namur) - The Principle of mutual recognition - A source of divergence ?

Nov. 03 - Wouter Vergote (FUSL) - Endogenous network formation in patent contests and its role as a barrier to entry

Nov. 10 - Giuseppe Attanasi (Toulouse School of Economics) - CANCELLED

Nov. 17 - Nicolas Gothelf (ULB) - Mixed Bundling in Slave Auctions

Nov. 24 - Andrew F. Newman (Boston Univeristy) - oopholes: Social Learning and the Evolution of Contract Form

Dec. 01 - Jens Südekum (University of Duisburg-Essen) - Subsidizing Firm Entry In Open Economies

Dec. 15 - Marius Brülhart (HEC - Université de Lausanne) - How Wages and Employment Adjust to Trade Liberalisation: Quasi-Experimental Evidence from Austria

Winter

Feb 2 - Andrzej Cieslik (Université de Varsovie) - Productivity differences and foreign market entry strategies in an oligopolist industry - /!\ exceptionally in room 412 !

Feb 9 - Francesco Sobbrio (Lucca Institute for Advanced Studies) - A citizens-editors model of news media

Feb 23 - Efrem Castelnuovo (University of Padua) - Monetary Policy Shocks, Choleski Identification, and DNK Models: An Empirical Investigation for the U.S.

March 2 - Philippe De Donder (Toulouse School of Economics) - A Positive Theory of Unemployment Insurance and Employment Protection (avec Vincent Anesi - U. of Nottingham)

March 9 - Biagio Speciale (ECARES) - Remittance behavior of undocumented migrants

March 16 -  Geert Dhaene (KULeuven) - Split-panel jackknife of fixed-effect models

Spring

March 23 - William Parienté (UCL) - Happiness on tap: The Demand for and Impact of Piped Water in Urban Morocco - /!\ exceptionally in room 412 !

March 30 - Michael Pflüger (University of Passau) - CANCELLED

April 20 - Filippo Gregorini (University Milano Bicocca) - CANCELLED

April 27 - Heiko Karle (ECARES) - Pricing and Information Disclosure in Markets with Loss-Averse Consumers

May 4 - Gaia Narciso (Trinity College Dublin) - Refugees and Illegal Arms Flows

May 11 - Bram De Rock (ECARES) - The revealed preference approach to collective consumption behavior : testing and sharing rule recovery

May 18 (12:30pm) - David Yanagizawa (Stockholm University) - Propaganda and Conflict: Theory and Evidence from the Rwandan Genocide

May 18 (04:30pm) - Hannes Mueller (Instituto d'Analisi Economica, Barcelona) - Estimating the Peace dividend: The impact of violence on house prices in Northern Ireland

May 25 (02:30pm) - Xavier Giné (The World Bank) - Identification Strategy: A Field Experiment on Dynamic Incentives in Rural Credit Markets

June 8 - Ingvild Almas (Université de Bergen) - Poverty Reduction in India -- New Evidence Based on Micro Data

Last updated: May 19, 2011. 

Contact : Marie-Hélène Mathieu

Unless otherwise noted, seminars begin at 16:00 and finish around 18:00. Room Camille Joset (401), 4th floor, Rempart de la Vierge, 8.

Economics Seminars 2010-2011

 co-organized by CERPE, CRED and CEREFIM

Fall

September 28 - Florian Mayneris (UCL) - Entry on export markets, heterogeneous financial constraints and firm-level performance growth: Intra-industrial convergence or divergence?

October 5 - Filippo Gregorini (University of Milan - Bicocca) - Campaign Finance: Split Contributions, Motives and Limits (co-authored with Filippo Pavesi)

October 12 - Knud Munk (UCL) - Taxation of Status Goods

October 19 - Michael Pfluger (University of Passau) - Relational contracts and persistence performance differences between seemingly similar enterprises

October 26 - Thomas Gall (Bonn) - Markets and Jungles

November 2 - Dimitris Korobilis (UCL) - Forecasting Inflation Using Dynamic Model Averaging

November 9 - Tomas Murphy (Bocconi University) - The role of economic and non-economic factors in fertility dynamics: revisiting the French decline

November 16 - Tessa Bold (IIES, Stockholm University) - Testing Coalition-Proof Dynamic Risk-Sharing

November 25 - Maitreesh Ghatak (LSE) - Repayment Frequency and Lending Contracts with Present-Biased Borrowers 

December 2 - Luca Merlino (ECARES) - Endogenous Job Contact Networks

December 7 - Marco Marini (University of Urbino) - Just one of us: consumers playing oligopoly in a mixed market 

December 14 - Cédric Argenton (University of Tilburg) - Exclusion through speculation

Winter

February 8 - Menno Pradhan (University of Amsterdam) - Improving educational quality through enhancing community participation: results from a randomised field experiment in Indonesia

February 15 - Raji Jayaraman (ESMT) - Productivity responses to incentives in long-term relationships: evidence from personnel data

February 22 - Julia Schvets (University of Cambridge) - Distributive politics and electoral incentives: Evidence from seven US state legislatures
 

March 1 - Stephan Klasen (University of Göttingen and IZA) - Of Donor Coordination, Free-Riding, Darlings and Orphans: The dependence of bilateral aid commitments on other bilateral giving

March 2 - Marcin Lupinski (University of Warsaw) - Short-term forecasting of GDP growth with second generation dynamic factor models 

March 8 - Antonio Nicolò (University of Padua) - Age-based preferences: incorporating compatible pairs into paired kidney exchange

March 15 - Mirco Tonin (University of Southampton) - Enforcing Import Tariffs (and Other Taxes)

March 22 - Philipp Kircher (LSE) - An Equilibrium Model of the African HIV/AIDS Epidemic

March 29 - Giuseppe Attanasi (Toulouse School of Economics) - Disclosure of Belief-Dependent Preferences in the Trust Game

Spring

April 5 - Marco LiCalzi (University of Venice) - The power of diversity over large solution spaces

April 14 - Juan Fernando Vargas (Universidad del Rosario) - Words versus Bullets: Media and Democracy with Coercion

April 26 - Arnaud Dellis (Université Laval) - Splitting, squeezing and diluting: policy moderation when candidacy is endogenous

May 5 - Selim Gulesci (London School of Economics) - Labor-Tying and Poverty in a Rural Economy: Evidence from Bangladesh

May 10 - Marc Möller (Universidad Carlos III Madrid and University of Bern) - The Distribution of Talent Across Contests

May 17 - Enrico Diecidue (INSEAD) - Group Decision Making Under Ambiguity

May 27 - Leonard Wantchekon (New York University) - The Institutional Legacy of African Independence Movement (!seminar exceptionally on Friday!)

Last updated: May 19, 2011. 

Contact : Marie-Hélène Mathieu

Unless otherwise noted, seminars begin at 16:00 and finish around 18:00. Room Camille Joset (401), 4th floor, Rempart de la Vierge, 8.

Economics Seminars 2011-2012

 co-organized by CERPE, CRED and CEREFIM

Fall

September 29 - Dominic Rohner (University of Zurich) - Natural Resource Distribution and Multiple Forms of Civil War

October 4 - Giorgio Zanarone (CUNEF, Madrid) - Fixed versus Open Prices: A Choice between Countering Opportunism and Creating Value  

October 11 - Mathieu Lefebvre (ULg) - Tax Evasion, Welfare Fraud, and ”The Broken Windows” Effect: An Experiment in Belgium, France and the Netherlands 

October 18 - David de la Croix (UCL) - From polygamy to serial monogamy: a unified theory of marriage institutions

October 25 - Chiara Canta (Core, UCL) - Efficiency, access and the mixed provision of health services

November 8 - Joe Tharakan (University of Liège) - Intermediaries, transport costs and interlinked transactions

November 15 - Maria Perrotta (Stockholm School of Economics) - Understanding Aid Fragmentation --- Entry and Exit Decisions

November 18 - ERC Workshop - Social capital and enforcement of informal contracts in developing economies

November 22 - Alexander Moradi (University of Sussex) - Revolutionizing Transport: Modern Infrastructure, Agriculture and Development in Ghana

November 29 - Zack Brown (OCDE, Paris) - The Economics of Malaria Vector Control

December 6 - Sarah Baird (George Washington University) - Designing experiments to measure spillover and threshold effects

December 13 - Katja Kaufmann (Bocconi University) - Learning about the Enforcement of Conditional Welfare Programs and Behavioral Responses: Evidence from Bolsa Familia in Brazil

December 20 - Aadhaar Chaturvedi (FUNDP, Dept. of Business Administration) - Split Award Auctions for Supplied Retention 

Winter

January 31 - Sebastian Krautheim (Univ. of Frankfurt) - Wages and International Tax Competition

February 7 - François Maniquet (UCL) - Multidimensional poverty measurement: shouldn't we take preferences into account?

February 14 - Michele Modugno (ECARES) - Nowcasting with daily data

February 23 - Frédéric Docquier (UCL) - Efficiency gains from liberalizing labor mobility 

February 28 - Ola Olsson (University of Gothenburg, Sweden) - Origins of the Sicilian mafia: the market for lemons

March 2 - Gérard Roland (UC Berkeley) - Culture, Institutions and the Wealth of Nations 

March 6 - Hylke Vandenbussche (UCL) - Verti-zontal differentiation in monopolistic competition

March 9 - PAI Workshop - Economics of crime and corruption

March 13 - Nicolas Sahuguet (HEC Montreal and ECARES) - Assessing Racial Discrimination in Parole Release

March 23 - Shoshana Grossbard (San Diego State University) - Law and economics of divorce laws 

March 27 - Giacomo Valletta (University of Maastricht) - Health, fairness and taxation

Spring

April 17 - Remco Zwinkels (Erasmus University Rotterdam) - Volatility, investor uncertainty and dispersion

April 24 - Ivan Petrella (University of London) - Speculation in the oil market

May 2 - David Stasavage (New York University) - Technology and the era of mass army 

May 15 - Aleksey Tetenov (Collegio Carlo Alberto, Turin) - Identification of Positive Treatment Effects in Randomized
Experiments with Non-Compliance

May 22 - Bard Harstad (Kellogg Business School, Northwestern University) - Experimentation in federal systems

May 29 - Claudia Senik (Paris School of Economics) - The great happiness moderation

Jun 12 - Dilip Mookherjee (Boston University) - Intermediated Loans: A New Approach to Microfinance (!Room E43!)

Jun 19 - Mikhail Drugov (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid) - Optimal Patronage

Last updated: June 15, 2012

 Contact : marie-helene.mathieu@fundp.ac.be

Unless otherwise noted, seminars begin at 16:00 and finish around 18:00. Room Camille Joset (401), 4th floor, Rempart de la Vierge, 8.

Economics Seminars 2012-2013

 co-organized by CERPE, CRED and CEREFIM

Fall

September 10 - Xavier Gine (The World Bank) - Strategic Default in joint liability groups: Evidence from a natural experiment in India 

September 21 - Rajiv Sethi (Barnard College, Columbia University) - Group Inequality

September 25 - Jan Klingelhöfer (RWTH Aachen University) - The Swing Voters' Blessing

October 2 - Michel Beine (University of Luxembourg) - Dutch Disease and the Mitigation Effect of Migration : Evidence from Canadian Provinces 

October 9 - Salvatore Di Falco (University of Geneva) - How to adapt to Climate Change? Evidence from the Nile Basin of Ethiopia

October 16 - Chris Neely (Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis) - International Channels of the Fed's Unconventional Monetary Policy (Workshop Ch. Lecourt)

October 23 - Gianmarco Leon (Universitat Pompeu Fabra) - Turnout, Political Preferences and Information: Experimental Evidences from Peru

October 30 - Francesco Fasani (Institut d'Analisi Economica) - The prospect of legal status and the employment status of undocumented immigrants

November 6 - Stephan Litschig (Universitat Pompeu Fabra) - Audit Risk and Rent Extraction: Evidence from a Randomized Evaluation in Brazil

November 12 - Workshop 'The Macroeconomics of sovereign debt' (R. Houssa)

November 20 - Claudio Ferraz (Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro) - Does Oil Make Leaders Unaccountable? Evidence from Brazil's Offshore Oil Boom

November 22 - Tanguy van Ypersele (GREQAM) - Crime, wealth and protection: a theory and Canadian evidence 

November 27 - Priscila Souza (TSE) - Moral Hazard in the Family

December 3 - Juan Carmilo Cardenas (Universidad de los Andes, Colombia) - Vertical Collective Action and the Distributive Challenges of Cooperation: Experiments in the Developing World 

Winter

January 29 - Bertrand Candelon (Université de Maastricht) - Multivariate Dynamic Probit Models: An Application to Financial Crises Mutation

February 5 - Yanos Zylberberg (CREI) - Dynastic mobility 

February 12 - Francisco Pino (ULB) - Is There Gender Bias Among Voters? Evidence from the Chilean Congressional Elections

February 19 - Daniel Paravisini (LSE) - The information and agency effects on scores: randomized evidence from credit committees

February 26 - Luc Behaghel (PSE) - When anonymous resumes do not help Lakisha and Jamal. A field experiment with real candidates.

March 12 - Martin Quaas (Universität zu Kiel) - CANCELLED

March 20 - Juan Antonio Morales (Columbia University) - Left populism in Bolivia: economic policies and consequences

Spring

April 22 - Thierry Mayer (SciencesPo) - The Economic Incentives of Cultural Transmission: Spatial Evidence from Naming Patterns across France 

April 23 - Nikolai Hoberg (Leuphana Universität Lüneburg) - Irreversibility, ignorance, and the intergenerational equity-efficiency trade-off

April 30 - Cedric Tille (The Graduate Institue, Geneva) - A bargaining theory of trade invoicing and pricing

May 7 -

May 14 - Paul Glewwe (University of Minnesota) - Heterogeneity in impacts of school characteristics on student learning in developing countries: evidence from Vietnamese and Peruvian panel data

May 16 - Kevin Tsui (Clemson U.) - Economic Foundations of Political Monopoly

May 21 - Matthew Ellman (Institut d'Analisi Economica) - How to subsidise the news

May 28 - Michael Carter (UC Davis) - A Theory of the Political Economy of Inclusive Rural Growth

June 4 - Mathieu Parenti (UCL) - International Trade: David and Goliath

June 10 - Boris Gershman (American University) - The two sides of envy (exceptionally on Monday at 1pm at room E43!)

June 11 - Robert Kollmann (ULB) - Global banks, financial shocks and international business cycles: evidence from an estimated model 

June 18 - Ruben Durante (Sciences Po, Paris) - Voting alone? The political and cultural consequences of commercial TV

June 25 - Marie-Anne Valfort (Paris School of Economics) - The effect of weather-induced internal migration on local labor markets. Evidence from Uganda.

Last updated: June 18, 2013

Seminars planned for next year 2013-2014

Contact : marie-helene.mathieu@fundp.ac.be

Unless otherwise noted, seminars begin at 16:00 and finish around 18:00. Room Camille Joset (401), 4th floor, Rempart de la Vierge, 8.

Economics Seminars 2013-2014

co-organized by CERPE, CRED and CEREFIM     

Fall

September 24 - Nava Ashraf (Harvard Business School) - Do-gooders and Doctors: Evidence on Selection and Performance of Health Workers

October 2 - Guglielmo Maria Caporale (Brunel University, London) - Fiscal spillovers in the euro area (exceptionally on Wednesday)

October 8 - Martin Quaas (Universität zu Kiel) - Public and private management of renewable resources: who gains? who loses?

October 15 - Pascaline Dupas (Stanford University) - The daily grind: Cash needs, labor supply and self-control

October 22 - Gernot Mueller (Universität Bonn) - Currency risk in currency unions

October 29 - Sanchari Roy (University of Warwick) - Sex workers, Stigma and Self-Belief: Evidence from a Psychological Training Program in India

November 12 - Esteban Jaimovich (University of Surrey) - Love for Quality, Comparative Advantage, and Trade

November 19 - Kala Krishna (University of Pennsylvania) - How You Export Matters - Export Mode, Learning and Productivity in China

November 26 - Marinella Leone (University of Sussex, UK) - Women as decision makers in community forest management in Nepal

December 3 - Monica Martinez Bravo (CEMFI) - The Effect of the Education of Politicians on Public Good Provision: Evidence from Indonesia

December 10 - Pepita Miquel-Florensa (TSE) - Investigating social capital in Colombia: Conflict and public good contributions

December 17 - Anne-Laure Delatte (Sciences Po) - Global banks leverage and inertia in the US financial cycle

Winter

January 28 - Fabien Tripier (Université Lille 1) - A Search-Theoretic Approach to Efficient Financial Intermediation

February 4 - Francesca Jensenius (Norwegian Institute of International Affairs) - Development from Representation? A Study of Quotas for Scheduled Castes in India

February 11 - Sabine Flamand (Nova University of Lisbon) - Partial Decentralization as a Way to Avoid Secessionist Conflict

February 18 - Elise Huillery (Sciences Po) - The Aspiration-Poverty Trap: Why do Students from Low Social Background Limit their Ambition? Evidence from France

March 4 - Eric Monnet (Banque de France) - Monetary policy without interest rates

March 11 - Juan Pablo Rud (Royal Holloway, University of London) - Modern Industries, Pollution and Agricultural Productivity: Evidence from Ghana

March 25 - Dirk van de Gaer (UGent) - History dependent growth incidence: a characterization and an application to the economic crisis in Italy

April 1 - Taryn Dinkelman (Dartmouth College) - What are the long run effects of labor migration on human capital? Evidence from Malawi

Spring

April 22 - Clément Imbert (Univ. of Oxford) - Short-Term Migration and Rural Workfare Programs: Evidence from India

April 29 - Elena Paltseva (Stockholm School of Economics) - Petro Rents, Political Institutions, and Hidden Wealth: Evidence from Bank Deposits in Tax Havens

May 6 - Matteo Migheli (University of Torino) - Gender at work: incentives and self-selection

May 13 - Edoardo Grillo (Collegio Carlo Alberto) - Reference Dependence and Politicians' Credibility

May 20 - Kaj Thomsson (Maastricht University) - The Political Economy of Sovereign Borrowing

May 27 - Melissa Dell (Harvard University) - Path dependence in development: evidence from the Mexican revolution

June 3 - Jonathan Meer (Texas A&M University) - Effects of minimum wage on employment dynamics

June 10 - Abigal Payne (McMaster University, Canada) - Crowding Oot: The Effect of Government Grants on Donors, Fundraisers, and Foundations in Canada

June 17 - Alessandro Tarozzi (Universitat Pompeu Fabra) - Time inconsistency, expectations and technology adoption : the case of insecticide treated nets

Last updated : June 2, 2014

Contact : marie-helene.mathieu@unamur.be

Unless otherwise noted, seminars begin at 16:00 and finish around 18:00. Room Camille Joset (401), 4th floor, Rempart de la Vierge, 8.

  Economics seminars 2014-2015                                       

co-organized by CERPE, CRED and CEREFIM     

Fall

September 30 - Markus Goldstein (World Bank) - Women’s Empowerment in Action: Evidence from a Randomized Control Trial in Africa

October 7 - Lasse Bork (Aalborg University) - A large-dimensional structural factor analysis of Californian house prices

October 9 - Michael Fritsch (Friedrich Schiller Universität, Allemagne) - Fields of Knowledge, Types of Higher Education Institutions, and Innovative Start-Ups (starts at 2pm)

October 14 - Manasa Patnam (ENSAE Paris Tech) - Risk Sharing with (Dis)Aggregate Shocks

October 21 - Habiba Djebbari (Aix-Marseille University) - Social nudging towards better sanitation: evidence from experiments in rural Mali.

October 28 - Mohamed Saleh (Toulouse School of Economics) - Mass Education, Religion, and Human Capital in Twentieth-Century Egypt

November 4 - Johannes Pfeifer (University of Mannheim) - Does austerity pay off?

November 25 - Florian Mayneris (UCL) - The cleansing effect of minimum wages : Minimum wages, firm dynamics and aggregate productivity in China

November 27 - Arjen van Witteloostuijn (Tilburg University) - The Ecology of the Public Sector (starts at 10am)

December 2 - Mushfiq Mobarak (Yale School of Management) - Does Development Aid Undermine Political Accountability? Leader and Constituent Responses to a Large-Scale Intervention

December 9 - Lucie Gadenne (University College London) - Non linear commodity taxation in developing countries, theory and evidence from India

Winter

January 27 - Gharad Bryan (LSE) - Economic Development and The Spatial Allocation of Labor: Evidence from Indonesia

February 3 - Devesh Rustagi (Goethe University Frankfurt) - Cheating in the Lab and in the Field: Evidence from Milkmen in India

February 24 - Cars Hommes (Universiteit van Amsterdam) - Bubble Formation and (In)E-cient Markets in Learning-to-Forecast and -Optimize Experiments

March 3 - Dan Bogart (University of California-Irvine) - There can be no Partnership with the King: Regulatory Uncertainty and Investment in Britain’s East India Monopoly

March 10 - Charles Efferson (University of Zurich) - Female genital cutting without a cutting norm

March 17 - Marco Manacorda (Queen Mary University of London) - Liberation Technology: Mobile Phones and Political Mobilization in Africa

March 24 - Eric Toulemonde (UNamur) - Trade under monopsonistic competition

March 31 - Iryna Kyzyma (CEPS/INSTEAD Luxembourg) - Behind a stable poverty rate: Changes in the duration of poverty episodes in the United States since the mid-1980s

Spring

April 21 - Philippe Martin (SciencesPo, Paris) - Inspecting the Mechanism: Leverage and the Great Recession in the Eurozon

April 28 - Sheri M. Markose (University of Essex) - New Global Macro-Net Model For Macro-Prudential Policy

May 12 - Julia Cagé (Sciences Po) - Newspapers in times of low advertising revenues

May 19 - Christian Dippel (UCLA Anderson School of Management) - The rents from trade and coercive institutions: removing the sugar coating

May 26 - Tom S. Vogl (Princeton University) - Intergenerational Dynamics and the Fertility Transition

June 9 - Sheetal Sekhri (University of Virginia) - Agricultural Trade and Depletion of Groundwater

Last updated : June 5, 2015

 Contact: marie-helene.mathieu@unamur.be 

Unless otherwise noted, seminars begin at 16:00 and finish around 18:00. Room Camille Joset (401), 4th floor, Rempart de la Vierge, 8.

Economics seminars 2015-2016                                       

co-organized by CERPE, CRED and CEREFIM     

Fall

September 22 - Jeremy Foltz (University of Wisconsin-Madison) - "Do Higher Salaries Lower Petty Corruption? A Policy Experiment on West Africa’s Highways"

September 29 - Rahul Mukherjee (The Graduate Institute, Geneva) - "'Liquidity Driven FDI"

October 6 - Natasha Wagner (Erasmus University Rotterdam) - "Does Health Insurance Coverage or Improved Quality Protect Better Against Out-of-Pocket Payments? Experimental Evidence from the Philippines"

October 13 - Pamela Jakiela (University of Maryland) - "How Soon Is Now? Evidence of Present Bias from Convex Time Budget Experiments"

October 20 - William Parienté (UCL) - "Discrimination as a Self-Fulfilling Prophecy: Evidence from French Grocery stores"

October 27 - Greg Fischer (London School of Economics) -  "Gender & the Response to Incentives: Building Evidence from Multiple Studies"

November 3 -  Andrei Markevich (New Economic School, Skolkovo, Moscow) - "Economic Effects of the Abolition of Serfdom: Evidence from the Russian Empire"

November 17 - Dan Keniston (Yale University) - "How Positive Was the Positive Check? Investment and Fertility in the Aftermath of the 1918 Influenza in India"

December 1 - Julien Grenet (PSE) - "Beyond Truth-Telling : Preference Estimation with Centralized School Choice" (co-auteurs : Gabrielle Fack (Université Paris 1) et Yinghua He (Toulouse School of Economics)).

December 15 - Dirk Van de Gaer (UGent) - "Did Progresa Reduce Inequality of Opportunity for Scholl re-enrollment"  (joint with José Luis Figueroa).

Winter

January 20 (exceptionally on Wednesday) - 14:30 -Emmanuelle Auriol (TSE) -and Jean-Philippe Platteau (UNamur) - "Religious Seduction in Autocracy: A Theory Inspired by History." 

January 22 (exceptionally on Friday) 16:00- Suresh Naidu (Columbia University) - "Social Origins of Dictatorships: Elite Networks and Political Transitions in Haiti"

February 9 - Job Market

February 16 - Job Market

February 23 - Job Market

March 1 - Hans Degryse (KULeuven) - "When Do Laws and Institutions Affect Recovery Rates on Collateral?"

March 8 - (exceptionally - Room E13) Andrew Foster (Brown University) - "Direct and Indirect Effects of Voluntary Certification: Evidence from the Mexican Clean Industry Program"

March 15 - March 18 - Seminar cancelled

March 22 - Marc Sangnier (Aix Marseille School of Economics) - "Political Connections and Insider Trading"

Spring

April 12 - Teevrat Garg (London School of Economics) - "(Not So) Gently Down The Stream: River Pollution and Health in Indonesia"

April 19 - Kim Oosterlinck (ULB) - "Risk Aversion in Wartime" co-écrit avec Matthieu Gilson (ULB) et Andrey Ukhov (Cornell University)

April 26 - Joachim De Weerdt (University of Antwerp) - "Measuring Household Labour on Tanzanian Farm"

May 3 - Natalie Bau (Harvard University) - "Can Policy Crowd Out Culture?"

May 10 - cancelled

May 12 -  (exceptionally on Thursday) 12:30  Kaivan Munshi (University of Cambridge)  - "Insiders and Outsiders: Local Ethnic Politics and Public Good Provision" (with Mark Rosenzwweig).

May 17 - Frédéric Docquier (UCL) - "The Welfare Impact of Global Migration in OECD Countries"

May 24 - Christopher Neilson (NYU Stern School of Business) - "The Effects of Earnings Disclosure on College Enrollment Decisions"

June 1 - (exceptionally on Wednesday) Zaki Wahhaj (University of Kent) - "Intra-household Resource Allocation and Familial Ties", joint work with Harounan Kazianga.

June 7 - Cancelled

June 14 - TBA

Last updated : Sept 17, 2015

Contact: pierrette.noel@unamur.be

Economics seminars 2016-2017                                      

                                   co-organized by CERPE, CRED and CEREFIM     

Fall

October 4 - Mariya Teteryatnikova (University of Vienna) - "Mystifying but Not Misleading: When does Political Ambiguity Not Confuse Voters?"

October 11 - Laurent Bouton (ECARES / Georgetown University) - "A Theory of Campaign Contributions: The Electoral Motive"

October 18 - Rigas Oikonomou (UCL) - "Long Term Government Bonds"

November 8 - Christian Fons-Rosen (Universitat Pompeu Fabra) - "Does Science Advance One Funeral At A Time?"

November 15 - Supreet Kaur (Columbia University) - "Barriers to Contracting in the Village Economy"

November 22 - Janvier D. Nkurunziza (UNCTAD) - "Trade Misinvoicing in Primary Commodities in Developing Countries: The case of Chile, Cote d'Ivoire, Nigeria, South Africa and Zambia"

November 29 -

December 13 - Reka Juhasz (Princeton University) - "Temporary Protection and Technology Adoption: Evidence from the Napoleonic Blockade"

December 20 - Lionel Kesztenbaum (PSE) - "Wealth in the trenches. Social class and survival during the Great War"

Winter

January 10 - Daniel LaFave (Colby College) - "Are rural Markets Complete? Prices, Profits, and Recursion"

February 14 - Dave Donaldson (Stanford / MIT Economics) -

February 21 - Sebastian Findeisen (University of Mannheim) - "Adjusting to Globalization - Evidence from Worker-Establishment Matches in Germany"

March 7 - Dina Pomeranz (University of Zurich) - "Can Audits Backfire? Evidence from Public Procurement in Chile"

March 21 - Bertrand Achou (CIRRIS) -

March 28 - Giacomo Ponzetto (Centre de Recerca en Economica Internacional) - "Globalization and Political Structure"

Spring

April 25 - Frank Schilbach (MIT Economics) - "Alcohol and Self-Control: A Field Experiment in India"

May 2 - Laurence Jacquet (University of Cergy-Pontoise) -

May 9 - Bishnupriya Gupta (Warwick) - "Does Geography Determine Industrialization? Evidence from Colonial India"

May 16 - David Veredas (Vlerick Business School) - "Multivariate Hill Estimators"

May 23 - Costas Meghir (Yale University) - "Marriage, Labor Supply and the Social Safety Net"

May 30 - Christoph Görtz (University of Birmingham) - "New Shocks under Financial Frictions"

June 6 - Robin Boadway (Queen's University) - "Optimal unemployment insurance and redistribution"

 Last updated :

Contact: pierrette.noel@unamur.be

Unless otherwise noted, seminars begin at 16:00 and finish around 18:00. Room Camille Joset (401), 4th floor, Rempart de la Vierge, 8.

   Economics seminars 2017-2018                                      

                                   co-organized by CERPE, CRED and CEREFIM     

Fall

September 12 - Belgian Macro Workshop 2017

September 19 - Sandip Sukhtankar (University of Virginia) - "General Equilibrium Effects of (Improving) Public Employment Programs: Experimental Evidence from India."

October 3 - Alidou Sahawal & Marijke Verpoorten (University of Antwerp - UAntwerp) - "Only women can whisper to gods: Voodoo, menopause and women’s autonomy".

October 10 - Tanguy van Ypersele (Greqam -  Aix-Marseille School of Economics) - "The Origins of Human Pro-Sociality: A Test of Cultural Group Selection on Economic Data and in the Laboratory".

October 17 - Melanie Morten (Stanford University) - "Migration and Consumption Insurance in Bangladesh" - Room E34

October 24 - Luigi Minale (UC3M - Universidad Carlos III de Madrid) - "Risk Attitudes and Household Migration Decisions"

November 7 - Prashant Bharadwaj (UC San Diego) - "Perverse Consequences Of Well-Intentioned Regulation: Evidence From India’s Child Labor Ban"

November 14 - Sam Asher (World Bank) - "Rural Roads and Structural Transformation "

November 21 - Cancelled Peter Claeys (Vrije Universiteit Brussel) - "Policy Rent Seeking , Growth and Inequality in a Model with Voracity and Heterogeneous Groups".

November 28 -  Marc Labie (University of Mons) - "Understanding Crises in Microcredit: a Complex and Systemic Issue"

December 05 - Daniel Rogger (World Bank) - "Decentralization and Information: Empirical Evidence from Ethiopia"

December 19 - Cancelled Jan De Loecker (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven)

Winter

January 23 - Lasse Bork (Aalborg University) - "Real effects of transferring bond market risk to the Federal Reserve through large-scale asset purchase".

January 30 - Leonardo Iania (UCL - Catholic University of Louvain) - "Skew-Gaussian Term Structure Models"

February 6 - JOB MARKET

February 20 - Paolo G. Piacquadio (Oslo University) - "The measurement of social and individual deprivation."

February 27 - Thomas Lejeune (National Bank of Belgium) - “Exchange-rate channel: lessons from a EA-US estimated DSGE model”

March 6 - Karen Macours (Paris School of Economics) - “Field gap or yield gap: learning from agronomical trials in Kenya”

March 13 - Grégory Ponthière (University Paris East & Paris School of Economics) - "Premature Deaths, Accidental Bequests and Fairness"

March 20 - Christopher Udry (Yale University) - "Selection into Credit Markets: Evidence from Agriculture in Mali"

March 27 - Abigail Barr (University of Nottingham) - “Cooperation in Polygynous Households”

Spring

April 17 - Marc Sangnier (Aix-Marseille University) -  "What Motivates French Pork: Political Career Concerns or Private Connections?"

April 24 - Nicolas Berman (Greqam - Aix-Marseille School of Economics) - "Fertile Ground for Conflict"

May 8 - Deniz Erdemlioglu (IESEG School of Management) - "Multiple Channels of Financial Contagion:A Network-Based Econometric Approach"

May 15 - Jonas Hjort (Columbia Business School) - "Ethnic Investing and the Value of Firms"

May 22 - Kristof Bosmans (Maastricht University) - "Measurement of equality of opportunity: a normative approach"

May 29 - Treb Allen (Dartmouth College) - "Geography and Path Dependence"

June 5 - Giulia Piccillo (Maastricht University) - "Monetary Policy With Diverse Private Expectations"

 Last updated : May 31, 2018

Contact: aurore.midavaine@unamur.be

Economics seminars 2018-2019

co-organized by CERPE, CRED and CEREFIM 

Fall

September 18 - Erika Deserranno (Northwestern) - "Social Ties and the Delivery of Development Programs"

September 19 - Christophe Croux (Edhec Business School) - "Sparse vector autoregressive models".

October 2 - Winkler Roland (University of Antwerp) - “The Government Spending Multiplier at the Zero Lower Bound: International Evidence from Historical Data”

October 9 - Rohini Somanathan (Delhi School of Economics) - "Meritocracy in the Face of Group Inequality"

October 16 - Dramane Coulibaly (University of Paris Nanterre and Researcher at   EconomiX) - "The tale of two international phenomena: International migration and global imbalances"

October 23 - Aksel Erbahar (Erasmus University Rotterdam) - "Made in China; Created in China: Super Processors and Two-way Heterogeneity"

October 30 - Oleg Badunenko (Portsmouth University) - "Achieving a Sustainable Cost Efficient Business Model in Banking: the Case of European Banks"

November 6 - Natalia Rigol (MIT) - "Targeting High Ability Entrepreneurs Using Community Information: Mechanism Design In The Field"

November 13 - Meraglia Simone (Exeter University) - "Kings and Parliaments: Ruling by Building Consensus"

November 20 - Julia Cajal Grossi (The Graduate Institute) - "International Buyers and Firm Performance"

November 27 - Mathias Hoffmann (University of Zurich) - "Masking the truth of softening the blow? U.S. banking deregulation and sectoral reallocation after the China trade shock"

December 4 - Li Chen (University of Gothenburg) - "Designing Heaven's Will: Lessons in Market Design from the Chinese Imperial Civil Servants Match"

December 11 - Paul Niehaus (UC San Diego) - "Authentication and targeted transfers: experimental evidence from India"

Winter

January 29 - Andreas Westermark (Sveriges Riksbank) - "Learning on the Job and the Cost of Business Cycles"

February 5 - Claudio Zoli (University of Verona) - "Optimal Non-Welfarist Income Taxation for Inequality and Polarization Reduction" - ROOM E43

February 12 - Laurent Ferrara (Banque de France) - "Short-Term Macroeconomic Forecasting and Turning Point Detection after the Great Recession" - ROOM E43

February 19 - Koen Jochmans (University of Cambridge) - "Fixed-effect regression on network data" -  ROOM E43

February 26 - Ilan Tojerow (ULB) - “The Unexpected Consequences of Job Search Monitoring: Disability Instead of Employment?”

March 5 - Jack Kelsey (Tufts) - "Poverty, Seasonal Scarcity and Exchange Asymmetries: Evidence from Small-Scale Farmers in Rural Zambia" ROOM E43

March 12 - Manuel Garcia-Santana (Pompeu Fabra) - "Growing like Spain: 1995-2007"

March 19 - CANCELLED

March 26 - CANCELLED

Spring

April 2 - Rebecca Dizon Ross (Chicago Booth) - "(Not) Playing Favorites: An Experiment on Parental Preferences for Educational Investment"

April 23 - Golvine de Rochambeau (Sciences Po) - "Access to Large Buyers and Firm Growth: Experimental Evidence from Liberia"

April 30 - Sebastian Bervoets (Université de Aix-Marseille) - "Learning with Minimal Information in Continuous Games"

May 7 - Luc Renneboog (Tilburg University) - "Colors, Emotions, and the Auction Value of Paintings"

May 14 - Benjamin Marx (Science Po) - "The Institutional Foundations of Religious Politics: Evidence from Indonesia"

May 21 - Julien Combe (University College London) - "The Design of Teacher Assignment: Theory and Evidence"

May 28 - Karna Basu (City University of New York) - "Commitment as Extortion?"

June 6 - Arthur Blouin (Toronto) - "Culture and contracts: the historical legacy of forced labour"

Last updated : June 4, 2019 | contact : aurore.midavaine@unamur.be

Economics seminars 2019-2020

co-organized by CERPE, CRED and CEREFIM 

Fall

October 1 - Ekaterina Kazakova (NRU Higher School Of Economics) -" The Structure of Multinational Sales under Risk"

October 8 - Davide Del Petre (FAO and University of Napoli) - "Firms amidst the war: Evidence from Libya"

October 15 - Gregory De Walque (National Bank of Belgium) - “Low Pass-Through and High Spillovers in NOEM : what does help and what does not”

October 22 - Guilherme Lichand (University of Zurich) - Harming to Signal

November 5 - Reto Föllmi (University St-Gallen) - Parallel Imports, Price Setting, and the Patterns of Trade

November 12 - Karel Mertens (Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas) - "Do Monetary Policy Announcements Shift Household Expectations"

November 19 - Gabriel Ulyssea (Oxford University) - Trade and Informality in the Presence of Labor Market Frictions and Regulations

November 26 - Kris Boudt (Vrije Universiteit Brussel) - Optimizing the design of textual indices using sentometrics: Methodology and applications

December 3 - Mara Squicciarini (Bocconi University) - “The Long-Run Productivity Effects of Technology Adoption: Evidence from France" 

December 10 - Gilles Saint-Paul (Paris School of Economics) - "Useful idiots or manipulators? Some examples of non-neutrality of economics experts"

Winter

February 4 - Johanna Rickne (Stockholm University) - "Sexual Harassment and Gender Inequality in the Labor Market"

February 11 - Anna Raute (Queen Mary University of London) - Wind of Change? Cultural Determinants of Maternal Labor Supply – Evidence from the German reunification.

February 18 - Gert Peersman (Ghent University) - Agricultural Price Shocks and Economic Activity - A Global Warning for Advanced Countries.

March 3 - Audinga Baltrunaite (Bank of Italy) - "Trainspotting/ Board Appointments in Private Firms"

March 10 - James Thewissen (UCLouvain) - Tone Management and Labor Unions

March 17 - Manisha Shah (UCLA) - cancelled

March 24 - Hélène Latzer (Université Saint Louis, Bruxelles) - Cancelled

March 31 - Munir Squires (University of British Columbia -UBC) - cancelled

Spring

April 21 - Joana Naritomi (London School of Economics) - Cancelled

May 12 - Frederik Noack (University of British Columbia - UBC) - Cancelled

May 19 - Cancelled

Last updated :September 11, 2019| contact :Pierrette NOEL

Fall

September 19 - Yogita Shamdasani (National University of Singapore) - Habit Formation in Labor Supply - E33

October 03 - Fabio Canova (BI Norvegian Business School) - What drives the recent surge in US inflation? The historical decomposition roller coaster - E33

October 10 - Holger Strulik (University of Göttingen) - Automation and the Fall and Rise of the Servant Economy - E33

October 12 - Gunter Coenen (European Central Bank) - Joint Macro Research Seminar in Belgium (exceptionally on Thursday from 4:30 to 6:00 pm) - NBB

October 17 - Belinda Archibong (Columbia University) - Prison Labor: The Price of Prisons and the Lasting Effects of Incarceration - E33

October 24 - Marco Grotteria (London Business School) - The Effects of Environmental Health Risks on Housing Values and Minorities - E33

November 14 - Giacomo Ponzetto (UPF) - Do Incompetent Politicians Breed Populist Voters? Evidence from Italian Municipalities - E33

November 16 - Simone Lenzu (NYU Stern) - Joint Macro Research Seminar in Belgium (exceptionally on Thursday from 4:30 to 6:00 pm) - NBB

November 21 - David Laitin (Stanford University) - Conference on African Economic Development - TBA - E33

November 28 - Fiona Scott Morton (Yale School of Managment) - Platform Annexation - E31

November 30 - David Hémous (University of Zurich) - Adverse Selection as a Policy Instrument: Unraveling Climate Change - E31

Winter

February 06 - Martin Peitz (University of Mannheim) - Ad Blocking, Whitelisting, and Advertiser Competition - "Salle Polyvalente" (Ground floor)

February 13 - François Maniquet (Université catholique de Louvain) - Conditionality of social transfers and the social welfare effects of a universal basic income - "Salle Polyvalente" (Ground floor)

February 20 - Karsten Mau (Maastricht University) - International Transport Infrastructure and Regional Economic Development - E33

February 27 - Dzhamilya Nigmatulina (HEC Lausanne) - Military Conflicts, Sanctions, and International Trade: Evidence from Russia - "Salle Polyvalente" (Ground floor)

March 05 - José De Sousa (University of Paris Panthéon-Assas) - Deliver us from Crime? Online Platforms, Gig Jobs, and Offending - "Salle Polyvalente" (Ground floor)

March 12 - Michailis Moatsos (Maastricht University) - Stress-testing the international poverty line and the official global poverty statistics - "Salle Polyvalente" (Ground floor)

March 19 - Eduardo Montero (University of Chicago) - TBA - "Salle Polyvalente" (Ground floor)

March 21 - Eric Ghysels (UNC Chapel Hill) - Tensor Principal Component Analysis with Applications in Finance- Joint Macro Research Seminar in Belgium (exceptionally on Thursday from 4:30 to 6:00 pm) - NBB and online

March 26 - Jesus Vazquez Perez (University of the Basque Country) - Uncertainty, misaligned expectations, and bond term premium measures - "Salle Polyvalente" (Ground floor)

Spring

April 30 - Selien De Schryder (Ghent University) - Assessing the Heterogeneous Impact of COVID-19 on Consumption Using Bank Transactions - "Salle Polyvalente" (Ground floor)

May 07 - Michele Fioretti (Sciences Po) - Concentration and Markups in International Trade - "Salle Polyvalente" (Ground floor)

May 14 - Rannenberg Ansgar (NBB) -Income inequality and the German export surplus - "Salle Polyvalente" (Ground floor)

May 21 - Gunes Gokmen (Lund University) - Traditional Norms and Parental Investment in Human Capital - "Salle Polyvalente" (Ground floor)

May 28 - Karine Marazyan (Université de Rouen Normandie) -  Economic Shocks and Requests for Divorce : Evidence from Judicial Archives for Colonial Senegal - "Salle Polyvalente" (Ground floor)

June 04 - Maria Micaela Sviatschi (Princeton University) - TBA - "Salle Polyvalente" (Ground floor)