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 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)

Winter

February 04 - Maya Eden (University of Zurich) - Title: The Ethical Mirror - Location: "Salle Polyvalente"

February 11 - Christian Pröbsting (KU Leuven) - Title: Aggregate and distributional effects of a carbon tax - Location: "Salle Polyvalente"

February 18 - Etienne Guigue (LMU) - Title: Markups and Markdowns in the French Dairy Market - Location: "Salle Polyvalente"

March 04 - Maria Sviatschi (Princeton) - Title: Breaking the Gang: A Preventive Approach to Reduce Recruitment in Schools - Location: "Salle Polyvalente"

March 11 - Nicola Limodio (Bocconi) - Title: Deposit Insurance and Portfolio Allocation - Location: "Salle Polyvalente"

March 18 - Mathias Dewatripont (ULB) - Title: The Morality of Markets - Location: "Salle Polyvalente"

March 25 - Jean-Paul Carvalho (Oxford) - Title: The political-economic risks of AI - Location: "Salle Polyvalente"

March 27 - Dominic Rohner (Geneva Graduate Institute) - Title: Pilgrims and Crusaders: Religion as a Political Double-edged Sword - Location: "Salle Polyvalente"

Fall

September 17 - David Gomtsyan (Université Clermont Auvergne, CERDI) - Title: The Joint Venture - location: E33

September 24 - Mathieu Couttenier (ENS Lyon, CEPR) - Title: Artisanal and Small-Scale Mines in Africa: Where, When & Why - location: "Salle Polyvalente"

October 01 - Daniel G. Mahler (World Bank) - Title: Emissions-adjusted poverty, a new metric internalizing the future poverty impact of national emissions - location: "Salle Polyvalente"

October 15 - Elsa Leromain (University of Antwerp, IRES, CEP, CESifo) - Title: Import Liberalization as Export Destruction ? Evidence from the United States - location: "Salle Polyvalente"

October 22 - Adrien Montalbo (IESEG School of Management, IFLAME) - Title: Freehold Land, Resistance To Authoritarianism and Support for Democracy - location: "Salle Polyvalente"

October 29 - Jankte De Boer (Ruhr University Bochum) - Title: FX Dealer Constraints and External Imbalances - location: "Salle Polyvalente"

November 05 - Eduardo Montero (University of Chicago, NBER, BREAD) - Title: The Price of Faith: Economic Costs and Religious Group Membership in Sub-Saharan

Africa - location: "Salle Polyvalente"

November 12 - Gregor von Schweinitz (Corvinus University, IWH) - Title: Fiscal Policy under the Eyes of Wary Bondholders - location: "Salle Polyvalente"

November 19 - Philip Ushchev (Université libre de Bruxelles, ECARES) - Title: Network Structure and Political Polarization - location: "Salle Polyvalente"

November 26 - Matteo Paradisi (Einaudi Institute for Economics and Finance) - Title: One Cohort at a Time: A New Perspective on the Declining Gender Pay Gap - location: "Salle

Polyvalente"

December 03 - Manisha Shah (UC Berkeley, NBER, BREAD, CEGA, IZA) - Title: Sex, Power, and Adolescence: Intimate Partner Violence and Sexual Behaviors - location: "Salle

Polyvalente"

December 10 - Demid Getik (Durham University) - Title: Migration inflow and school performance of incumbents - location: "Salle Polyvalente"

December 17 - Luca Pensieroso (UCLouvain, IRES) - Title: Fertility and Family Type in the United States: a Historical Analysis - location: E31

Spring

April 1 - Leonardo Madio (University of Padova) - Title: Asymmetric content moderation in search markets: The case of adult websites - Location: "Salle Polyvalente"

April 15 - Federico Esposito (Tufts University) - Title: Input Sourcing under Climate Risk: Evidence from U.S. Manufacturing Firms - Location: "Salle Polyvalente"

May 06 - Giammario Impulliti (University of Nottingham) - Title: Market Power, Growth, and Wealth Inequality - Location: "Salle Polyvalente" 

May 20 - Fabrizio Leone (Bank of Italy) - Title: Market Structure, Vertical Integration and Farmers’ Welfare in the Costa Rica Coffee Industry - Location: "Salle Polyvalente"

May 27 - Anna Vitali (NYU) - Title: Labor Underutilization and Firm Training: Evidence from Uganda - Location: "E33"

June 03 - Samuel Bazzi (UC San Diego) - Title: It Takes a Village Election: Turnover and Performance in Local Bureaucracies - Location: "Salle Polyvalente"

Economics Seminars 2025-2026

 co-organized by CERPE, CRED and CEREFIM

Spring

April 07 - Carlos Riumallo Herl (Erasmus University Rotterdam) - Title:  Incentives, targeting and the demand for prevention: Experimental evidence in El Salvador - location: "Salle Polyvalente"

April 09 - Edouard Challe (PSE & CEPR) - Title: Aggregate and Distributional Implications of a Military Buildup - Location: Joint Macro Seminars, Brussels at the NBB (Rue Montagne aux Herbes Potagères 61, Brussels) or via teams.

April 14 - Edoardo Ciscato (KU Leuven) - Title:  Astrology and Matrimony: Social Reinforcement of Religious Beliefs on Marriage Matching in Vietnam - location: "Salle Polyvalente"

April 21 - Filippo Biondi (DICE) - Title:  Firm productivity and derived factor demand under variable markups - location: "Salle Polyvalente"

May 12 - François Gerard (University College London) - Title:  Mitigating the Consequences of Job Loss in Lower-Incoe countries: Evidence from Ethiopia - location: "Salle Polyvalente"

May 19 - Juliana Londoño-Vélez (UC Los Angeles)  - Title:  Nonpecuniary Returns to Selective Higher Education - location: "Salle Polyvalente"

Winter

January 27 - Jérémy Laurent-Lucchetti (University of Geneva) - Title: Ballots and Progress: Political Inclusion and Development in 19th-Century France - location: E33

February 03 - Michael Porcellacchia (Kiel Institute) - Title: Spheres of Influence - location: "Salle Polyvalente"

February 10 - Giovanni Vecchi (Tor Vergata University of Rome) - Title: Poverty in the Long Run. Evidence from Italy, 1861–Present - location: "Salle Polyvalente"

March 03 - Denni Tommasi (University of Bologna) - Title: Quality Upgrading in the Street Food Market: Is Better Equipment and Training Sufficient ? - location: "Salle Polyvalente"

March 10 - Mattia Nardotto (ECARES) - Title: Transparency and competition for influence - location: "Salle Polyvalente"

March 17- Thomas Lambert (Rotterdam School of Management) - Title: (In)dependent Central Bank  - location: "Salle Polyvalente"

March 24 - Lorenzo Incoronato (Università di Napoli Federico II) - Title: Salary Caps for Public Managers and Public Sector Performance - location: "Salle Polyvalente"

March 31 - Mathieu Parenti (PSE) - Title: An economic analysis of extra-territorial taxation - location: "Salle Polyvalente"

Fall

September 23 - Resham Hussam (Harvard Business School) - Title: Household Preferences for Female Employment: A Field Experiment in Bangladesh - location: "Salle Polyvalente"

October 07 - Georgiadas Georgio (ECB) - Title: Patterns of Invoicing Currency in Global Trade in a Fragmenting World Economy- location: "E33"

October 14 - Régis Renault (CY Cergi Paris Université) - Title: Sources of Consumer Information - location: "Salle Polyvalente"

November 04 - Bruno de Backer (National Bank of Belgium) - Title: Inflation (de-)anchoring in the euro area - location: "Salle Polyvalente"

November 18 - Jamel Saadaoui (Université Paris VIII Vincennes-Saint-Denis) - Title: How does ENSO impact U.S. Oil Spot and Future Prices?  - location: "E13"

November 25 - Eve Colson-Sihra (Hebrew University) - Title: Feeding the Gap: Gender Stereotypes and Food Consumption - location: "Salle Polyvalente"

December 02 - David de la Croix (UC Louvain) - Title: Flora, Cosmos, Salvatio: Pre-modern Academic Institutions and the Spread of Ideas - location: "E13"

December 09 - Fabio Blasutto (ULB) - Title: Income Pooling and Within-Household Risk Sharing: Evidence from Data on Individual Expenditures - location: "E33"

December 16 - Nathan Canen (University of Warwick) - Title: Multidimensional Learning in Committee Deliberations - location: "E13"