Economics Seminars (2017-2018)
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
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