Research Seminars by the Department of Economics 2021-2022
- Seminars are on Wednesday, at 12:45.
- As of now, seminars will take place both offline & online.
- Contact LucaPaolo.Merlino@uantwerpen.be for further information on how to attend.
- Wednesday 13 October 2021: Laurent Franckx - Federaal Planbureau
- Title: The impact of self-driving cars on the national transport system: an assessment for Belgium
- Wednesday 27 October 2021: Igor Letina - University of Bern
- Title: Killer Acquisitions and Beyond: Policy Effects on Innovation Strategies
- Wednesday 3 November 2021: Syngjoo Choi - Seoul National University
- Title: Strategic Thinking Skill and Their Economic Importance
- Wednesday 10 November 2021: Filippo Tassinari - University of Barcelona
- Title: Low emission zones and traffic congestion: evidence from Madrid Central
- Wednesday 17 November 2021: Alejandra Ramos - Trinity College Dublin
- Title: The Effects of Migration on Intimate Partner Violence: Evidence for Exposure Reduction Theory in Bangladesh (with M. Mobarak)
- Wednesday 24 November 2021: Elsa Leromain - UCLouvain
- Title: Import liberalization as export destruction? Evidence from the United States
- Wednesday 1 December 2021: Gloria Moroni - Erasmus University Rotterdam
- Title: Prolonged work life among older workers: Spillover effects on Grandchildren
- Title: Prolonged work life among older workers: Spillover effects on Grandchildren
- Wednesday 8 December 2021: Reyn Van Ewijk - University Mainz
- Title: Are grandchildren good for you? The health effects of becoming a grandparent
- Title: Are grandchildren good for you? The health effects of becoming a grandparent
- Wednesday 15 December 2021: Giovanni Di Bartolomeo - Sapienza University Rome
- Title: Promises and Partner-Switch (with M. Dufwenberg and S. Papa)
Past Seminars
Seminars 2020-2021
- Wednesday 7 October 2020 : Roland Winkler - UAntwerp
- Title: Bringing back the jobs lost to Covid-19: The role of fiscal policy, joint with C. Bredemeier (Wuppertal) and Falko Juessen (Wuppertal)
- Title: Bringing back the jobs lost to Covid-19: The role of fiscal policy, joint with C. Bredemeier (Wuppertal) and Falko Juessen (Wuppertal)
- Wednesday 14 October 2020 : Georg Dura Granic - Erasmus University Rotterdam
- Title: Tie-breaking power in committee decision-making
- Wednesday 28 October 2020: Sam Cosaert - LISER
- Title: Togetherness in the Household, joint with A. Theloudis (LISER) and B. Verheyden (LISER)
- Wednesday 4 November 2020 : Sebastiano Della Lena - UAntwerp
- Title: On the Evolution of Norms in Strategic Environments, joint with P. Dindo (Venice)
- Wednesday 18 November 2020 : Anja Prummer - Queen Mary
- Title: Discrimination in Promotion, joint with F. Nava (LSE)
- Wednesday 25 November 2020: Leonie Baumann - McGill University
- Title: Self-Ratings and Peer Review
- Title: Self-Ratings and Peer Review
- Wednesday 2 December 2020: Sebastian Schmidt - ECB
- Title: Expectations-driven liquidity traps: Implications for monetary and fiscal policy, joint with T. Nakata (Tokyo)
- Wednesday 9 December 2020: Ugo Bolletta - University of Antwerp
- Title: Marriage with frictions: a revealed preference analysis, joint with L. Cherchye (KUL), T. Demuynck (ULB), B. De Rock (KUL & ULB) and L. Merlino (UA)
- Wednesday 17 February 2021: Eirini Tatsi - Stockholm University & Swedish Institute for Social Research (SOFI)
- Title: Short-term and long-term measures of peer behavior (with D. Steinbach)
- Title: Short-term and long-term measures of peer behavior (with D. Steinbach)
- Wednesday 24 February 2021: Iris Kesternich - KU Leuven
- Title: Reciprocity and the Interaction Between the Unemployed and the Caseworker (with G.J. van den Berg, G. Müller, B.M. Siflinge)
- Title: Reciprocity and the Interaction Between the Unemployed and the Caseworker (with G.J. van den Berg, G. Müller, B.M. Siflinge)
- Wednesday 3 March 2021: Margherita Comola - Paris School of Economics
- Title: Unstructured Bargaining with Private Information: Experimental Evidence on Efficiency and Bidding Behavior (with M. Fafchamps- Stanford)
- Title: Unstructured Bargaining with Private Information: Experimental Evidence on Efficiency and Bidding Behavior (with M. Fafchamps- Stanford)
- Friday 5 March 2021: PhD Internal Workshop
- Xuan Hua Thanh: "Impact of remittances on saving behaviours and consumption patterns in Vietnam by applying the Propensity Score Matching Approach"
- Patrick Allmis: “Collective action, political change, and economic development: Evidence from Bolivia”
- Vinh Xuan Nguyen: "Performance effect of vertical specialisation"
- Patrick Ndlovu: "Job Satisfaction and the Household Roles"
- Wednesday 10 March 2021 (Internal Research Seminar): Guido Erreygers - UA
- Title: How Economists Ignored the Spanish Flu Pandemic in 1918-20 (with M. Boianovsky- U. de Brasilia)
- Title: How Economists Ignored the Spanish Flu Pandemic in 1918-20 (with M. Boianovsky- U. de Brasilia)
- Wednesday 17 March 2021: Giorgio Gulino - UPF
- Title: Corruption Corrupts: Scandals and Supermarket Thefts (with F. Masera).
- Title: Corruption Corrupts: Scandals and Supermarket Thefts (with F. Masera).
- Wednesday 24 March 2021: Junjie Zhou - National University of Singapore
- Title: Network Topology and Market Structure (with Y. Chen and Y. Zenou)
- Title: Network Topology and Market Structure (with Y. Chen and Y. Zenou)
- Wednesday 28 April 2021: Yves Zenou - Monash University
- Title: Ethnic Mixing in Early Childhood (with V. Boucher, S. Tumen, M. Vlassopoulos and J. Wahba)
- Title: Ethnic Mixing in Early Childhood (with V. Boucher, S. Tumen, M. Vlassopoulos and J. Wahba)
- Wednesday 05 May 2021: Michèle Belot - Cornell University
- Title: Stress and Food Preferences: A Lab Experiment with Low-Ses Mothers (with J. James, M. Vecchi and N. Vitt)
- Title: Stress and Food Preferences: A Lab Experiment with Low-Ses Mothers (with J. James, M. Vecchi and N. Vitt)
- Tuesday 11 May 2021 (at 4PM): Matthew Jackson - Stanford University
- Title: The Role of Referrals in Immobility, Inequality, and Inefficiency in Labor Markets (with L. Bolte and N. Immorlica)
- Title: The Role of Referrals in Immobility, Inequality, and Inefficiency in Labor Markets (with L. Bolte and N. Immorlica)
- Wednesday 12 May 2021: Philipp Kircher - Cornell University
- Title: An economic model of the Covid-19 pandemic with young and old agents: Behavior, testing and policies (with L. Brotherhood, C. Santos and M. Tertilt)
- Title: An economic model of the Covid-19 pandemic with young and old agents: Behavior, testing and policies (with L. Brotherhood, C. Santos and M. Tertilt)
- Wednesday 19 May 2021: Sabien Dobbelaere - VU Amsterdam
- Title: Organised Labour, Labour Market Imperfections, and Employer Wage Premia (with B. Hirsch, S. Mueller and G. Neuschaeffer)
- Title: Organised Labour, Labour Market Imperfections, and Employer Wage Premia (with B. Hirsch, S. Mueller and G. Neuschaeffer)
- Wednesday 26 May 2021 (Internal Research Seminar): Sunčica Vujić - UA
- Title: Operation Allied Force: Unintended Consequences of the NATO Bombing on Children’s Outcomes
2021 Job Market Seminars
Research Seminars by the Department of Economics Fall 2020-2021
- Monday 4 January, 2021, 2PM: Vesall Nourani - MIT
- Tuesday 5 January, 2021, 9:30AM: Christian Pröbsting - Ecole Polytechnique de Lausanne
- Wednesday 6 Janaury, 2021, 2PM: Sam Cosaert - LISER
- Title: “Intertemporal consumption with anticipating, remembering, and experiencing selves,” joint with T. Potoms.
- Title: “Intertemporal consumption with anticipating, remembering, and experiencing selves,” joint with T. Potoms.
- Monday 11 January, 2021, 9:30AM: Arnaud Chevalier - Royal Holloway
- Title: “Asian Gold: Expected Returns to Crime and Thieves’ Behaviour,” joint with T. Wilson and N. Braakmann.
- Title: “Asian Gold: Expected Returns to Crime and Thieves’ Behaviour,” joint with T. Wilson and N. Braakmann.
- Monday 11 January, 2021, 2PM: Francesca Monti - King’s Business School
- Title: “Nowcasting with large Bayesian vector autoregressions,” joint with J. Cimadomo, D. Giannone, M. Lenza and A. Sokol.
- Title: “Nowcasting with large Bayesian vector autoregressions,” joint with J. Cimadomo, D. Giannone, M. Lenza and A. Sokol.
- Tuesday 12 January, 2021, 9:30AM: Joachim de Weerdt - IOB
- Title: “When distance drives destination, towns can stimulate development,” joint with L. Christiaensen and R. Kanbur.
- Title: “When distance drives destination, towns can stimulate development,” joint with L. Christiaensen and R. Kanbur.
Seminars 2016-2020
- Eric Melander - University of Namur
- Title: Individual Mobility and Social Mobilisation: Evidence from Swedish Grassroots Movements
- Wednesday 11 March 2020
- Andreas Backhaus - CEPS
- Title: Effect of grandchildren on labour supply of grandparents in Europe
- Wednesday 4 March 2020
- Matthew Elliott - University of Cambridge
- Title: Capability accumulation and conglomeratization in the information age
- Wednesday 26 February 2020
- Paolo Pin - University of Siena
- Title: On the coevolution of epidemics, immunization choices, and pseudoscience attitudes
- Wednesday 19 February 2020 - room A.108
- Joel van der Weele - University of Amsterdam
- Title: Self-Persuasion: Evidence from Field Experiments at Two International Debating Competitions
- Wednesday 12 February 2020
- Edoardo Ciscato - KU Leuven
- Title: The changing wage distribution and the decline of marriage
- Wednesday 4 December 2019
- Dotan Persitz - Tel Aviv University
- Title: Social Clubs and Social Networks
- Thursday 28 November 2019
- Michal Kobielarz - KU Leuven
- Title: Entries, Exits and Bail-Outs in a Monetary Union
- Wednesday 20 November 2019
- Karel Mertens - Dallas Fed
- Title: Do Monetary Policy Announcements Shift Household Expectations?
- Wednesday 13 November 2019
- Boris van Leeuwen - Tilburg University
- Title: The Strategic Display of Emotions
- Wednesday 6 November 2019
- Li Chen - Gothenburg University
- Title: Designing Heaven’s Will: Assigning Civil Servants by Drawing Lots in Imperial China
- Wednesday 30 October 2019
- Tarik Roukny - KU Leuven
- Title: Vertically Disintegrated Platforms
- Wednesday 23 October 2019
- Glenn Magerman - Université libre de Bruxelles (ECARES)
- Title: The Origins of Firm Size Heterogeneity: A Production Network Approach
- Wednesday 9 October 2019
- Ana Bindler - Gothenburg University
- Title: The Persistence of the Criminal Justice Gender Gap: Evidence from 200 Years of Judicial Decisions
- Wednesday, September 25, 2019
- Wouter Dessein - Columbia Business School
- Title: Coordination and Organization Design: Theory and Micro-evidence (joint with Ho-Fu Lo and Chieko Minami)
- Wednesday, June 26, 2019
- Mathias KLEIN - DIW Berlin
- Title: Monetary Policy and Household (De-)leveraging
- Wednesday, June 13, 2018
- Jan DE LOECKER - KULeuven
- Title: The Rise of Market Power and the Macroeconomic Implications
- Thursday, June 7, 2018
- Artjoms IVLEVS - UWE Bristol
- Title: Emigration and Pro-environmentalism: A Long-term, Community Perspective
- Wednesday, May 30, 2018
- David BROWNSTONE - UC Irvine
- Title: The Neglected Impacts of Measurement Error in Applied Microeconomics with Applications to Automobile Type Choice and Utilization
- Tuesday, May 29, 2018
- Philippe VAN KERM - Liser
- Title: Trends in the Distribution of Household Incomes: the Role of Changes in the Dependence of Income Sources (joint work with Alessio Fusco and Iryna Kyzyma)
- Wednesday, May, 16, 2018
- Florian SCHUETT - Tilburg University
- Title: Screening for Patent Quality
- Wednesday, May 9, 2018
- Arnaud CHEVALIER - Royal Holloway
- Title: Immigration and Redistribution: Evidence from 8 Million Forced Migrants (joint with Benjamin Elsner, Andreas Lichter & Nico Pestel)
- Wednesday, April 25, 2018
- Manolis GALENIANOS - Royal Holloway
- Title: Referral Networks and Inequality.
- Wednesday, March 28, 2018
- Mariana ZERPA - KULeuven
- Title: Preschool Education and Child Development and Health: Evidence from State Pre-K Programs
- Wednesday, March 14, 2018
- Andrea ALBANESE - Liser
- Title: Unemployment Benefits and Job Destruction: Evidence from Italy
- Wednesday, March 7, 2018
- Sebastian FLEITAS - KULeuven
- Title: Dynamic Competition and Price Regulation When Consumers Have Inertia: Evidence from Medicare
- Wednesday, February 28, 2018
- Christian MERKL - Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg
- Title: Hartz IV and the Decline of German Unemployment: a Macroeconomic Evaluation.
- Wednesday, February 21, 2018
- Christophe GÖRTZ - University of Birmingham
- Title: How do Firms Finance Lumpy Adjustment?
- Wednesday, December 20, 2017
- Falko JUESSEN - Wuppertal
- Title: Estimating Labor-Supply Elasticities with Joint Borrowing Constraints of Couples
- Wednesday, December 6, 2017
- Werner BROUWER
- Title: The Value of Health
- Wednesday, November 22, 2017
- Francis BLOCH
- Title: The Formation of Partnerships in Social Networks
- Wednesday, November 15, 2017
- Christian BREDEMEIER - University of Cologne
- Title: Interest Rate Spreads and Forward Guidance
- Wednesday, October 25, 2017
- Mathieu PARENTI - Université libre de Bruxelles (ECARES)
- title: A Theory of New Trade Agreement
- date: Wednesday, October 18, 2017
- Olivier MARIE- Erasmus School of Economics Rotterdam
- title: Does Making Sick Leave Costly Reduce Absenteeism?
- date: Wednesday June, 7, 2017
- Krisztina KIS-KATOS - University of Göttingen
- title: Educational attainment in the neighborhood of conflicts: Evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa
- date: Wednesday May 10, 2017
- Mathias REYNAERT - Toulouse School of Economics
- title: Corrective Policy and Goodhart’s Law: the Case of Carbon Emissions from Automobiles
- date: Wednesday May 3, 2017
- Pierre W.C. KONING - Universteit Leiden
- title: Graded return to work for long-term sick-listed workers
- date: Wednesday March 29, 2017
- Raf WOUTERS - National Bank of Belgium
- title: Challenges for central banks: macro models
- date: Wednesday March 1, 2017
- Frans SPINNEWIJN - KULeuven
- title: Responsabilization and punishment in unemployment
- date: Wednesday February 1, 2017
- Werner BROUWER - Erasmus University Rotterdam
- title: The value of health gains
- date: Wednesday December 21, 2016
- Koen DECLERCQ - KULeuven
- title: Study progression in higher education: The impact of ex post selection
- date: Wednesday December 14, 2016
- David SMERDON - University of Amsterdam, Tinbergen Institute
- title: When refugees work: The social capital effects of resettlement on host communities
- date: Wednesday December 7, 2016
- Melanie SIMMS - University of Leicester
- title: Negotiating wage inequality - the role of social partners in wage equality outcomes
- date: Friday December 2, 2016
- Wolter HASSINK - Universiteit Utrecht
- title: Housing careers before and during the Great Recession (joint with Jochem Zweerink)
- date: Wednesday November 23, 2016
- Ellen VAN DE POEL - Erasmus University Rotterdam
- title: Impact and spill-over effects of an asset transfer program on child malnutrition: Evidence from a randomized control trial in Bangladesh
- date: Wednesday November 16, 2016
- Linda COHEN - University of California, Irvine
- title: Pigouvian taxes at odds: Freight vehicles and externalities
- date: Wednesday October 26, 2016
- Bart GOLSTEYN - Maastricht University
- title: Risk Attitudes across the Life Course
- date: Wednesday October 5, 2016
- Robert SPARROW - Wageningen UR
- title: Globalization and social change: Gender-specific effects of trade liberalization in Indonesia (joint with Krisztina Kis-Katos & Janneke Pieters)
- date: Wednesday September 21, 2016