Research Seminars by the Department of Economics Spring 2021
- Seminars are on Wednesday, at 12:30.
- As of now, seminars will take place online.
- Contact LucaPaolo.Merlino@uantwerpen.be for further information on how to attend.
- 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 Danny Steinbach)
- Wednesday 24 February 2021
- Iris Kesternich - KU Leuven
- Title: Reciprocity and the Interaction Between the Unemployed and the Caseworker (with Gerard J. van den Berg, Gerrit Müller, Bettina M. Siflinge)
- Wednesday 3 March 2021
- Margherita Comola - Paris School of Economics
- Title: Efficient bargaining in a decentralized matching market
- Friday 5 March 2021
- PhD Internal Workshop - Xuan Hua Thanh, Patrick Allmis, Patrick Ndlovu and Vihn Xuan Nguyen
- Wednesday 10 March 2021
- Internal Research Seminar: Guido Erreygers - University of Antwerp
- Title: How Economists Ignored the Spanish Flu Pandemic in 1918-20, joint with Mauro Boianovsky (Universidade de Brasilia)
- Internal Research Seminar: Guido Erreygers - University of Antwerp
- Wednesday 17 March 2021
- TBA
- TBA
- Wednesday 24 March 2021
- Junjie Zhou - National University of Singapore
- Title: TBA
- Wednesday 21 April 2021
- TBA
- TBA
- Wednesday 28 April 2021
- Yves Zenou - Monash University
- 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: TBA
- Wednesday 12 May 2021
- Philip Kircher - Cornell University
- Title: TBA
2021 Job Market Seminars
Research Seminars by the Department of Economics Fall 2020-2021
- Monday 4 January, 2021, 2PM - MS Teams
- Vesall Nourani - MIT
- Title: “Learning to Teach by Learning to Learn”
- Tuesday 5 January, 2021, 9:30AM - MS Teams
- Christian Pröbsting - Ecole Polytechnique de Lausanne
- Title: “Market Segmentation and Spending Multipliers”
- Christian Pröbsting - Ecole Polytechnique de Lausanne
- Wednesday 6 Janaury, 2021, 2PM - MS Teams
- Sam Cosaert - LISER
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
Research Seminars by the Department of Economics Fall 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)
- 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
- 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)
Past Research Seminars:
ECON@UA 2020
ECON@UA will take place on February 14, 2020 in room D.014.
For the second meeting of this year of ECON@UA, we once again put together a very interesting program:
15:00-15:40: Jan Bouckaert (Econ): “Conflicts of interest, ethical rules, and competition,” joint with J. Stennek.
15:40-16:20: Marc Deloof (FBE, Finance): “Foreign Subsidiary Cash Holdings and Corruption,” joint with C. Beuselinck, S. Cascino and A. Vanstraelen.
16:20:16:40: Coffee break
16:40-17:20: Alidou Sahawal (IOB): "Beliefs and investment in child human capital: case study from Benin."
17:20-18:00: Ive Marx (CSB): "Real and imagined limits to minimum income protection".
18:00-…: Discussion over drinks at a nearby pub (Barracuda, Lange Winkelstraat).
For organisational proposes, if you want to attend the event, you have to register before February 10th 2020 by sending an e-mail to LucaPaolo.Merlino@uantwerpen.be.
Feel free to froward this invitation to whomever might be interested.
Econ@ua seminars 2018-2019
Econ@ua seminars 2018-2019
Second meeting of the new edition of ECON@UA - Friday, June 21, 2019 in room C.102.
For the second meeting of this year of ECON@UA, we once again put together a very interesting program:
15:00-15:40: Steven Van Passel (EM, FBE): “How do Western European farms behave and respond to climate change? A simultaneous irrigation-crop decision model,” joint with Janka Vanschoenwinkel and Mark Vancauteren.
15:40-16:20: Els Lecoutere (CSB): “Joint forces - The impact of intrahousehold cooperation on welfare in East African agricultural households,” joint with Bjorn Van Campenhout.
16:20:16:40: Coffee break
16:40-17:20: Stefan Angel (WU Vienna, visiting CSB): ""Making ends meet. Revisiting the minimum income question in EU-SILC."
17:20-18:00: Luca Merlino (Econ): “Social and economic inequality,” joint with Margherita Comola (PSE) and Edoardo Gallo (Cambridge).
18:00-…: Discussion over drinks at a nearby pub (Barracuda, Lange Winkelstraat).
For organisational proposes, if you want to attend the event, you have to register before June 14 by answering this email.
Internal seminars 2018-2019
Internal seminars 2018-2019
- Thursday October 4 at 12:30 Room C460
- Roland Winkler
- Title: “The Government Spending Multiplier at the Zero Lower Bound: International Evidence from Historical Data”.
- Monday October 22 at 11.00 Room A108
- Gust Colruyt
- Title: “An analysis of the effects of ECB unconventional monetary policies since the Global Financial Crisis”
- Thursday November 22 at 12:30 Room A108
- Luca Merlino
- Title: "The Private Provision of Public Goods in Endogenous Networks" joint with Markus Kinateder (Navarra).
- Thursday November 29 at 12:30 Room C460
- Bruno De Borger
- Title: "Road tolls, diverted traffic and local traffic calming measures"
- Thursday December 13 at 12.30 Room A.108
- Vivien Lewis
- Title: "Labor productivity and inflation dynamics: the Euro Area vs the US"
- Thursday May 16 at 12:30 Room A108
- Suncica Vujic
- Title: TBA
Since the seminars are over lunch, it is ok to bring your own food
Archive Internal and Econ@ua Seminars
Internal Seminars:
- Stefan STRAETMANS
- Title: Financial crises, crisis spillovers and the business cycle
- Monday February 15, 2016
- Walter NONNEMAN
- Title: Rise and fall of the EU - a cliodynamic model
- Monday February 22, 2016
- Bruno DE BORGER
- Title: The political economy of cordon pricing
- Monday April 18, 2016
- Stefan KESENNE
- Title: Can the optimal competitive balance in a contest be derived theoretically?
- Monday April 25, 2016
- Sunčica VUJIC
- Title: From High School to the High Chair: Education and Fertility Timing
- Monday May 30, 2016
- Wilfried PAUWELS
- Title: The legal and economic incidence of payroll taxes
- Monday June 6, 2016
- Sofia MAIER
- Title: No safe ports for all: schooling responses to macroeconomic turbulences in Europe
- Monday September 19, 2016
- Raf VAN GESTEL
- Title: Does my high blood pressure improve your survival
- Monday October 10, 2016
- Diego COLLADO
- Title: The missing link between financial incentives to work and employment
- Monday, 6th March 2017
- Carlos Lara OLIVEROS
- Title: Coverage, timeliness and socio-economic determinants of immunization in Colombia, using the demographic health survey
- Monday, 27th March 2017
- Geert VAN MOER
- Title: Outsourcing and industry structure
- Wednesday, 19th April 2017 12.00 pm
- Deni MAZREKAJ
- Title: Returns to Education in the Netherlands
- Wednesday, 24th May 2017
- Woubit SEIFU ALEMAYEHU
- Title: Non price policy measures to tackle accident risk and its implication for urban housing price
- Friday, 16th June 2017
- Geert VAN MOER
- Title: Vertical Integration and Horizontal Outsourcing
- Thursday, 14th December 2017
- Suncica VUJIC
- Title: TBA
- Thursday, 25th January 2018
Econ@UA Seminars:
- Guido ERREYGERS
- Title: The Eye of the Beholder. Reconsidering the Notions of Pro-Poor Growth and Progressivity, with an Application to Vietnam,” joint with Bui Thi Kim Thanh (UA).
- Thursday, November 16th 2017
- Koen DECANCQ
- Title: Non-parametric Well-Being Comparisons, joint work with Annemie Nys (UA).
- Thursday, December 7th 2017
- Bruno DE BORGER
- Title: Why Are So Few Cities Implementing a Cordon Toll?, joint with A. Russo (ETH Zürich).
- Thursday, March 1st, 2018
- Joachim DE WEERDT
- Title: Paying more for less: why don’t households in Tanzania take advantage of bulk discounts? - joint work with Brian Dillon and Ted O’Donoghue.
- Thursday, May 24th, 2018
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First meeting of the new edition of ECON@UA - December 14, 2018 in room R.212.
Program:15:00-15:40: Roland Winkler (FBE): “Fiscal Policy and Occupational Employment Dynamics,” joint with Christian Bredemeier and Falko Juessen.
15:40-16:20: Gerlinde Verbist (CSB): “Redistribution in a joint income-wealth perspective: A cross-country comparison,” joint with Sarah Kuypers and Francesco Figari.
16:20:16:40: Coffee break
16:40-17:20: Tom De Herdt (IOB): "Reading well-being in household expenditures: The case of the DRC."
17:20-18:00: Carolyn Declerck (FBE): "Neuroeconomics of trust and cooperation: the role of hormones, incentives, and social information."
18:00-…: Discussion over drinks at a nearby pub (yet to be determined).
Archive Research Seminars
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- 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