Seminars

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

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

• 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

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

• 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).
   

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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