Seminars 2023-2024
| 4/10/2023 | Sander Ramboer | The impact of mortgage regulation on homeownership and household leverage | 12:30 - ABC.402 |
| 11/10/2023 | Bernhard Ganglmair | Regulatory Compliance with Limited Enforceability: Evidence from Privacy Policies (joint work with Jacopo Gambato and Julia Kramer). | 12:30 - Annexe |
| 25/10/2023 | Hugo Van Buggenum | Racial Unemployment Gaps and the Disparate Impact of the Inflation Tax (joint work with Mohammed Ait Lahcen and Garth Baughman) | 12:30 - S.A.206 |
| 8/11/2023 | Adrian Nieto | Television and academic achievement: evidence from the digital television transition in the UK | 12:30 - S.A.206 |
| 15/11/2023 | Pieter Van Rymenant | The macroeconomic, distributional and welfare effects of estate taxation | 12:30 - S.A.206 |
| 6/12/2023 | Benjamin Elsner | The Political Fallout of Air Pollution | 12:30 - S.A.206 |
Second semester
| 14/02/2023 | Hannah Zillessen | Uncertainty, Citizenship & Migrant Saving Choices | 12:30 - ABC.402 |
| 21/02/2024 | Ilan Tojerow | Training Jobseekers to Address Labour Shortages: An Experimental Study on Information Barriers | 11:30 - ABC.402 |
| 13/03/2024 | Anna Salomons | Keeping Up with the Computers: How Vocational Training Responds to New Technology | 12:30 - ABC.402 |
| 20/03/2024 | Kevin Spiritus | Distributional Characteristics in Two-Dimensional Taxation | 12:30 - ANNEXE |
| 17/04/2024 | Alexandros Theloudis | Consumption Partial Insurance in the Presence of Tail Income Risk | 12:30 - ABC.402 |
| 24/04/2024 | EALE ON TOUR IN ANTWERP: multiple speakers | More information through this link | Kapel van de Grauwzusters |
| 15/05/2024 | Katrin Sommerfeld | The Dynamic Impact of Refugee Immigration on Native Workers | 12:30 - ABC.402 |
| 18/06/2024 | Matthew T. Cole | Contesting an International Environmental Agreement (co-authored with James Lake and Ben Zissimos) | 12:30 - ABC.402 |
| 26/6/2024 | Daniel Hamermesh | The Economic Impact of Heritable Physical Traits: Hot Parents, Rich Kid? | 12:30 - S.C.103 |
Seminars 2022-2023
| 2/10/2022 | Laurens Cherchye | Stable marriage, household consumption and unobserved match quality |
| 26/10/2022 | Yasin Kürsat Önder | Debt Moratorium: Theory and Evidence |
| 9/11/2022 | Haci Karatas | The Effect of Higher Education on Women's Obesity and Smoking: Evidence from College Opening in Turykey |
| 16/11/2022 | Axel Gautier | The energy community and the grid |
| 23/11/2022 | Luke Haywood | The Welfare Costs of Job Loss and Decarbonization - Evidence from Germany's Coal Phase Out |
| 30/11/2022 | Julian Hinz | Frictions to intranational investment - co-authored with Inga Heiland |
| 7/12/2022 | Amma Panin | Using religious participation to insure mental health in Ghana |
| 15/02/2023 | Simon Galle | The Unequal Effects of Trade and Automation across Local Labor Markets, with Linnea Lorentzen |
| 01/03/2023 | Libertad González | Does Paternity Leave Promote Gender Equality within Households?, with Hosny Zoabi |
| 08/03/2023 | Bart Cockx | Long-Term Effects of Hiring Subsidies for Unemployed Youths - Beware of Spillovers |
| 15/03/2023 | Christophe Bruneel-Zupanc | Discrete-Continuous Dynamic Choice Models: Identification and Conditional Choice Probability Estimation |
| 22/03/2023 | Olivier De Groote | Matching Disadvantaged Children to Daycare: Evidence from a Centralized Platform (joint work with Minyoung Rho). |
| 29/03/2023 | Gert Peersman | The Impact of Disruptions in Global Food Commodity Markets on Economic Activity and Inflation |
| 19/04/2023 | Ferdinand Vieider | Noisy coding of time and discounting for money |
| 26/04/2023 | Sofía Fernández Guerrico | Flexible Wages and the Costs of Job Displacement |
| 03/05/2023 | Vincent Delabastita | Colluding against Workers |
| 10/05/2023 | Dorothee Hillrichs | The global geography of income and export patterns |
| 17/05/2023 | Ariell Reshef | Production Function Estimation with Multi-Destination Firms |
INTERNAL SEMINARS
| 16/02/2023 | Inés Guillemyn | Gender differences in the wage-pension trade-off: a discrete choice experiment |
| 23/02/2023 | Ines Homburg | The Brexit referendum as a trigger of migration? |
| 02/03/2023 | Ruzica Savcic (Uni of Cyprus) | Parental labour market activity and children's wellbeing in the UK during the pandemic |
| 09/03/2023 | Ekin Yurdakul | Gender Wage Gap, Spousal Bargaining Power and Formation of Children's Gender Roles Attitudes |
| 16/03/2023 | Wenqi Lu | Who values togetherness more in the household, husband or wife? |
| 23/03/2023 | Wouter van der Wielen | The Impact of Government-backed Lending to Corporates: The Role of Firm Size, Age and Regional Development |
| 30/03/2023 | Patrick Allmis | Revealing information -- or not -- in a social network of traders |
| 20/04/2023 | Sebastiaan Maes | Measurement Error and Peer Effects |
| 27/04/2023 | Babette Jansen | Household Heterogeneity, the Wealth Effect, and Fiscal Policy |
| 04/05/2023 | Bruno De Borger | Productivity and wage effects of large transport infrastructure projects: the Great Belt Bridge |
| 25/05/2023 | Yannick Jansen | Learning under information overload |
Seminars 2021-2022
| Wednesday 11 May 2022 | Khushboo Surana - University of York | Stable marriage in the eyes of the law (with M. Freer) |
| Wednesday 27 April 2022 at 16:30 | Emily Nix - USC Marshall School of Business | Toxic Colleagues: Worker and Firm Effects |
| Wednesday 20 April 2022 | Björn Brey - ECARES | The death of king coal: industrial decline during childhood and lifetime well-being |
| Wednesday 23 March 2022 | Marion Leturcq - INED | Executives’ Gender Gap in Promotion: Evidence from a Large French Firm |
| Wednesday 9 March 2022 | Jonathan Hall - University of Toronto | Estimating the External Cost of Congestion Using Big Data (with A. Bento and K. Heilmann) |
| Wednesday 2 March 2022 | Giovanni Di Bartolomeo - Sapienza University Rome | Promises and Partner-Switch (with M. Dufwenberg and S. Papa) |
| Wednesday 8 December 2021 | Reyn Van Ewijk - University Mainz | Are grandchildren good for you? The health effects of becoming a grandparent |
| Wednesday 1 December 2021 | Gloria Moroni - Erasmus University Rotterdam | Prolonged work life among older workers: Spillover effects on Grandchildren |
| Wednesday 24 November 2021 | Elsa Leromain - UCLouvain | Import liberalization as export destruction? Evidence from the United States |
| Wednesday 17 November 2021 | Alejandra Ramos - Trinity College Dublin | The Effects of Migration on Intimate Partner Violence: Evidence for Exposure Reduction Theory in Bangladesh (with M. Mobarak) |
| Wednesday 10 November 2021 | Filippo Tassinari - University of Barcelona | Low emission zones and traffic congestion: evidence from Madrid Central |
| Wednesday 3 November 2021 | Syngjoo Choi - Seoul National University | Strategic Thinking Skill and Their Economic Importance |
| Wednesday 27 October 2021 | Igor Letina - University of Bern | Killer Acquisitions and Beyond: Policy Effects on Innovation Strategies |
| Wednesday 13 October 2021 | Laurent Franckx - Federaal Planbureau | The impact of self-driving cars on the national transport system: an assessment for Belgium |
2022 Job Market Seminars
| Monday 10 January, 2022, 2 PM | Christian Bredemeier - University of Wuppertal | “Accounting for Limited Commitment between Spouses when Estimating Labor-Supply Elasticities,” with J. Gravert and F. Juessen. |
| Tuesday 13 January, 2022, 9:30 AM | Elsa Leromain - UCLouvain | “Import Liberalization as Export Destruction? Evidence from the United States,” with H. Breinlich, D. Novy and T. Sampson |
| Tuesday 13 January, 2022, 2 PM | Guntram Wolff - Bruegel | "What drives implementation of the European Union’s policy recommendations to its member countries?," with K. Efstathiou |
| Friday 14 January, 2022, 9:30 AM | Laura Khoury - Norwegian School of Economics | “Prison, Mental Health and Family Spillovers,” with M. Bhuller and K. Løken |
| Friday 14 January, 2022, 2 PM | Giorgio Gulino - UPF | “Contagious Dishonesty: Corruption Scandals and Supermarket Theft,” with F. Masera |
| Monday 17 January, 2022, 2PM | Mewael Tesfaselassie | "Endogenous Growth, Skill Obsolescence and Fiscal Multipliers," with W. Lechthaler |
| Wednesday 19 January, 2022, 9:30 AM | Alejandra Ramos - Trinity College Dublin | "Household Decision Making with Violence: Implications for Transfer Programs" |
| Wednesday 19 January, 2022, 2PM | Bruno Caprettini - University of Zurich | "Redistribution, Voting and Clientelism: Evidence from the Italian Land Reform," with L. Casaburi and M. Venturini |
| Monday 24 January, 2022, 9:30AM | Paul van Bruggen - Tilburg School of Economics and Management | "Giving according to Agreement," with J. Heufer and J. Yang |
| Monday 24 January, 2022, 2PM | Ruben Dewitte - Ghent University | "Identifying Unobserved Heterogeneity in Productivity," with C. Fuss and A. Theodorakopoulos |
Seminars 2020-2021
| Wednesday 7 October 2020 | Roland Winkler - UAntwerp | 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 | Tie-breaking power in committee decision-making |
| Wednesday 28 October 2020 | Sam Cosaert - LISER | Togetherness in the Household, joint with A. Theloudis (LISER) and B. Verheyden (LISER) |
| Wednesday 4 November 2020 | Sebastiano Della Lena - UAntwerp | On the Evolution of Norms in Strategic Environments, joint with P. Dindo (Venice) |
| Wednesday 18 November 2020 | Anja Prummer - Queen Mary | Discrimination in Promotion, joint with F. Nava (LSE) |
| Wednesday 25 November 2020 | Leonie Baumann - McGill University | Self-Ratings and Peer Review |
| Wednesday 2 December 2020 | Sebastian Schmidt - ECB | Expectations-driven liquidity traps: Implications for monetary and fiscal policy, joint with T. Nakata (Tokyo) |
| Wednesday 9 December 2020 | Ugo Bolletta - University of Antwerp | 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) | Short-term and long-term measures of peer behavior (with D. Steinbach) |
| Wednesday 24 February 2021 | Iris Kesternich - KU Leuven | 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 | Unstructured Bargaining with Private Information: Experimental Evidence on Efficiency and Bidding Behavior (with M. Fafchamps- Stanford) |
| Friday 5 March 2021 | Internal PhD Workshop |
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| Wednesday 10 March 2021 | Guido Erreygers - UA | How Economists Ignored the Spanish Flu Pandemic in 1918-20 (with M. Boianovsky- U. de Brasilia) |
| Wednesday 17 March 2021 | Giorgio Gulino - UPF | Corruption Corrupts: Scandals and Supermarket Thefts (with F. Masera). |
| Wednesday 24 March 2021 | Junjie Zhou - National University of Singapore | Network Topology and Market Structure (with Y. Chen and Y. Zenou) |
| Wednesday 28 April 2021 | Yves Zenou - Monash University | Ethnic Mixing in Early Childhood (with V. Boucher, S. Tumen, M. Vlassopoulos and J. Wahba) |
| Wednesday 05 May 2021 | Michèle Belot - Cornell University | 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 | 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 | 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 | Organised Labour, Labour Market Imperfections, and Employer Wage Premia (with B. Hirsch, S. Mueller and G. Neuschaeffer) |
| Wednesday 26 May 2021 | Sunčica Vujić - UA | Operation Allied Force: Unintended Consequences of the NATO Bombing on Children’s Outcomes |
2021 Job Market Seminars
| Monday 4 January, 2021, 2PM | Vesall Nourani - MIT | “Learning to Teach by Learning to Learn” |
| Tuesday 5 January, 2021, 9:30AM | Christian Pröbsting - Ecole Polytechnique de Lausanne | “Market Segmentation and Spending Multipliers” |
| Wednesday 6 Janaury, 2021, 2PM | Sam Cosaert - LISER | “Intertemporal consumption with anticipating, remembering, and experiencing selves,” joint with T. Potoms. |
| Monday 11 January, 2021, 9:30AM | Arnaud Chevalier - Royal Holloway | “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 | “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 | “When distance drives destination, towns can stimulate development,” joint with L. Christiaensen and R. Kanbur. |
Seminars 2019-2020
| Wednesday, September 25, 2019 | Anna Bindler - Gothenburg University | The Persistence of the Criminal Justice Gender Gap: Evidence from 200 Years of Judicial Decisions |
| Wednesday 9 October 2019 | Glenn Magerman - Université libre de Bruxelles (ECARES) | The Origins of Firm Size Heterogeneity: A Production Network Approach |
| Wednesday 23 October 2019 | Tarik Roukny - KU Leuven | Vertically Disintegrated Platforms |
| Wednesday 30 October 2019 | Li Chen - Gothenburg University | Designing Heaven’s Will: Assigning Civil Servants by Drawing Lots in Imperial China |
| Wednesday 6 November 2019 | Boris van Leeuwen - Tilburg University | The Strategic Display of Emotions |
| Wednesday 13 November 2019 | Karel Mertens - Dallas Fed | Do Monetary Policy Announcements Shift Household Expectations? |
| Wednesday 20 November 2019 | Michal Kobielarz - KU Leuven | Entries, Exits and Bail-Outs in a Monetary Union |
| Thursday 28 November 2019 | Dotan Persitz - Tel Aviv University | Social Clubs and Social Networks |
| Wednesday 4 December 2019 | Edoardo Ciscato - KU Leuven | The changing wage distribution and the decline of marriage |
| Wednesday 12 February 2020 | Joel van der Weele - University of Amsterdam | Self-Persuasion: Evidence from Field Experiments at Two International Debating Competitions |
| Wednesday 19 February 2020 | Paolo Pin - University of Siena | On the coevolution of epidemics, immunization choices, and pseudoscience attitudes |
| Wednesday 26 February 2020 | Matthew Elliott - University of Cambridge | Capability accumulation and conglomeratization in the information age |
| Wednesday 4 March 2020 | Andreas Backhaus - CEPS | Effect of grandchildren on labour supply of grandparents in Europe |
| Wednesday 11 March 2020 | Eric Melander - University of Namur | Individual Mobility and Social Mobilisation: Evidence from Swedish Grassroots Movements |
Seminars 2018-2019
Seminars 2017-2018
- 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
Seminars 2016-2017
- 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