Past workshops and conferences

EALE Tour

In 2021 EALE launched the EALE Tour for job market candidates. For the EALE Tour, three promising young scholars are selected for a tour along three receiving institutions (universities/research centers).The EALE Tour profits the Tour candidates and the receiving institutions:• EALE Tour candidates can promote their research, gain feedback and extend their network.• PhD’s and senior staff at receiving institutions profit from the interaction with promising young scholars.“I am happy to hear you received good feedbacks. On our side, it was definitely a success and we very much enjoyed this experience! Thanks again for launching this initiative, we hope you're going to keep it in place for the next years.”Quote from a EALE Tour candidate

In Antwerp we are very happy to announce the following program: 

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 (registrations close on 15/4!) Location: 

 - Klooster van de Grauwzusters - Lange Sint-Annastraat 7, 2000 Antwerpen 

Local Organisers

Sunčica Vujić (University of Antwerp), Bart Cockx (Ghent University), Sam Cosaert (University of Antwerp), Nick Deschacht (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven), Elsa Leromain (University of Antwerp), Sebastiaan Maes (University of Antwerp), Steffen Kuenn (Maastricht University).

Scientific Committee

Michèle Belot (Cornell University), Marco Caliendo (University of Potsdam), Arnaud Chevalier (Royal Holloway University), Kjell Gunar Salvanes (Norwegian School of Economics), and Sunčica Vujić (University of Antwerp).

Location: Hof van Liere (F. de Tassiszaal + A. Dürerzaal) - Prinsstraat 13, 2000 Antwerp

Workshop on Gender and Discrimination  

13:00-13:40 Carlo Schwarz: The Effect of Content Moderation on Online and Offline Hate: Evidence from Germany's NetzDG (with Rafael Jiménez Durán and Karsten Müller)

13:40-14:20 Ria Ivandić: Gender Gaps from Labor Market Shocks (with Anne Sophie Lassen)

14:20-15:00 Olivier Marie: Testing for Ethnic Discrimination throughout the Criminal Justice System (with Kyra Hanemaajier and Nadine Ketel)

Workshop paper abstracts

Carlo Schwarz: The Effect of Content Moderation on Online and Offline Hate: Evidence from Germany's NetzDG (with Rafael Jiménez Durán and Karsten Müller)

Abstract: Social media companies are under scrutiny for the prevalence of hateful content on their platforms, but there is scarce empirical evidence of the consequences of regulating such content. We study this question with a particular focus on anti-refugee hate crime in the context of the “Network Enforcement Act” (NetzDG) in Germany, which mandates major social media companies to remove hateful posts within 24 hours. Using a difference-in-differences strategy, we find that the law was associated with a 4% reduction in the toxicity of refugee-related tweets by far-right social media users. Further, we show that the NetzDG reduced anti-refugee hate crimes in municipalities with more far-right social media users. The estimates suggest that the NetzDG induced a 0.9 percentage point reduction in anti-refugee incidents for every standard deviation of far-right social media usage. These findings are also confirmed by a synthetic control estimate. Together, these results suggest that online content moderation can curb online hate speech and offline violence.

Ria Ivandić: Gender Gaps from Labour Market Shocks (with Anne Sophie Lassen)

Abstract: Job loss leads to persistent adverse labour market outcomes, but assessments of gender differences in labour market recovery are lacking. We utilize plant closures in Denmark to estimate gender gaps in labour market outcomes and document that women face an increased risk of unemployment and lose a larger share of their earnings in the two years following job displacement. When accounting for observable differences in human capital across men and women, half of the gender gap in unemployment remains. In a standard de- composition framework, we document that childcare imposes an important barrier to women’s labour market recovery regardless of individual characteristics.

Olivier Marie: Testing for Ethnic Discrimination throughout the Criminal Justice System (with Kyra Hanemaajier and Nadine Ketel)

Abstract: The criminal justice system is multi-staged and features several key agents whose decisions can significantly alter the course of individuals passing through it. These decisions could be influenced by the minority status of the suspects, affecting already under-privileged groups in the population. We use very rich data on all stages in the Dutch criminal justice system (victims, crimes and decisions of all agents involved in trial) and document significant disparities by migration background in judicial decisions across all stages. These disparities cannot be fully explained by controlling for a rich set of (legally) relevant case characteristics. We next exploit a sudden shock in salience of Moroccan migration background, to causally estimate discrimination against suspects with a Moroccan migration background. We find that after the shock, sentencing outcomes for this group significantly worsened, increasing the length of prison sentence by 53 percent.

Joel Carr, Public PhD Defence 

15:30-16:00 Jury meets

16:00-18:00 Public defence 

For more information, contact the organizers: Sunčica Vujić, Elsa Leromain, Joel Carr and Erlin Theunynck

​Workshop organised by Giovanni Di Bartolomeo, guest professor and member of the departement. ​

Download the presentations here. 

The Benelux Association for Energy Economics (BAEE) and the Department of Economics at the University of Antwerp warmly welcome you to the policy workshop: ​

Flexibility in EU electricity markets

​Date: Friday 13th December 2019

Click here to see the full program and registration form 

Colloquium: “Belastingen op beleggingsinkomsten: meer neutraliteit of meer differentiatie”
En wat als alle beleggingsinkomsten gelijk zouden belast worden?

Voorzitter: professor Bruno Peeters

Woensdag 6 december om 12.30 uur in het auditorium R.002. (onthaal met broodjes vanaf 11.30 uur)

Auditorium R.002 Rodestraat 14 te 2000 Antwerpen

Inschrijving: via website: www.financialforum.be of via mail naar fifo.antwerpen@nbb.be

Deelnameprijs 75 € inclusief documentatie, tijdschrift Bank- en Financiewezen gewijd aan dit colloquium en broodjesmaaltijd  te storten
op rekening nr. BE44-1000-0941-9845 van het Financieel Forum Antwerpen.

Studenten en docenten kunnen gratis deelnemen. (studenten dienen een studentenkaart voor te leggen)
Annulatie is kosteloos mogelijk tot en met 1 december. Afgezegde inschrijvingen na die datum zullen
worden aangerekend.

Het Financieel Forum Antwerpen heeft het genoegen u uit te nodigen op een voordracht met :

Professor Werner DE BONDT
DePaul University Chicago
Thema : ‘Mind over money: the behavioral revolution in finance'

Inleiding door de heer Erik VANPOUCKE
Voorzitter Financieel Forum Antwerpen

Dinsdag 12 december 2017 om 18 uur
Universiteit Antwerpen Aula Rector Dhanis Kleine Kauwenberg 14 te Antwerpen

Na de uiteenzetting en de vraagstelling wordt een drink aangeboden.

Inlichtingen en inschrijvingen via Financieel Forum Antwerpen

p / a Nationale Bank van België

de Berlaimontlaan 14

1000 Brussel

Tel. 02 221 31 70 – Fax 02 221 33 67

E-mail : fifo.antwerpen@nbb.be

The European Society for Population Economics (ESPE) facilitates the communication and exchange of ideas between researchers from European and other countries around the globe. 

The 32nd Annual ESPE Conference will take place at the Stadscampus of the University of Antwerp in Antwerp (Belgium) on 25-27 June 2018.

https://www.uantwerpen.be/en/conferences/espe-conference/

Date: 11 September 2018

Venue: University of Antwerp, Stadscampus - Hof van Liere, Prinsstraat 13, 2000 Antwerp

Organization / co-organization: KU Leuven, UAntwerp, UCL, UGent, UNamur, VUB

Short description: Workshop

This one-day “Belgian Macroeconomics Workshop” will take place at the University of Antwerp on Tuesday, September 11th, 2018. The workshop aims at creating a network of researchers working in closely related fields, and is primarily targeted at junior macroeconomists active in Belgium (i.e. junior Faculty members, postdocs or advanced PhD students). Of course, non-Belgian researchers are welcome to participate as well. Each paper selected for presentation will have a discussant. Senior macroeconomists from the most important Belgian universities will be present to provide feedback. There will also be a poster session to give more opportunities to junior researchers to present their work.

Local organizer: Roland Winkler (UAntwerp)

Scientific committee: Peter Claeys (VUB), Selien De Schryder (UGent), Yuliya Rychalovska (UNamur), Romain Houssa (UNamur), Vivien Lewis (KUL), Luca Pensieroso (UCL), Roland Winkler (UAntwerp)

Programme: Please click here

Workshop supporters: The organizers gratefully acknowledge the generous support of the National Bank of Belgium.

Entrance fee: Participation is free of charge.

Registration: Please register here. The registrations will be closed on 3 September 2018. In case you want to unsubscribe, please send an e-mail to belgianmacroworkshop@gmail.com.

Contact email: belgianmacroworkshop@gmail.com