Francesco Roccazzella Title: Should we care about ECB inflation expectations? Abstract: We use optimal combination of forecasts to introduce a novel forecast encompassing test to evaluate time-series and institutional inflation projections in the euro area. Combination weights reveal which forecasts are the most informative.

Robin Ng (CORE) will present his latest working paper, entitled "Open Source Competition". Abstract ------------------------------------------------------------------- Attracting more contributors to Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) involves the following trade-off.

Sefane Cetin will kick us off, with her the paper titled “Retirement Decision of Belgian Couples and the Impact of the Social Security System“. Abstract: This paper investigates retirement patterns of married couples in Belgium. We use social security administrative data over the years 2003-2017 and employ a discrete choice model to predict retirement behavior.