Archives for CORE
March 14, 2019
UCLouvain Economics Seminar
Regina Riphahn, FAU Erlanger-Nürnberg
Employment Effects of Payroll Tax Subsidies
Regina Riphahn, FAU Erlanger-Nürnberg
This paper exploits several reforms of wage subsidies in the framework of the German Minijob program to investigate substitution and complementarity relationships between subsidized and non-subsidized labor...
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March 13, 2019
Brown Bag Seminar
Brown Bag Seminar: Fernando Garcia Alvarado
Network effects in an Agent-Based Model of tax evasion with social influence
Fernando Garcia Alvarado, Ca'Foscari University Venice, University Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne
An Agent-Based Model accounting for tax-morale and loss-aversion was implemented over different network systems with...
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March 12, 2019
Operation Research Seminar
Operations Research Seminar: Roland Hildebrand
Towards an optimal barrier on arbitrary convex cones
Roland Hildebrand, University Grenoble Alpes
Self-concordant barriers are essential for interior-point algorithms in conic programming. The convergence rate of such an algorithm depends on a scalar parameter n. The smaller the...
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From 08 to 09/03/2019
Conférence
4th Belgian-Japanese Public Finance Workshop
Profs. Jean Hindriks and Pierre Pestieau, together with a group of academics in Osaka University (Japan), have decided to renew the annual meeting in public finance between Japan and Belgium. The workshop will be held at CORE in Louvain-la-Neuve on March 8-9, 2019.
Attendance is free, but...
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March 07, 2019
UCLouvain Economics Seminar
Matthias Doepke, Northwestern University
Employment Protection, Investment in Job-Specific Skills, and Inequality Trends in the United States and Europe
Matthias Doepke, Northwestern University
Since the 1980s, the United States has experienced a sharp rise in the college wage premium. In contrast, in a number of European...
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