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Prof. Christiane Baumeister will give a series of lectures on "A Bayesian Approach to Identification of Structural VAR Models". Prof. Baumeister is an Associate Professor at the University of Notre Dame. Her primary research interests include the study of time-varying macroeconomic relationships...

Assessing the predictive ability of sovereign default risk on exchange rate returns Francesco Ravazzolo, Free University of Bolzano Increased sovereign credit risk is often associated with sharp currency movements. Therefore, expectations on the probability of a sovereign default event can...

Measuring income-leisure preferences using hypothetical questions Marion Collewet, CORE Using hypothetical survey questions, we obtain direct measures of income-leisure preferences at the individual level. First, we ask respondents to indicate which different combinations of working time...

Buy As You Need Nutrition and Food Storage Imperfections Catherine Guirkinger, Université de Namur In this paper, we investigate how the activation of local food markets impacts the nutritional status of both children and adults, in a context characterized by large seasonal fluctuations in...