Archives for CORE
April 20, 2017
UCLouvain Economics Seminar
Seminar: Jérôme Pouyet
Vertical mergers in platform markets
Jérôme Pouyet, PSE
We analyze the competitive impact of vertical integration between a platform and a manufacturer when platforms provide operating systems for devices sold by manufacturers to customers, and, customers care about the applications developed...
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April 19, 2017
Brown Bag Seminar
Seminar: Risa Pavia
Tax Evasion by Domestic and Multinational Firms in Portugal: A Bunching Analysis”
Risa Pavia, CORE & Universidade Nova de Lisboa
In this paper I seek to distinguish tax evasion by “iceberg” firms, which report only some percentage of their income to the tax authorities, from “ghost” firms,...
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April 03, 2017
Reading Group
Reading Group on Social Norms
For the second session of this new reading group, we will discuss:
Alesina, A., & Giuliano, P. (2015). Culture and Institutions. Journal of Economic Literature, 53(4), 898-944.
Fernández, R. (2010). Does Culture Matter? NBER Working Paper No. w16277. Prepared for the Handbook of...
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Reading Group
Reading Group on Social Norms
For the first session of this new reading group, we will discuss:
Bisin, A., & Verdier, T. (2010). The economics of cultural transmission and socialization. NBER Working Paper No. w16512. Prepared for the Handbook of Social Economics
Angrist, J. D. (2014). The perils of peer effects....
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March 30, 2017
UCLouvain Economics Seminar
Seminar: Arnaud Costinot
The More We Die, The More We Sell? A Simple Test of the Home-Market Effect
Arnaud Costinot, MIT
The home-market effect, first hypothesized by Linder (1961) and later formalized by Krugman (1980), is the idea that countries with larger demand for some products at home tend to have larger sales...
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