Michel De Vroey(IRES/LIDAM, UCLouvain)will give a presentation on What has changed in Economics over the last half-century?Abstract

Quinten De Wettinck (KU Leuven) will give a presentation on : Identifying sustainable diversification strategies using economic complexity theoryAbstract : Economic complexity theory has emerged as a powerful framework for understanding how the accumulation of productive knowledge and capabilities within countries drives economic diversification.

Martin Ellison(Oxford University)will give a presentation on Liability-Driven Investors and Monetary TransmissionAbstractThe ability of monetary policy to influence the term structure of interest rates and the macroeconomy depends on the extent to which financial market participants prefer to hold bonds of different maturities.

Alexander Yarkin(LISER and UC Davis)will give a presentation on Does the "Melting Pot" Still Melt? Internet and Immigrants' IntegrationAbstractThe global spread of the Internet and the rising salience of immigration are two of the biggest trends of the last decades.

Nikolaos Prodromidis(Universität Duisenburg Essen)will give a presentation on Working hours and workers’ health: Evidence from a national experiment in SwedenAbstractDespite the importance of regulating working hours for workers’ health and maintaining labour productivity, the literature lacks credible causal estimates for the short- and particularly long-run.

Luca Pensieroso(IRES/LIDAM, UCLouvain)will give a presentation onTBAAbstract

Victor Gimenez-Perales (Kiel Institute for the World Economy)will give a presentation onDemand uncertainty in foreign markets. Learning from competitors and sequential market entryAbstractFirms face uncertainty about their residual demand when deciding whether to enter new export markets.

Simon Lauterbach(Geneva Graduate Institute)will give a presentation on TBAAbstract Seminar co-organized by CORE.