Alain Trannoy (AMSE) will give a presentation on Productivity Shocks and Optimal non linear Income Taxation Abstract: In the literature on inequality and risk, changing distribution densities at the margin has been popularized as mean-preserving spreads by Rothschild and Stiglitz (1970).

!! CANCELLED !! Leo Czajka IRES/LIDAM, UCLouvain will give a presentation on TBA Abstract:  

Francesco Cinnirella University of Bergamo will give a presentation on Flow of Ideas: Economic Societies and the Rise of Useful Knowledge Abstract: Economic societies emerged during the late eighteenth-century. We argue that these institutions reduced the costs of accessing useful knowledge by adopting, producing, and diffusing new ideas.

Gonzague Vannoorenberghe IRES/LIDAM, UCLouvain will give a presentation on Globalization and the urban-rural divide in France Abstract:

Kathrin Schlafmann Copenhagen Business School will give a presentation on TBA Abstract:

Fabrizio Ciotti CORE/LIDAM, UCLouvain will give a presentation on Competition for Prominence Abstract: Intermediaries linking retailers to buyers may influence consumers' purchasing decisions by assigning a prominent position to one retailer.

Alexandre de Cornière Toulouse School of Economics will give a presentation on Anticompetitive Bundling when Buyers Compete Abstract: We study the profitability of bundling by an upstream firm who licenses technologies to downstream competitors, and who faces competition for one of its technologies.

Daniele Verdini IRES/LIDAM, UCLouvain will give a presentation on The Anticompetitive Effect of Trade Liberalizations Abstract: Recent decades have been characterized by a surgein firms' market power both in the U.S. and the EU. In this paper, we study the role played by globalization in determining the observed evolution of markups and other measures of market power.

Dorothee Hillrichs IRES/LIDAM, UCLouvain will give a presentation on Recovering within-country inequality from trade data Abstract : This paper develops a novel method to estimate inequality within a country based on what it imports. If preferences are non-homothetic, rich and poor individuals in a country have different consumption profiles.

Elie Murard University of Alicante will give a presentation on Refugees in the Mediterranean: Economic Consequences Abstract: We investigate the long-term economic consequences of mass refugee inflow.