Ahmad Lashkaripour (Indiana University)will give a presentation on Linking trade and climate: Strategies for integrating climate goals into free trade agreementswith Farid Farrokhi (Boston College)

Natalia Bermúdez - Barrezueta(IRES/LIDAM, UCLouvain)will give a presentation on Protecting Jobs and Firms: The Impact of Short-Time Work during COVID-19AbstractShort-Time Work (STW) programs aim to protect jobs and firms, but their pandemic effectiveness remains unclear. This paper evaluates STW during COVID-19, a period marked by economic lockdowns and high STW uptake.

Simeon Lauterbach(Geneva Graduate Institute)will give a presentation on Closing the Gender Gap: Differential Impacts of Public and Private School Subsidies in UgandaAbstractHow can low-income countries expand access to secondary education and reduce the gender gap in education?

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.

Luca Pensieroso(IRES/LIDAM, UCLouvain)will give a presentation onFertility and Family Type in the United States: a Historical AnalysisAbstractWe provide a historical decomposition of fertility in the United States by family type.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Michel De Vroey(IRES/LIDAM, UCLouvain)will give a presentation on What has changed in Economics over the last half-century?AbstractOur paper aims to capture the critical elements of the evolution of economics over the last half-century. To achieve such an ambitious task, we proceed in two ways. First, we engage in a history-of-economics analysis. We distinguish the following phases.