Ioannis Kospentaris(Athens University)will give a presentation on The Effects of Secondary Corporate Loan Trade on Credit Issuance and Job CreationAbstractAn increasing share of corporate loans, a critical source of firm credit, are sold off banks’ balance sheets and actively traded in a secondary over-the-counter market.

Paul Atwell(Universidad Carlos III)will give a presentation on Reducing Falsehoods at the Source: An experimental study incentivizing Brazilian political elites to avoid online misinformationAbstractElites play an outsized role in the sharing and reach of misinformation on social media yet remain vastly understudied.

Programme 09:30 - 10:00 Registration with Coffee 10:00 - 11:30 Sigrid Suetens (Tilburg University) Double Redistribution Standards   Joris Hoste (University of Cambridge) In Hot Water: Clarifying the Price Effects of Brexit   Sabien Dobbelaere (VU Amsterdam) Firm Consolidation and Labor Market Outcomes 11:30 - 12:00

Leander Heldring (Northwestern University) will give a presentation on TBA Abstract:

David de la Croix (IRES/LIDAM, UCLouvain) will give a presentation on TBA Abstract:

Daniel Gottlieb (London School of Economics) will give a presentation on Market Power and Insurance Coverage Abstract:This paper examines how market power affects coverage in a general class of insurance models. We show that market power decreases coverage for individuals who are less willing to pay for insurance but increases coverage for those with a higher willingness to pay.

  Morteza Ghomi (Bank of Spain) will give a presentation on Stimulating Avenues: EIB Loans and Returns to Public Infrastructure Abstract:We analyze the economic impact of public infrastructure investment using European Investment Bank (EIB) loans to publicly owned firms and governments as an instrument for infrastructure shocks.

Andreas Madestam (Stockholm University) will give a presentation on Credit Contracts, Business Development and Gender: Evidence from Uganda Abstract: We examine how liquidity shortages at various stages of the loan cycle affect small firm growth and vary by entrepreneurs' gender.

  Yin Dai (Aarhus University) will give a presentation on Quality Complementarity of Imported Inputs and Output Quality

Andrea Marcucci (Università della Svizzera Italiana) will give a presentation on Water Wars Abstract: We study the relationship between access to water resources and local violence in Africa. Due to limited irrigation, rural communities rely on rainfall, rivers, and lakes for their economic needs.