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.

Jonas von Wangenheim (University of Bonn) will give a presentation on Organizational Change and Reference-Dependent Preferences Abstract: Reference-dependent preferences can explain several puzzling observations about organizational change. We introduce a dynamic model in which a loss-neutral firm bargains with loss-averse workers over organizational change and wages.

Ibai Ostolozaga (University of the Basque Country) will give a presentation on Intra-National Trade, Misallocation and Relative Prices   For further information on how to attend, you can contact: serena.chellini@kuleuven.be or c.depierpont@uclouvain.be

Jing-Rong (Rosa) Zeng (IRES/LIDAM, UCLouvain) will give a presentation on Beggar Thy Neighbor? Illicit Gold Trade and Conflict in the African Great Lakes Region Abstract: We investigate the impact of establishing a gold refinery in Uganda on conflict dynamics at artisanal gold mining sites in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).

Jacob Bas (Vrij Universiteit Amsterdam) will give a presentation on Should we tax capital income or wealth? Abstract: The answer is: we should tax capital income. This conclusion is derived by analyzing taxes on capital income and wealth in a Merton-Samuelson multiple-period portfolio model with safe and risky assets, where risk may either be idiosyncratic or aggregate risk.

Diego Malo Rico (IRES/LIDAM, UCLouvain) will give a presentation on Economics or Culture? Social Identification in Sub-Saharan Africa Abstract: This paper examines how an individual’s ethnic group’s economic status and its cultural distance from the nation affect their social identification in Sub-Saharan Africa.