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Leander Heldring (Northwestern University) will give a presentation on The cost of state-building: Evidence from Germany Abstract: This paper studies the impact of a well-functioning bureaucracy on the effectiveness of repression, in the context of Germany’s Nazi regime. I...

David de la Croix (IRES/LIDAM, UCLouvain) will give a presentation on Salvation, Flora, and the Cosmos: Pre-modern Academic Institutions and the Spread of Ideas  Abstract: Having a few good ideas in a lifetime is not uncommon, but for those ideas to spread and evolve, a...

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...

  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...