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Karine Moukkadem (AMSE) will give a presentation on Arab Spring Protests and Women’s Marriage Outcomes: Evidence from Egypt Abstract: The Egyptian Revolution of 2011 has triggered important socio-economic changes directly affecting women, who have played an unprecedented...

Florian Schuett (KULeuven) will give a presentation on Platform Design and Rent Extraction   Abstract: We study the design of online platforms that aggregate information and facilitate transactions. Leading players in the industry hold two types of platforms in their...

Antoine Germain (CORE) will give a presentation on Working time regulations and redistribution Abstract: All countries except the US are mandating paid time off. Why? In standard labor supply models, working time regulations are inefficient as they clash with individuals' own...

Carmen Camacho (Paris School of Economics) will give a presentation on Pollution diffusion, limited production factors, non-monotonic growth and the emergence of spatially heterogeneous steady states Abstract: We develop a spatial growth model for an agricultural economy...