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Michael Waugh (Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis) will give a presentation on Heterogeneous Agent Trade Abstract: This paper studies the implications of household heterogeneity for trade. I develop a model where household heterogeneity is induced via incomplete markets and...

Gonzague Vannoorenberghe (IRES/LIDAM) Globalization and the urban-rural divide in France Abstract: The growing economic divide between globalized urban centers and left-behind rural places is a powerful narrative in many countries. This paper uses rich administrative micro data to...

Laura Gati (European Central Bank ) will give a presentation on Monetary communication rules Abstract: Does the Federal Reserve follow a communication rule? We propose a simple framework to estimate communication rules, which we conceptualize as a systematic mapping between...

Jing-Rong Zeng (IRES/LIDAM, UCLouvain) will give a presentation on In Search of Lost Peace: The Local Effects of Peacekeepers on Conflict Dynamics in Africa Abstract: This study investigates the influence of peacekeeping intervention on the evolution of local conflict intensity,...