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UCLouvain Economics Seminar - Florian Schuett, KULeuven

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...
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IRES Lunch Seminar - Antoine Germain, CORE

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...
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UCLouvain Economic Seminar - Carmen Camacho, PSE

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...
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IRES Lunch Seminar - Emmanuel de Veirmann, De...

Emmanuel de Veirman (De Nederlandsche Bank) will give a presentation on How Does the Phillips Curve Slope Relate to Repricing Rates? Abstract: In sticky price models, the Phillips curve slope depends positively on the probability of price adjustment. I test this implication using...
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UCLouvain Economics Seminar - Andrew Rhodes, Toulouse...

Andrew Rhodes (Toulouse School of Economics) will give a presentation on Personalization and Privacy Choice Abstract: This paper studies consumers' privacy choices when firms can use their data to make personalized offers. We first introduce a general framework of personalization...
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