Archives for IRES
October 13, 2016
Seminar
UCLouvain Economics Seminar - Palma
Nuno Palma
(European University Institute and the University of Groningen)
The existence and persistence of liquidity effects: evidence from a large-scale historical natural experiment
Abstract: The discovery of mines of precious metals in Central and South America led to a massive...
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October 06, 2016
Seminar
UCLouvain economics Seminar - Marcet
Albert Marcet
(CSIC, ICREA, UAB, MOVE, Barcelona GSE & CEPR)
Stock Price Booms and Expected Capital Gains?
Abstract: The booms and busts in U.S. stock prices over the post-war period can to a large extent be explained by fluctuations in investors’ subjective capital gains...
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September 29, 2016
Seminar
UCLouvain Economics Seminar - Smeets
Valérie Smeets
(Aarhus University)
Multi-product firms, import competition and the evolution of firmproduct technical efficiencies
Abstract: We study how increased import competition induced by falling Chinese import tariffs affects the evolution of firm-product technical efficiencies...
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September 22, 2016
Seminar
UCLouvain Economics Seminar - Teles
Pedro Teles
(Universidade Católica Portuguesa)
More on Taxation of Capital
Abstract: Should capital income taxes be zero in the long run, as argued by Chamley (1986) and Judd (1985)? Or should instead capital be heavily taxed as suggested by Straub and Werning (2015)? We revisit the...
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