15/09/2026 - LECL 61 - 12:45Chun Chee Kok(UCLouvain, LIDAM, CORE)will give a presentation on The Missing Middlemen: Indian Expulsion and Rural Development in UgandaAbstract: Governments across the developing world restrict or ban the traders who link farmers to markets, on the grounds that they capture margins that ought to accrue farmers.

30/06/2026 - 12:45 - LECL61Adeola Oyenubi(University of the Witwatersand Johannesburg)will give a presentation on Country and firm-level heterogeneity in gender gaps during a crisis: Does pre-existing inequality matter?AbstractNascent literature on individual-level gender gaps reveals that the gap is heterogeneous, such that it is possible to identify individual characteristics associated wit

25/06/2026 - 12:45 - Doyen 22Uma Kollamparambil(University of Witwatersrand Johannesburg)will give a presentation on Life Satisfaction and Basic Public Service Delivery Satisfaction: A Trend and Decomposition analysisAbstractThis longitudinal study (2011-2024) analyses the relationship between satisfaction with basic public services and life satisfaction in Gauteng, South Africa.

16/06/2026 - 12:45 - Doyen 22 Artur Doshchyn(University of Bristol)will give a presentation on Fiscal inflation and monetary policy under preferred habitatAbstractWe integrate the Fiscal Theory of the Price Level with a preferred-habitat model of the bond market, in which yields are determined by the interaction of habitat investors and risk-averse arbitrageurs rather than by a consumpti

On June 12, 2026 at 2pm in Louvain-la-Neuve (Aula Magna) Raj Chetty will give a presentation on: The Social Origins of Economic Opportunity:Theory and Evidence Link to register Drèze lecture by Raj Chettycore | Presentation: On June 12, 2026 at 2pm in Louvain-la-Neuve (Aula Magna) Raj Chetty will give a presentation on: The Social Origins of Economic Opportunity:Theor

26/05/2026 - 12:45 - Doyen 22Matt Lowe(Vancouver School of Economics)will give a presentation on Identity UncertaintyAbstractSocial identity is not always directly observable: individuals may choose to mask identity markers, and these strategic decisions may or may not succeed in shifting others’ beliefs about their identity.

19/05/2026 - 12:45 - Doyen 22 Fabio Mariani(UCLouvain, LIDAM, IRES)will give a presentation on The shadow of Rome: Fascism, nation building and the political legacy of history.AbstractIn pre-WWII Italy, the Fascist regime mobilized the country’s shared Roman heritage for nation-building.

12/05/2026 - 12:45 - Doyen 22Sumit Shrivastav(UCLouvain, LIDAM, CORE)will give a presentation on Two-sided platform competition with fixed wages AbstractThis paper studies how fixed, wage-like compensation affects competition between two-sided platforms.

07/05/2026 - 12:45 - Doyen 22Mariapia Mendola(Università di Milano Bicocca)will give a presentation on Hacking Anti-Immigration Attitudes and Stereotypes: a Field Experiment in Italian High-SchoolsAbstractIn advanced economies, growing population diversity often fuels hostility toward immigrants and deepens social divides.

05/05/2026 - 12:45 - Doyen 22 Auguste Debroise(Unamur)will give a presentation onThe social image cost of motherhood. Evidence from the movie industryAbstractIn this paper, we investigate the child penalty in the movie industry.