Place Montesquieu – Auditorium Leclerq 61 et 62
The 2023 Spring Doctoral Workshop will take place on May 26th at Université catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve.
We invite all the doctoral students from Université Catholique de Louvain, Université de Namur and Université Saint-Louis to present their research. Both theoretical and empirical contributions at any stage of completion are welcome. Students from other universities are also warmly invited to participate, but in the event that not enough slots are available, priority will be given to students of the organizing universities. Researchers and Professors from the organizing universities, research institutes and other universities are kindly invited to participate in this event.
Programme
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8:30 - 10:15 |
Parallel Session I | |
Economic History
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Industrial Organization
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| The Legacy of the American Frontier: Beyond Individualism Gaia Spolverini, UCLouvain |
Competition for peer-to-peer markets Giorgio Ferroni, UNamur |
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| Early Modern Academies, Universities, and Growth Chiara Zanardello, UCLouvain |
How fairness concern influence price discrimination on online platform Jing Su, UCLouvain |
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| Intergenerational transmission of life expectancy Quentin Richard, UNamur |
Big Tech Acquisitions and Innovation: An Empirical Assessment Laureen de Barsy, HEC Liege |
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| 10:15 - 10:30 | Coffee Break | |
| 10:30 - 12:45 | Parallel Session II | |
Labour economics
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Macroeconomics and Econometrics
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| Introducing the degressivity of unemployment benefits: does-it bring unemployed back to work? Nathan Lachapelle, UCLouvain |
The income elasticity of employment: evidence from the fall of the Morandi Bridge Charles de Pierpont de Burnot, UCLouvain |
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| Permanent exemption from social security contributions in Belgium: An evaluation with a directed search model Tiziano Toniolo, UCLouvain |
Exchange rate pass-through and dominant currency pricing theory Vincent Notte, UCLouvain |
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| Short-Time work and its effect on employment and firm survival: evidence from the Great Recession in Belgium Natalia Bermudez, UCLouvain & UGent |
Public Debt and Financial Stability Hanjing Kuang, UCLouvain |
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| Asymmetric Information, Short-Time Work Insurance, and Experience Rating Giulia Tarullo, UCLouvain & UGent |
Detecting and dating possibly distinct structural breaks in the covariance structure of financial assets Farah Daniela Mugrabi, UCLouvain |
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| 12:45 - 14:00 | Lunch break | |
| 14:00 - 15:15 | Parallel Session III | |
Development Economics I
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Public and Behavioral Economics
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| The impact of Independent Media on Political Mobilisation during the Arab Spring Laura Angelini, UCLouvain |
Self-control and autoplay default in video consumption Reha Tuncer, University of Luxembourg |
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| TBC Anna Jolivet, UNamur |
Distributional Implications and Public Acceptability of the EU-ETS 2 in Belgium Audric De Bevere, USaint-Louis |
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| 15:15 - 15:30 | Coffee break | |
| Parallel Session IV | ||
Development Economics II
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Energy Economics
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| Insecurity as a barrier to seasonal migration in Mali Marion Richard, UCLouvain |
Are Belgian investments in wind energy pareto efficient ? Lessons from portfolio optimization Martial Toniotti, UCLouvain |
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| Beyond Individual Impact Evaluation: Assessing the External Validity of Anti-Poverty Programs using Bayesian Hierarchical Models Florian De Bundel, UCLouvain |
Pricing Indivisibilities in the Investment Problem Nicolas Stevens, UCLouvain |
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| TBC Jacques Cartuyvels, UCLouvain |
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| 17:00 | Cheese and wine |
Registrations
Lunch will be served and a Cheese & Wine will be offered in the evening. Please fill out the form below, even if you will not present. This will help us better organize the event.
Registrations are now open and can be accessed here.
Members of the organizing team
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UCLouvain:
- Gerritse Esmeralda – gerritse.esmeralda@uclouvain.be
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UNamur:
- François Woitrin – francois.woitrin@unamur.be
- Pablo Alvarez – pablo.alvarez@unamur.be
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Saint-Louis:
- Arnaud Deseau – arnaud.deseau@usaintlouis.be
- Audric De Bevere – audric.debevere@usaintlouis.be
- Jérôme Dollinger – jerome.dollinger@usaintlouis.be