The workshop gathers internationally renowned econometricians to promote and inspire research in econometrics and adjacent fields at UCLouvain. The topics cover econometric and statistical theory and methodology with a wide range of applications in economics and finance. Research in econometrics at UCLouvain has suffered in previous years, not the least due to the Covid crisis.

Mykhailo Matvieiev (AMSE) will give a presentation on  "Job uncertainty, wage growth, and cyclical reallocation". Abstract ------------ This paper studies the role of the frictional labor market in the transmission of aggregate shocks in an economy with on-job search.

Marita Freimane (University of Zurich) will give a presentation on  Thumbs Up, Thumbs Down: Dislike Attacks and Content Creator Productivity on YouTube Abstract Harassment can be harmful to mental health and reduce creativity and productivity.

Robert Raschka (Universität Hamburg) will give a presentation on A Single Relation Theory of Welfarist Social Evaluation Abstract:  Despite its central importance, the analysis of social welfare still faces conceptual issues related to well-being measurement.

Mathieu Sauvenier will give a presentation on Direction Identification and Minimax Estimation by Generalized Eigenvalue Problem in High Dimensional Sparse Regression Abstract: “In high dimensional sparse linear regression, a selection and an estimation of the parameters are studied based on an $l_0-$constraint on the direction of the vector of parameters.

Jérôme Dollinger (CORE) will give a presentation on  "Alliances and Technological Partnerships in Contests". Abstract " This paper analyses the formation of alliances and technological partnerships in contests.

Anna Simoni (CREST) will give a presentation on Bayesian Bi-level Sparse Group Regressions for Macroeconomic Forecasting

Mathieu Sauvenier (CORE) will give a presentation on Identification and inference in high dimensional econometric models  

Germain Van Bever (UNamur) will give a presentation on Additive regression with general imperfect variables

Camille Hainnaux (AMSE) Will give a presentatio on "Taxing incognito: optimal climate taxation and inequality"   Abstract   ------------ This paper explores optimal alternatives to carbon taxation using already existing taxes in the economy and its impact on inequality.