Diego Malo Rico (IRES/LIDAM) will give a presentation on Ethnic Remoteness Reduces the Peace Dividend from Trade Access Abstract: This paper shows that ethnically remote locations do not reap the full peace dividend from increased market access.

Michael Waugh (Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis) will give a presentation on Heterogeneous Agent Trade Abstract: This paper studies the implications of household heterogeneity for trade. I develop a model where household heterogeneity is induced via incomplete markets and results in heterogeneous price elasticities.

Gonzague Vannoorenberghe (IRES/LIDAM) Globalization and the urban-rural divide in France Abstract: The growing economic divide between globalized urban centers and left-behind rural places is a powerful narrative in many countries. This paper uses rich administrative micro data to quantify whether urban-rural economic linkages have decreased in France over the period 1995-2015.

Laura Gati (European Central Bank ) will give a presentation on Monetary communication rules Abstract: Does the Federal Reserve follow a communication rule? We propose a simple framework to estimate communication rules, which we conceptualize as a systematic mapping between the Fed’s expectations of macroeconomic variables and the words they use to talk about the economy.

Jing-Rong Zeng (IRES/LIDAM, UCLouvain) will give a presentation on In Search of Lost Peace: The Local Effects of Peacekeepers on Conflict Dynamics in Africa Abstract: This study investigates the influence of peacekeeping intervention on the evolution of local conflict intensity, offering the first quantitative insights into their long-term effectiveness.

Sarah Langlotz (University of Goettingen) will give a presentation on Terrorist Propaganda Abstract: This paper examines the influence of Islamic State (IS) propaganda on public opinion in Afghanistan. We leverage granular survey data to investigate how plausibly exogenous exposure to IS content influences views towards local and international forces. We employ two distinct designs.

Karine Moukkadem (AMSE) will give a presentation on Arab Spring Protests and Women’s Marriage Outcomes: Evidence from Egypt Abstract: The Egyptian Revolution of 2011 has triggered important socio-economic changes directly affecting women, who have played an unprecedented role in protests.

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.

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 choices. In this paper, I provide a novel welfare analysis of any working time regulations.

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 where pollution diffuses in the soil.