Stelios Michalopoulos(Brown University)will give a presentation on Uprooted: Human Capital and the Asia Minor Catastrophe AbstractMore than a century has passed since the abrupt exodus of 1.2 million Greek Orthodox from Anatolia and their arrival in Greece, a transformative event for the country’s social and demographic landscape. Today, one in three Greeks reports a refugee background.

Filippo Manfredini(IRES/LIDAM, UCLouvain)will give a presentation on Universities and Growth in pre-Industrial England AbstractOxford and Cambridge were enduring institutions of pre-industrial England, shaping the nation’s economic and intellectual landscape.

Ashley Wong(Tilburg University)will give a presentation on Motherhood and the Gender Gap in Self-Employment AbstractWomen continue to be underrepresented in self-employment, and female-owned businesses tend to underperform relative to male-owned ones.

Thao Trang Nguyen(Maastricht University)will give a presentation on Special economic zones and firm performance: Evidence from Vietnamwith Karsten Mau and Tania Treibich (Maastricht University)

Morgane Rigaux(ULB) will give a presnetation on Socioeconomic determinants of household structure: evidence from IndiaAbsrtract: Household structure, defined as the composition and relationships of individuals living under the same roof, influences key economic outcomes such as education, female labor force participation, and elderly well-being.

Vasily Korovkin(Universitat Pompeu Fabra)will give a presnetation on Trade SanctionsAbstract How effective are trade sanctions? We examine the economic impact of the unprecedented sanctions imposed on Russia following February 2022, when Western countries banned exports of nearly 40% of all country-product varieties Russia had been importing prior to the war.

Jean-François Maystadt(IRES/LIDAM, UCLouvain)will give a presentation on The Political Impact of Refugees in Africa AbstractThe political impact of refugees is largely unknown in low-income countries, although these destinations host the majority of forcibly displaced people, and more specifically refugees.

Hideo Owan(Waseda University)will give a presentation on People Management Skills, Senior Leadership Skills and the Peter PrincipleAbstract: This study examines how managers’ skills affect the performance and retention of the subordinates and how those skills are rewarded.

Francesca Micocci (IMT Lucca) will give a presentation on The heterogeneous impact of the EU-Canada agreement with causal machine learning Abstract This paper introduces a causal machine learning approach to investigate the impact of the EU-Canada Comprehensive Economic Trade Agreement (CETA).

François Fontaine(PSE)will give a presentation on The Impact of a Carbon Tax on Labor Reallocation. The Role of Firm Heterogeneity and Energy Efficiency AbstractThis study leverages French data to elucidate the considerable heterogeneity in energy efficiency across firms and its correlation with the substantial diversity in energy mixes both within and across sectors.