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.

Ioannis Kospentaris(Athens University)will give a presentation on The Effects of Secondary Corporate Loan Trade on Credit Issuance and Job CreationAbstractAn increasing share of corporate loans, a critical source of firm credit, are sold off banks’ balance sheets and actively traded in a secondary over-the-counter market.

Paul Atwell(Universidad Carlos III)will give a presentation on Reducing Falsehoods at the Source: An experimental study incentivizing Brazilian political elites to avoid online misinformationAbstractElites play an outsized role in the sharing and reach of misinformation on social media yet remain vastly understudied.

Programme 09:30 - 10:00 Registration with Coffee 10:00 - 11:30 Sigrid Suetens (Tilburg University) Double Redistribution Standards   Joris Hoste (University of Cambridge) In Hot Water: Clarifying the Price Effects of Brexit   Sabien Dobbelaere (VU Amsterdam) Firm Consolidation and Labor Market Outcomes 11:30 - 12:00

Leander Heldring (Northwestern University) will give a presentation on TBA Abstract:

David de la Croix (IRES/LIDAM, UCLouvain) will give a presentation on TBA Abstract: