12-02-2026 / 15:00 / CORE C.035Antonio Frangioni(Dipartimento di Informatica, Università di Pisa)will give a presentation on: The Segmented Pay-as-Clear Approach for (Energy) MarketsAbstract:Motivated by the recent crisis of the European electricity markets, we propose the concept of Segmented Pay-as-Clear (SPaC) market, introducing a new family of market clearing problems that achieve a degr

12/02/2026 - 12:45 - Doyen 22  This seminar is cancelled  Stefano Gagliarducci(University Tor Vergata)will give a presentation on Church, State and Education: School Funding and Catholic Assimilation in the U.S.AbstractThis paper studies the consequences of Blaine Amendments — constitutional provisions barring public funding for sectarian schools — on Catholic education an

10/02/2026 - 12:45 - LECL 60Luca Neri(UCLouvain, LIDAM, CORE)Beyond Validity: SVAR Identification Through the Proxy ZooAbstractThis paper develops a framework for robust identification in SVARs when researchers face a zoo of proxy variables.

05/02/2026 - 12:45 -Doyen 22Alessandro Ferrari(UPF)will give a presentation on Specialization, Complexity, and Resilience in Supply ChainsAbstractDespite growing policy interest, the determinants of supply chain resilience are still not well understood. We propose a new theory of supply chain formation in which only compatible inputs can be used in final production.

03/02/2025 - 12:45 - LECL60 Aliénor Bisantis(Aix-Marseille School of Economics)will give a presentation on Gender and Academic MobilityAbstract: What explains the gender gap in academic careers?

16/12/2025 - 12:45 - LECL 60 Anna Jolivet(UNamur)will give a presentation on Kinship Structure and Fertility: evidence from sub-Saharan AfricaAbstractWe examine the relationship between the social organization of communities, in particular their emphasis on lineage organization, and fertility.

11/12/2025 - 12:45 - Doyen 22Lukas Mahler(KU Leuven)will give a presentation on Efficiency and Equity of Education Tracking - A Quantitative AnalysisAbstractWe study the long-run aggregate, distributional, and intergenerational effects of school tracking—the allocation of students to different types of schools—by incorporating school track decisions into a general-equilibrium heterogeneous-a

10/12/2025 - 10:30 - OnlineAlessia Lo Turco(Università Politecnica delle Marche)will give a presentation on Foreign Ownership and Occupational Safety: Evidence from France More info about the speaker

09/12/2025 - 12:45 - LECL 61 David de la Croix(IRES/LIDAM, UCLouvain)will give a presentation on Forced Displacement of Scholars and Academic Output During the Scientific RevolutionAbstract(with Sascha O. Becker, Sebastian Ottinger, Nico Voigtländer)

04/12/2025 - 12:45 - Doyen 22Thomas Goda(Universidad EAFIT)will give a presentation on You are worth that to me – Uncovering the hierarchy of central bank currency swapsAbstractBilateral central bank currency swaps are crucial elements of the Global Financial Safety Net (GFSN).