14/10/2025 | 12:45Gianmarco Luu(CORE/LIDAM, UCLouvain)will give a presentation on Deceptive Counterfeits and Consumer ProtectionAbstractDeceptive counterfeits—fake products that consumers purchase unintentionally—are an increasing concern in e-commerce, posing financial and health risks.

09/10/2025 | 12:45Eve Colson-Sihra(Hebrew University of Jerusalem)will give a presentation on Feeding the Gap: A Test of the Gender-Intensification Hypothesis Using Food ConsumptionAbstractWhen do gender stereotypes emerge and intensify?

07/10/2025 | 12:45Kam Pui Tsang(IRES/LIDAM, UCLouvain)will give a presentation on Dirty Green Transition: Chinese Critical Mineral Investment and Protest in Sub-Saharan AfricaAbstractChina has become a leading investor in critical mineral extraction, a sector central to energy transition technologies.

02/10/2025 | 12:45Bart Cockx(Ghent University)will give a presentation on Biased Beliefs in Job Search: Structural Evaluation of Counseling and CoachingAbstractUsing Swiss data on job search behavior and expectations about interviews, we evaluate a program combining intensified counseling and coaching to address biased beliefs, in a randomized trial.

30/09/2025 | LECL 60Nathan Hancart(university of Oslo)will give a presentation on The Optimal Menu of TestsAbstractA decision-maker can test a privately informed agent prior to making a decision. Instead of choosing the test himself, the decision-maker requires the agent to choose the test from a menu.

26/09/2025 - Program  : 9:00 - Leon Rofagha “A discrimination measure under coarsening”Abstract: “Abstract. How does one evaluate the quality of a regression model’s predictions \(f(X_1),\ldots,f(X_n)\) under coarsening of the responses \(Y_1,\ldots,Y_n\)? A coarsening of a random variable is a random set containing said random variable.

25/09/2025 - CORE B-135Title: Hardness and Structure in Network Optimization on Unrooted Binary Trees Abstract: In this talk, I will explore several properties and complexity results for network optimization problems in the setting of unrooted binary trees. Two main themes will be addressed.

18/09/2025  - Doyen 22Cristina Manea(Bank for International Settlements) will give a presentation on Targeted Taylor Rules: Some Evidence and Theory AbstractThis paper introduces the concept of targeted Taylor rules defined as monetary policy rules which allow for different responses to demand– versus supply–driven inflation.

16/09/2025 - 12:45 - LECL 60Johannes Johnen(CORE/LIDAM, UCLouvain)will give a presentation on Consumer Protection in Economies with Limited AttentionAbstractWe investigate the effects of consumer-protection regulations limiting post-purchase harm when there are many markets and consumers have limited attention to examine prices or product features.

Conférence annuelle en mémoire de Jacques Drèze organisée conjointement par le Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE, LIDAM), l'Ecole d'économie (ESL) et l'Association des économistes de Louvain (ADEL). Cette année, la conférence sera donnée par Jean Drèze, avec pour thème L'emploi garanti en action : l'expérience indienne Jean Drèze, économiste du développement, est actuelleme