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Ghent University, Tweekerkenstraat 2, Faculty Council Room, 2nd floor
Programme
| 09.30-10.00 | Registration with coffee |
| 10.00-11.00 | First keynote: Michael Rubens (UCLA): “Exploiting or augmenting labor?” |
| 11.00-11.30 | Coffee break |
| 11.30-12.00 | Olivier Sterck (University of Oxford): “A new distribution sensitive index for measuring welfare, poverty and inequality.” |
| 12.00-12.30 | Olivier De Groote (Toulouse School of Economics): “College admission mechanisms and the opportunity cost of time.” |
| 12.30-13.00 | Lore Vandewalle (Geneva Graduate Institute): “Customer knowledge and the price-quality gradient. |
| 13.00-14.00 | Lunch Break |
| 14.00-14.30 | Lorenzo Pozzi (Erasmus University Rotterdam): “Cyclical consumption.” |
| 14.30-15.00 | Bert Van Landeghem (University of Sheffield): “Reservation wages and reservation prices for commuting time, flexibility and job security. |
| 15.00-15.30 | Mathias Reynaert (Toulouse School of Economics): “An evaluation of protected area policies in the European Union.” |
| 15.30-16.00 | Coffee break |
| 16.00-16.30 | Damien de Walque (World Bank): “Early education, preferences, and decision-making abilities.” |
| 16.30-17.30 | Second keynote: Wouter Dessein (Columbia University): “Test-optional admissions.” |
| 17.30-... | Early Christmas Drink |
Registration
Attendance is free, but registration is compulsory via this link.
Venue
This year the Annual Christmas Meeting of Belgian Economist will take place at Ghent University.
Faculty Council Room,Tweekerkenstraat 2,
2nd Floor
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