Archives for UCLOUVAIN
September 29, 2016
Seminar: Valérie Smeets
Multi-product Firms, Import Competition and the Evolution of Firm-product Technical Efficiencies
Valérie Smeets (Aarhus University)
We study how increased import competition induced by falling Chinese import tariffs affects the evolution of firm-product technical efficiencies in the small...
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September 28, 2016
Seminar: Philippe Chevalier
Models for horizontal supply chain collaboration
Philippe CHEVALIER, CORE, Université catholique de Louvain
Horizontal collaboration can enable firms to reap economies of scale. In this talk we will present models for different types of collaboration ranging from Joint Ventures to joint...
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September 22, 2016
Seminar
UCLouvain Economics Seminar - Teles
Pedro Teles
(Universidade Católica Portuguesa)
More on Taxation of Capital
Abstract: Should capital income taxes be zero in the long run, as argued by Chamley (1986) and Judd (1985)? Or should instead capital be heavily taxed as suggested by Straub and Werning (2015)? We revisit the...
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September 22, 2016
Seminar: Pedro Teles
More on the Taxation of Capital
Pedro Teles (Universidade Católica Portuguesa)
(Joint paper with V. Chari and Juan Pablo Nicolini)
Should capital income taxes be zero in the long run, as argued by Chamley (1986) and Judd (1985)? Or should instead capital be heavily taxed as suggested...
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