7th Christmas Meeting

We are pleased to announce that the 7^th Annual Christmas Meeting of Belgian Economists will take place on Friday December 22 at the Department of Economics of the University of Leuven. The event is a joint organization of ECORES and IRES.

More information and registration are available on the KUL website. 

Program

9:30 - 10:00

Welcome with coffee and registration (Room HOG 00.10)

10:00 - 11:00

Keynote lecture 1: Gérard Roland (University of California, Berkeley): The deep historical roots of modern culture: a comparative perspective

11:00 - 11:30

Coffee break (Room HOG 00.10)

11:30 - 12:00

François Gérard (Columbia University): Tax systems and inter-firm trade: evidence from the VAT in Brazil

12:00 - 12:30

Mathias Reynaert (Toulouse School of Economics): Corrective policy and Goodhart’s Law: the case of carbon emissions from automobiles

12:30 - 13:00

Jean-François Maystadt (Lancaster University Management School): The transmission of health across 7 generations in China, 1789-1906

13:00 - 14:00

Lunch (Room HOG 00.10)

14:00 - 14:30

Martin Vanderlinden (Utah State University): Trump trumps Bush

14:30 - 15:00

Simon Galle (BI-Norwegian Business School ): Slicing the pie: quantifying the aggregate and distributional effects of trade

15:00 - 15:30

Coffee break (Room HOG 00.10)

15:30 - 16:00

Keynote lecture 2: Michèle Belot (EUI and University of Edinburgh): Providing advice to job seekers at low cost: an experimental study on online advice

16:00

Reception (Room HOG 00.10)

Organizing Committee

Laurens Cherchye (KU Leuven)
Bram De Rock (KU Leuven and ECARES-ULB)
Johannes Spinnewijn (London School of Economics)
Gonzague Vannoorenberghe (Université Catholique de Louvain)
Frederic Vermeulen (KU Leuven)