The IRES Discussion Paper series facilitates the dissemination of research by IRES staff members and extramural fellows. Before January 2009, the series include Discussion Papers authored by all members of the Department of Economics. Since 2009, the series is limited to IRES staff members and extramural fellows. The papers are available in electronic version. If you have problem downloading the files, please contact Anne Davister-Logist
Below are listed the papers of the current year. For previous years, visit the archives page. Alternatively, you can also find our discussion papers on RePEC or in our institutional repository DIAL.
2018
N°6 Christophe MULLER and Pierre PECHER
Transborder Ethnic Kin and Local Prosperity : Evidence from Night-Time Light Intensity in Africa
N°5 Slobodan DJAJIĆ, Frédéric DOCQUIER and Michael S. MICHAEL
Optimal Education Policy and Human Capital Accumulation in the Context of Brain Drain
N°4 Frédéric DOCQUIER, Riccardo TURATI, Jérôme VALETTE and Chrysovalantis VASILAKIS
Birthplace Diversity and Economic Growth: Evidence from the US States in the Post-World War II Period
N°3 Thu Hien DAO, Frédéric DOCQUIER, Mathilde MAUREL and Pierre SCHAUS
Global Migration in the 20th and 31st Centuries: the Unstoppable Force of Demography
N°2 Michal BURZYNSKI, Christoph DEUSTER and Frédéric DOCQUIER
The Geography of Talent: Development Implications and Long-Run Prospects
N°1 Vincent VANDENBERGHE
Alternatives to Polynomial Trend-Corrected Differences-In-Differences Models
2017
N°24 Frédéric DOCQUIER, Aysit TANSEL and Riccardo TURATI
Do emigrants self-select along cultural traits? Evidence from the MENA countries
N°23 Florian MAYNERIS
Effets des infrastructures de transport sur le niveau et la localisation des activités économiques
N°22 Françoise DELMEZ and Vincent VANDENBERGHE
Working long hours: less productive but less costly ? Firm-level evidence from Belgium
N°21 Boris CHAFWEHÉ
Durable Goods Markets in Heterogenous Agents Economies
N°20 F. J. ESCRIBÁ-PÉREZ M. J. MURGUI-GARCÍA J. R. RUIZ-TAMARIT
Economic and Statistical Measurement of Physical Capital with an Application to the Spanish Economy
N°19 Lucia GRANELLI
Family Tax Policy with Heterogeneous Altruistic Households
N°18 Olivier MALAY
Beyond GDP indicators: A tension between powerful stakeholders and transformative potential?
N°17 Louis LARUE
Book Review : "The Philosophy of Debt" Alexander Douglas
N°16 David de la CROIX and Aude POMMERET
Childbearing Postponement, its Option Value, and the Biological Clock
N°15 Olivier CARDI, Peter CLAEYS and Romain RESTOUT
Imperfect mobility of labor across sectors and fiscal transmission
N°14 Juliana MESEN VARGAS and Bruno VAN DER LINDEN
Is there always a trade-off between insurance and incentives? The case of unemployment with subsistence constraints
N°13 Raouf BOUCEKKINE, Blanca MARTINEZ and J.R. RUIZ-TAMARIT
Optimal population growth as an endogenous discounting problem: The Ramsey case
N°12 Vincent VANDENBERGHE
The Contribution of Educated Workers to Firms' Efficiency Gains
The Key Role of the Proximity to Frontier
N°11 Marianna BATTAGLIA, Bastien CHABÉ-FERRET and Lara LEBEDINSKI
Segregation and Fertility: the Case of the Roma in Serbia
N°10 Stijn BAERT
Hiring Discrimination : An Overview of (Almost) All Correspondence Experiments Since 2005
N°9 Jean-François FAGNART et Marc GERMAIN
Quelques leçons d'un modèle de macroéconomie écologique à 2 périodes
N°8 Zainab IFTIKHAR and Anna ZAHARIEVA
General Equilibrium Effects of Immigration in Germany: Search and Matching Approach
N°7 Luca PENSIEROSO and Alessandro SOMMACAL
Agriculture to Industry: the End of Intergenerational Coresidence
N°6 Raouf BOUCEKKINE, Giorgio FABBRI, Salvatore FEDERICO and Fausto GOZZI
Growth and Agglomeration in the Heterogeneous Space: a Generalized AK Approach
N°5 Emmanuelle AUGERAUD-VERON, Giorgio FABBRI and Katheline SCHUBERT
The value of biodiversity as an insurance device
N°4 Guzman OURENS
The long-term impact of trade with firm heterogeneity
N°3 Giorgio FABBRI and Francesco RUSSO
HJB equations in infinite dimension and optimal control of stochastic evolution equations via generalized Fukushima decomposition
N°2 Bart COCKX, Muriel DEJEMEPPE, Andrey LAUNOV and Bruno VAN DER LINDEN
Imperfect Monitoring of Job Search: Structural Estimation and Policy Design
N°1 David de la CROIX, Eric B. SCHNEIDER and Jacob WEISDORF
"Decessit sine prole" Childlessness, Celibacy, and Survival of the Richest in Pre-Industrial England