Leuven Summer Event

PROGRAM

Monday, May 29, 2023

​Room : HOGM 00.85

8:45 – 9:00   Welcome/coffee

9:00 - 10:00 “Measuring Substitution Patterns with a Flexible Demand Model”by Julien Monardo (Bristol)

10:00-11:00  “Optimal Subsidies for the Product Upgrading of Battery Electric Vehicles in China” by Xiaoyue Zhang (Tilburg)

11:00-11:30   Coffee break.

11:30-12:30 “Merger Effects and Antitrust Enforcement: Evidence from US Retail” by Gaston Illanes (Nortwestern)

12:30-14:00 Lunch break

14:00-15:00 “Price and quantity discovery without commitment” by Estelle Cantillon (ECARES)

15:00-16:00 “Estimating Preferences and Substitution Patterns from Second-Choice Data Alone” by Chris Conlon (NYU)

19:00              Conference Dinner

Tuesday, May 30, 2023

Room : HOGM 00.85

8:45-9:00     Coffee

9:00-10:00  “Do Mergers and Acquisitions Improve Efficiency: Evidence from Power Plants” by Mert Demirer (MIT)

10:00-11:00 “Competitive Award of Scarce Airport Slots: an Empirical Analysis” by Marleen Marra (Sciences Po)

11:00-11:30   Coffee break

11:30-12:30   “Mergers, Foreign Competition, and Jobs: Evidence from the U.S. Appliance Industry” by Felix Montag (Dartmouth)

12:30-14:00 Lunch break

14:00-15:00 “Market Structure, Investment, and Technical Efficiencies in Mobile Telecommunications”  by Paul Scott (NYU)

End of the conference

PROGRAM

Tuesday, May 30, 2023

Room : HOGM 01.85

8:45 – 9:00 Welcome/coffee

09:00 – 09:45 “The heterogeneous effects of changing SAT requirements in admissions: an equilibrium evaluation” by Emilio BORGHESAN (University of Pennsylvania)

09:45 – 10:30 “Top percent policies and the return to postsecondary selectivity” by Zachary BLEEMER (Yale)

10:30 – 11:00 Coffee break

11:00 – 11:45 “The returns to specific graduate degrees: estimates using Texas administrative records” by Joseph ALTONJI (Yale)

11:45 – 12:30 “Educational attainment, field of study and labor market outcomes” by Ciprian Domnisoru (Aalto University)

12:30 – 14:00 Lunch break

14:00 – 14:45 “Complementarities in high school and college investments” by Gregory VERAMENDI (Royal Holloway)

14:45 – 15:30 “Elite universities and the intergenerational transmission of human and social capital” by Andrés Barrios-Fernández (Universidad de los Andes)

15:30 – 16:00 Coffee break

16:00-16:45 “Planning for family succession” by Robert MILLER (Carnegie Mellon)

19:00              Conference Dinner

Wednesday, May 31, 2023

Room : HOGM 01.85

8:45 – 9:00 Welcome/coffee

09:00 – 09:45 “The role of uncertainty in education mismatch” by Shihang HOU (University of Oxford)

09:45 – 10:30 “Education expansion, sorting, and the decreasing education wage premium” by Pauline CORBLET (University of Luxembourg)

10:30 – 11:00 Coffee break

11:00 – 11:45 “The road not taken: socio-emotional learning and academic rigor” by Mari REGE (University of Stavanger)

11:45 – 12:30 “Long-term spillover effects of violence: evidence from high-stakes exams” by Cecilia PELUFFO (University of Florida)

12:30 – 14:00 Lunch break

14:00 – 14:45 “Matching disadvantaged children to daycare: evidence from a centralized platform” by Olivier DE GROOTE (Toulouse School of Economics)

14:45 – 15:30 “Provision of online public goods: evidence from student discussion boards” by Hammad SHAIKH (University of Stavanger)

15:30 – 16:00 Coffee break

16:00 - 16:45 “Teaching Teachers to Use Computer Assisted Learning for Facilitating Personalized Learning at Scale: Experimental and Non-Experimental Evidence” by Philip OREOPOULOS (University of Toronto)

PROGRAM

Thursday, June 1, 2023

Room : HOGM 01.85

8:45 – 9:00 Welcome/coffee

09:00 - 09:45 "The Causal Effects of Global Supply Chain Disruption on Macroeconomics Outcomes : Theory and Evidence" by Yiliang Li (University of International Business and Economics)

09:45 - 10:30 "Micro vs Macro Corporate Tax Incidence" by Simon Margolin (Princeton University)

10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break

11:00 - 11:45 "Inflation and GDP Dynamics in Production Networks : A Sufficient Statistics Approach" by Saroj Bhattarai (University of Texas at Austin)

11:45 - 12:45 "Artificial Intelligence and Governments: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly" by Martin Beraja (MIT)

12:45 - 14:00 Lunch break

14:00 - 14:45 "Dynamic Identification Using System Projections on Instrumental Variables" by Daniel Lewis (University College London)

14:45 - 15:30 "It's Baaack: The Surge in Inflation in the 2020s and the Return of the Non-Linear Phillips Curve" by Gauti Eggertsson (Brown University)

15:30 - 16:00 Coffee break

16:00 - 16:45 "Rational Inattention and the Business Cycle Effects of Productivity and News Shocks" by Bartosz Mackowiak (ECB)

16:45 - 17:30 "Sovereign Risk and the Business Cycle Doom Loop?" by Emircan Yurdagul (Universidad Carlos III)

19:00              Conference Dinner

Friday, June 2, 2023

Room : HOGM 01.85

8:45 – 9:00 Welcome/coffee

09:00 – 09:45 “Staggered Contracts and Unemployment during Recessions" by Effrosyni Adamopoulou (University of Mannhein)

09:45 – 10:30 “Do Automatic Stabilizers Really Stabilize? Evidence from Unemployment Insurance Policies and the Housing Market" by Bulent Guler (Indiana University)

10:30 – 11:00 Coffee break

11:00 – 11:45 “Robot Adoption and Inflation Dynamics" by Omar Rachedi (Esade Business School)

11:45 – 12:30 “How Much Should We Trust Regional-Exposure Designs?" by Jeremy Majerovitz (St. Louis Fed)

12:30 – 13:30 Lunch break

13:30 - 14:15 "The return to government R&D : evidence form U.S. Appropriations shocks" by Karel Mertens (Dallas Fed)

14:15 – 15:00 "Stock Market Wealth and Entrepreneurship" - Gabriel Chodorow-Reich (Harvard University)