Andrej Sokol (Bloomberg) will give a presentation on Striking a bargain: narrative identification of wage bargaining shocks Abstract : We quantify the effects of wage bargaining shocks on macroeconomic aggregates using a structural vector auto-regression model for Germany. We identify exogenous variation in bargaining power from episodes of minimum wage introduction and industrial disputes.

Travis Lybbert University of California Davis will give a presentation on Religiosity and Educational Attainment Among the Roma: Shedding an Oppositional Identity? Abstract: The Roma have faced poverty, discrimination and even enslavement and extermination since immigrating to Europe from India in the early 12thcentury.

Ritwik Bannerjee (Indian Institute of Management Bangalore) will give a presentation on Using social recognition to address the gender difference in volunteering for low-promotability tasks Abstract : Research shows that women volunteer significantly more for tasks that people prefer others to complete. Such tasks carry little monetary incentives because of their very nature.

Alain Trannoy (AMSE) will give a presentation on Productivity Shocks and Optimal non linear Income Taxation Abstract: In the literature on inequality and risk, changing distribution densities at the margin has been popularized as mean-preserving spreads by Rothschild and Stiglitz (1970).

!! CANCELLED !! Leo Czajka IRES/LIDAM, UCLouvain will give a presentation on TBA Abstract:  

Francesco Cinnirella University of Bergamo will give a presentation on Flow of Ideas: Economic Societies and the Rise of Useful Knowledge Abstract: Economic societies emerged during the late eighteenth-century. We argue that these institutions reduced the costs of accessing useful knowledge by adopting, producing, and diffusing new ideas.

Gonzague Vannoorenberghe IRES/LIDAM, UCLouvain will give a presentation on Globalization and the urban-rural divide in France Abstract:

Kathrin Schlafmann Copenhagen Business School will give a presentation on TBA Abstract:

Fabrizio Ciotti CORE/LIDAM, UCLouvain will give a presentation on Competition for Prominence Abstract: Intermediaries linking retailers to buyers may influence consumers' purchasing decisions by assigning a prominent position to one retailer.

Alexandre de Cornière Toulouse School of Economics will give a presentation on Anticompetitive Bundling when Buyers Compete Abstract: We study the profitability of bundling by an upstream firm who licenses technologies to downstream competitors, and who faces competition for one of its technologies.