Daniele Verdini IRES/LIDAM, UCLouvain will give a presentation on The Anticompetitive Effect of Trade Liberalizations Abstract: Recent decades have been characterized by a surgein firms' market power both in the U.S. and the EU. In this paper, we study the role played by globalization in determining the observed evolution of markups and other measures of market power.

Dorothee Hillrichs IRES/LIDAM, UCLouvain will give a presentation on Recovering within-country inequality from trade data Abstract : This paper develops a novel method to estimate inequality within a country based on what it imports. If preferences are non-homothetic, rich and poor individuals in a country have different consumption profiles.

Elie Murard University of Alicante will give a presentation on Refugees in the Mediterranean: Economic Consequences Abstract: We investigate the long-term economic consequences of mass refugee inflow.

Alessio Mitra University of Kent will give a presentation on Are complex technologies nurturing knowledge dependencies?  

Gilat Levy LSE will give a presentation on Political social-learning: short-term memory and cycles of polarisation Abstract: In this paper, we explore the effect of short-term memory on political outcomes in a model in which politics is viewed as a collective learning process.

Arnaud Deseau IRES/LIDAM, UCLouvain will give a presentation on The Most Important Event? The Long-Run Impact of the Dissolution of French Monasteries   Abstract: During the French Revolution, a massive redistribution took place, where all Church property was confiscated and auctioned.

Ranjeeta Thomas (LSE) will give a presentation on Risk and social preferences predict risky sexual behaviour amongst youth in a high HIV-prevalence setting Abstract: Young people in sub-Saharan Africa are particularly at high risk of HIV and other sexually transmitted infections.

Christiano Cantore (Bank of England ) Will give a presentation on A tail of labor supply and a tale of monetary policy Abstract: We study the interaction between monetary policy and labor supply decisions at the household level.

Amma Panin (CORE/LIDAM, UCLouvain) will give a presentation on Using religious participation to insure mental health in Ghana

Martina Magli Ludwig-Maximilian Universität München will give a presentation on The Direct and Indirect Effects of Services offshoring on local labour market outcomes Abstract: I provide new empirical evidence on the direct and indirect impact of services offshoring on local labour market outcomes.I employ a unique dataset on firms in the UK for the period 2000-2015 and exploit the variation