Bartosz Maćkowiak (European Central Bank) will give a presentation on Rational Inattention and the Business Cycle Effects of Productivity and News Shocks Abstract: We solve a real business cycle model with rational inattention (an RI-RBC model).

Deniz Atalar (university of Cambridge) will give a presentation on Plastic Turkey: International leakages of China's waste contamination policy Abstract : Practical Details The Leuven-Louvain Trade workshops are held online (Zoom). If you would like to attend, please contact : Serana Chellini (KULeuven) Charles de Pierpont de Burnot (UCLouvain)  

Jérémy Do Nascimento Miguel (Bordeaux School of Economics) will give a presentation on Fixing markets for unobservable quality, Lab-in-the-field evidence from rural wheat traders in Ethiopia Abstract: Enhancing the access of smallholder farmers to profitable value chains can improve their incomes and overall well-being.

Sandra Sequeira (LSE) will give a presentation on Forced Displacement and Human Capital Abstract: We study the impact of conflict-driven displacement on human capital accumulation and occupational shifts. We focus on the Mozambican civil war (1977 − 1992), during which millions of civilians fled to the countryside, to cities, and to refugee camps in neighboring countries.

Rossana Scebba (IRES/LIDAM, UCLouvain) will give a presentation on Integrating library and prosopographical data in the publication network of the Old University of Louvain Abstract : The present work strives to offer an interdisciplinary perspective to the study of academic communities as real-world networks, using the Old University of Louvain as case study.

Lukas Rosenberger  (LMU, Munich) will give a presentation on Why Britain? The Right Place (in the Technology Space) at the Right Time Abstract: How did Britain sustain faster rates of economic growth than comparable European countries, such as France, during the Industrial Revolution?

Chiara Zanardello (IRES/LIDAM, UCLouvain) will give a presentation on Early Modern Academies, Universities, and Economic Growth Abstract: Using a novel micro-level database of Early Modern scholars and educational institutions, I study the influence of innovative knowledge on economic growth of Europe from 1500 to 1800.

Julius Koschnik (LSE) will give a presentation on Teacher-directed scientific change: The case of the English Scientific Revolution Absract: While economic factors in directed technical and scientific change have been widely studied, the role of teacher-directed scientific change has received less attention.

Dylan Glover (INSEAD) will give a presnetation on Job Search under (Perceived) Discrimination   Abstract: Evidence is lacking on how jobseeker search effort reacts to the expected level of discrimination they face in the labor market. Bridging this gap is important for understanding the channels through which discrimination affects final labor market outcomes.

Charles de Pierpont de Burnot (IRES/LIDAM, UCLouvain) will give a presentation on Does immigrants birthplace diversity impact wages? Evidence from new migration flows composition in the US Abstract: The increasing arrival of people from different origins in high-income countries raises the issue of the coexistence and the exchange of different norms and ideas that affect productivity.