Francesco Pascucci : “Wage Rigidities in a Quantitative Spatial Economy” with Nathan Lachapelle Room : P02 In this paper we build a quantitative spatial general equilibrium model to study the geographical variation in unemployment rates in the presence of wage rigidities and when workers are allowed to commute from residence to workplace. To gauge the magnitude…
Geert Goeyvaerts : « Split incentives, asymmetric information and energy efficiency subsidies » When : march 11 (11.00 – 12.00) Room : Salle des examens We examine how agency issues due to asymmetric information affect the cost-effectiveness of subsidy programs for energy efficiency investments. In 2009, the Flemish government introduced a reduction in the property tax of 20% to…
Room : P02 10h-11h: Jean-François Maystadt (Université catholique de Louvain). « Refugees, Diversity and Conflict in Sub-Saharan Africa » (joint with Luisito Bertinelli (University of Luxembourg), Rana Comertpay (University of Luxembourg). This paper investigates how changes in diversity induced by the annual inflows of refugees at the local level affect conflict across 23 countries in…
Room : P02 “Moral Preferences over Taboo Trade-offs in the Time of Coronavirus” Authors: Antonio Filippin, Marco Mantovani Abstract: Covid-19 brought to the forefront of the political agenda the trade-off between health and economic activities. Leveraging theoretical and empirical tools from economics we estimate moral preferences over fatalities and jobs losses due to the pandemic…
Sven Damen (University of Antwerp) 25th February 2021 – from 12:30 until 13:30 (Microsoft Teams) Seminar (CEREC-CAPE) : Housing market responses to the mortgage interest deduction Governments around the world use tax subsidies to stimulate homeownership. Whether or not these subsidies affect homeownership crucially depends on the degree of capitalization into house prices. We study…
