Program

The doctoral workshop will take place on December 6th, 2023 in Namur.

9.00-  9.25

Welcome coffee

E36

9.25 - 11.25

Session 1A: Health

E35

Chair: François Maniquet


Equity in the Health Services Expenditure and Consumption in Benin

Cossi Xavier Agbeto (UCLouvain)

 

Immigration and healthcare disparities in prescription drugs for cardiovascular risk factors

Luigi Boggian (UCLouvain)

 

Social security and inequality in Belgium

Giulia Klinges (ULiège)

Session 1B: Industrial organisation

E13

Chair: Eric Toulemonde


Competition in peer-to-peer markets

Giorgio Ferroni (UNamur)

 

Big Tech Acquisitions and the Direction of Innovation

Laureen de Barsy (HEC Liège)

 

Defining Digital Platforms: A Systematic Literature Review

Ilyass Zeamari (USL)

11.25 - 11.40

Coffee break

E36

11.40 - 13.00


Session 2A: Labour I

E35

Chair: François Woitrin

 

The making of new employers: The supporting effect and the compositional effect of hiring subsidies

Haotian Deng (UGent)

 

In-work benefits in Belgium: analyzing the introduction and expansion of social work bonus

Tiziano Toniolo (UCLouvain)

Session 2B: Finance / macroeconomics

E13

Chair: Yuliya Rychalovska

 

Green ETFs attributes and investor behaviour

Rim Laksaci (UCLouvain)

 

Bond yields and risk premia in a structural model

Pavel Tretiakov (UCLouvain)

13.00 - 14.00


Lunch break

E36

14.00 - 15.20

Session 3A: Development I

E11

Chair: Catherine Guirkinger


Mobile money and intra-household dynamics

Anna Jolivet (UNamur)

 

Cooperation among co-wives in polygamous households. Evidence from North Benin

Doux Baraka (UNamur)

Session 3B: International economics

E35

Chair: Lorenzo Trimarchi

 

European regional trade intensity and Business cycles synchronisation

Charles de Pierpont de Burnot (UCLouvain)

 

Targeting the Corps: The Incidence of Humanitarian Sanctions on Firm Performance in China

Kampui Tsang (UCLouvain)

15.20 – 15.35

Coffee break

E36

15.35 – 17.35 

Session 4A: Development II

E11

Chair: Jean-Marie Baland


Soldiers vs forced laborers

Marion Richard (UCLouvain) 

 

Understanding Rural Worker's Behavior towards Female Pineapple Producers

Angela Lülle (UNamur)


Measuring Norms and Enumerator Effects: Survey Method Matters

Pablo Álvarez-Aragon (UNamur)


Session 4B: Labour II

E35

Chair: Silvia Peracchi

 

Tightening Youth Unemployment Benefit Eligibility: Impact on Housing Autonomy

Mathilde Pourtois (USL)

 

Survival and employment in workers owned and shareholders owned enterprises

Esmeralda Gerritse (UCLouvain)

 

Decomposing the gap in the take-up of the (equivalent) social integration income between natives and immigrants

Manon Bolland (ULiège)

Cheese and wine

E36