Lectures and conference activity
Organization of scientific congress and/or workshops
December 10th 2007: Workshop on the Regulation of Airport Noise; Research in Brussels, ECARES, Free University of Brussels, Chair Loist University of Louvain, CGCBR University of Manchester.
April 1st 2011. Public Workshop on "Basic Income and Income Redistribution" with invited lectures of Profs. Van Parijs (UCL), Atkinson, (Oxford) and Boeri (Bocconi).
Seminar presentations
Academic invitations as departmental seminars, starting September 2000
University of Caen(March 2001, Caen, France); University of Namur (December 2001, Namur, Belgium); University of Dublin (March 2002, Dublin, Ireland); University of Kentucky (February 2003, Kentucky, USA); University of Kentucky (March 2003, Kentucky, USA); University of Tokyo (August 2003, Tokyo, Japan); University of Kyoto (August 2003, Kyoto, Japan); Catholic University of Louvain (November 2003, LLN, Belgium); Free University of Brussels (February 2004, Brussels, Belgium); Catholic University of Louvain CORE (November 2004, LLN, Belgium); Catholic University of Louvain SEL (March 2005, LLN, Belgium); University of Edinburgh (November 2005, Edinburgh, Scotland); University of Namur (March 2006, Namur, Belgium); University of Alicante (April 2006, Alicante, Spain); University of Lille (May 2006, Lille, France); London School of Economics (January, 2007, London, UK); School of Economic Studies (Manchester, UK 2000, 2001, 2003,2006); Ministère Equipement France (June 2007, Paris); London School of Economics (October 2007, London); Free University of Brussels, ECARES (October 2007); ZEW (November 2007, Berlin); University of Manchester (April 2008); University of Luxembourg (December 2008); London School of Economics (January 2009); University of Geneva (February 2009, Title: “Sustainable Migration Policies”); CEPS (Luxembourg, June 2009); Max Planck Institute (February 2011, Munich, Title: “Secrecy, Illicit Money and Offshore Financial Centers”); Oxford University, International trade seminar (October 2011, Oxford, Title: “Sustainable Migration Policies”); University of California Irvine, Economic Department (November 2012, Irvine, USA, Title: “State owned firms: private debt, cost revelation and welfare”); University Carlos III, Economic Department (December 2012, Madrid, Title: “Sustainable Migration Policies”); Université Paris Cergy-Pontoise, Economic Department (January 2013, Title: “Sustainable Migration Policies”); ECORE seminar, Center for Economic Studies, KUL (February 2013, Title: “State owned firms: private debt, cost revelation and welfare”); Rieti Tokyo Workshop (Conference Guest Lecture; Tokyo 2013, Japan, Title: “Spatial segregation and urban structure.”); University of Bologna (October 2013, Title: “Trade, economic geography and the choice of product quality”); University of Lille 1 (October 2013; France, Title: “Sustainable Migration Policies”); University of California Irvine, Economic Department (November 2013, Irvine, USA, Title: “Commodity taxation and regulatory competition.”); University of Strasbourg (November 2013, France, Title: “Commodity taxation and regulatory competition.”); Singapour Management University (January 2014: : “Commodity taxation and regulatory competition.”); University of Antwerpen (February 2014: “Sustainable Migration Policies”); University of Luxembourg, CREA (October, 2014, “Urban Spatial Structure, Employment and Social Ties”); University of Geneva, (October, 2014, “Urban Spatial Structure, Employment and Social Ties”); CEPS/INSTEAD, Luxembourg (January, 2015, “Urban Spatial Structure, Employment and Social Ties”); University of Sophia (February, 2015, Japan, “Urban Spatial Structure, Employment and Social Ties”); University of Tokyo, (February, 2015, “Urban Spatial Structure, Employment and Social Ties”); University of Osaka, (February, 2015, “Commodity taxation and regulatory competition.”); Greqam, University of Marseille (September 2015, “Currency Areas and Voluntary Transfers”); Oxford University (November 2015, “Currency Areas and Voluntary Transfers”); Academia Sinica, (September 2016, Taipei, Taiwan, “Currency Areas and Voluntary Transfers”); University of Bielefeld (November 2016, Germany, “Currency Areas and Voluntary Transfers”); Singapore Management University (Singapore, November 2017, European “Vertical Differentiation and Trade with Many Countries.”), Higher School of Economics (December 2017 Moscow, “Vertical Differentiation and Trade with Many Countries.”), Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences SLU, Department of Economics (Upsala, Sweden, 2019, “Green Urban Areas”), Tinbergen Research Institute (Amsterdam, Netherlands, 2020, “Customary land conversion and the formation of the African city”), CESEAR (Web-conference, January 2022, "Traffic Induced Pollution and the Internal Structure of Cities").
Conference Presentations
Starting September 2000
Econometric Society World Congress (August 2000, Seattle); IZA (December 2000, Bonn, Germany); Econometric Society European Meeting European Economic Association (August 2001, Lausanne, Switzerland); European Trade Study Group (September 2001, Brussels, Belgium); University of Namur* Public Economics and Economics Geography* (February 2002, Namur, Belgium); Econometric Society European Meeting (September 2002, Venise, Italy); CEPR CERAS Spatial economics (December 2002, Paris, France); CEPR London School of Economics (June 2003, London, UK); CEPR CERAS International Trade (June 2004, Paris, France); Econometric Society European Meeting (August 2004, Madrid, Spain); CEPR Meeting (May 2005, Cagliari, Italy); Workshop on Heterogeneity, CORE, UCL (May 2005, Belgium); Conference JJ Laffont (June 2005, Toulouse, France); European Economic Association (August 2005, Amsterdam); North American Meetings of the Regional Science Association International (November 2005, Las Vegas USA); HECER Workshop on Fiscal Federalism (November 2005 Helsinki, Finland); Workshop on Heterogeneity, CORE, UCL (May 2006, Louvain-la-Neuve Belgium); CEPR ESF Exploratory Workshop on Designing Partnerships Between Government And The Private Sector (June 2006, Bristol,UK); IFIR-CESifo conference on New Directions in Fiscal Federalism (September 14-16 2006, Lexington, USA); Economic Geography and Fiscal Federalism: from theory to empirics (September 28-29, 2006 INRA Dijon, France); North American Meetings of the Regional Science Association International (November 2006, Toronto Canada); IDEP, Gerard Varet Conference (June 2007, Marseille, France); IPEG Productivity, productivity growth and the regional dimension (February 2007, Manchester, UK); European Trade Group Study (September 2007, Athens); North American Meetings of the Regional Science Association International (November 2007, Savannah, USA); International Workshop in Economic Geography (June 2008, IBEI, Barcelona, Spain); International Conference on Economic Integration, Trade and Spatial Structure (August 2008, Nagoya, Japan); North American Meetings of the Regional Science Association International (November 2008, New York, USA); North American Meetings of the Regional Science Association International (November 2009, San Franscico, USA); CEPR Conference : The role of incentives, information and the private sector in the delivery (December 2009, Brussels, Belgium); International conference on infrastructure economics and development (January 2010, Toulouse); Contracts, Procurement and Public-Private Arrangements (June 2010, Paris, France); A Journey through Microeconomics: A Tribute to Jacques Thisse (May 2010, Louvain-la-Neuve, B); North American Meetings of the Regional Science Association International (November 2010, Denver, USA); Norface-migration conference (May 2011, London); European Trade Study Group (September 2011, Copenhagen); North American Meetings of the Regional Science Association International (November 2011, Miami, USA); Troisième Conférence méthodologique de l'IWEPS: L’analyse du développement durable et l’application de techniques de l’économie environnementale à des problématiques régionales. (December 2011, Beez, Belgium, Title: “Airport noise pollution: how to regulate efficiently by confronting victims and polluters?”); Belgian Trade workshop (May 2012, Ghent, Title: “Trade, economic geography and the choice of product quality”); 9th IZA Annual Migration Meeting (AM²) (June 2012, Bonn, Title: “Sustainable Migration Policies”); IEB II Workshop on Urban Economics (June 2012, Barcelona, Title: “Spatial segregation and urban structure.”); European Trade Study Group (September 2012, Leuven, Title: “Trade, economic geography and the choice of product quality”); European Policy for Intellectual Property (EPIP) (September 2012, Leuven, Title: “On the Quality of Patent Systems and Patent Offices”); Economic Development, Natural Resources, Energy and the Environment (October 2012, St Petersburg, Title: “The Clean Development Mechanism in a Globalized Carbon Market.”); North American Meetings of the Regional Science Association International (Ottawa 2012, Canada, Title: “Spatial segregation and urban structure.”); PET Conference of the Association for Public Economic Theory (July 2013 Lisbon, Portugal, Title: “Social interactions, social capital and urban structure”); Second international conference “Industrial organization and spatial economics” (June 2013, St Petersburg, Title: “Trade, economic geography and the choice of product quality”); North American Meetings of the Regional Science Association International (Atlanta 2013, USA, Title: “Social interactions, social capital and urban structure”); North American Meetings of the Regional Science Association International (2014, Washington, USA, “Urban Spatial Structure, Employment and Social Ties”); Institut d'Economia de Barcelona (IEB), Workshop on economics of taxation: design and evaluation of tax policy (2015, “Commodity taxation and regulatory competition”); European Regional Science Association International (Lisbon, 2015, “Urban Spatial Structure, Employment and Social Ties”);
AIE VIIth International Conference "Contracts, Procurement, and Public-Private Arrangements", Sorbonne (June 2016, Paris, "State-Owned Firms and Private Debt”); XVII April Conference on Socio-Economic Development, Higher School of Economics (April 2016, Moscow, “Currency Areas and Voluntary Transfers”); 5th International Conference on Industrial Organization and Spatial Economics (July 2016, St Petersburg, “Income Effects and Vertical Differentiation in International Trade”); European Regional Science Association (September 2016, Vienna, “Spatial Structures with Forward and Backward Linkages”); European Trade Study Group (September 2016, Helsinki, “Income Effects and Vertical Differentiation in International Trade”); 5th International Conference on Industrial Organization and Spatial Economics (June 2017, St Petersburg, “Spatial Structures with Forward and Backward Linkages”); ITEA (June 2017, Barcelona, "Airport Congestion and Inefficiency in Slot Allocation"); European Trade Study Group (September 2017, Florence, “Vertical Differentiation and Trade with Many Countries.”); Special Trade Workshop organized by Prof Trionfetti (Marseille, September 2017, “Spatial Structures with Forward and Backward Linkages”), European Urban Economics Conference (Duesseldorf, Mai 2018, “Urban Interaction”); Seventh International Conference “Industrial Organization and Spatial Economics” (St Petersburg, June 2018, “Urban Interaction”); European Trade Study Group (Warsaw, Sept. 2018, “Vertical Differentiation and Trade”); Cities and the Environment Workshop (University of Potsdam, July, 2018, “Urban Green Space”); Conference in Honor of Professor Sneessens (Luxembourg, Nov. 2018, , “Spatial Structures with Forward and Backward Linkages”); Belgian Urban and Regional Economists’ network (Brussels, VUB, “Green Urban Areas”); European Urban Economic Association (Amsterdam May 2019, “The transformation of urban land rights and the extent of the formal city in developing countries”); ITEA (June 2019, Paris, "Traffic Induced Pollution and the Internal Structure of Cities"); European Urban Association (Web-conference, October 2020, "Traffic Induced Pollution and the Internal Structure of Cities"); BURENet (Web-conference, December 2020, "Traffic Induced Pollution and the Internal Structure of Cities"), European Economic Association EEA (Copenhagen-remote; June 2021, “On the effects of income heterogeneity in monopolistically competitive markets”); ASSET conference (Marseille, October 2021, “Trade, Vertical Differentiation and the Quality Margin”); Working from Home conference, Part of the After the Pandemic conference series (ICEA, International Center for Economics Analysis, Canada, November 2021, “The Zoom City: Working From Home and Urban Land Structure”).