KU Leuven

Date and venue

Date: Monday 13th May - Tuesday 14th May 2019

Venue: Faculty Club, room W. Van Croy, Groot Begijnhof 14, 3000 Leuven, Belgium

Monday 13th May 2019

10:30 - 10:55 Registration and welcome coffee

10:55 - 11:00 Opening remarks by Prof. Dr. Jan De Loecker

11:00 - 12:30 Clare Balboni (LSE): "In Harm’s Way? Infrastructure Investments and the Persistence of Coastal Cities"

12:30 - 14:00 Lunch

14:00 - 15:30 Sydnee Caldwell (MIT): “Outside Options, Bargaining and Wages: Evidence from Coworker Networks”

15:30 - 16:00 Coffee

16:00 - 17:30 (Jose) Ignacio Cuesta (Chicago): “Price Regulation in Credit Markets: A Trade-off between Consumer Protection and Credit Access”

17:45 – 18:30 Q&A PhD students Department of Economics

19:00 - 21:00 Dinner (by invitation)

Tuesday 14th May 2019

9:30 - 11:00 Ellora Derenoncourt (Harvard): “Can you move to opportunity? Evidence from the Great Migration”

11:00 - 11:15 Coffee

11:15 - 12:45 Wayne Gao, Yale: “Robust Semiparametric Estimation in Panel Multinomial Choice Models”

12:45 - 14:00 Lunch

14:00 - 15:30 Pooya Molavi, MIT: “Macroeconomics with Learning and Misspecification: A General Theory and Applications”

15:30 - 16:00 Coffee

16:00 - 17:30 Weijie Zhong, Columbia: “Optimal Dynamic Information Acquisition”

17:30 - 19:00 reception @ faculty club

19:30 Dinner (by invitation)

Prof. Dr. Jan De Loecker, Professor of Economics at KU Leuven, research associate at NBER and research fellow at CEPR

Karla Vander Weyden, Office administrator Department of Economics, KU Leuven