ACTIVITYREPORT2017

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TABLEFOREWORD..........................................................................................................................................3

PEOPLEATECARES...............................................................................................................................5FELLOWS..................................................................................................................................................................5POST-DOCTORALRESEARCHERS...............................................................................................................................6DOCTORALRESEARCHERS........................................................................................................................................6ASSOCIATEFELLOWS................................................................................................................................................7PPSFELLOWS............................................................................................................................................................8ADMINISTRATIVESTAFF...........................................................................................................................................8

PUBLICATIONS.....................................................................................................................................9EDITEDBOOKS..........................................................................................................................................................9CHAPTERSINBOOKS................................................................................................................................................9PUBLICATIONSINNATIONALANDINTERNATIONALSCIENTIFICJOURNALS(REFEREED)...........................................10WORKINGPAPERS..................................................................................................................................................13

INTERNATIONALSEMINARSANDCONFERENCES(PARTICIPATIONSANDPRESENTATIONS)................17

NATIONALSEMINARSANDCONFERENCES(PARTICIPATIONSANDPRESENTATIONS)..........................27

ORGANIZATIONOFEVENTSBYFELLOWSOFECARES..........................................................................30

RESEARCHPURSUEDABROAD............................................................................................................32

PRIZESANDSCIENTIFICNOTORIETY....................................................................................................34

THEDOCTORALSCHOOL.....................................................................................................................38PHDSAWARDED......................................................................................................................................................39PHDSUNDERTHESUPERVISIONOFECARESMEMBERS......................................................................................................39ONGOINGTHESES..................................................................................................................................................39ONGOINGTHESESUNDERTHESUPERVISIONOFECARESMEMBERS.................................................................................41

RESEARCHCONTRACTS.......................................................................................................................43

VISITINGPROFESSORSIN2017...........................................................................................................45

SEMINARSORGANIZEDBYECARES.....................................................................................................46INECONOMICS...........................................................................................................................................................46INECONOMETRICSANDSTATISTICS.................................................................................................................................47RECRUITMENTSEMINARS.............................................................................................................................................47INTERNALSEMINARS....................................................................................................................................................47ENTERSEMINARS......................................................................................................................................................48ULB-UCLSEMINARS...................................................................................................................................................48JOINTNBB–CES,KUL–ECARES,ULB–CORE,UCLSEMINARS....................................................................................48JOINTWITHNBB,UMONS,KULEUVEN,UCLOUVAIN,UGENT,ULB,UA,UHASSELT,ULG.....................................................49JOINTWITHNBB,KULEUVEN,UA,UCL,UGHENT,UHASSELT,ULB,ULGANDUMONS.........................................................49JOINTWITHNBB,KULEUVEN,UA,UCL,UGENT,ULB,ULG,UMONS,UNAMUR,USAINT-LOUIS,VLERICKANDVUB................49

WHO’SWHOATECARES.....................................................................................................................50

CONTACTS..........................................................................................................................................56

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FOREWORD

TheEuropeanCenterforAdvancedResearchinEconomicsandStatistics(ECARES)isaresearchcenterattheUniversitélibredeBruxelles(ULB).ThebroadobjectiveofECARESistofosterexcellenceinresearchandhigh-qualitygraduateeducationineconomics,econometricsandstatistics.Inauguratedin1991astheEuropeanCenterforAdvancedResearchinEconomics(ECARE),itstartedasa joint initiativeoftheInstitutd’Etudeseuropéennes(IEE)attheULB,andoftheCentreforEconomicPolicy Research (CEPR), a network of around 500 researchers in Europe. In 1999, ECARE wastransformed into ECARES, following the merger with the Centre d’Economie Mathématique etd’Econométrie (CEME) and the collaboration with statisticians from Institut de Statistique et deRechercheOpérationnelle(ISRO).ECARESfellowsareleadingresearchersinanumberoffields,includingthebehaviorandorganizationoffirmsandmarkets, international trade,politicaleconomy, theoryandempiricsofhouseholdbehavior,theoryandapplicationsofeconometrics,developmentofnonparametricandrobuststatisticalmethods.ManyofthemareveryactiveinCEPR(asResearchDirector,ProgrammeDirectors,ResearchFellowsorResearchAffiliates).SeveralhavereceivedgrantsfromtheEuropeanResearchCouncil(ERC)andotherprestigiousprizesandawards.Incloseconnectionwith its researchactivities,ECAREShasdevelopedaDoctoralSchool,whichoffersinternationallycompetitive,highqualityPhDprograms inEconomicsandStatisticsand inQuantitativeEconomics.TheECARESDoctoralSchoolattractsmanyfirst-classEuropeanandnon-Europeanstudents.TheoutstandingqualityofitsPhDprogramsisreflectedinthesuccessofitsgraduatesontheacademicjobmarket.ECAREScollaborateswithCORE(theCenterforOperationsResearchandEconometricoftheUniversitécatholique de Louvain) and CES (the Center for Economic Studies of KULeuven), with which it hascreated a common center of excellence, ECORES, integrating the research activities and doctoralprogramsofthethreeinstitutions.

Youwillfindinthisreport:

(a)Publicationsandworkingpapers:

- 5editedbooks- 14chaptersinbooks- 67paperspublishedinnationalorinternationaljournals- 67workingpapers

(b)8PhDsawarded(c)Conferences,workshopsandseminars:

- Morethan180presentationsorparticipationstointernationalconferences.- Morethan50presentationsorparticipationstonationalconferences.- 9 international conferences were organized by fellows of ECARES, 8 of themwere held at

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- 88 seminars were organized: 74 done by researchers from other Belgian and foreignuniversitiesand14doneatECARESbyourfellows.

(d)Internationalcontacts:

- 22visitsdone in international institutionsas:BostonUniversity,HarvardUniversity, LondonBusiness School, MIT, New York University, Princeton University, Toulouse School ofEconomics,UniversityCollegeLondonandWasedaUniversity,…

- 31researchersvisitedECARES(lengthofvisitsgoingfromoneweektooneyear).(e)Researchcontracts:Severalgrantswereawardedin2017,foratotalof32ongoingcontracts.BramDeRockDirector

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PEOPLEATECARES

FELLOWSGaniALDASHEV(DevelopmentEconomics,PoliticalEconomicsandCollectiveDecisions)MarcoBECHT(CorporateandPublicGovernance)LaurentBOUTON(PoliticalEconomicsandCollectiveDecisions)EstelleCANTILLON(IndustrialOrganization,Microeconomics,especiallyAuctionandMarketDesign)MicaelCASTANHEIRA(Microeconomics,PoliticalEconomics)Michele CINCERA (Competition and Research Policy, Industrial Organization Contracts and Auctions,EuropeanIntegrationandInternationalTrade)PaolaCONCONI(InternationalTrade,PoliticalEconomyandFirmOrganization)ChristineDEMOL(InverseandIll-PosedProblems,RegularizationMethods,WaveletTheory,andTimeSeriesAnalysis)BramDEROCK(RevealedPreferenceTheoryandNon-ParametricAnalysisofChoiceBehavior,EfficiencyAnalysis,CollectiveModelofHouseholdBehaviorandFixedPointTheoryonInfra-Nilmanifolds)Griselda DEELSTRA (Interest Rate Models, Economic Theory, Stochastic Optimization, MathematicalFinanceandApplicationsinInsurances)CatherineDEHON(NonparametricandRobustStatistics,EconometricsandAppliedMathematics)ThomasDEMUYNCK(RevealedPreferenceTheory,ChoiceandDemandTheory,TheoreticalEconomics)MathiasDEWATRIPONT(EconomicTheoryandApplications,TheoryofIncentivesandOrganizations)AntonioESTACHE(PublicEconomicsandTheoryofRegulationAppliedtoNetworkIndustries)MarjorieGASSNER(MathematicalAspectsofElectoralSystems)VictorGINSBURGH(IndustrialOrganization,EconomicsoftheArts,EconomicsandLanguage)PaulaE.GOBBI(FamilyEconomics,QuantitativeMacroeconomics,DevelopmentandGrowth)MarcHALLIN(MathematicalStatisticsandTime-SeriesEconometrics)Georg KIRCHSTEIGER (Behavioral Economics, Experimental Economics, Game Theory, IndustrialEconomicsandPublicEconomics)RobertKOLLMANN(Macroeconomics,InternationalFinanceandComputationalEconomics)Patrick LEGROS (Industrial Organization, Contracts and Auctions, Competition and Research Policy,CorporateandPublicGovernance)GlennMAGERMAN(EuropeanIntegrationandInternationalTrade)GuyMÉLARD (Statistical Analysis of Time Series and Signal Processing,Modelswith Time-DependentCoefficients,Non-LinearModelsandInterventionModels)DavyPAINDAVEINE(MathematicalStatistics)MathieuPARENTI(InternationalTradeandIndustrialOrganization)DavidPREINERSTORFER(EconometricsandStatistics)AndréSAPIR(InternationalTradeandEuropeanIntegration)Bruno van POTTELSBERGHE de la POTTERIE (Economics of Innovation and Intellectual Property:Effectiveness of Subsidies, Effectiveness of R&D Tax Credit, Effectiveness of the Patent System andInternationalR&DSpillovers)PhilipVERWIMP (DevelopmentEconomics, Political Economics andCollectiveDecisions, ExperimentalandBehavioralEconomics)PhilippeWEIL(MacroeconomicTheoryandGrowthandCycles)

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POST-DOCTORALRESEARCHERSØyvindAAS(IndustrialOrganization,ContractsandAuctions,CompetitionandResearchPolicy)Hamid AGHADADASHLI (Industrial Organization, Contracts and Auctions, Competition and ResearchPolicy)Christian BASTECK (Political Economics and Collective Decisions, Experimental and BehavioralEconomics)YvesDOMINICY(EconometricsandFinancialEconometrics)MikhailFREER(MicroeconomicTheory,GameTheoryandExperimentalEconomics) LucaMERLINO(MicroeconomicTheoryandAppliedMicroeconomics)Benjamin OGDEN (Political Economics and Collective Decisions, Experimental and BehavioralEconomics)Juan Sebastián PEREYRA BARREIRO (Political Economics and Collective Decisions, IndustrialOrganization,ContractsandAuctions)StefanoSOCCORSI(Econometrics,FinancialEconometricsandTimeSeriesAnalysis)Benjamin SOLOW (Political Economics and Collective Decisions, Experimental and BehavioralEconomics,IndustrialOrganization,ContractsandAuctions)GermainVANBEVER(NonparametricandRobustStatistics,EconometricsandAppliedMathematics)

DOCTORALRESEARCHERSAnoushehALAMIR(supervisor:PhilipVerwimp)LisaBAGNOLI(supervisor:GaniAldashev)NarcissaBALTA(supervisor:PhilippeWeil)StefanBERGHEIMER(supervisor:EstelleCantillon)SalvadorBERTOMEUSANCHEZ(supervisor:AntonioEstache)MichaëlBLANGA-GUBBAY(supervisor:PaolaConconi)AleksandraBOUTIN(supervisors:PatrickLegrosandPatrickRey)LidiaBRUN(supervisor:PhilipWeil)EstebanCALLEJASPEREZ(supervisor:RobertKollmann)AngelaCAPOLONGO(supervisor:PhilippeWeil)AlbertoCARUSO(supervisor:PhilippeWeil)AndreaCOLOMBO(supervisor:AntonioEstache)AntonioCONTI(supervisor:RobertKollmann)ElisabettaCORNAGO(supervisors:AntonioEstacheandMicaelCastanheira)ChristineCUTTING(supervisor:DavyPaindaveine)LaurentCYRUS(supervisor:RobertKollmann)LuisaDRESSLER(supervisor:EstelleCantillon)CatherineDUVERGER(supervisor:BrunovanPottelsberghedelaPotterie)MarcoGERACI(supervisor:DavyPaindaveine)MarcoGIANI(supervisor:MicaelCastanheira)AnnaGROCHOWSKA(supervisor:PhilippeWeil)TillmannHEIDELK(supervisor:PhilipVerwimp)MoritzHENNICKE(supervisor:GaniAldashev)ElaINCE(supervisors:NicolasvanZeebroeckandMicheleCincera)BeniKOUEVI-GATH(supervisors:AntonioEstacheandPierre-GuillaumeMéon)

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NastassiaLESZCYNSKA(supervisor:GeorgKirchsteiger)OliverMÄRZ(supervisor:GeorgKirchsteiger)ShogoMIURA(supervisor:RobertKollmann)RamaLionelNGENZEBUKE(supervisors:BramDeRockandPhilipVerwimp)GillesNISOL(supervisors:SiegfriedHörmannandDavyPaindaveine)ClaudiaPACELLA(supervisor:PhilippeWeil)GuillaumePERILLEUX(supervisors:BramDeRockandFrançoisRycx)ElisePETIT(supervisor:BrunovanPottelsberghedelaPotterie)MarcoPINCHETTI(supervisor:RobertKollmann)CélinePITON(supervisors:AntonioEstacheandFrançoisRycx)AfrolaPLAKU(supervisors:PaolaConconiandPatrickLegros)TomPOTOMS(supervisor:BramDeRock)JoseaRASOAFARANIAINA(supervisor:DavyPaindaveine)BenjaminRAUSCH(supervisor:PhilippeWeil)LorenzoRICCI(supervisor:DavyPaindaveine)SarahROSENBERG(supervisor:BramDeRock)JoseDanielSALINAS(supervisor:PhilipVerwimp)ClaudioSCHIOPPA(supervisor:PhilippeWeil)ChristianSTAAT(supervisor:PatrickLegros)DenniTOMMASI(supervisor:BramDeRock)LorenzoTRIMARCHI(supervisor:PaolaConconi)BurakTURKOGLU(supervisor:BrunovanPottelsberghedelaPotterie)AlexanderWOLF(supervisor:BramDeRock)

ASSOCIATEFELLOWSPhilippeAGHION(HarvardUniversity)MatteoBARIGOZZI(LondonSchoolofEconomics)PatrickBOLTON(ColumbiaBusinessSchool)JanBOUCKAERT(UniversityofAntwerp)AndreasCHRISTMANN(UniversitätBayreuth)ChristopheCROUX(KatholiekeUniversiteitLeuven)BenoîtCRUTZEN(ErasmusUniversiteitRotterdam)Jean-JacquesDROESBEKE(ULB)DomenicoGIANNONE(FederalReserveBankofNewYork)SiegfriedHÖRMANN(ULB)JacquesLAWARRÉE(WashingtonUniversity)MicheleLENZA(EuropeanCentralBank)LucaMERLINO(UniversitéParis1PanthéonSorbonne)AndyNEWMAN(BostonUniversity)GaëtanNICODÈME(EuropeanCommission)LucreziaREICHLIN(LondonBusinessSchool)AilsaROËLL(ColumbiaBusinessSchool)GérardROLAND(UniversityofCalifornia,Berkeley)

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NicolasSAHUGUET(HECMontréal)OlivierSCAILLET(UniversityofGeneva)NicolasvanZEEBROECK(ULB)VincenzoVERARDI(UNamur)ThomasVERDEBOUT(ULB)CatherineVERMANDELE(ULB)AlexisWALCKIERS(BelgianCompetitionAuthority)QuentinWODON(TheWorldBank)RafaëlWOUTERS(NationalBankofBelgium)LiamWREN-LEWIS(OxfordUniversity)

PPSFELLOWSMichelALLE(SNCBHolding)XavierBOUTIN(EuropeanCommission)EricDEKEULENEER(OCCH)Jean-PierreDELAET(SBS-EM,ULB)PierreFRANCOTTE(PLFInternational)DenisHERBAUX(PAQS)FabienneILZKOVITZ(EuropeanCommission)LucaLIVIO(McKinsey&Company)AlassaneNDIAYE(EcolePolytechnique,ULB)ErikvanderMAREL(ECIPE)HarryVANDERELST(BankofAmericaMerrillLynch)EvelyneVANPOUCKE(iCite,ULB)

ADMINISTRATIVESTAFFNancyDEMUNCK(website,seminars,visitorsandconferences)PierreJEURISSEN(accounting,researchcontractsandconferences)ChristinaLEMAIRE(doctoralschool)tillOctober2017Anne-MarieNOTARIANNI(doctoralschool)fromDecember2017

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PUBLICATIONS

EDITEDBOOKSAteca-AmestoyV.,V.Ginsburgh,J.O’Hagan,I.MazzaandJ.Prieto-Rodriguez,EnhancingParticipationintheArtsintheEU,Springer,2017BaconR.,D.Camos,A.Estache,andM.MahgoubHamid,SheddingLightonElectricityUtilitiesfromtheMiddleEastandNorthAfricaRegion:InsightsfromaPerformanceDiagnostic,WorldBankPublications,2017.BandelowB.,M.CastanheiraandB.Rihoux,SustainableGovernance Indicators:2017BelgiumReport.BertelsmannStiftung,2017.BlundellR.,E.Cantillon,B.Chizzolini,M.Ivaldi,W.Leininger,R.Marimon,L.Matyas,F.Steen,EconomicswithoutBorders–EconomicResearchforEuropeanPolicyChallenges,CambridgeUniversityPress,2017.LeyC.andT.Verdebout,ModernDirectionalStatistics,Chapman&Hall/CRCPress,2017.CHAPTERSINBOOKSBarcellan, R., P. Boegh Nielsen, C. Calsamiglia, C. Camerer, E. Cantillon, “Developments in Data forEconomicResearch”,EconomicswithoutBorders–EconomicResearch forEuropeanPolicyChallenges,CambridgeUniversityPress,in:R.Blundelletal.,2017.Camos D. and A. Estache, “Regulating Water and Sanitation Network Services - Accounting forInstitutionalandInformationalConstraints”,inUnchartedWaters:TheEconomicsofWaterScarcityandVariability,R.Damania,ed.,OUP,2017.Cherchye,L.,B.DeRock,A.EstacheandM.Verschelde,“EfficiencyMeasures inRegulated Industries:History, Outstanding Challenges and Emerging Solutions”, inHandbook of Productivity and EfficiencyMeasures,Grifell-TatjeE.andLovellK.,OUP,forthcomingin2018.Cutting C.,D. PaindaveineandT.Verdebout, “Tests of Concentration for Low-dimensional andHigh-dimensionalDirectionalData”,inBigandComplexDataAnalysis:MethodologyandApplications,S.EjazAhmedEd.,Springer,2017,pp209-227.DeMolC.,E.Gautier,D.Giannone,S.Mullainathan,L.Reichlin,H.vanDijk,J.Wooldridge,“BigDatainEconomics: Evolution or Revolution?”, Economics without Borders: Economic Research for EuropeanPolicyChallenges,R.Blundell,E.Cantillon,B.Chizzolini,M.Ivaldi,W.Leininger,R.Marimon,L.Matyas,T.Ogden,F.Steen,Eds.,CambridgeUniversityPress2017,Chapter14,pp.612-631.Dominicy Y. and C. Sinner, “Distributions and CompositeModels for Size-type Data”, inAdvances inStatisticalMethodologiesandtheirApplicationstoRealProblems,Intech,2017,Chapter8.EstacheA.,“InstitutionsforInfrastructureinDevelopingCountries:WhatWeKnowandtheLotWestillNeedtoKnow”,inFrontiersinDevelopmentEconomics,OUP,F.Bourguignonetal.Eds.,forthcomingin2018.GergaudO.andV.Ginsburgh,“MeasuringtheEconomicEffectsofCulturalEventswithSpecialEmphasisonMusicFestivals”,inEnhancingParticipationintheArtsintheEU,V.Ateca-Amestoy,V.Ginsburgh,I.Mazza,J.O'HaganandJ.Prieto-RodriguesEds.,Springer,2017.Gergaud O., V. Ginsburgh and Y. Nicolas, “Un outil pour l'évaluation économique d'événementsculturels”,EvaluerlespolitiquespubliquesdelacultureinY.NicolasetO.Gergaud,Eds.,2017.Ginsburgh V., B. Frey and D. Iselin, “Contingent Valuation, Willingness to Pay, and Willingness toAccept”,inEconomicIdeasYouShouldForget,SpringerInternationalPublishing,Eds.,2017.HallinM. andM. Siman, “Multiple-outputQuantile Regression”, inHandbook ofQuantile Regression,ChapmanandHall,VictorChernozhukov,XumingHe,RogerKoenker,andLiminPengEds,2017,Chapter12,pp185-208.

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HallinM.,“Gauss-MarkovTheorem”,inBruceFrey,Ed.,SAGEEncyclopediaofEducationalResearch,Measurement,andEvaluation,toappear.Paindaveine D. and G. Van Bever, “On the Maximal Halfspace Depth of Permutation-invariantDistributionsontheSimplex”,StatisticsandProbabilityLetters,129,pp335-339.SantosA.andM.Cincera,“NewEuropeanFinancialInstrumentsofInnovationandFinancingConstraintsofFirms”,Actes/Proceedingsofthe22émeCongrésdesEconomistes–LesEnjeuxdel’Innovation:QuellesPolitiques?QuellesGouvernances?,30November2017,UniversitélibredeBruxelles(Belgium),pp.171-190.PUBLICATIONSINNATIONALANDINTERNATIONALSCIENTIFICJOURNALS(refereed)AdelmanM.A.,J.Baron,T.Heidelk,andK.Jayaram,“DriversofLateEntryintoPrimarySchoolinHaiti:AMixed-methodsStudy”,InternationalJournalofEducationalDevelopment,2017,inreview.AdelmanM.A.,T.HeidelkandA.Holland,“IncreasingAccessbyWaivingTuition:EvidencefromHaiti”,ComparativeEducationReview,2017,61(4).AldashevG.andC.Guirkinger,“ColonizationandChangingSocialStructure:EvidencefromKazakhstan”,Journal of Development Economics, special issue on “The Importance of History for UnderstandingEconomicDevelopment”,2017,127(1):pp413-430.Aldashev G. and C. Navarra, “Development NGOs: Basic Facts”, Annals of Public and CooperativeEconomics,SpecialIssue,forthcoming.AldashevG.andG.Mastrobuoni,“InvalidBallotsandElectoralCompetition”,PoliticalScience:ResearchandMethods,forthcoming.Aldashev G. and G. Zanarone, “Endogenous Enforcement Institutions”, Journal of DevelopmentEconomics,2017,128(1):pp49–64.AldashevG.,E.JaimovichandT.Verdier,“SmallisBeautiful:MotivationalMisallocationintheNonprofitSector”,JournalofEuropeanEconomicAssociation,forthcoming.Aldashev G., G. Kirchsteiger and A. Sebald, “Assignment Procedure Biases in Randomized PolicyExperiments”,EconomicJournal,2017,127(1):pp873–895.AljA.,R.Azrak,C. LeyandG.Mélard, “AsymptoticPropertiesofQMLEstimators forTime-dependentVARMAModels",ScandinavianJournalofStatistics44,2017,pp617-635,DOI:10.1111/sjos.12268.Alós-Ferrer, C. andG. Kirchsteiger, “Market Selection by Boundedly-rational Traders under ConstantReturnstoScale”,EconomicLetters,2017,pp51-53.AmiriA.,B.ThiamandT.Verdebout,“OntheEstimationoftheDensityofaDirectionalDataStream”,ScandinavianJournalofStatistics,2017,44,pp249-267.AuriolE.,A.EstacheandL.Wren-Lewis,“CanSupranational InfrastructureRegulationCompensate forNationalInstitutionalWeaknesses?”,RevueEconomique,forthcomingin2018.BallottaL.,G.Deelstra,G.Rayée,“MultivariateFXmodelswithJumps:Triangles,QuantosandImpliedCorrelation”,EuropeanJournalofOperationalResearch,2017,260,pp1181-1199.Barigozzi M. and M. Hallin, “Generalized Dynamic Factor Models and Volatilities: Estimation andForecasting”,JournalofEconometrics201,2017,pp307-321.Bertomeu-SanchezS.andA.Estache,“UnbundlingPoliticalandEconomicRationality:aNon-parametricApproachTestedonTransportInfrastructureinSpain”,TransportPolicy,2017,59,pp181-195.Bertomeu-Sanchez S., D. Camos and A. Estache, “Do Private Water Utility Operators Care aboutRegulatoryAgenciesinDevelopingCountries?”,UtilitiesPolicy,forthcomingin2018.BirrS.,H.Dette,M.Hallin,T.KleyandS.Volgushev,“QuantileSpectralAnalysis forLocallyStationaryTimeSeries”,JournaloftheRoyalStatisticalSocietySeriesB79,2017,pp1619-1643.

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BirrS.,H.Dette,M.Hallin,T.Kley,andS.Volgushev,“OnWigner-VilleSpectraandtheUnicityofTime-varyingQuantile-basedSpectralDensities”,JournalofTimeSeriesAnalysis,EmmanuelParzenMemorialissue,toappear.Boccard N. and P. Legros “Audit Competition in Oligopolies” Frontiers of Economics in China, 2017,12(3),pp371-399.BoutonL.,M.CastanheiraandA.Llorente-Saguer,“MulticandidateElections:AggregateUncertaintyintheLaboratory”,GamesandEconomicBehavior,101(1),2017,pp132–150.BruyneelS.,L.Cherchye,S.Cosaert,B.DeRockandS.Dewitte,“MeasuringtheWillingness-to-payforOthers’Consumption:AnApplicationtoJointDecisionsofChildren”,QuantitativeEconomics2017,8,pp1037-1082.Bughin J., T. Catlin, B. Hall and N. van Zeebroeck, “Improving Your Digital Intelligence”,MIT SloanManagementReview,2017.Bughin, J. and N. van Zeebroeck, “6 Digital Strategies, and Why Some Work Better than Others”,HarvardBusinessReview,2017.Bughin, J. andN.vanZeebroeck, “TheRightResponse toDigitalDisruption”,MITSloanManagementReview,2017,Reprint#58479.Cantala D. and J. S. Pereyra, “Priority-driven Behaviors under the Boston Mechanism”, Review ofEconomicDesign,2017,Volume21,Issue1,pp.49-63.CantillonE., “Broadening theMarketDesignApproach to SchoolChoice”,OxfordReviewof EconomicPolicy,33(4),2017,pp613-634.CarusoA.,“NowcastingwiththeHelpofForeignIndicators:TheCaseofMexico”,EconomicModelling,forthcoming.Castillo M. and M. Freer, “Revealed Differences”, accepted at Journal of Economic Behavior &Organization,2017.Cherchye L., B. De Rock and V. Hennebel, “Coordination Efficiency in Multi-Output Settings: a DEAApproach,”AnnalsofOperationsResearch,2017,250,pp205-233.CherchyeL.,T.Demuynck,B.DeRock,F.Vermeulen,“HouseholdConsumptionwhentheMarriage isStable”,AmericanEconomicReview,2017,vol.107,pp1507-1534.ChernozhukovV.,A.Galichon,M.HallinandM.Henry, “Monge-KantorovichDepth,Quantiles,Ranks,andSigns”,AnnalsofStatistics45,2017,pp223-256.CinceraM.,A. EstacheandA.Wolf, “Decentralization and Sectoral Expenditures in Europe”,AppliedEconomicsLetters,24,March2017,pp1-5.Conconi, P., D. DeRemer, G. Kirchsteiger, L. Trimarchi and M. Zanardi, “Suspiciously Timed TradeDisputes",JournalofInternationalEconomics,2017,pp57-75.Cremers K., M. Ernicke, F. Gaessler, D. Harhoff, C. Helmers, L. McDonagh, P. Schliessler andN. vanZeebroeck,“PatentLitigationinEurope”,EuropeanJournalofLawandEconomics,2017,44(1),pp1-44.Cites:28.CuttingC.,D.PaindaveineandT.Verdebout,“TestingUniformityonHigh-dimensionalSpheresagainstMonotoneRotationallySymmetricAlternatives”,AnnalsofStatistics45,2017,pp1024-1058.D'AlbisH.,P.E.GobbiandA.Greulich,“HavingaSecondChildandAccesstoChildcare:EvidencefromEuropeanCountries”,JournalofDemographicEconomics,2017,pp177-210.DaviesR.,J.Martin,M.ParentiandF.Toubal,“KnockingonTaxHaven’sDoor:MultinationalFirmsandTransferPricing",ReviewofEconomicsandStatistics,forthcoming.De la Croix D. and P. E. Gobbi, “Population Density, Fertility, and Demographic Convergence inDevelopingCountries”,JournalofDevelopmentEconomics,2017,pp13-24.

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DeRemer D., P. Conconi, G. Kirchsteiger, L. Trimarchi and M. Zanardi, “Suspiciously Timed TradeDisputes”,inJournalofInternationalEconomics,featuredintheWashingtonPost,Fortune,andVoxEU,2017,105,pp57-76.DominicyY.,M.HeikkiläandP.Ilmonen,“MultivariateMomentBasedExtremeValueIndexEstimators”,ComputationalStatistics32(4),2017,pp1481-1513.DominicyY.,P. IlmonenandD.Veredas,“MultivariateHillEstimators”, InternationalStatisticalReview85(1),2017,pp108-142.Estache A. and R. Foucart, “The Scope and Limits of Accounting and Judicial Courts Intervention inInefficientPublicProcurement”,JournalofPublicEconomics,Vol.157,January,pp95–106,forthcomingin2018.ForniM.,M.Hallin,M.LippiandP.Zaffaroni,“DynamicFactorModelswithInfinite-dimensionalFactorSpace:AsymptoticAnalysis”,JournalofEconometrics199,2017,pp74-92.GinsburghV., J.MelitzandF.Toubal,“ForeignLanguageLearningandTrade”,Reviewof InternationalEconomics25,2017,pp320-361.GinsburghV.,J.Moreno-TerneroandS.Weber,“RankingLanguagesintheEuropeanUnion:BeforeandAfterBrexit”,EuropeanEconomicReview93,2017,pp139-151.Ginsburgh V., P. Castaneda-Dower and S. Weber, “Colonial Legacy, Polarization and LinguisticDisenfranchisement:TheCaseoftheSriLankanWar”,JournalofDevelopmentEconomics127,2017,pp440-448.Hallin M. and D. Vecchia, “Semiparametrically Efficient R-estimation for Dynamic Location-scaleModels”,JournalofEconometrics196,2017,pp233-247.HallinM.andM.Barigozzi,“Networks,DynamicFactors,andtheVolatilityAnalysisofHigh-dimensionalFinancialSeries”,JournaloftheRoyalStatisticalSocietySeriesC66,2017,pp581-605.Kollmann R., “Tractable Likelihood-based Estimation of Non-linear DSGEModels”, Economics Letters,2017,Vol.161KollmannR.,B.Pataracchia,R.Raciborski,M.Ratto,W.RoegerandL.Vogel,“DriversofthePost-crisisSlumpintheEurozoneandtheUS”,VoxEU,2017.Lauwers L., T. Potoms and C. Vazquez, Addendum to: “Ranking Opportunity Sets on the Basis ofSimilaritiesofPreferences:AProposal”,MathematicalSocialSciences,Vol.88,2017,pp1-2.LegrosP.andA.Newman,“Demand-driven IntegrationandDivorcementPolicy”, InternationalJournalofIndustrialOrganization,volume53,2017,pp306-325.Openaccess.Ley C. andT. Verdebout, “Skew-rotationally-symmetric Distributions on theUnit Sphere and RelatedEfficientInferentialProcedures”,JournalofMultivariateAnalysis,2017,159,pp67-81.Ley C., Y. Swan and T.Verdebout, “Efficient ANOVA for Directional Data”,Annals of the Institute ofStatisticalMathematics,2017,69,pp39-62.Mercier M. and P. Verwimp, “Are We Counting All the Poor? Accounting for the Intra-householdAllocationofConsumptioninBurundi”,JournalofDemographicEconomics,2017,volume83,issue3,pp307-327.OuakassH.andG.Mélard,“ANewRecursiveEstimationMethodforSingleInputSingleOutputModels”,JournalofTimeSeriesAnalysis38(3),2017,pp417-457,DOI:10.1111/jtsa.12210.Paindaveine D. and G. Van Bever, “Halfspace Depths for Scatter, Concentration and ShapeMatrices”,AnnalsofStatistics,toappear.Paindaveine D. and G. Van Bever, “On the Maximal Halfspace Depth of Permutation-invariantDistributionsontheSimplex”,StatisticsandProbabilityLettersn129,2017,pp335-339.Paindaveine D. and T. Verdebout, “Inference on the Mode of Weak Directional Signals: a Le CamPerspectiveonHypothesisTestingnearSingularities”,AnnalsofStatistics45,2017,pp800-832.

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PaindaveineD., J. Rasoafaraniaina andT. Verdebout , “Preliminary Test Estimation forMulti-samplePrincipalComponents”,Econometrics&Statistics2,2017,pp106-116.Parenti M., “Large and Small firms in a Global Market: David vs. Goliath" Journal of InternationalEconomics110(2018)pp103–118.PreinerstorferD.andB.M.Pötscher,“OnthePowerofInvariantTestsforHypothesesonaCovarianceMatrix”,EconometricTheory,2017.PreinerstorferD.,“FiniteSamplePropertiesofTestsBasedonPrewhitenedNonparametricCovarianceEstimators”,ElectronicJournalofStatistics,2017.TommasiD. andA.Wolf, “EstimatingHouseholdResourceShares:AShrinkageApproach”,EconomicsLetters,Volume163,February2018,pp75–78.Verdebout T., “On the Efficiency of Some Rank-based Test for the Homogeneity of Concentrations”,JournalofStatisticalPlanningandInference,2017,191,pp101-109.VerwimpP.andJ.C.MunozMora,“ReturningHomeafterCivilWar:FoodSecurityandNutritionamongBurundianHouseholds”,JournalofDevelopmentStudies,2017,availableonlinewiththejournal.BechtM., J.Franks,J.Grant,H.F.Wagner,“ReturnstoHedgeFundActivism:AnInternationalStudy”,The Review of Financial Studies, Volume 30, Issue 9, 1 September 2017, pp 2933–2971,https://doi.org/10.1093/rfs/hhx048

WORKINGPAPERSAldashevG.,M.MariniandT.Verdier,“SamaritanBundles:InefficientClusteringinNGOProjects”,CEPRDiscussionPaper11931,2017.Alfaro L., N. Bloom,P. Conconi, H. Fadinger,P. Legros, A. Newman, R. Sadun, J. van Reenen, “ComeTogether - Firm Boundaries and Delegation,” (Revision of “All Together Now”.) mimeo, HBS workingpaper18-051,2017.AzarkR.andG.Mélard,“ARModelswithTime-dependentCoefficients-aComparisonbetweenSeveralApproaches”,inrevisionforOpenJournalofStatisticsandProbability,ECARESworkingpaper2017-48,2017.AzarkR.andG.Mélard,“AsymptoticPropertiesofConditionalLeast-squaresEstimatorsforArrayTimeSeries”,inpreparation,ECARESworkingpaper2017-49,2017.Bachoc F., D. Preinerstorfer and L. Steinberger, “Uniformly Valid Confidence Intervals Post-model-selection”,arXiv:1611.01043,workingpaper2017.Bagnoli,L.“DoesNationalHealthInsuranceImproveChildren'sHealth?NationalandRegionalEvidencefromGhana”,WorkingPaperECARES2017-03,2017.BaudinT.,D.delaCroix.andP.E.Gobbi,“EndogenousChildlessnessandStagesofDevelopment”,CEPRDP12071,2017.BernardA.B.,E.Dhyne,G.Magerman,K.ManovaandA.Moxnes,“TheOriginsofFirmHeterogeneity:AProductionNetworkApproach”,SocietyforEconomicDynamicsworkingpaper,2017.Bertoméu Sánchez S., D. Camos Daurella and A. Estache, “Do Private Water Utility Operators CareaboutRegulatoryAgenciesinDevelopingCountries?”,PolicyResearchWorkingPaperSeries,8045,TheWorldBank,2017andECARESworkingpaper2017-18,2017.BoutonL.,P.Conconi,F.PinoandM.Zanardi,“GunsandVotes”,CEPRDiscussionPaper9726andNBERWorkingPaper20253,featuredinaVoxcolumnandonTheEconomist,2017.CalviR.,A.LewbelandD.Tommasi,“Women'sEmpowermentandFamilyHealth:EstimatingLATEwithMismeasuredTreatment”,ECARESworkingpaper2017-27,2017.CamosD.,A.EstacheandM.M.Hamid,“Quasi-fiscalDeficitsintheElectricitySectoroftheMiddleEastandNorthAfrica:SourcesandSize”,ECARESWorkingPapers,2017-47,2017.

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CastanheiraM.,G.Siotis,C.OrnaghiandM.A.deFrutos,“TheUnexpectedConsequencesofAsymmetricCompetition.AnApplicationtoBigPharma”,CEPRDP11813andVoxEUcolumn,2017.CinceraM.andA.Santos,“Countries’Attractiveness:AnanalysisofEUfirms’Decisionsto(de)localizeR&DActivities”,iCiteWorkingPaper2017-022,p.32.CherchyeL.,B.DeRock,R.Griffith,M.O’Connel,K.SmithandF.Vermeulen,“ANewYear,aNewYou?HeterogeneityandSelf-controlinFoodPurchases”,ECARESworkingpaper,2017-46,2017.Cherchye L., S. Cosaert,B.DeRock andT.Demuynck, “Group Consumptionwith Caring Individuals”,ECARESworkingpaper,2017-45,2017.Cherchye L., S. Cosaert,B. De Rock. P.J. Kerstens and F. Vermeulen, “IndividualWelfare Analysis forCollectiveHouseholds”,ECARESworkingpaper,2017-44,2017.CherchyeL.,S.Cosaert,T.DemuynckandB.DeRock, (2015,newversion),“GroupConsumptionwithCaringIndividuals”,ECARESworkingpaper2017-45,2017.Cherchye L., T. Demuynck and B. De Rock, “Bounding Counterfactual Demand with Un-observedHeterogeneityandEndogenousExpenditures",ECARESworkingpaper2017-41,2017.Cherchye L., T. Demuynck, B. De Rock and F. Vermeulen, “Stable Marriage with and withoutTransferableUtility:NonparametricTestableImplications",ECARESWorkingpaper2017-30,2017.CherchyeL.,T.Demuynck,B.DeRockandM.Verschelde,“NonparametricIdentificationofUnobservedTechnologicalHeterogeneityinProduction”,ECARESworkingpaper,2017-41,2017Cherchye L., T. Demuynck, B. De Rock, “Bounding Counterfactual Demand with Un-observedHeterogeneityandEndogenousExpenditures",ECARESworkingpaper2017-41,2017.ConconiP.,G.Facchini,M.SteinhardtandM.Zanardi,“ThePoliticalEconomyofTradeandMigration:EvidencefromtheU.S.Congress”.CEPRDiscussionpaper9270.FeaturedinaVoxcolumn,2017.Conconi P., M. García Santana, L. Puccio, and R. Venturini, “From Final Goods to Inputs: TheProtectionist Effect of Preferential Rules of Origin”, CEPR Discussion Paper 11084. Revised andResubmittedtotheAmericanEconomicReview,onlineappendix,featuredinaVoxcolumn,2017.Daniele G., S.Mookerjee andD. Tommasi, “Informational Shocks and Food Safety: A Field Study onStreetVendorsinUrban”,workingpaper2017.De Rock B., T. Potoms andD. Tommasi, “Household Responses to Cash Transfers”, ECARESworkingpaper2017-38,2017.DemuynckT.,J.-J.Herings,R.Saulle,C.Seel,“TheMyopicStableSetforSocialEnvironments",ECARESworkingpaper2017-02,2017.DhyneE.,G.MagermanandA.Kikkawa,“ImperfectCompetitionandtheTransmissionofShocks:TheNetworkMatters”,workingpaper,2017.Dressler L. and E. Cornago, “The Rent Impact of Disclosing Energy Performance Certificates: EnergyEfficiencyandInformationEffects”,ECARESWorkingPaper,2017-16,2017.Epp L. and N. Leszczynska, “Fairness Concern and Corrupt Decisions: an Experimental Approach”,ECARESworkingpaper2017-21,2017.EstacheA. andM.Fourati, “InfrastructureProvision,PoliticsandReligion: Insights fromTunisia'sNewDemocracy”,ECARESWorkingpaper2017-24,2017.Estache,A.,“SuccessesandFailuresofWaterandSanitationGovernanceChoicesinSub-SaharanAfrica(1990-2017)”,ECARESWorkingPaper,2017-32,2017.EstevanF.,T.Gall,P.LegrosandA.Newman,“CollegeAdmissionandHighSchoolIntegration”,ECARESworkingpaper2017-25,2017.Gall T., P. Legros and A. Newman, “College Diversity and Investment Incentives”, (revision of “Mis-Match,Re-MatchandInvestment,”2013),CEPRDP10337,2017.Garcia-Portugues E., D. Paindaveine and T. Verdebout, “On Optimal Tests for Rotational SymmetryagainstNewClassesofHypersphericalDistributions”,arXiv:1706.05030workingpaper,2017.

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Ginsburgh V. and J. Moreno-Ternero, “Compensation Schemes for Learning a Lingua Franca in theEuropeanUnion”,ECARESWorkingPaper,2017-07,2017.GinsburghV.andL.Leruth,“TheRiseandFallofCastrati”,ECARESWorkingPaper,2017-15,2017.GinsburghV.,A.S.RadermeckerandD.Tommasi,“TheImplicitValueofArtExperts.TheCaseofKlausErtzandPieterBruegheltheYounger”,ECARESWorkingPaper,2017-17,2017.GobbiP.E.,“ChildcareandCommitmentwithinHouseholds”,CEPRDP12550,2017.HelanderS.,G.VanBever,S.RantalaandP.Ilmonen,“FunctionalParetoDepth”,workingpaper,2017.JeusetteL.andP.Verwimp,“ChildhoodAspirations,OccupationalOutcomesandExposuretoViolence:Evidence from Burundi”, ECARES working paper 2017-26 and Households in Conflict working paper,2017.KockA.B.andD.Preinerstorfer,“PowerinHigh-dimensionalTestingProblems”,ECARESworkingpaper2017-42,2017.KokovinS.,M.Parenti,J.ThisseJ.andP.Ushchev,“OntheDilutionofMarketPower”,CEPRDP12367,2017.KollmannR.,“ExplainingInternationalBusinessCycleSynchronization”,CEPRDP11911,2017.KollmannR.,B.Pataracchoia,R.Raciborski,M.Ratto,W.RoegerangL.Vogel,“DriversofthePost-crisisSlumpintheEurozoneandtheUS”,ECARESworkingpaper2017-22,2017KuckoK.,K.Rinz,andB.Solow,“LaborMarketEffectsoftheAffordableCareAct:EvidencefromaTaxNotch,”CARRAWorkingPaperSeries,2017.LegrosP.andM. Sraieb, “AltruisticDonors,DevelopmentandRedistribution”, (revisionof “MoneyorProjects:HowShouldAltruisticDonorsGiveAid?”,ECARESWP2015-18),2017.Leszczynska N., “Double Hat Politicians: Political Moonlighting in Wallonia”, ECARES working paper2017-43,2017.LiB.,G.VanBever,H.Oja,R.SabolovaandF.Critchley,“FunctionalIndependentComponentAnalysis:anExtensionofFourthOrderBlindIdentification”,workingpaper,2017.MagermanG.,“TheMBCrisisandtheGreatRecession”,NBBworkingpaper,2017.Magerman G., K. De Bruyne and J. Van Hove, “Pecking Order and Core-periphery Structure ofInternationalTrade”,workingpaper,2017.MagermanG.,K.DeBruyne,E.DhyneandJ.VanHove,“HeterogeneousFirmsandtheMicroOriginsofAggregateFluctuations”,NBBandVIVESworkingpaper,2017.März O., “Does Loss Aversion Beat Procrastination? A Behavioral Health Intervention at the Gym”,ECARESworkingpaper2017-33.MràzovàM.,M.ParentiandP.Neary,“Technology,Demand,andtheSizeDistributionofFirms”,CEPRDP12044,2017.PaindaveineD.andG.VanBever,“HalfspaceDepthsforScatter,ConcentrationandShape.WithPeer-reviewedSupplement”,ECARESworkingpaper,2017.PaindaveineD.andG.VanBever,“TylerShapeDepth”,ECARESworkingpaper2017-29,2017.PaindaveineD. andT. Verdebout, “Detecting theDirection of a Signal onHigh-dimensional Spheres:Non-nullandLeCamOptimalityResults”,ECARESworkingpaper2017-19,2017.PaindaveineD.,J.RasoafaraniainaandT.Verdebout,“PreliminaryTestEstimationinULANModels”(inprogress).PaindaveineD., J. Remy andT. Verdebout, “Testing for Principal Component Directions underWeakIdentifiability”,ECARESworkingpaper2017-37,2017.Pandolfo G., D. Paindaveine and G. Porzio, “Distance-based Depths for Directional Data”, ECARESworkingpaper2017-10,2017.

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Pinchetti M., “Creative Destruction Cycles: Endogenous TFP in an Estimated DSGE Model”, ECARESWorkingPaper2017-04,2017.Pötscher B. M. andD. Preinerstorfer, “Further Results on Size and Power of Heteroskedasticity andAutocorrelationRobusttests,withanApplicationtoTrendTesting”,arXiv:1708.08688workingpaper,2017.SantosA.andM.Cincera,“AccesstoFinanceasaPressingProblem:EvidencefromInnovativeEuropeanFirms”,iCiteWorkingPaper2017-022.Shikhman V., Y. Nesterov and V. Ginsburgh, “Power Method Tâtonnements for Cobb-DouglasEconomies”,ECARESWorkingPaper,2017-09,2017.TommasiD.,“ControlofResourcesandDemandforFood”,jobmarketpaper,2017.Van ZEEBROECKN. and J. Bughin, “Platform Play among Incumbent Firms: theWrong Focus?”, iCiteWorkingPaper2017-023,2017.Verwimp, P, D. Osti and G. Ostby, “Fertility and Displacement during Civil War: a Survival Analysis,WorkingPaperCEBandworkingpaperHouseholdsinConflictNetwork,2017.

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INTERNATIONAL SEMINARS and CONFERENCES (Participations andPresentations)

HamidAGHADADASHLI15thAnnual IIOCConference,presentation:MarketSignalingvsCommunicationandCompliance–theRoleofAntitrustFinesandBonuses,April2017,Boston,MA,USA.CRESSE 12th International Conference on “Competition and Regulation”, presentation: SignalingCollusion,FinesandBonuses,JuneandJuly2017,Heraklion,Crete,Greece.GaniALDASHEVGraduate Institute of International and Development Studies, presentation: NGO: Non-Profits,Governments,andOrganizations,June2017,Geneva,Switzerland.ResearchSeminar,Microeconomics&ManagementChair,UniversityofFrankfurt,presentation:PublicandPrivateFirmsintheShadowofCoercivePower,January2017,Frankfurt,Germany.Research Seminar, Department of Economics, Tilburg University, presentation: Multitasking Dean:CollegeFinancingandtheDemiseofResearchUniversity,March2017,Tilburg,TheNetherlands.ResearchSeminar,CERDI,Universitéd’Auvergne,presentation:PublicandPrivateFirmsintheShadowofCoercivePower,April2017,Clermont-Ferrand,France.ISE-KBTUConferenceon“AppliedEconomics”,presentation:PublicandPrivateFirmsintheShadowofCoercivePower,April2017,Almaty,Kazakhstan.ResearchSeminar,DepartmentofEconomics,UniversityofBarcelona,presentation:PublicandPrivateFirmsintheShadowofCoercivePower,May2017,Barcelona,Spain.Workshop on “Environmental NGOs & Public Policy”, presentation: NGOs, and ParticipatoryConservationinDevelopingCountries:WhyAreThereInefficiencies?,June2017,Paris,France.Research Seminar on “Globalization and Development”, University of Gottingen, research TrainingGroup, presentation: The Effectiveness of Land Reforms in Traditional Societies: Central Asia in the1920s,October2017,Gottingen,Germany.OSE Workshop Mondialisation et Développement, Paris School of Economics, presentation: IntrinsicMotivationandParticipationinCollectiveAction:EvidencefromItaly,October2017,Paris,France.Conferenceon“TowardsEffectiveandEquitableDevelopment,TheRoleof InstitutionsandDiversity”,CSDSI,presentation: NewEconomicSchool,PublicandPrivateFirmsintheShadowofCoercivePower,December2017,Moscow,Russia.NES 25th Anniversary Conference, New Economic School, presentation: The Effectiveness of LandReformsinTraditionalSocieties:CentralAsiainthe1920s,December2017,Moscow,Russia.ChristianBASTECKTenthConferenceonEconomicDesign,presentation:CognitiveAbilityandGamesofSchoolChoice,June2017,York,UK.MarcoBECHTTheFutureFrameworkofEuropeanCapitalMarkets,January2017,Oxford,UK.ECGIAnnualMembersMeeting&AnnualGeneralMeeting,IMD,May2017,Lausanne,Switzerland.GlobalCorporateGovernanceColloquia(GCGC)conference,TokyoUniversity,Japan,June2017.Corporate Governance Through Voice and Exit: Evidence from Standard Life Investments, LondonBusinessSchool,October2017,London,UK.

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International Roundtable on Board Level Employee Representation, Imperial College, October 2017,London,UK.AnnualClientSeminaroftheHermesEquityOwnershipService,RoyalSocietyoftheArts,March2017,London,UK.MichaelDavidBLANGAGUBBAYETSG2017Florence:19thAnnualConference,September2017,Florence,Italy.SalvadorBERTOMEU-SANCHEZSociety for Benefit-Cost Analysis 2017 Annual Conference, presentation: Unbundling Political andEconomicRationality:aNon-parametricApproachTestedonSpain,March2017,WashingtonDC,USA.EstelleCANTILLONIOseminar,ParisSchoolofEconomics,presentation: InformationAggregation intheEuropeanCarbonMarket:TheRoleofParticipation,January2017,Paris,France.Economicsseminar,UniversityofSouthampton,presentation:InformationAggregationintheEuropeanCarbonMarket:TheRoleofParticipation,January2017,Southampton,UK.Roy Seminar, Paris School of Economics, presentation: Respecting Priorities versus RespectingPreferencesinSchoolChoice:WhenisThereaTradeoff?,March2017,Paris,France.MATCH-UP 2017, presentation: The Efficiency-Stability Tradeoff in School Choice: Lessons forMarketDesign,April20-21,2017,BostonMA,USA.11th conference on the Economics of Energy and Climate Change, Presentation: Discussion ofIncentivizing Firm Compliance under China’s National CO2 Emissions Trading System, June 2017,Toulouse,France.Economics seminar, National University of Singapore, presentation: Competition between Exchanges:LessonsfromtheBattleoftheBund,November2017,Singapore.Frontiers in Environmental Economics, Paris School of Economics, presentation: InformationAggregationandtheEfficiencyofEmissionsMarkets,December2017,Paris,France.AnnualCongressoftheEuropeanEconomicAssociation,August2017,Lisbon,Portugal.AlbertoCARUSOCentral Bank Forecasting Conference 2017, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, presentation:MacroeconomicNewsandMarket’sReaction: Surprise IndexesMeetNowcasting,November2017, St.Louis,USA.Conference on Real-Time Data Analysis, Methods and Applications, Banco de Espana, presentation:MacroeconomicNewsandMarket’sReaction:SurpriseIndexesMeetNowcasting,October2017,Madrid,Spain.23rdInternationalConferenceonComputinginEconomicsandFinance,FordhamUniversityandFederalReserveBankofNewYork,presentation:MacroeconomicNewsandMarket’sReaction:SurpriseIndexesMeetNowcasting,July2017,NewYork,USA.MicaelCASTANHEIRADEMOURA 3dLilleWorkshoponPoliticalEconomy,KeynoteSpeaker,November2017,Lille,France.

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MicheleCINCERA6thEuropeanConferenceonCorporateR&DandInnovation,CONCORDi2017,presentation:FinancingConstraintsandGrowthAmbitionsofInnovativeEuropeanFirms,September2017,Seville,Spain.6thEuropeanConferenceonCorporateR&DandInnovation,CONCORDi2017,presentation:ImpactofEurekaProjectsonthePerformanceofEuropeanSMEs,September2017,Seville,Spain.7th ZEW/MaCCI Conference on the Economics of Innovation and Patenting, presentation: Access toFinance as a Pressing Problem: Evidence from Innovative European Firms, May 2017, Mannheim,Germany.PaolaCONCONIParticipation in seminars in theUK,at the LondonSchoolofEconomics (Political ScienceandPoliticalEconomygroupandInternationalEconomicsgroup),Birkbeck,QueenMary,Warwick,Lancaster.Seminars in the University of Hong Kong, seminars in University of Aarhus, seminars in the EUParliament, seminars in UK Parliament, and UK Cabinet Office, Geneva Trade and DevelopmentWorkshop,BankofItaly.InvitedLecturesin"InternationalEconomics",UniversityofNottingham.InternationalTradeSummerSchool,KhatamUniversity.NBEROrganizationalEconomicsWorkingGroupmeeting.OECDGlobalForumonProductivity(keynotespeaker).ETSGmeeting,EUI.ThirdConferenceofCEPRResearchNetworkon “GlobalValueChains, TradeandDevelopment”,May2017,Singapore.ChristineDEMOLConference, presentation: 100 years of Radon Transform, Nonnegative Matrix Factorization andApplications,March2017,Linz,Austria.Conference "Stochastic Dynamical Models in Mathematical Finance, Econometrics, and ActuarialSciences",presentation:ForecastingEconomicVariableswithHigh-dimensionalTimeSeries,May2017,Lausanne,Switzerland.Courselecturer,presentation:StatisticalLearningandApplications,UniversityofSt.Gallen,June2017,St.Gallen,Switzerland.6th International Conference on "Scale Space and Variational Methods in Computer Vision",presentation:NonnegativeMatrix FactorizationandBlind ImagingwithPositivity, June2017, Kolding,Denmark.GAMM-MSIPWorkshop on "Mathematical Signal Processing andData Analysis", presentation:AngelsandDemonsofMathematicalImaging,September2017,Bremen,Germany.Member of the Scientific Committee of the “Mathematics in Imaging" Conference, Optical Society ofAmerica"ImagingandAppliedOpticsCongress",June2017,SanFrancisco,USA.ThomasDEMUYNCKSAETconference,presentation:RevealedPreferenceandStableHouseholdMatching, June2017,Faro,Portugal.BRIC,June2017,London,UK.

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BramDEROCKBRIC conference, presentation:Transitivity of Preferences:Whendoes itMatter?, June2017, London,UK.BI Norwegian Business School seminar, presentation: Marital Matching, Economies of Scale andIntrahouseholdAllocations,September2017,Oslo,Norway.LuisaDRESSLERMannheim Energy Conference 2017, presentation: Do Alert the Inert! Switching Costs vs LimitedAwarenessinRetailElectricityMarkets,May2017,Mannheim,Germany.AntonioESTACHESeminar on “Infrastructure and Institutions”, Universidad Autonoma de Barcelona, October 2017,Barcelona,Spain.Seminaron“InstitutionalDiagnosticsforInfrastructure”,UniversidadAutonomadeBarcelona,October2017,Barcelona,Spain.Seminaron“InfrastructureandCorruption”,UniversityCollegeLondon,December2017,London,UK.PaulaE.GOBBIWorkshop on “Urban Economics and City Growth”, presentation: Childless Aristocrats. Fertility,Inheritance, and Persistent Inequality in Britain (1650 - 1882), KEDGE, December 2017, Bordeaux,France.2ndHEDGMini-WorkshopforYoungScholars,UniversityofSouthernDenmark,presentation:ChildlessAristocrats. Fertility, Inheritance, and Persistent Inequality in Britain (1650 - 1882),November 2017,Odense,Denmark.CEPR Annual MG Programme Meeting, Childless Aristocrats. Presentation: Fertility, Inheritance, andPersistentInequalityinBritain(1650-1882),November2017,Frankfurt,Germany.17thConferenceoftheSocietyfortheAdvancementofEconomicTheory(SAET),presentation:ChildcareandCommitmentwithinHouseholds,June2017,Faro,Portugal.CentreforEconomicDemographysemaine,LundUniversity,presentation:ChildlessAristocrats.Fertility,Inheritance,andPersistentInequalityinBritain(1650-1882),May2017,Lund,Sweden.CEPR European Summer Symposium in InternationalMacroeconomics (ESSIM),May 2017, Tarragona,Spain.MarcHALLINStatisticsSeminar,UniversityCarlosII,DepartmentofStatistics,presentation:DistributionandQuantileFunctionsinRd:aMeasure-transportationApproach,January2017,Madrid,Spain.7th Workshop in Time Series Econometrics, University of Zaragoza, keynote speaker, presentation:QuantileSpectralAnalysisforLocallyStationaryTimeSeries,March2017,Zaragoza,Spain.Statistics Seminar, Department of Statistics, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, presentation:DynamicPrincipalComponentsandOptimalDimensionReductioninFunctionalTimeSeries,April2017,SantiagodeCompostela,Spain.International Conference on Statistics and Econometrics (CISEM-2017), University of Monastir,presentation:OnDistribution andQuantile Functions in Rd: aMeasure-transportation Approach,May2017,Monastir,Tunisia.

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Mathematics Colloquium, Universidade de Valladolid, Department of Mathematics, presentation:OnDistribution and Quantile Functions in Rd: aMeasure-transportation Approach,May 2017, Valladolid,Spain.Short doctoral course, Universidad Carlos III, presentation: An Introduction to Le Cam’s AsymptoticTheoryofStatisticalExperiments,May2017,Madrid,Spain.ConferenceinBernoulliCenteroftheEPFL,invitedplenaryspeaker,presentation:StochasticDynamicalModels in Mathematical Finance, Econometrics, and Actuarial Sciences, May - June 2017, Lausanne,Switzerland.ThirdViennaWorkshopon “High-Dimensional TimeSeries inMacroeconomics and Finance”, InstituteforAdvancedStudie,presentation:DynamicPrincipalComponentsandOptimalDimensionReductioninFunctionalTimeSeries,June2017,Vienna,Austria.Seminar, University of Hong Kong, Department of Statistics & Actuarial Science, 50th AnniversarySeminar Series, presentation:OnDistribution andQuantile Functions in Rd: aMeasure-transportationApproach,June2017,HongKong,China.1st International Conference on Econometrics and Statistics (EcoSta2017), Hong Kong University ofScienceandTechnology,presentation:QuantileSpectralAnalysisforLocallyStationaryTimeSeries,June2017,HongKong,China.Catedra de Excelencia Seminar, University Carlos III, Department of Statistics, presentation:OptimalDimensionReductionforHigh-dimensionalandFunctionalTimeSeries,June2017,Madrid,Spain.FreeUniversityofBolzano,presentation:SetOptimizationandAbstractConvexitywithApplications inStatistics,OnDistributionandQuantileFunctionsinRd:aMeasure-transportationApproach,June–July2017,Bolzano,Italy.81th ISI World Statistics Congress, special Bernoulli Journal Invited Lecture, presentation: QuantileSpectralAnalysisforLocallyStationaryTimeSeries,July2017,Marrakech,Morocco.Statistics Seminar, Southampton Statistical Sciences Research Institute, University of Southampton,presentation:QuantileSpectralAnalysisforLocallyStationaryTimeSeries,October2017,Southampton,UK.Econometrics Seminar, Erasmus School of Economics, Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam, presentation:QuantileSpectralAnalysisforLocallyStationaryTimeSeries,October2017,Rotterdam,TheNetherlands.Symposium on Big Data in Finance, University of Lisbon, Retail & Commerce: Statistical andComputationalChallenges,presentation:DynamicFactorModelsandtheAnalysisofTimeSeriesinHighDimension,November2017,Lisbon,Portugal.Four lectures, Weierstrass Institut and Humboldt-Universität, presentation: Dynamic Factor Models,November2017,Berlin,Germany.Program and organization committees, presentation: Econometrics and Time Series, November 2017,Rome,Italy.MemberoftheScientificProgrammeCommittee,UniversidadCarlos3deMadrid,FirstNonparametricUC3MWorkshop,March2017,Madrid,Spain.ScientificProgrammeCommittee,EIEF,NewDevelopmentsinEconometricsandTimeSeries,November2017,Rome,Italy.

TillmannHEIDELK8thForumoftheEUStrategyfortheBalticSeaRegion,presentation:ConnectingtheVoiceofYouthforaSustainableFutureoftheBalticSeaRegion,June2017,Berlin,Germany.47th St. Gallen Symposium, leading two workshops on Solutions to Refugee Integration andEmployment, presentation: Leader of Tomorrow and Significantly Contributing to the Involvement ofYoung People in European Politics and Working to Empower Young Leaders, May 2017, St. Gallen,Switzerland.

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MiskGlobalForum,November2017,Riyadh,SaudiArabia.ENTERJamboree,April2017,London,UK.EuropeanCharlemagneYouthPrize2017,May2017,Aachen,Germany.G202017Workshop,FederalMinistryforEconomicCooperationandDevelopment,March2017,Bonn,Germany.SummerMeetingofYoungPhilosophersandEconomists,presentation,May2017,Berlin,Germany.ElaINCE6th European Conference, Concordi 2017, presentation: Corporate R&D and Innovation, September2017,Sevilla,Spain.EuropeanCommisssion,presentation:JRCTraininginCompositeIndicators,November2017,Ispra,Italy.GeorgKIRCHSTEIGERBehavioralWelfareWorkshop, presentation: Belief Based Preferences and SocialWelfare, November2017,Berlin,Germany.RobertKOLLMANNAmerican Economic Association meeting, presentation: Explaining International Business CycleSynchronization,January2017,Chicago,USA.Korea University, presentation: Explaining International Business Cycle Synchronization, March 2017,Seoul,SouthKorea.Society for Economic Dynamics annualmeeting, presentation: Explaining International Business CycleSynchronization,June2017,Edinburgh,Scotland.Bankof England,presentation:Explaining InternationalBusinessCycle Synchronization,October2017,UK.Swiss National Bank, presentation: Explaining International Business Cycle Synchronization, October2017,Swizerland.PatrickLEGROS15thAnnualInternationalIndustrialOrganizationConference,April2017,Boston,USA.NBERWorkshopinOrganizationalEconomics,April2017,UniversityofMannheim,Germany.MITlunchseminarinOrganizationalEconomics,April2017.ThredConference,AltruisticDonors,DevelopmentandRedistribution,June2017,London,UK.Seminar, BostonUniversity, presentation: LearningWithin orOutside Firms— LaborMarket FrictionsandEntrepreneurship,October2017,Boston,USA.CRESSEconference,presentation,discussion,panelmember,June-July2017,Greece.EEAcongress,August2017,Lisbon,Portugal.WorkshoponInnovationandAntitrust,NortheasternUniversity,October2017,Boston,USA.NBERWorkshopinorganizationaleconomics,November2017,Cambridge,UK.Conference TheNextWave in Adaptive Biomedical Innovation,MIT, December 2017,Massachussets,USAGlennMAGERMAN

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3rdAnnualConferenceonNetworkScience inEconomics,Univ.St.Louis,presentation:TheOriginsofFirmHeterogeneity:AProductionNetworkApproach,April2017,Washington,USA.CEPREuropeanSummerSymposiuminInternationalMacroeconomics,presentation:TheOriginsofFirmHeterogeneity:AProductionNetworkApproach,April2017,Barcelona,Spain.5th European Conference on Networks, University College London, presentation: TheOrigins of FirmHeterogeneity:AProductionNetworkApproach,April2017,London,UK.Workshop on Trade, UiO Oslo, presentation: Growth and Firm Dynamics The Origins of FirmHeterogeneity:AProductionNetworkApproach,June2017,Oslo,Norway.Seminar series, Nazarbayev University Astana, presentation: The Origins of Firm Heterogeneity: AProductionNetworkApproach,September2017,Astana,Kazachstan.Seminar series, New Economic School Moscow, presentation: The Origins of Firm Heterogeneity: AProductionNetworkApproach,September2017,Moscow,Russia.DEGIT Conference, Paris School of Economics, presentation: The Origins of Firm Heterogeneity: AProductionNetworkApproach,September2017,Paris,France.Workshop on International Production Networks, Erasmus University Rotterdam, presentation: PriceUpdatinginProductionNetworks,November2017,Rotterdam,TheNetherlands.GuyMÉLARD49èmes Journées de Statistique de l’Association française de statistique, with Rajae Azrak,presentation:NouveauxrésultatspourdesmodèlesARMAàcoefficientsdépendantdutemps,May-June2017,Avignon,France.LilleResearchWorkshopon Statistics andEconometrics (LRWSE), presentation:NewResults on Time-dependentARMAModels,May2017,Lille,France.4th Days of Econometrics for Finance, presentation:Numerical Problems in Time Series Analysis, July2017,Rabat,Morocco.CFIES'17,update:L’enseignementdelastatistiqueavectableur.Miseàjour,September2017,Grenoble,France.Time Series AnalysisWorkshop, Laboratoire demathématiques de Besançon, Université de Franche-Comté,withRajaeAzrakandAbdelkamelAlj, presentation:Résultatsgénérauxd’estimationpourdesmodèlestdVARMA,November2017,Besançon,France.BenjaminOGDENAmerican Political Science Association, presentation: The Imperfect Beliefs Voting Model Decisions –Theory,Experiments,andApplications,2017,SanFrancisco,USA.InstitutHenriPoincare,UPMC,withLaurentBouton,presentation:Paris:EthicalVotinginMulticandidateElections,2017,Georgetown,Australia.MidwestEconomicTheoryConference,UniversityofKentucky,presentation:MultidimensionalStrategicCommunicationwithUncertainSalience,2017,Lexington,USA.EuropeanPublicChoiceSociety,CentralEuropeanUniversity,presentation:TheImperfectBeliefsVotingModel,2017,Budapest,Hungary.MidwesternPoliticalScienceAssociation,presentation:DeliberationinSearchofTruth:AFormalModelofStrategicCommunicationandDeliberativeDemocracy,2017,Chicago,USA.Public Choice Society, Boston University, presentation:Media Competition with Targeted Advertising:HowMediaPolarizationAttenuatesPoliticalPolarization,2017,NewOrleans,USA.

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ThePoliticalEconomyofDictatorshipandDemocracy,UniversityofMunster,presentation:Deliberationin Search of Truth: AModel of Strategic Communication andDeliberative Democracy,2017,Munster,Germany.Formal Theory and Comparative Politics Conference, Emory University, presentation: ElectoralAccountabilityinMulti-memberDistricts,2017,Atlanta,USA.WashingtonPoliticalEconomyConference,GeorgetownUniversity,2017,WashingtonD.C.,USA.DavyPAINDAVEINEEcole Polytechnique, presentation:TestingUniformity onHigh-dimensional Spheres, April 2017, Paris,France.Statistics workshop at London School of Economics, presentation: Testing Uniformity on High-dimensional Spheres against Monotone Rotationally Symmetric Alternatives, February 2017, London,UK.10th International Conference of the ERCIM WG on Computational and Methodological Statistics,CMStatistics 2017, presentation: Halfspace Depth for Scatter, Concentration and Shape Matrices,December2017,London,UK.61stWorld Statistics Congress, presentation: Efficiency in the High-dimensional One-sample LocationProblem,July2017,Marrakech,Morocco.ADISTA17,Workshop on Advances in Directional Statistics, presentation:On the Asymptotic Non-nullBehaviorofHigh-dimensionalSphericalLocationTests,June2017,Rome,Italy.LilleResearchWorkshoponStatisticsandEconometrics,presentation:InferenceontheModelofWeakDirectional Signals: a Le Cam Perspective on Hypothesis Testing near Singularities, May 2017, Lille,France.Nationale Wiskunde Dagen, presentation: Statistics and Cinema: the Good, the Bad and the Ugly,February2017,Noordwijkerhout,TheNetherlands.MathieuPARENTIDanishWorkshop in InternationalEconomics,Presentation:RelationshipSpecificity:MeasurementandApplicationstoTrade,June2017,Aarhus,Denmark.Conference in Spatial Economics and Industrial Organization, presentation: Relationship Specificity:MeasurementandApplicationstoTrade,June2017,Aarhus,Denmark.D.E.G.I.T.,presentation:ATheoryofNewTradeAgreements,September2017,Paris,France.E.T.S.G.,presentation:TheInnovationChannelofBrexit,September2017,Firenze,Italie.CopenhagenBusinessSchoolseminarseries,presentation:ATheoryofNewTradeAgreements,October2017,Copenhagen,Denmark.BankofItalySeminarseries,presentation:ATheoryofNewTradeAgreements,November2017,Rome,Italy.E.R.W.I.T.(CEPRworkshopinInternationalTrade),May2017,Valencia,Spain.VillarsWorkshopinInternationalEconomics,Jan2017,Villars-sur-Ollon,Switzerland.CopenhagenBusinessSchoolseminarseries,presentation:ATheoryofNewTradeAgreements,October2017,Copenhagen,Denmark.JuanSebastiánPEREYRAMeetingoftheEconomicAssociationofUruguay,2017,Montevideo,Uruguay.PoliticalEconomy&PoliticalScience,PEPS2017,Chile.LAMES-LACEAAnnualMeeting,2017,BuenosAires,Argentina.

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XXXIIAnualEconomicMeeting(CentralBankofUruguay),2017,Montevideo,Uruguay.32ndAnnualCongressoftheEuropeanEconomicAssociation,2017,Lisbon,Portugal.Seminar,DepartmentofEconomics,UniversityofGothenburg,2017,Gothenburg,Sweden.Seminar,UniversitatdelesIllesBalears,DepartmentofAppliedEconomics,2017,lesIlesBalears,Spain.Seminar,UniversitatAutonomadeBarcelona,2017,Spain.MarcoPINCHETTIENTER Network Annual Jamboree, discussion: The Macroeconomic Consequences of Bank CapitalRequirements,April2017,London,UK.EconomicGrowthintheAftermathoftheCrisis,Presentation:CreativeDestructionCycles:EndogenousTFPinanEstimatedDSGEModel,2017,Milano,Italy.AfrolaPLAKUEuropeanTradeStudyGroup,September2017,Florence,ItalyEnterJamboree2017,April2017,London,UK.DavidPREINERSTORFERCFE 2017, presentation: Uniformly Valid Confidence Intervals Post-model-selection, December 2017,London,UK.New Developments in Econometrics and Time Series, presentation: Controlling the Size ofAutocorrelationRobustTests,November2017,Rome,Italy.Econometric Society AsiaMeeting, presentation:Controlling the Size of Autocorrelation Robust Tests,July2017,HongKong.Humboldt-Aarhus-XiamenWorkshop,presentation:ControllingtheSizeofAutocorrelationRobustTests,January2017,Aarhus,Denmark.BenjaminSOLOWRoyal Economic Society, Extremist Politics and the Preference for Compromise, April 2017, Bristol,England.12thInternationalHealthEconomicsAssociationWorldCongress,LaborMarketEffectsoftheAffordableCareAct:EvidencefromaTaxNotch,July2017,Boston,USA.WashingtonPoliticalEconomyConference,May2017,Washington,D.C.,USA.DenniTOMMASIEconometric Society Winter Meeting, presentation: Women's Empowerment and Family Health:EstimatingLATEwithMismeasuredTreatment,January2017,Chicago,USA.Boston College, presentation: Women's Empowerment and Family Health: Estimating LATE withMismeasuredTreatment,March2017,BostonUSA.University of Copenhagen, presentation:Women's Empowerment and FamilyHealth: Estimating LATEwithMismeasuredTreatment,May2017,Copenhagen,Denmark.UniversityCollege London,presentation:Women's EmpowermentandFamilyHealth: Estimating LATEwithMismeasuredTreatment,May2017,London,UK.Tilburg University, presentation: Women's Empowerment and Family Health: Estimating LATE withMismeasuredTreatment,June2017,Tilburg,TheNetherlands.

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LAGV Conference, presentation: Women's Empowerment and Family Health: Estimating LATE withMismeasuredTreatment,June2017,Aix-en-Provence,France.GermainVANBEVERECOSTA, presentation: Halfspace Depth for Scatter, Concentration and Shape Matrices, June 2017,Hong-Kong,China.ICORS, Presentation: Joint Diagonalization of Scatter Operators: Functional Fourth Order BlindIdentification,July2017,Wollongong,Australia.New Developments in Econometrics and Time Series, presentation: Halfspace Depth for Scatter,ConcentrationandShapeMatrices,November2017,Rome,Italy.CM Statistics 2017, presentation: Joint Diagonalisation of Scatter Operators: Functional Fourth OrderBlindIdentification,December2017,London,UK.NicolasVanZEEBROECKMunich Summer Institute, presentation: The Case for Offensive Strategies in Response to DigitalDisruption,May2017,Munich,Germany.ZEWConferenceontheEconomicsofICT,presentation:TheCaseforOffensiveStrategiesinResponsetoDigitalDisruption,June2017,Mannheim,Germany.ThomasVERDEBOUT10th International Conference of the ERCIM WG on Computing & Statistics (CMStatistics 2017),December2017,London,UK.3rd Workshop on Goodness-of-Fit and Change-point Problems, KIT, September 2017, Karlshrue,Germany.ADISTA17workshop,UniversitalaSpienza,June2017,Rome,Italy.PhilipVERWINPAnnual Conference of the Centre for Study of African Economies, Oxford University, presentation:ChildhoodAspirations,OccupationalOutcomesandExposuretoViolence:EvidencefromBurundi,March2017,Oxford,UK.GlobalisationandDevelopmentConference,presentation:EscapefromPovertythroughMarriage,June2017,Göttingen,Germany.AlexanderWOLFAEAmeetings,January2017,Chicago,USA.JournéesLAGV2017,June2017,Aix-en-Provence,France.

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NATIONAL SEMINARS and CONFERENCES (Participations andPresentations)

GaniALDASHEVMid-TermConference,presentation:EconomicDevelopment&Institutions,October2017,Namur.

MichaelDavidBLANGAGUBBAYECARESSeminar,presentation:GlobalizationforSale,December2017,Brussels.WorkshoponPoliticalEconomy,ECARES,March2017,Brussels.New Techniques and Technologies for Statistics Conference, European Commission, presentation:ChallengesinMeasuringProductivity,GrowthandIntangibles,Brussels.B-PECOConference,ULB,June2017,Brussels.ECORESSummerSchool,UCL,May-June2017,Louvain-La-Neuve.JointSeminaronFirmAnalysisoftheNBB,AlanManning,May2017andThibaultFally,April2017,Brussels.

EstebanCALLEJASPEREZECARES Brown Bag Seminar, presentation: The Effect of Remittances on Housing Prices in Colombia,December2017,Brussels.

EstelleCANTILLONLEERworkshoponEducationEconomics,presentation:SchoolChoiceMeetsSchoolChoice,KULeuven,March2017,Leuven,Belgium.Journéed’étude "Structures scolaires etmixité sociale à l’école", presentation:Mixité sociale: le rôledesprocéduresd’inscriptionscolaire,May2017,Namur.13thWorkshopMatching in Practice, presentation:Transparency and Social Acceptability ofMatchingMechanisms,August2017,Brussels.

MicaelCASTANHEIRADEMOURAOrganizationConferenceBrusselsPECO,ULB,June2017,Brussels.OrganizationWorkshopinPoliticalEconomy,ULB,March2017,Brussels.BrusselsPoliticalEconomyWorkshop,Presentation:CivilConflict,November2017,Brussels.

MicheleCINCERA22èmeCongrèsdesEconomistes,ULB,presentation:NewEuropeanFinancialInstrumentsofInnovationandFinancingConstraintsofFirms,November2017,Brussels.

ThomasDEMUYNCKECARESSeminar,presentation:MyopicStableSetforSocialEnvironments,February2017,Brussels.ECORESSummerSchool,May2017,Louvain-la-Neuve.WorkshoponEconomicDesignandInstitutions,December2017,Brussels.ChristmasmeetingforBelgianEconomists,December2017,Leuven.

BramDEROCKChristmasMeetingofBelgianEconomists,December2017,Leuven.

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PaulaE.GOBBIRecruitment Seminar at the Université libre de Bruxelles, presentation:Childless Aristocrats. Fertility,Inheritance,andPersistentInequalityinBritain(1650-1882),January2017,Brussels.Workshop on Family Transformations - Incentives and Norms, presentation: Childless Aristocrats.Fertility,Inheritance,andPersistentInequalityinBritain(1650-1882),January2017,Durbuy.

MarcHALLIN25thAnnualMeetingoftheBelgianRoyalStatisticalSociety,presentation:QuantileSpectralAnalysisforLocallyStationaryTimeSeries,October2017,Leuven.WorkshoponSemiparametricInference,UniversityofGhent,presentation:OnDistributionandQuantileFunctionsinRd:aMeasure-transportationApproach,December2017,Ghent.TillmannHEIDELKECARESBURPSPosterSession,presentation,June2017,Brussels.EuropeanDevelopmentDays,June2017,Brussels,Belgium.BrusselsSchoolofInternationalStudiesInternationalConference,April2017,Brussels,Belgium.EuropeanParliament,YoungEuropeanCouncil2017.WinneroftheEuropeanCharlemagneYouthPrize2016.October2017,Brussels,Belgium.European Parliament, European Parliament follow-up conference,European Charlemagne Youth Prize2017,October2017,Brussels,Belgium.

ElaINCEWorkshoponPatentandPublicationDataandAlgorithms,KULeuven,September2017,Leuven.

PatrickLEGROSECORESSummerSchool,May-June,2017,Louvain-la-Neuve.WorkshopMatchinginPractice,August2017,Brussels.

GeorgKIRCHSTEIGER5thWorkshop on EconomicDesign and Institutions, presentation:Endogenous Repeated CooperationandSurplusDistribution-Anexperimentalanalysis,December2017,Brussels.

NastassiaLESZCZYNSKAECARESBreakfastseminar,presentation:PoliticalMoonlightinginWallonia,March2017,Brussels.ECARESBURPSpostersession,presentation:CorruptionAwarenesswithMessages,June2017,Brussels.

GuyMÉLARDGlobal Competitiveness Report 2017-2018, Solvay Brussels School, presentation: What's Next forBelgium'sEconomy?GlobalCompetitivenessReport2017-2018,October2017,Brussels.NewTechniquesandTechnologiesforStatistics2017,Eurostat,EuropeanCommission,withRajaeAzrak,presentation: AR Models with Time-dependent Coefficients with a Macro-economic Example, March2017,Brussels.BenjaminOGDENPoliticalEconomyConference,ECARES,ULB,May2017,Brussels.

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DavyPAINDAVEINEBreakfast seminar, Probability and Statistics, Université de Liège, presentation: Badminton MeetsProbability,November2017,Liège.Mathematics colloquium, Université catholique de Louvain, presentation: An Excursion throughStatisticalDepth,October2017,Louvain-la-Neuve.AdolpheQueteletSeminar,UniversiteitGhent,presentation:InferenceontheModeofWeakDirectionalSignals:aLeCamPerspectiveonHypothesisTestingnearSingularities,March2017,Ghent.Workshop celebrating Peter Rousseeuw’s 60th Birthday, presentation: Halfspace Depths for Scatter,ConcentrationandShapeMatrices,June2017,Leuven.JointVVWL-BMS-SBPMefConferenceofMathematics,presentation:HypothesisTestinginNon-standardSituations,May2017,Brussels.25thAnnualMeetingoftheBelgianStatisticalSociety,October2017,Leuven.WorkshoponSemiparametricStatistics,December2017,Ghent.GuillaumePERILLEUXSeventhAnnualChristmasMeetingofBelgianEconomists,December2017,Leuven.JuanSebastiánPEREYRAMatchinginPractice,August2017,Brussels.MarcoPINCHETTIDoctoralWorkshopinEconomics,presentation:CreativeDestructionCycles:EndogenousTFPinanEstimatedDSGEModel,2017,Louvain-la-Neuve.DavidPREINERSTOFERULB Statistics and Econometrics Seminar, presentation:Controlling the Size ofAutocorrelationRobustTests,April2017,Brussels.JointStatisticsSeminarUCL/ULB,UniversitélibredeBruxelles,presentation:UniformlyValidConfidenceIntervalsPost-model-selection,November2017,Brussels.NicolasvanZEEBROECKSeminar of the Information Systems Group (KUL), presentation: The Case for Offensive Strategies inResponsetoDigitalDisruption,May2017,Leuven.ThomasVERDEBOUTWorkshoponSemiparametricStatistics,December2017,Ghent.PhilipVERWIMPQueteletConferenceonMigration,presentation:ForcedDisplacement,MigrationandFertility:EvidencefromBurundi,November2017,Louvain-la-Neuve.DevelopmentEconomicsSeminar,presentation:ThePoliticalEconomyofSchoolR-TestScores,February2017,Namur.AnnualChristmasMeetingofBelgianEconomist,December2017,KULeuven.

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ORGANIZATIONOFEVENTSBYFELLOWSOFECARES

FirstPoliticalEconomyWorkshop,Université libredeBruxelles,organizedaroundthePhDdefenseofMarcoGIANI(LSE),March2-3,Brussels,Belgium.Topic:CompositionandRealignmentsofPoliticalParties,VotingRules,andConflictSituationsKeynotespeakers:• StephaneWOLTON(LSE)Top-DownAccountabilityinAutocracy• ScottTYSON(U.Michigan)RebelRebel• PhilipVERWIMP(ECARES,ULB)War,PovertyandInequalityinDevelopingCountries:aReviewof

theEvidence• Pierre-GuillaumeMÉON(CEB,ULB)PartisanStereotypes• BenjaminSOLOW(ECARES,ULB)ExtremistPoliticsandthePreferenceforCompromise• DamienBOL(King'sCollegeLondon)ExplainingVoteChoiceRegretwithaMixed-UtilityModel• Jean-Francois LASLIER (CNRS and PSE) Multiwinner Voting Rules in Practice: an Efficiency-

inequalityDilemma• MarcoGIANI(ULBandLSE)EssaysonPoliticalBehavior(PhDdefense)

2ndWorkshopoftheBurundiResearchNetwork,UniversitélibredeBruxelles,March23-27,Brussels,Belgium.Topic:EconomicsofConflictandPeace,HumanRightsandMedia,Poverty,HouseholdsandEducationOrganizing Committee: Jean-Benoit FALISSE (University of Edinburgh), Marie-Soleil FRERE (ULB),Dominik KOHLHAGEN (independent scholar), Tomas VAN ACKER (University of Gent), GérardBIRANTAMIJE(UniversitéduLacTanganika)andPhilipVERWIMP(ULB).

BrainstormingWorkshop on Political Economy Laboratory Experiment,Université libre de Bruxelles,May18,Brussels,Belgium.Speakers:• MicaelCASTANHEIRA,ExperimentingConflict• ChristianBASTECK,(In)efficientCompromisingunderVariousVotingProcedures• LaurentBOUTON,RunoffElectionsintheLaboratory• AniolLLORENTE-SAGUER,CumulativeVoting:TheoryandExperiments• BenjaminOGDEN,EthicalVotingintheLaboratory;DeliberationsinCommittee• BenjaminSOLOW,SocialCapitalandPoliticalAccountability:RetrospectivevsProspectiveVoting

ECORESSummerSchool-IndividualHeterogeneityinOrganizations,May30andJune1,2017,Louvain-la-Neuve,Belgium.Topic: A Careful Examination of Various (Positive and Negative) Aspects of Heterogeneity in a WideRangeofSocialOrganizationsandEconomicEnvironments, inwhichSymmetricSettingsareUsedasaBenchmarkScientificCommittee:GeorgKIRCHSTEIGER(ECARES,ULB),JoVANBIESEBROECK(CES,KULeuven),JeanHINDRIKS(CORE,UCLouvain)andFrançoisMANIQUET(CORE,UCLouvain).Keynotespeakers:• RolandBENABOU(PrincetonUniversity),SocialBeliefsandSocialNorms• Liran EINAV (Stanford University),Measuring the Importance of Adverse Selection in Insurance

Markets• MurielNIEDERLE(StanfordUniversity),AGenderAgenda:FromtheLabtotheFieldtoPolicy

First Brussels Political Economy Conference, Université libre de Bruxelles, June 19-20, Brussels,Belgium.Topic:PoliticalScienceandPoliticalEconomyfromAroundtheWorldScientificCommittee:LaurentBOUTON(ULBandGeorgetownUniversity),MicaelCASTANHEIRA(ULB),BenjaminOGDEN(ULBandTexasA&M),andBenjaminSOLOW(ULB).

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13thWorkshopofMatchinginPractice,UniversitélibredeBruxelles,August28-29,Brussels,Belgium.ScientificCommittee:PéterBIRÓ,FrancisBLOCH,EstelleCANTILLONandJuanPEREYRA.Keynotespeaker:• MarekPYCIA(UniversityofZurich),InvarianceandMatchingOutcomes

Policy roundtable: Peter BIRO (Hungarian Academy of Science), Li CHEN (University of Gothenburg),JulienGRENET(ParisSchoolofEconomics).

13thAnnualWorkshopoftheHouseholdsinConflictNetwork,UniversitélibredeBruxelles,November15-16,Brussels,Belgium.Topic: Development Aid in Conflict-Affected Countries - Do Outside Interventions in Conflict-affectedAreas do Any Good? Do they Fuel the Conflict Further? Can Donor Agencies and NGO’s plan theirInterventioninSuchaWayasnottobecomeanActorintheConflictThemselves?WhatistheSpaceinwhich the Development and Humanitarian Aid Community has toManoeuvre?What is the EmpiricalEvidenceoftheImpactofInterventionsinConflict-affectedSettings?Scientific Committee: Tilman BRÜCK, Patricia JUSTINO and Philip VERWIMP, co-directors of the HiCN(HouseholdsinConflictNetwork)Keynotespeakers:• StefanDERCON(OxfordUniversity),BacktoBasics:AidinMessyCountries• Jeremy WEINSTEIN (Stanford University), Does Social Science Belong at the Decision-making

Table?ReflectionsontheLinksbetweenConflictResearchandForeignPolicy

Emerging Issues inPublic ServiceProcurement,Université libredeBruxelles,November24,Brussels,Belgium.Supported by the Bernard Vanommeslaghe chair of ECARES, ULB and Chaire PPP of the SorbonneBusinessSchoolTopic: Performance when Intra-organizational Incentives are taken into Account and when theAuthorities Assign Non-traditional Goals to Public Service Providers (e.g. job creation or other socialobjectivesfortraditionallyexcludedpopulations)Keynotespeakers:• Nicola LIMODIO (Bocconi University), Intra-organizational Resource Allocations and Large Scale

ProjectPerformance:InsightsfromtheWorldBankExperience• StéphaneSAUSSIER(SorbonneBusinessSchool),JobCreationthroughPublicWorksProcurement

Techniques:InsightsfromaFrenchExperiment• LaureATHIAS(IDEHAP,LausanneUniversity)DoesMotivationLeadtoCostEffectivenessinPublic

ServiceDelivery?EvidencefromSwitzerland

7thAnnualChristmasMeetingofBelgianEconomists,KULeuven,December22,Leuven,Belgium.Organizing Committee: Laurens CHERCHYE (University of Leuven), Bram DE ROCK (ECARES-ULB andUniversity of Leuven), Johannes SPINNEWIJN (London School of Economics), GonzagueVANNOORENBERGHE (Université catholique de Louvain) and Frederic VERMEULEN (University ofLeuven)Keynotespeakers:• MichèleBELOT(EuropeanUniversityInstituteandUniversityofEdinburgh)• GérardROLAND(UniversityofCalifornia-Berkeley)

Speakers:• FrançoisGÉRARD(ColumbiaUniversity)• MathiasREYNAERT(ToulouseSchoolofEconomics)• Jean-FrançoisMAYSTADT(LancasterUniversityManagementSchool)• MartinVANDERLINDEN(UtahStateUniversity)• SimonGALLE(BINorwegianBusinessSchool)

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RESEARCHPURSUEDABROAD

GaniALDASHEVParisSchoolofEconomics,invitedbyThierryVerdier,February2017,Paris,France.LaSapienzaUniversity,invitedbyMarcoMarini,March2017,Rome,Italy.BocconiUniversity,invitedbyAndyNewmanandTommyMurphy,JuneandJuly2017,Milan,Italy.Aix-MarseilleSchoolofEconomics,invitedbyTanguyvanYpersele,September2017,Aix-en-Provence,France.UniversitédeCergy-PontoiseinvitedbyPaulMaarek,December2017,Cergy-Pontoise,France.ChristianBASTECKUniversitéParis-Dauphine,March2017,Paris,France.ChristineDEMOLLondonBusinessSchool,invitedbyLucreziaReichlin,February2017,London,UK.AntonioESTACHEToulouseSchoolofEconomics,invitedbyE.AuriolandC.Crampes,January2017-December2017,Toulouse,France.UCL,DevelopmentPlanningUnit,invitedbyL.Y.Zhang,January2017-June2017,London,UK.UCL,BarlettSchool,inidtedbyA.Pantelis,December2017,London,UK.UniversidadAutonomadeBarcelona,invitedbyF.TrillasandA.Matas,October2017,Barcelona,France.ElaINCEESIEE,invitedbyPatriciaLaurensandAntoineSchoen,November2017,Paris,France.GeorgKIRCHSTEIGERRWTHAachen,May2017,Aachen,Germany.PaderbornUniversity,April2017,Paderborn,Germany.UniversityofVienna,January2017,Vienna,Austria.PatrickLEGROSNortheasternUniversity,Boston,January-MayandSeptember-December2017,Boston,USA.GlennMAGERMANCambridgeUniversity,invitedbyVascoCarvalho,January2017,Cambridge,UK.UniversityofOslo,invitedbyAndreasMoxnes,September2017,Oslo,Norway.DavidPREINERSTORFERUniversityofVienna,invitedbyBenediktM.Pötscher,October2017,Vienna,Austria.

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DenniTOMMASIBostonCollege,invitedbyArthurLewbel,fromSeptembertoDecember2017,Boston,USA.NicolasVanZEEBROECKISTO,LMU,invitedbyTobiasKretschmer,June2017,Munich,Germany.ZEW,invitedbyIreneBertschek,April2017,Mannheim,Germany.

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PRIZESandSCIENTIFICNOTORIETY

GaniALDASHEVCo-editor,AnnalsofPublicandCooperativeEconomics.Member,F.R.S.-FNRS,FRESHFellowshipsJury«Défiséconomiquesetsociaux».MemberoftheEuropeanDevelopmentNetwork(EUDN).MemberoftheTheoreticalResearchinDevelopmentEconomics(ThReD).MarcoBECHTBoardMember,KangarooGroupattheEuropeanParliament.MemberoftheExpertGrouponEuropeanCompanyLawandSecuritiesRegulation,GermanMinistryofFinance.MemberoftheSteeringCommittee,“TheFutureoftheCorporation”Project,BritishAcademy,London,UK.EstelleCANTILLONFellow,EuropeanEconomicAssociation,since2010.ULBFoundationPrize,since2010.BaronAlexandreLamfalussyfellowship,EuropeanCentralBank,since2005.RichardHodgsonFellow,HarvardBusinessSchool,since2002.DavidAWellsPrizeforbestPhDdissertationineconomics,HarvardUniversity,since2000.YoungEconomistAward,EuropeanAssociationforResearchinIndustrialEconomics,since2000.JointManagingEditor,EconomicJournal.AssociateEditor,RandJournalofEconomics.MemberofaFNRSFRESHpanel.RethinkingBelgium(Re-Belinitiative):steeringcommittee.EuropeanEconomicAssociation:AuditCommittee,Chair,since2016.StandingCommitteeonResearch(Chair,2017-),WomeninEconomicscommitteesince2016.AdvisoryBoard,WZBBerlin.ScientificCouncil,BrusselsRegionInstituteforStatisticsandAnalysis.ExecutiveCommittee,“MatchinginPractice”researchnetwork(www.matching-in-practice.eu).ResearchFellow,CentreforEconomicPolicyResearch(CEPR).MemberofOXERA’sEconomicsCouncil.MicaelCASTANHEIRADEMOURA AssociateeditorRefletsetPerspectivesdelaVieEconomique.BanqueNationaldeBelgique:comptesnationaux.SPFEconomie:observatoiredesprix.DirecteurprogrammeGeorgetown-SolvayAdvancedMasterinPoliticalEconomy.CEPR.

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PaolaCONCONIFNRSMaîtredeRecherches.AssociateEditor,ReviewofInternationalEconomicssince2013.AssociateEditor,EconomicsandPoliticssince2017.AssociateEditor,Economicasince2015.Director,CEPRResearchNetworkonGlobalValueChains,TradeandDevelopmentsince2015.Co-organizer,seminarseriesonFirm-levelAnalysisattheNationalBankofBelgiumsince2011.CEPRResearchFellow,InternationalTradeandRegionalEconomicsprogramsince2004.CESifoResearchFellowsince2016.ChristineDEMOLMemberoftheEditorialBoard,NumericalFunctionalAnalysisandOptimization.ElectedMember,BelgianNationalCommitteeforTheoreticalandAppliedMechanics.ElectedPresident,BelgianNationalCommitteeforRadio-Electricity(U.R.S.I.).ScientificCounciloftheBarcelonaGraduateSchoolofEconomics.ScientificCounciloftheRoyalMeteorologicalInstitute.SteeringCommittee,BelgianStatisticalSociety.Member,EuropeanMicrofinanceProgramme.ThomasDEMUYNCKBeststudentpaperprizeduringtheEuropeanMeetingofGameTheory,“Themyopicstablesetforsocialenvironments”,writtenbyJean-JacquesHerings,ThomasDemuynck,RiccardoSaulle,andChristianSeel.BramDEROCKAssociateeditor,MathematicalSocialScience.AntonioESTACHEGovernmentofTanzania,GrowthDiagnosticTaskForce.Inter-AmericanDevelopmentBank,InfrastructureDevelopmentDiagnosticAdvisoryBoard.WorldBank,MENATransportStrategyAdvisoryGroup.WorldBank,MagrebInfrastructureDiagnosticAdvisoryGroup.WorldBankOperationEvaluation,PPPEvaluationAdvisoryGroup.AdvisoryBoardMemberofEDHECInfrastructureInstitute-Singapore.MemberoftheAdvisoryBoardforUtilitiesPolicy,since2003.PaulaE.GOBBIMemberofEconomicPolicyResearch(CEPR)–MacroGrowthgroup.TillmannHEIDELKPresident,YoungEuropeanLeadership,AISBL.

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MarcHALLINCatedradeExcelencia,DepartmentofStatisticsoftheUniversityCarlosIIIdeMadridandtheBancoSantander,Madrid,Spain.Editor-in-Chief,StatisticalInferenceforStochasticProcesses,since2013.AssociateEditor,JournalofEconometrics,since2013.AssociateEditor,JournaloftheJapanStatisticalSociety,since2008.AssociateEditor,JournaloftheAmericanStatisticalAssociation,since2005.Editeurassocié,Annalesdel'InstitutdeStatistiquedel'UniversitédeParis,since1989.EditorialBoard,theSpringerseriesStatistiqueetProbabilitésAppliquées,since2000.AssociateEditor,Econometrics&Statistics,since2015.AssociateEditor,StatisticalMethodsandApplications,JournaloftheItalianStatisticalSociety,since2016.GeorgKIRCHSTEIGEREuropeanScienceFoundation.MemberofaFNRSpanel.RobertKOLLMANNAssociateeditor,JournalofInternationalEconomics,OpenEconomiesReviewandEconomicse-journal.MemberofEditorialBoardoftheCentralBankReview.MembershiptoCEPR,CAMA,AustralianNationalUniversity,GlobalizationandMonetaryPolicyInstituteandFederalReserveBankofDallas.PatrickLEGROSSunYefangAward(BesteconomicresearchinChina)2017.EditorJournalofIndustrialEconomics.AssociateEditor,Frontiers.MemberofthescientificcommitteeforEARIE2017.MemberofOXERAEconomicscouncil.MemberoftheCentreforEconomicPolicyResearch(CEPR).EuropeanAdvisoryGroupinCompetitionPolicy. GlennMAGERMANEuropeanResearchCouncil.ScientificCouncilBrusselsInstituteforStatistics,deputy.SelectionCommitteeFulbrightUSA.MemberoftheAdvisoryBoardfortheArts,FlemishMinistry. GuyMÉLARDScientificadvisorforCoheris,Paris,France.

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DavyPAINDAVEINEFrancquiResearchProfessorship,FrancquiFoundation,2017-2020.GodeauxLecture,AnnualsmeetingoftheBelgianMathematicalSociety),BelgianMathematicalSociety,2017.Associateeditor,AnnalsofStatistics.Associateeditor,JournaloftheAmericanStatisticalAssociation.Associateeditor,JournalofStatisticlaPlanningandInference.Associateeditor,ESAIM:ProbabilityandStatitics.Associateeditor,EconometricsandStatistics.

MathieuPARENTIMember,RIEFnetwork.Member,CEPRnetwork.AssociateEditor,EconomicJournal.

SarahROSENBERGÉtienneSadiKirschenPrize,SolvayAlumniAssociation,2017.

ThomasVERDEBOUTAssociateeditorfortheJournalofMultivariateAnalysisandStatisticsandProbabilityLetters.ElectedmemberoftheInternationalStatisticalInstitute(ISI),since2013.MemberoftheIMS,since2016.MemberoftheBernoulliSociety,since2016.SubstitutememberoftheScientificCounciloftheIBSA(InstitutBruxelloisdeStatistiqueetd’Analyse),since2017.SecretaryandtreasurerofECAS(EuropeanCoursesinAdvancedStatistics),since2016.NicolasVanZEEBROECKAssociationforInformationSystems,since2016.AcademyofManagement,since2008.PhilipVEWIMPCo-editoroftheWorkingPapersseriesoftheHouseholdsinConflictNetwork(www.hicn.org).

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THEDOCTORALSCHOOL

TheECARESDoctoralSchooloffersinternationallycompetitive,highqualityPhDprogramsin"EconomicsandStatistics"and in"QuantitativeEconomics."Theoutstandingqualityof theECARESDoctoralSchoolhasbeen confirmedby recentstudieson thequalityofdoctoral schools ineconomics.Oneof them isbasedon the successof thegraduateson the academicjobmarket. It finds that theECARESDoctoralSchoolisamong thetop ten inEuropeand thethirdbest inContinentalEurope.Upongraduation,ourstudentsfindpositionsinacademia,centralbanksandotherinternationalorganizations,inEuropebutalsointheUSandLatinAmerica(seeourplacementpagefordetails)ThefirsttwoyearsofthePhDprogramsconsistmainlyofcoursework.Duringthefirstyearthestudentstake courses inmacroeconomics, microeconomics, econometrics, and statistics. In the second yearstudentstakefieldcourses,writea firstscientificpaperandattendresearchseminars.Thesefirst twoyears constitute theMaster programs in "QuantitativeEconomics" and in "Economics and Statistics",respectively.Aftercompletingsuccessfullythesecondyearamasterdegreeisgranted.Depending on the performance during the first two years, students are allowed to the thesis-writingphase(doctorat)ofthePhDprograms.Duringthisphase,thestudentsworkontheessaysoftheirPhD-thesis under the supervision of an ECARESmember (co-supervision with professors from otheruniversities are welcome). Typically, the thesis-writing phase will takeanother two to threeyears.Duringthethesis-writingphasethePhDstudentspresenttheirresearchininternalandexternalseminars, participate in workshops and conferences, attend summer and winter schools, and followadvancedfieldcourseswheneverappropriate.Studentswhohavealreadyfinishedanothermasterprogram(of120ECTS)mightgetwaiversforsomeof the courses of the first two years of our program. Possible waivers and the remaining requiredcourseworkisdeterminedonacase-to-casebasis.The strengthsof theECARESdoctoral school are international reknown faculty, theprograms'uniquemix of economics and statistics, the congenial and intellectually stimulating atmosphere, the strongconnectionwiththeinternationalscientificcommunity,thestrongtiestoEuropeanpolicy-making,andtheverystrongplacementrecord.ECARESismemberofECORES,togetherwithCORE(UCL)andCES(KUL).ECORESisacommoncenterofexcellence that integrates theresearchactivitiesanddoctoralprogramsof the three institutions.Asaconsequence,ECARESPhDstudentscanattendPhDcoursesattheothertwoinstitutions.ECARESisalsopartoftheEuropeanDoctoralProgramnetworkENTER.Thisnetworkallowsthestudentsto do part of their PhDat one of our partner universities (University College London, UniversitätMannheim,TilburgUniversity,UniversidadCarlosIIIdeMadrid,UniversitéToulouse1SciencesSociales,Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona, Stockholm School of Economicsand Stockholm University).Students may participate in the ENTER network during the Master and/or during the thesiswritingphase. In the former, students have to spend the entire second year at one of the partneruniversities. In the later, students spend at least 6 months at one of the other universities of thenetwork.FormoreinformationvisittheENTERwebsite.

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PhDsAWARDEDAntonioCONTI,Italian,EssaysonMonetaryPolicy,LowInflationandtheBusinessCycle,November2017(Director:RobertKollmann)LuisaDRESSLER,German,EssaysontheEconomicsofSustainableEnergyPolicies,September2017(Director:EstelleCantillon)MarcoValerioGERACI,Italian,EssaysonComplexityintheFinancialSystem,September2017(Directors:DavyPaindaveineandJean-YvesGnabo–UNamur)MarcoGIANI,Italian,EssaysonPoliticalBehavior,March2017(Director:MicaelCastanheira)RamaLionelNGENZEBUKE,Burundese,EssaysonIntra-householdDecision-making,GenderandSocio-economicDevelopment,February2017(Directors:PhilipVerwimpandBramDeRock)LorenzoRICCI,Italian,EssaysonTailRiskinMacroeconomicandFinance:MeasurementandForecasting,February2017(Directors:DavyPaindaveineandDavidVeredas-Vlerick)DenniTOMMASI,Italian,OnCouplesandDecisions,October2017(Director:BramDeRock)AlexanderWOLF,German,WhatMenWant,WhatTheyGetandHowtoFindOut,July2017(Director:BramDeRock)

PhDsunderthesupervisionofECARESmembersAstrid Similon, Belgian, Essays on the Economics of Non-profits & Philanthropy, May 2017, UNamur,(Director:GaniAldashev)Pieter Jan Kerstens, Belgian, Beyond Black Box Modeling in Production: Methodological Advances inNonparametricMethods,September2017,KULeuven,(Director:BramDeRock)PietroMoncadaPaternoCastello, Italian,TheRelationshipBetweenR&DInvestmentandtheProfitsofInnovativeFirms:Dofirms'Age,SizeandSectorsPlayaRole?,(Director:MicheleCincera)Lauriane Dewulf, Belgian, Determinants and Impact of Industry-university Science and TechnologyTransfers,(Director:MicheleCincera)

ONGOINGTHESESGaniALDASHEVMoritzHennicke,German,EssaysinPoliticalEconomics,2015→(co-tutellewithUniversitédeCergy-Pontoise,France)LisaBagnoli,Belgian,EssaysontheEconomicsofInstitutionsandDevelopment,2015→(jointsupervisionwithAntonioEstache)EstebanCallejasPerez,Colombian,RemittancesandHousingPrices,2013→LaurentCyrus,Belgian,EssaysinInternationalMacroeconomics(provisionaltitle),2013→EstelleCANTILLONStefanBergheimer,German,EssaysintheEconomicsofClearinghouses,2014→MicaelCASTANHEIRAAndreaColombo,Italian,EssaysinLocalPublicEconomicsandGovernance,2012→(jointsupervisionwithAntonioEstache)MicheleCINCERAEla Ince, Turkish, Competition and Research Policy, 2013 → (joint supervision with Nicolas vanZeebroeck)

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PaolaCONCONIMichaëlBlanga-Gubbay,Italian,EssaysonLobbyingandGlobalization,2015→AfrolaPlaku,Albanian,TheGlobalFragmentationofProduction:DeterminantsandConsequences,2015→(jointsupervisionwithPatrickLegrosandGlennMagerman)LorenzoTrimarchi,Italian,2013→BramDEROCKLouisGosselin,Belgian,ProgressonMarriageMarkets,2017→GuillaumePérilleux,Belgian,IndividualWell-being,2016→(jointsupervisionwithFrançoisRycx)TomPotoms,Belgian,IntertemporalCollectiveModels,2014→SarahRosenberg,Swedish,LabourSupplyandGenderNorms,2016→AntonioESTACHELisa Bagnoli, Belgian, Essays on the Economics of Institutions and Development, 2015 → (jointsupervisionwithGaniAldashev)SalvadorBertomeuSanchez,Spanish,EssaysontheEconomicsandPoliticsofInfrastructure,2015→AndreaColombo,Italian,EssaysinLocalPublicEconomicsandGovernance,2012→(jointsupervisionwithMicaelCastanheira)ElisabettaCornago,Italian,EssaysinEnergyPolicyandClimateChange,2012→(jointsupervisionwithMicaelCastanheira)Beni Kouevi-Gath, Togolese,Political Economy of Financial Development and Infrastructure Financing,2015→(jointsupervisionwithPierre-GuillaumeMéon)GeorgKIRCHSTEIGERNastassia Leszczynska, Belgian, The Economics of Corruption: Identity, Social Capital, and Institutions,2013→OliverMärz,German,EssaysinBehavioralEconomics,2014→RobertKOLLMANNShogoMiura,Japanese,2014→EssaysonMonetaryPolicyandFinancialFactorsMarcoPinchetti,Italian,TowardsaNewKeynesian-SchumpeterianGrowthTheory,2016→PatrickLEGROSAleksandraBoutin,Polish,2012→AfrolaPlaku,Albanian,TheGlobalFragmentationofProduction:DeterminantsandConsequences,2015→,(jointsupervisionwithPaolaConconiandGlennMagerman)ChristianStaat,German,EssaysonIndustrialOrganizationandPolitialEconomy,2011→IlariaNatali,Italian,EssayonRegulationandMergersinthePharmaceuticalIndustry,2017→(jointsupervisionwithMathieuParenti)GlennMAGERMANAfrolaPlaku,Albanian,TheGlobalFragmentationofProduction:DeterminantsandConsequences,2015→(jointsupervisionwithPaolaConconiandPatrickLegros)

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DavyPAINDAVEINEGillesNisol, Belgian,FrequencyDomainAnalysis for Functional TimeSeries, 2014→ (joint supervisionwithSiegfriedHörmanandThomasVerdebout)MathieuPARENTIBaptisteSouillard,French,EssaysonMultinationalsandProfitShifting,2017→IlariaNatali,Italian,EssayonRegulationandMergersinthePharmaceuticalIndustry,2017→(jointsupervisionwithPatrickLegros)PhilipVERWIMPFaniryEmilson,VanillaProducersandtheVanillaSupplyChaininMadagascar,2017→TillmannHeidelk,German,EssaysintheReturnstoEducationinAreasHitbyNaturalorMan-madeDisaster,2016→JoseDanielSalinas,Colombian,InequalityofOpportunityandNetworkAnalysis,2016→PhilippeWEILNarcissa Balta, Romanian, Expectations FormationMechanisms under Imperfect Information and RealEffectsofMonetaryPolicy,2005→LidiaBrun,Spanish,TowardsaUnifiedTheoryofHouseholdDebtandIncomeInequality,2013→AngelaCapolongo,Italian,InflationandMonetaryPolicyMeasures:aUnifiedFramework,2014→AlbertoCaruso,Italian,EssaysinAppliedMacroeconomics,2011→Anna Grochowska, Polish, Asset Price Bubbles - Can Elimination of Financial Frictions Restrain theirFormation?TheCaseofthe"CarbonBubble",2015→ClaudiaPacella,Italian,TheCombinationofMacroeconomicForecasts,2013→BenjaminRausch,Belgian,EssaysinMacroeconomics,2010→ClaudioSchioppa,Italian,EssaysonSovereignDebtandInflation,2012→

ONGOINGTHESESunderthesupervisionofECARESmembersLaurentBOUTONYaseminSatir(BostonUniversitystudent)MicheleCINCERAAnabelaSantos,Belgian,InvestigatingtheImpactoftheInnovationUnion,2015→PalinaShauschuk,Belarussian,BrusselsKnowledgeFlows:LocalisedLearningandRegionalKnowledge,2014→VirginieMaghe,Belgian,NationalInnovationSystemsandClusterPolicies,2010→YvesDOMINICYCorinneSinner,Luxembourgish,ANewLookonStatisticalSizeDistributions,withApplicationsinVariousFields,2015→(jointsupervisionwithJulienTrufin(ULB)andChristopheLey(GhentUniversity)).PaulaE.GOBBIZainabIftikhar,Pakistani,UniversitécatholiquedeLouvain,2015→

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SiegfriedHÖRMANNClementCerovecki,French,FunctionalMethodsforFinancialTimeSeries,2014→(FacultyofSciences).DavyPAINDAVEINEChristineCutting,Belgian,NullandNon-nullAsymptoticPropertiesofHigh-dimensionalTests,2014→(FacultédesSiences)(jointsupervisionwithThomasVerdebout)JoséaRasoafaraniaina,Madagascan,Preliminary Test Estimation in Locally andAsymptoticallyNormalModels,2014→(FacultédesSiences)(jointsupervisionwithThomasVerdebout)Julien Rémy, Belgian,Asymptotic Inference Close to Singularities, 2016→ (Faculté des Siences) (jointsupervisionwithThomasVerdebout)ThomasVERDEBOUTChristineCutting,Belgian,NullandNon-nullAsymptoticPropertiesofHigh-dimensionalTests,2014→(FacultédesSiences)(jointsupervisionwithDavyPaindaveine)JoséaRasoafaraniaina,Madagascan,Preliminary Test Estimation in Locally andAsymptoticallyNormalModels,2014→(FacultédesSiences)(jointsupervisionwithDavyPaindaveine)Julien Rémy, Belgian,Asymptotic Inference Close to Singularities, 2016→ (Faculté des Siences) (jointsupervisionwithDavyPaindaveine)NicolasVanZEEBROECKSamiraBakkali,InnovationandPatentLitigationinthenewICTEcosystem,2014→LéopoldCharlier,DigitalCollaborationinLocalEntrepreneurialEcosystems,2016→CharlesHoffreumon,TowardanEconomicTheoryofBlockchainGovernance,2016→EleonoraZoboli,DigitalTransformationandtheReconfigurationofValueChains,2016→

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RESEARCHCONTRACTS

GaniALDASHEVFER(ULB),TraditionalInstitutionsinCentralAsia:HistoricalDataset,2016-2017.NationalBankofBelgium,EnforcementInstitutionsandEconomicDevelopment:TheoryandApplications,2017-2018.EconomicRoleofClans:LinkingPastandPresent,withC.Guirkinger(UNamur).DepartmentforInternationalDevelopment(U.K.),EconomicDevelopment&Institutions(EDI)ResearchProgram,2017-2019.MarcoBECHTTheNorwegianFinanceInitiative(NFI)ResearchProgramme.LaurentBOUTONERCStartingGrant,PoliticalEconomywithManyParties,2015-2020.FNRS,2016-2019.EstelleCANTILLONFNRSPDR,EmpiricalValidationandTheoreticalDevelopmentsfromSchoolChoiceData,2015-2017.MicaelCASTANHEIRAFNRSresearchgrant,2015-2017.ARCConsolidatorgrant.PAI2017grant.ThomasDEMUYNCKNationalBankofBelgium,IdealPriceIndiceswithVariableMark-upsandEndogenousVariety,withM.Parenti.BramDEROCKFWOgrant,MarriageMarketsandHouseholdDecisionBehavior,withL.Cherchye(KULeuven)andF.Vermeulen(KULeuven),2017-2021.Belspogrant,MeasuringEquivalentIncomes:TheImplementationofIndividualWell-beingMeasuresformBelgianData(MEQIN),withK.Decancq(UniversityofAntwerp),F.Maniquet(UCL)andE.Schokkaert(KULeuven),2013-2017.FWOgrant,Multi-outputProductionwithJointInputs,withL.Cherchye(KULeuven),2012-2016.FNRS,promoteroftheMISgrant:EmpiricalRevealedpreferences,2017-2018.AntonioESTACHEFondsThiepolam,Religion,PublicGoodsProvisionandMigrantsIntegration,October2017-August2018.DfID,TanzaniaElectricityReform,September2017-June2018.WorldBank,PPPevaluation,January2017-June2018.VanommeslagheChair.

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GeorgKIRCHSTEIGERFNRS,FRFC,2012-2017.SiegfriedHÖRMANNARCConsolidatorgrant,2016-2019.PatrickLEGROSERCAdvancedGrantn°339950,2015-2019.GlennMAGERMANFER(ULB)2017grant.DavyPAINDAVEINEFrancquiFoundation,2017-2020.FNRS,Créditauxchercheurs,Contiguity-robustInference,TestsofContiguityandApplicationsinPre-testEstimation,2016-2017.BelgianSciencePolicyOffice,InteruniversityAttractionPoles,DevelopingCrucialStatisticalMethodsforUnderstandingMajorComplexDynamicSystemsinNatural,BiomedicalandSocialSciences,2012-2017.MathieuPARENTINationalBankofBelgium,IdealPriceIndiceswithVariableMark-upsandEndogenousVariety,withT.Demuynck.NicolasVanZEEBROECKInnoviris,OnlineCollaborativeToolsintheBrusselsRegionEntrepreneurialEcosystem,3years“Anticipate”grant,ProjectwithF.LambotteandD.Renard(UCL),September2016–September2019.ThomasVERDEBOUTFNRS(CDR),HypothesisTestinginHighDimensions:Non-nullandLeCamOptimalityresults,2018-2020.BNBgrant(obtainedin2015).PhilipVERWIMPPartnershipAgreementbetweenUNICEF-BurundiandULBtodoanimpactevaluationoftheLimiereProject.Director,January2017-December2017.ARESgrant,withM.ElJaziri,P.BertrixandH.Jijakli,Octobre2016-Septembre2020.

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VISITINGPROFESSORSIN2017

LakhdarADOUKA,UniversitédeMascara,AlgérieAyaAHMED,UniversitéParis1ElenaARIAS,Inter-AmericanDevelopmentBankLoïcBERGER,IESEGSchoolofManagementAbdelaatiDAOUIA,ToulouseSchoolofEconomicsAlessandroDECHIARA,CentralEuropeanUniversityFaniryEMILSON,MontpellierSupAgroStefanoFALCONE,UniversityofSienaMingtaiFAN,ChineseAcademyofSocialScienceThomasGALL,UniversityofSouthamptonManuelGARCIASANTANA,UniversitatPompeuFabraManonGARROUSTE,UniversitédeLilleGarenceGÉNICOT,GeorgetownUniversityJohannesJOHNEN,UCLouvainWillyLEFEZ,ToulouseSchoolofEconomicsMikeLEWIS-BECK,IowaUniversityEsterMANNA,UniversitatdeBarcelonaJulienMARTIN,UniversitéduQuébec,MontréalGiuliaMELONI,KULeuvenLucaMERLINO,UniversitéParis1PanthéonSorbonneAndyNEWMAN,BostonUniversityGérardROLAND,UniversityofCalifornia,BerkeleyOlivierSCAILLET,UniversitédeGenèveFlorianSCHÜTT,TilburgUniversityBenSOLOW,GeorgetownUniversityAllysonSTASHKO,GeorgetownUniversityGonzagueVANNOORENBERGHE,UCLouvainGuoXU,LondonSchoolofEconomicsHeYI,MonashUniversityMuratYILMAZ,BogaziciUniversityPai-LingYIN,UniversityofSouthernCalifornia

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SEMINARSORGANIZEDBYECARES

InEconomicsALDASHEVAlisher,ISEKBTU,CeremonialSpendingandHouseholdIndebtedness.ALOS-FERRERCarlos,KoelnUniversity,CognitiveSophisticationandResponseTimes.BERNARDAndrew,TuckatDartmouth,OffshoringandReorganization.COSTINOTArnaud,MIT,TheMoreWeDie,TheMoreWeSell?ASimpleTestoftheHome-marketEffect.DE LOECKER Jan, Princeton University, Production Function Estimation with Measurement Error inInputs.DHYNEEmmanuel,NBB,LocalSourcingandProductionEfficiency.DURANTE Ruben, UFP and Sciences Po, Advertising Spending and Media Bias: Evidence from NewsCoverageofCarSafetyRecalls.FROEBLuke,VanderbiltUniversity:HorizontalMergersinOptimalAuctions.GALICHON Alfred, NYU, Costly Concessions: An Empirical Framework for Matching with ImperfectlyTransferableUtility.GERARD François, Columbia University, Tax Systems and Inter-Firm Trade: Evidence from the VAT inBrazil.GUIRKINGER Catherine, Université de Namur, Buy as You Need: Nutrition and Food StorageImperfections.GUNERNezih,UAB,IsMarriageforWhitePeople?IncarcerationandtheRacialMarriageDivide.HENRY Emeric, Sciences Po, Learning, Spillovers and Persistence: Institutions and the Dynamics ofCooperation.KATUSCAKPeter,RWTHAachen,HowtoBoostRevenuesinFirst-priceAuctions?TheMagicofDisclosingOnlyWinningBidsfromPastAuctions.KIRCHER Philipp, Edinburgh, How Wage Announcements Affect Job Search Behaviour - a FieldExperimentalInvestigation.KOSZEGIBotond,CEU,BrowsingversusStudyingOffers. MANZINIPaola,UniversityofStAndrews,InferringCognitiveHeterogeneityfromAggregateChoices.MASTROBUONIGiovanni,EssexUniversity,SilenceoftheInnocents:IllegalImmigrants'UnderreportingofCrimeandtheirVictimization.MEJEANIsabelle,EcolePolytechnique,TheMicroOriginsofInternationalBusinessCycleComovements.OURENS Guzman, Université catholique de Louvain, Reverse Terms-of-trade Effect in Land-basedEconomies:theRoleofStagnantDiversificationintheAgriculturalSector.PUPPEClemens,KarlsruheUniversity,RessourceAllocationviatheMedianRule.SOETEVENT Adriaan, Groningen University, Tailored Feedback andWorker Green Behavior: EvidencefromBusDrivers.STEPANOVSergey,NationalResearchUniversity,ReputationConcernsandInformationAggregation.TIROLEJean,PSE,ShadowBankingandtheFourPillarsofFinancialIntermediation.VANBIESEBROECKJo,KULeuven,ComparativeAdvantageinRoutineProduction.WALZLMarkus,InnsbruckUniversity,CompetingTradeMechanismsandMonotoneMechanismChoice.WASMEREtienne,Sciences-Po,FrictionalUnemploymentwithStochasticBubbles.ZANARONEGiorgio,CUNEF,TheValueofRelationalAdaptationinOutsourcing:Evidencefromthe2008ShocktotheU.S.AirlineIndustry.

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InEconometricsandStatisticsCUESTAALBERTOSJuanAntonio,UniversidaddeCantabria,1.ModelsfortheAssessmentofTreatmentImprovement:theIdealandtheFeasible.2.AContaminationModelforApproximateStochasticOrder.DABOSophie,UniversitéLille3,BinaryFunctionalLinearModelunderCase-controlSampling.DAOUIAAbdelaati,ToulouseSchoolofEconomics,EstimationofTailRiskBasedonExtremeExpectiles.DENEVEJan,GhentUniversity,SemiparametricRegressionModelsforIndirectlyObservedOutcomes.GREVENSonja,UniversitätMünchen,SignalRegressionModels for Location, ScaleandShapewithanApplicationtoStockReturns.KLEIBERGEN Frank, University of Amsterdam, Efficient Size Correct Subset Inference in LinearInstrumentalVariablesRegression.LEYChristophe,GhentUniversity,Model-basedRankingSystemsinSoccer:TowardsanAlternativeFIFARanking.PEÑADaniel,UniversidadCarlosIIIdeMadrid,ClusteringTimeSeriesbyDependency.PREINERSTORFERDavid,AarhusUniversity,ControllingtheSizeofAutocorrelationRobustTests.SWANYvik,UniversitédeLiège,SteinDiscrepanciesandtheirApplications.TRAPANILorenzo,CaasBusinessSchool,SequentialTestingforStructuralStabilityinApproximateFactorModels.VANAELSTStefan,KULeuven,RobustModelSelectionforGeneralizedLinearModels.WANGTengyao,CambridgeUniversity,IsotonicRegressioninGeneralDimensions.WOLFMichael,ZurichUniversity,ResurrectingWeightedLeastSquares.

RecruitmentSeminarsCASTERAN Gauthier, University of Toulouse, The Impact of Price Tiers on Brand Loyalty and theModeratingRoleofBrand-qualityCues.DESSARTLaurence,KEDGEBusinessSchool,DoAdsthatTellaStoryPerformBetter?AnIdentification-basedModeloftheEffectsofAnthropomorphisminStorytellingAds.GOBBIPaula,UCLouvain,ChildlessAristocrats.Fertility,Inheritance,andPersistentInequalityinBritain(1650-1882).SQUICCIARINIMara,NorthwesternUniversity, DevotionandDevelopment:Religiosity,Education,andEconomicProgressin19thCenturyFrance.TUNCEL Tuba, Toulouse School of Economics, Should Off-Label Drug Prescriptions bePrevented?EmpiricalEvidencefromFrance.VEIGA Andre, University of Oxford, The Impact of Price Discrimination in Markets with AdverseSelection.

InternalSeminarsAGHADADASHLIHamid,AdvertisingandPriceCompetitioninOnlineMarkets.ALDASHEVGani,TheMultitaskingDean.BLANGA-GUBBAYMichael,GlobalizationforSale.COLOMBOAndrea,PublicGoodunderAppointedversusElectedMayors:PolicingandCrimeinBelgium.DEMUYNCKThomas,TheMyopicStableSetforSocialEnvironments.FODORMàté,ScreeningversusScrutinyinFirms.FREERMikhail,Nonparametric Utility Theory in Strategic Settings: Revealing Preferences and BeliefsfromGamesofProposalandResponse.MÄRZOliver,Framing,ExpectationsandReferencePoints.

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OGDENBenjamin,Media Competitionwith Targeted Advertising: HowMedia Polarization AttenuatesPoliticalPolarization.PINCHETTIMarcoLuca,ADynamicStochasticModelofNewKeynesian-SchumpeterianGrowth.TOMMASIDenni,ControlofResourcesandDemandforFood.TRIMARCHILorenzo,TradePolicyandtheChinaSyndrome.VALERIO Marco, Measuring Interconnectedness between Financial Institutions with Bayesian Time-varyingVectorAutoregressions.WOLFAlex,ResourceAllocationinCouplesACollectiveModelwithPriorInformation.

ENTERSeminarsIWANOWSKY Mathias, Stockholm University, Allocating Property Rights. Evidence from the TaylorGrazingAct.KAZAKOVA Ekaterina, Mannheim University, Export Platforms and Multinational Demand RiskDiversification.LEFEZWilly, Toulouse School of Economics, Collusion under Incomplete Information on the DiscountFactor.NIMOHFlorence,UniversitatAutònomadeBarcelona,EvaluationofEducationalPoliciesonEnrolmentRatesinGhana.OURENS Guzman, Université catholique de Louvain, Reverse Terms-of-trade Effect in Land-basedEconomies:theRoleofStagnantDiversificationintheAgriculturalSector.ROHLFAlexander,MannheimUniversity,DidGlobalizationhelpGermanybecomeCleaner?TheEffectofIncreasingImport/ExportExposureonLocalAirPollutionattheGermanCountyLevel.SEROR Avner, Paris School of Economics, Multi-candidate Political Competitions and the IndustrialOrganizationofPolitics.

ULB-UCLSeminarsCHARACIEJUSVaidotas,ULB,TestingforWhiteNoiseinFunctionalTimeSeries.HAINAUTDonatien,UCL,ContagionModelingbetweentheFinancialandInsuranceMarketswithTimeChangedProcesses.PREINERSTORFERDavid,ULB,UniformlyValidConfidenceIntervalsPost-modelSelection.SEGERS Johan, UCL,Accelerating the Convergence Rate ofMonte Carlo Integration throughOrdinaryLeastSquares.

JointNBB–CES,KUL–ECARES,ULB–CORE,UCLSeminarsBAUMEISTERChristiane,UniversityofNotreDame,StructuralInterpretationofVectorAutoregressionswithIncompleteIdentification:RevisitingtheRoleofOilSupplyandDemandShocks.GROSHENNYNicolas,UniversityofAdelaideandCAMA,Cost-PushShocks,TrendInflation,andtheGreatModeration:AnAlternativeInterpretation.KARADIPeter,EuropeanCentralBankandCEPR,TheReanchoringChannelofQE.ORPHANIDESAthanasios,MIT SloanSchoolof Economics,TheFiscal-MonetaryPolicyMix in theEuroArea:ChallengesattheZeroLowerBound.WUJingCynthia,ChicagoBoothandNBER,AShadowRateNewKeynesianModel.

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JointwithNBB,UMons,KULeuven,UCLouvain,UGent,ULB,UA,UHasselt,ULgCOSTINOTArnaud,MIT,MicrotoMacro:OptimalTradePolicywithFirmHeterogeneity.JointwithNBB,KULeuven,UA,UCL,Ughent,UHasselt,ULB,ULgandUMonsCHIAPPORIPierre-André,ColumbiaUniversity,MatchingwithTransfers:aUser'sGuide.FALLY Thibault, University California Berkeley, Firm Heterogeneity in Consumption Baskets:Evidence.fromHomeandStoreScannerData.MANNINGAlan,LondonSchoolofEconomics,ThePersistenceofLocalJoblessness.SAUVAGNATJulien,BocconiUniversity,ImportCompetitionandHouseholdDebt.JointwithNBB,KULeuven,UA,UCL,UGent,ULB,ULg,UMons,UNamur,USaint-Louis,VlerickandVUBCAMPELLOMurillo,CornellUniversity,AccesstoCollateralandtheDemocratizationofCredit:France'sReformoftheNapoleonicCode.HENDERSHOTTTerry,HaasSchoolofBusiness,UniversityofCaliforniaBerkeley,RelationshipTradinginOTCMarkets.LOAndrew,MIT,AdaptiveMarkets:FinancialEvolutionattheSpeedofThough.RUDEBUSCHGlenn,FederalReserveBankofSanFrancisco,InterestRatesunderFallingStars.SINGLETON Kenneth, Stanford University, Learning, Dispersion of Beliefs, and Risk Premiums in anArbitrage-freeTermStructureModel.

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Who’swhoatECARESGaniALDASHEVis Professor of Economics at theUniversité libre de Bruxelles, amember of the European Center forAdvanced Research in Economics and Statistics (ECARES) and research affiliate of the Centre forResearch in the Economics of Development (CRED) at the University of Namur. He received B.A. inInternational Economics from theAmericanUniversityof Paris, andM.A. andPhD in Economics fromBocconi University (Milan). His main research interests are in development economics, politicaleconomics,andeconomichistory.MarcoBECHTteachesmaster courses on corporate governance, corporate restructuring, financial systems and theeconomicanalysisoflawattheULB.In2003and2012,hewasvisitingProfessorandFellowattheSaïdBusinessSchool,UniversityofOxford,in2008MaxSchmidheinyvisitingProfessorforEntrepreneurshipand Risk at the University of St. Gallen and in 2011 visiting Professor at Stanford Law School and aVisitingFellowattheRockCenterforCorporateGovernance.Hisresearchcurrentlyfocusesonlawandfinance,withparticularemphasisoncorporategovernance.Marco is a Founder Member, a Fellow and the Executive Director of the European CorporateGovernanceInstitute(www.ecgi.org),aninternationalnon-profitscientificassociationthathasclosetieswiththeGoldschmidtChairattheSolvayBrusselsSchool.Beyond his core academic activities Marco is a member of the Belgian Corporate GovernanceCommission,theGroupofFinancialMarketLawExpertsoftheGermanMinistryofFinanceandaSeniorAdvisertoOxera,theEconomicConsultancy.LaurentBOUTONholds a PhD in Economics (Université libre de Bruxelles, ECARES, 2009).Hismain research interest ispolitical economy. The main objective of his research is to advance our comprehension of politicalinstitutionsaroundtheworldthroughabetterunderstandingofcollectivedecision-making.Hisresearchmixestheoryandempiricalanalysisbasedonbothlaboratoryexperimentsandobservationaldata.EstelleCANTILLONis a FNRS research director at the SBS-EM where she teaches environmental economics in the MAprogrammesandadvisesdoctoralstudentsinmarketdesign,industrialorganisation,andenvironmentaleconomics.Her research liesat theboundarybetweenmarketdesignand industrialorganization.Shehaspublishedonauctions,procurementandcompetitioninthefinancialindustry.Hercurrentresearchspansschoolchoice,competitionbetweenexchangeandenvironmentalmarketdesign.Estellecurrentlyservesasco-editoroftheEconomicJournalandassociateeditorattheRandJournalofEconomics.ShecoordinatestheEuropean-wideresearchnetworkMatchinginPractice.SheismemberofseveralcommitteesoftheEuropeanEconomicsAssociation,amemberoftheEconomicsCouncilofOXERAandofthesteeringcommitteeofRe-Bel(RethinkingBelgium).ShesitsonthescientificcouncilsofWZBBerlinandtheBrusselsStatisticalInstitute.EstelleholdsaPhDinEconomicsfromHarvardUniversity(DavidA.WellsPrizeforbestdissertation inEconomics) and has held prior appointments at Yale University and Harvard Business School beforejoiningthefacultyattheSolvayBrusselsSchoolin2004.In2008,shereceivedastartinggrantfromtheEuropeanResearchCouncil.

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MicaelCASTANHEIRAholds a PhD in Economics fromULB (1998). A director for research fellowwith the Belgian NationalScience Foundation, he works at ECARES and is a professor at ULB, where he also co-founded theGeorgetown/ULBAdvancedMasterinPoliticalEconomy.HesitsonthescientificcouncilsoftheNationalBank for the national accounts and of the government's Price Observatory. Hismain research topicsincludethepoliticaleconomicsofcollectivedecisions,andofreforms.Hepublishedinleadingscientificjournals, such as Econometrica, The Journal of the European Economic Association, The EconomicJournal, Games and Economic Behavior, International Economic Review, International Tax and PublicFinanceandtheJournalofPublicEconomics.

MicheleCINCERAhas taughtatULBsince2001 (AssociateProfessor).HeholdsaPhD fromUniversité libredeBruxelles(1998). In 2009-2010, hewas a Scientist visitor of the European Commission, Joint Research Centre,Institute forProspectiveTechnical Studies inKnowledge forGrowthUnit.His research focuseson theeconomicsofR&Dandinnovation.

PaolaCONCONIisProfessorofEconomicsatULB.ShereceivedaB.A.inPoliticalSciencefromtheUniversityofBologna,a M.A. in International Relations from the School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) of JohnsHopkinsUniversity,aM.Sc.andaPhDinEconomicsfromtheUniversityofWarwick.Hermainresearchinterests are in international trade and political economy. She is a a Research Fellow of theCEPRInternational Trade and Regional Economics Program, aCESifo Research Fellow, and the Director oftheCEPRResearchNetworkonGlobalValueChains,TradeandDevelopment.During the academic year 2017-2018, she has been visiting theCentre for Economic PerformanceoftheLondonSchoolofEconomics.

CatherineDEHONholds a PhD in Sciences (Statistics) from the Université libre de Bruxelles, 2001. She is Professor ofStatisticsandEconometricsattheFacultySBS-EM,ULB. Hermainresearchfieldsarerobuststatistics,econometrics,andeconomyofeducation.

ChristineDEMOLChristineDeMolholdsaPhDinPhysics(1979)andahabilitationdegreeinMathematicalPhysics(1992)from ULB. Since 1975, she has held several research positions with the Belgian National Fund forScientificResearch(FNRS)thatshe left in1998asaHonoraryResearchDirectortobecomeafull-timeProfessor at ULB. Shehas held several visiting positions (Universities of London, Rome, Montpellier,Paris-Sud,Genoa,Bonn,St.Gallen).Her research interests in applied mathematics include inverse problems, sparsity-enforcingregularization theory, wavelets and applications, learning theory, analysis and forecasting of timeseries,portfoliotheory.BramDEROCKholdsaPhD inMathematics (KULeuven,2006)andaPhD inEconomics (KULeuven,2007).He teachesadvanced mathematics courses to students in economics at SBS-EM. His research interests arehousehold consumer behavior, revealed preference theory and nonparametric production andefficiencyanalysis.

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GriseldaDEELSTRAisprofessor inStochasticFinanceand Insuranceanddirectorof the"ServiceSciencesActuarielles"attheUniversitélibredeBruxelles.SheholdsadegreeinActuarialSciences(1992)andreceivedherPhDin1996 from theVrijeUniversiteit Brussel. In her career, she had teaching/researchpositions at ENSAEand CREST ("Ecole Nationale de la Statistique et de l’Administration Economique" and "Centre deRechercheenEconomieetStatistique",Paris),UGhentandVUB.Shehaspublishedinleadingactuarialandfinancialmathematicsjournals.TogetherwithGuillaumePlantin,shehaswrittenthebooks"Théoriedurisqueetréassurance" (Economica,2006)and"RiskTheoryandReinsurance”(EAASeries,Springer-Verlag,2014).SheisAssociateEditorofthe“EuropeanActuarialJournal”and“MathematicalMethodsofOperationsResearch”,andamemberoftheEducationalCommitteeofthe InstituteofActuariesofBelgium.

ThomasDEMUYNCKholdsaPhDinEconomics(GhentUniversity,2008).Heheldapost-docpositionattheKULeuvenfrom2009 until 2013 and held a position at Maastricht University from 2013 until 2016. He's currentlyprofessorofeconomicsat theUniversité libredeBruxellesandamemberof theEuropeanCenter forAdvanced Research in Economics and Statistics (ECARES).His main research interests are revealedpreferencetheory,choiceanddemandtheoryandtheoreticaleconomicsingeneral.

MathiasDEWATRIPONTholds a PhD in Economics from Harvard University, 1986. His general research area is the theory ofincentivesandorganizations.He isProfessorofEconomicsatULBwherehe teaches introductoryandadvancedmicroeconomicsaswellasmonetaryeconomics.Between1998and2011,hewaspart-timevisiting Professor at MIT and Research Director of CEPR. He was Managing Editor of the Review ofEconomicStudies(1990-1994),oneofthethreeProgrammeco-chairsofthe2000WorldCongressoftheEconometricSociety,and2005PresidentoftheEuropeanEconomicAssociation(EEA).HeisaFellowofthe Econometric Society, EEA and ECGI, laureate of the 1998 Francqui Prize and of the 2003 YrjöJahnssonPrize for Economics.He is ForeignHonoraryMemberof theAmericanAcademyofArts andSciencesandmemberoftheAcadémieRoyaledeBelgique.HewasamemberoftheScientificCounciloftheEuropeanResearchCouncil fromitsstart in2005until2012.Hewasco-DirectorofECARES(1991-2002),ChairandthenDeanoftheSolvayBrusselsSchoolofEconomicsandManagement(2009-2011)and outside Director of CGER-Bank (1992-1999). He was appointed Director of the National Bank ofBelgiumin2011forasix-yearterm(andwasitsVice-Governorin2014-2015).Inthiscapacity,heservedon the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision, the Board of Supervisors of the European BankingAuthorityaswellastheSupervisoryBoardoftheEuropeanCentralBank.InMay2017,hereturnedfull-timetoULB.

AntonioESTACHEholds a PhD in Economics from the Université libre de Bruxelles. Until end of 2007 he was ChiefEconomistoftheSustainableDevelopmentNetworkoftheWorldBankwhereheworkedfor25years.HejoinedECARESfulltimeasthebeneficiaryoftheBernardVanOmmeslagheChaironJanuary1,2008.HecurrentlyteachesRegulatoryEconomicsandBusinessEconomics.HealsorunsaMOOConEconomicRegulation. Healsosupervisesstudentsconductinginternships inpublicandprivateorganizationsarepartoftheirdegree.

MarjorieGASSNERholdsaPhDinMathematics,ULB(1989).HermainresearchfieldsarePoliticalEconomicsandCollectiveDecisions.SheismemberofCRISPandCEVIPOL.SheteachesmathematicsatULB.

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VictorGINSBURGHholdsaPhDfromtheUniversitélibredeBruxelles,1972.Hisresearchareasaremicroeconomictheory,cultural economics and the economics of languages. He has been visiting professor at several USuniversities (Yale, Virginia, Chicago), as well as in France (Marseille, Paris and Strasbourg), and inBelgium(LouvainandLiège).PaulaE.GOBBIholdsaPhDfromtheUniversitécatholiquedeLouvain,wasanFNRSpost-docandvisitedNorthwesternUniversityin2012andtheParisSchoolofEconomicsin2014.SheisaCEPRresearchaffiliatesince2016.Shehas joined theUniversité libre deBruxelles as anAssistant Professor of Economics in September2017.Her research is at the intersections ofMacroeconomics andGrowth,Development, and FamilyEconomics.

MarcHALLINholdsaPhDinSciencesandMathematicsfromtheUniversitélibredeBruxelles(1976).HeisEditor-in-Chief of Statistical Inference for Stochastic Processes, and a member of the editorial boards of theJournalof theAmericanStatisticalAssociation, the JournalofEconometrics, Econometrics&Statistics,theJournaloftheJapanStatisticalSociety,andtheAnnalesdel’InstitutdeStatistiquedel’UniversitédeParis.AFellowoftheInstituteofMathematicalStatistics(I.M.S.),oftheAmericanStatisticalAssociation(A.S.A.),andaMembretitulaireof the InternationalStatistical Institute (I.S.I.),he isalsoamemberoftheClassedesSciencesdel'AcadémieRoyaledeBelgique. GeorgKIRCHSTEIGERholdsaPhDinEconomicsfromtheUniversityofVienna(1993).BeforehemovedtoBrusselsin2004,heworkedattheUniversityofVienna,attheCentERinTilburg,andattheUniversityofMaastricht.In2000hereceivedtheHicks-TinbergenMedaloftheEEA(withE.FehrandA.Riedl).

RobertKOLLMANNholdsaPhDfromtheUniversityofChicago(1991).HismainfieldsofresearchareMacroeconomicsandInternational Finance. He has been Professor at the University of Bonn, University of Paris XII andUniversityofMontréal.HeisresearchfellowofCEPR.HehastaughtatULBsince2006.

PatrickLEGROSisaProfessorofEconomicsatUniversitélibredeBruxellesandatNortheasternuniversity.HeisafellowofECARESandofCEPR.Hehastaughtcoursesinintermediateandgraduatemicroeconomics,intermediateandgraduateindustrialorganizationandantitrust,andgraduatecoursesincontracttheory.HeiscurrentlyoneoftheeditorsoftheJournalofIndustrialEconomicsandisamemberoftheEuropeanAdvisoryGrouponCompetitionPolicyattheDGCompetition.Hisresearchinterestsareinappliedmicroeconomic,withanemphasisoncontracttheory,industrialorganization,informationeconomics.HiscurrentresearchbenefitsfromthesupportoftheERC.Hispastandcurrentresearchactivitiesareinthefollowingareas:-Contracttheory:endogenouscontractchoicesinmarketswithheterogenousagents;moralhazardinteams;designofdebtcontractsunderrenegotiation;organisationalchoicesandlearning;-Industrialorganization:verticalintegrationandcontracting;regulationofnetworkindustries;antitrust;choiceofvarietiesinlocalmarketsfacingglobalcompetition;performanceofstandardsettingorganizations;-Matching:assortativematchingundernon-transferabilities;investmentandmatching;applicationstoeducationalpolicies.

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-Mechanismdesign:imperfectcommunicationtechnology,renegotiation;-Cooperativegametheory:costallocation;formationandstabilityofsyndicates.

GlennMAGERMANis Assistant Professor of Economics (tenure track) at ECARES sinceOct 2016.His research focuses onappliedmicro,networksand internationaltrade,combiningboththeoryandempirics.HeholdsaPhDfrom KULeuven and has been a visiting student researcher at Stanford University. He is a Fulbrightalumnusandco-founderofOtletSalons.Beforeturningtoeconomics,Glennwasaperformingmusician,graduatinginbothclassicalandjazzmusicfromtheAcademiesofMaastrichtandAntwerp.

GuyMÉLARDholds a PhD in Sciences in Mathematics from the Université libre de Bruxelles (1975). He has beenPresidentoftheDepartment"InformatiqueetScienceshumaines".Heistheauthorofthreebooksandco-authorofasoftwarefortimeseriesanalysiscalledTimeSeriesExpert.

DavyPAINDAVEINEholdsaPhDinStatisticsfromULB,2002.HeisfullprofessorofStatisticsattheSolvayBrusselsSchoolofEconomicsandManagement,ULB.Hesitsintheeditorialboardofseveralinternationaljournals,amongwhich theAnnals of Statistics and the Journal of the American Statistical Association. From 2014 to2016, hewas also Co-Editor-in-Chief ofStatistics andProbability Letters. Since 2005, he is an electedmemberoftheInternationalStatisticalInstitute(ISI).HehasbeenvisitingprofessoratUniversitéPierre-et-Marie-Curie (Paris6)between2009and2014,atKULeuven in2015,andat theToulouseSchoolofEconomics in 2015 and 2016. In 2007, the American Statistical Association gave him theGottfried E.NoetherYoungScholarAward,forcontributionstononparametricstatistics.From2017to2020,hewillholdaFrancquiResearchProfessorshipthatwillallowhimtofocusonresearchinthatperiod.Hewasco-directorofECARESfrom2006to2012.MathieuPARENTIhasjoinedtheUniversitélibredeBruxellesasanAssistantProfessorofEconomicsinSeptember2015.He is a research affiliate at the CEPR and an associate editor of the Economic Journal since 2017.Previously,hewasanassistantprofessoratUniversitécatholiquedeLouvain.HehasreceivedhisPhDinEconomicsattheParisSchoolofEconomicsin2012.HisresearchisattheintersectionofInternationalTradeandIndustrialOrganization.DavidPREINERSTORFERobtainedhisPhD in Statistics andOperationsResearch in2015 from theUniversityofVienna.BeforejoiningUniversitélibredeBruxellesin2017hewasapostdocattheUniversityofViennaandatAarhusUniversity.David'sresearchareasareEconometricsandStatistics.

AndréSAPIRholdsaPhD inEconomics fromThe JohnsHopkinsUniversity,1977.He isUniversityProfessoratULBandSeniorFellowatBruegel,theBrussels-basedEuropeanthinktank.HeisalsoResearchFellowoftheLondon-based Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR). He was Economic Adviser to EuropeanCommission President Romano Prodi (2001-2004) and the Chairman of the High-Level Study Groupappointedbyhimthatproducedthe2003report"AnAgendaforaGrowingEurope",widelyknownasthe "SapirReport", publishedbyOxfordUniversity Press inMarch2004.Between2011and2014, hewasMemberoftheEuropeanSystemicRiskBoardandtheChairofitsAdvisoryScientificCommittee.HehaswidelypublishedinthefieldsofinternationaleconomicsandEuropeanintegration.

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BrunovanPOTTELSBERGHEdelaPOTTERIEholdsaPhDinEconomicsfromULBandisaholderoftheSolvaySAChairofInnovation.HewasChiefEconomist at European Patent Office (Munich, 2005-2007). He was visiting researcher at ColumbiaBusinessSchool,ResearchInstituteoftheMETI(Tokyo),visitingprofessorattheInstituteofInnovationResearch, University Hitotsubashi (Tokyo), at the University of Stellenbosch Business School (CapeTown),attheOpenUniversity,HoChiMinhVille,andattheNationalEconomicsUniversity,Hanoi.Hejoined ECARES in 2008. He is currently QTEM Dean of the Solvay Brussels School of Economics andManagement.

PhilipVERWIMPstudiedEconomics,SociologyandPoliticalScience inAntwerp,Leuven,GöttingenandYaleUniveristy.Heholdsa PhD inEconomics fromtheKULeuven in January2003withadissertationon thePoliticalEconomy of Development andGenocide in Rwanda under the supervision of Prof.Stefan Dercon andProf.LodeBerlage.Philipspecializesintheeconomiccausesandconsequencesofconflictatthemicro-level.Hecurrentlyworksonpoverty,health,education,genderandentrepreneurshipandmigrationinconflict-affected countries. He co-founded and co-directs the Households in Conflict Network(www.hicn.org).PhilipreceivedadoctoralfellowshipfromtheFundforScientificResearch(1997-2001)andwasaFellowof theBelgian-AmericanEducationalFoundation (1998)andaFulbright-HaysFellow(2004)atYaleUniversity.HeworkedfortheWorldBankasaPovertyEconomist(2005)andreceivedtheJacques Rozenberg Award from the Auschwitz Foundation for his dissertation. Philip taughtDevelopmentEconomicsatErasmusUniversityRotterdam(InstituteofSocialStudies),theUniversityofAntwerp,andKULeuven.Hewasalsoaguest lectureratUtrechtUniversity,theNationalUniversityofBurundi ,The University of Economics in Hanoi, at PRIO in Norway and the University of Göttingen.During the fall semester of 2013 Philip was a visiting fellow at the Economics Department of UCBerkeley. From 2010 to 2015 he held the Marie and Alain Philippson Chair in Sustainable HumanDevelopmentatUniversité libredeBruxelleswherehecurrentlyteachesdevelopmenteconomicsandimpactevaluation.

PhilippeWEILholds a PhD from Harvard University (1985). He was assistant (1985-89) and Associate Professor atHarvardfrom1985to1992andhasbeenaprofessoratULBsince1992.HewasProgrammeDirectorofInternationalMacroeconomicsatCEPR(1989-92)andco-directorofECARES(1992-2002).Since2011,hechairs the Observatoire français des conjonctures économiques at SciencesPo in Paris. His researchfocusesonmacroeconomictheoryandfinance.

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