Working Group Public Economics


 

PUBLIC ECONOMICS SEMINAR AGENDA

 

All Public Economics Seminars are held at the Center for Economic Studies, Naamsestraat 69, 3000 Leuven, Belgium.

June 17, 2009 at 11:00 in room 02.101:
Nicky Rogge (HUB - CES): Granting Teachers the 'Benefit of the Doubt' in Performance Evaluations
May 13, 2009 at 16:00 in room 01.010:
Branko Milanovic (World Bank): Ancinet Inequality
April 29, 2009 at 11:00 in room 02.101:
Tom Truyts (CES): Support for Solidarity and Social Structure
April 22, 2009 at 11:00 in room 02.101:
Jean Hindriks (UCL): TBA
April 15, 2009 at 11:00 in room 02.101:
Jayant Vivek Ganguli (University of Cambridge): Ambiguity and rational expectations equilibria
April 1, 2009 at 11:00 in room 01.010:
Emmanuel Thanassoulis (Aston University; Birmingham): UK University Administration assessment
March 25, 2009 at 11:00 in room 02.101:
Gérard Valenduc (FTU Namur): Tax Revenue forecasting: methods and models used by the Ministry of Finance
March 11, 2009 at 11:00 in room  02.101:
Bart Capéau (HIVA - KUL): Household composition and intertemporal consumption profiles. An exploration on the base of the Belgian household budget surveys 1995/96-2004
March 9, 2009  UAP Seminar FUNDP Namur

Political Economy of Labor Market:

14.00: Gilles Saint-Paul (Toulouse School of Economics) The Role of Beliefs and Ideologies in the Political Economy of Reforms

15.00: Vincenzo Galasso (Bocconi University) The Euro and Structural Reforms

16.30: Andrew Clark (Paris School of Economics) Public Employment and Political Pressure: The Case of French Hospitals

Room 401 (4th floor),  Faculty of Economics Rempart de la Vierge 8

March 4, 2009 at 11:00 in room  02.101:
Gijs Dekkers (Federaal Planbureau), "So pensions in Europe will remain sustainable. But will they remain adequate?” An assessment of the consequences of the AWG-projections on the adequacy of social security pensions in Belgium, Italy and Germany"
February 18, 2009 at 11:00 in room 01.010:
Informal Discussion Meeting: Presentation of School Data by Steven Groenez (HIVA -KUL)
December 15, 2008 15.00 - 18.00 UAP-seminar in Room 02.101
Bas Jacobs (Erasmus University Rotterdam), Optimal redistributive tax and education policies in general equilibrium
John Weymark (Vanderbilt University), Strategic nonlinear income tax competition with perfect labor mobility

For abstracts and papers of these UAP-seminars see: http://www.uclouvain.be/en-44417.html

November 25, 2008 at 11:15 in room 02.101:
Kris De Swerdt (CES), Effective marginal and participation tax rates on labour in Belgium
November 21, 2008 at 14:00 in room 02.28
Workshop of the Rik Branson Civil Society Chair held by Erik Schokkaert;
see http://econ.kuleuven.be/LeerstoelRikBranson/
November 4, 2008 at 11:15 in room 02.101:
Javier Olivera (CES), Optimal enrollment in a pension system and informal family arrangements
October 16, 2008 at 16:00 in room 02.101 (CES Seminar):
Rolf Aaberge (Statistics Norway), Designing Optimal Taxes with a Microeconometric Model of Household Labour Supply
October 7, 2008 at 11:15 in room 02.101:
Kristof De Witte (CES), The regulator’s fault? On the effects of regulatory changes on profits, productivity and prices in the Dutch drinking water sector
Sept 30, 2008 at 11:15 in room 02.101:
Karen Decancq (CES), Equality of opportunity in a context of intergenerational mobility
Xavier Jara (CES), Working conditions, well-being and labour supply: a cross country analysis using SHARE data
June 24, 2008 at 16:30 in room 02.101:
Yumei Yi (CES), Identity and Educational Choice: A Behavioral approach
June 17, 2008 at 16:00 in room 02.101:
Steven Groenez (HIVA-KULeuven) Long term trends in intergenerational educational mobility in Flanders
June 3, 2008 at 16:00 in room 02.101:
Koen Algoed (HUB-KULeuven), Fiscal federalism in Belgium
May  20, 2008 at 16:00 in room 02.101:
Jos Blomme  (FOD Financiën),  Belastinghervorming en Fiscale druk, een methodologische illustratie.
April 24, 2008 at 16:30 in room 02.101:
Peter Haan (Paris School of Economics)  How can the transfer system affect the working behavior of low skilled men? Evidence from a structural life cycle model.
April 8, 2008 at 16:00 in room 02.101:
Johan Eyckmans (HUB-KULeuven), Moral considerations in trading pollution permits
April 1, 2008 at 16:00 in room 02.101:
Javier Olivera (CES), Motives for parental money transfers in Europe
March 20, 2008 at 16:30 in room HOG 02.101:
Guido Erreygers (University of Antwerp), Can a single indicator measure both attainment and shortfall inequality? (CES seminar)
February 7, 2008 at 16:00 in room 02.101:
Frederic Vermeulen (CENTER - Tilburg): Economic well-being and poverty among the elderly: an analysis based on a collective consumption model
January 24, 2008 at 16:00 in room 02.101:
Jeroen Sabbe (KULAK): Nonparametric Tests of Collectively Rational Consumption Behavior: an Integer Programming Procedure
January 10, 2008 at 16:00 in room 02.101:
Rembert De Blander (HIVA - KUL): Shooting at Moving Targets: Short versus Long Term Effects of Anti-Poverty Policies
December 20, 2007 at 16:00 in room 02.101:
Kristian Orsini (CES),  Subsidies on Low Skilled's Social Security Contributions: the Case of Belgium
December 13, 2007 at 16:00 in room 02.101:
Tom Truyts (CES), Costly Signaling and Indirect Taxation
December 3, 2007 at 16:00 in room 02.101:
Ian Crawford, (Oxford University & IFS), A nonparametric analysis of habits models
December 3, 2007 at 16:00 in room 02.101:
Martin Browning (Oxford University), Spending time and money within the household.
November 22, 2007 at 16:00 in room 02.101:
Andreas Peichl (University of Cologne), Using a Micro-Macro-Simulation-Model to analyse Tax Reforms – A Flat Tax application.
November 22, 2007 at 16:00 in room 02.101:
Koen Decancq (CES),  Multidimensional inequality and the copula
November 13, 2007 at 16:00 in room 02.101:
Knox Lovell (University of Georgia) Productivity and financial performance
October 25, 2007 at 16:00 in room 02.101:
Wim Moesen (CES),  The report of the 'Hoge Raad van Financiën'.
October 18, 2007 at 16:00 in room 02.101:
Roland-Iwan Luttens (Sherppa -UGent): Voting for redistribution under desert-sensitive altruism
October 16, 2007 at 16:00 in room 02.101:
Knud Munk (University of Aarhus), On the use of Border Taxes in Developing Counties
October 11, 2007 at 16:00 in room 02.101:
Kristof Dewitte (CES): Equity and efficiency in private and public education.
October 4, 2007 at 16:00 in room HOG 02.101:
J.D. Wilson (Michigan State University),  The Welfare State vs. the common labor market: which to dismantle?   (CES seminar)

 


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