Veerle Slootmaekers

Ph.D. candidate in International Economics

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Since July 16, I am working as Economist/Policy Analyst at the OECD (Directorate of Employment, Labour and Social Affairs - Social Policy Division)

Contact information

LICOS Centre for Institutions and Economic Performance

Katholieke Universiteit Leuven

Debériotstraat 34 - bus 3511

B-3000 Leuven

Belgium

Email: Veerle.Slootmaekers@econ.kuleuven.be

Advisor: Prof. Filip Abraham

Co-Advisor: Prof. Jozef Konings

CV (October 2008)

 
   

PUBLICATIONS & DISCUSSION PAPERS

   

Globalization Drives Strategic Product Switching

Marialuz MORENO BADIA, Veerle SLOOTMAEKERS and Ilke VAN BEVEREN (2008)

IMF Working Paper 08/246

   

Compétitivité Internationale de la Chine: Une Réalité à Réévaluer

Ari VAN ASSCHE, Chang HONG and Veerle SLOOTMAEKERS (2008)

In Aubert, B. (ed.), Le Québec à l’Heure de la Mondialisation, CIRANO, Montréal

   

New Dimensions of Adjustment to Globalization

Marialuz MORENO BADIA, Veerle SLOOTMAEKERS and Ilke VAN BEVEREN (2008)

LICOS Discussion Paper No.209

   

The Missing Link between Financial Constraints and Productivity

Marialuz MORENO BADIA and Veerle SLOOTMAEKERS (2008)

LICOS Discussion Paper No.208

   

China's International Competitiveness: Reassessing the Evidence

Ari VAN ASSCHE, Chang HONG and Veerle SLOOTMAEKERS (2008)

LICOS Discussion Paper No.205

   

FDI Spillovers in the Chinese Manufacturing Sector: Evidence of Firm Heterogeneity (pdf)

Filip ABRAHAM, Jozef KONINGS and Veerle SLOOTMAEKERS (2007)

CEPR Discussion Paper No. 6573

   

Trade Effects of the EU-Mexico FTA

Veerle SLOOTMAEKERS (2004)

ASP Working Paper no.416, Kiel Institute for World Economics - IfW, Germany.

   

Is Argentina Ready for Inflation Targeting?

Pablo ROVIRA KALTWASSER and Veerle SLOOTMAEKERS (2004)

ASP Working Paper no.408, Kiel Institute for World Economics - IfW, Germany.

   
   

WORK IN PROGRESS

   

Job reallocation and its impact on the wages distribution in China

Veerle SLOOTMAEKERS (2007)

   

The effect of inter-regional protection on the price-cost margins of firms in China

Veerle SLOOTMAEKERS (2007)

   
   

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

   

European Trade Study Group - ETSG (Warsaw, September 2008)

   

China Summer Institute (Dalian, June 2008)

   

Comparative Analysis of Enterprise Data (CAED) Conference (Boedapest, May 2008)

   

European Trade Study Group - ETSG (Vienna, September 2006)

   

Chinese Economists Society Annual Conference (Shanghai, July 2006)

   

GEP Postgraduate Conference (Nottingham, April 2006)

   

European Trade Study Group - ETSG (Nottingham, September 2004)

   
   

INVITED SEMINAR PRESENTATIONS

   

IMF, Washington DC - U.S.A. (September and October 2007)

   

University of Ljubljana - Slovenia (June 2006)

   

Université Catholique de Louvain - Belgium (January 2006)

   

Fudan University, Shanghai - China (July 2006)

   

LICOS, Leuven - Belgium (November 2005, March 2006 and December 2007)

   

Catholic University of Leuven - Belgium (October 2004 and November 2006)

   
   

SUMMER SCHOOLS

   

Summer School on Chinese Economy (Clermont-Ferrand, August 2006)

   

Summer School in Trade, Industrialization and Development (Gargnano, June 2006)

   
   

OTHER ACTIVITIES

   

Teaching assistant for courses on 'Economics of European Integration' (Prof. F. Abraham & Prof. A. Van Mourik)

   

Supervision of master and undergraduate theses related to ‘International Economics’ and ‘Chinese Economy’

   

Researcher and Coordinator of China Economic Research at LICOS Centre for Institutions and Economic Performance

   
   

LINKS

   

SSRN (Social Science Research Network)

Inomics (Internet site for economists)

EconPapers (provides access to RePEc - Research Papers in Economics)

   
 

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