Past activities

2009-2010 

2008-2009

2007-2008

2006-2007 

EVENTS 2009 - 2010

EVENTS  2008-2009

Lecture series on European Policies 

Annual Keynote Lecture 

Academic Events 

Belgian Day of International Trade Economists  

 

Lecture Series Spring 09


Lecture series on European policies, Spring 2009, dans le cadre du séminaire d'économie internationale, année académique 2008-2009  

  • Hylke Vandenbussche
    Professor International Economics, UCL - Holder of the Jacquemin Chair
    on "Topics on EU Policies: Introduction”
    January 30, 2009  
  • Jozef Konings
    EU Commission, Bureau of Economic Policy Advisors
    on "Financial Constraints in Young and Innovative Firms"
    February 6, 2009  
  • Jean-Louis-Colson
    EU Commission, DG Competition, Head of Unit
    on "State Aid and the Financial Crisis”
    February 13, 2009
  • Bertin Martens
    EU Commission, DG Trade, Deputy Chief Economist
    on "EU trade relations with China”
    February 20, 2009  
  •  Erik Faucompret
    Professor University of Antwerp (former dean)
    on "Turkish Accession: opportunity or threat?”
    March 6, 2009  
  • Ann Houtman
    EU Commission, Director Internal Affairs
    on "EU Internal Market Issues in the aftermath of the Financial Crisis”
    March 13, 2009  
  • Kirtikumar Mehta
    EU Commission, Director DG Competition
    on "“Anti-trust Policy in the EU”
    March 20, 2009
    Announcement  , lecture series, spring 2009 

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Annual Keynote Lecture 

March 11th, 2009, Damien NEVEN, Chief Economist of DG Competition Policy, EU Commission will give a talk at UCL :
Competition Policy : an insider's perspective
Announcement
This event is a joint initiative with "la chaire de droit européen", Faculté de droit, UCL. 

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Academic Events
From March 23rd to 3rd of April, the Jacquemin Chair invites renowned academics from US.
It concerns :
Professor Mark ROBERTS, specialist in Industrial Economics (Penn State)
Professor Bee AW, specialist in the analysis of Firm Dynamics (Penn State)
Professor Eric BOND, specialist in Competition Issues (Vanderbilt University).


All three of them are invited to join the Belgian Day for International Economics


In the course of March,  two doctoral Mini-courses will be offered. All
interested graduate students are welcome. No fee is charged.


1) 24-25 March, Prof. BEE AW (PENN STATE)
Title:- Empirical Models of International Trade and Development with Firm
Heterogeneity
I. Rapid Economic Growth and Firm Dynamics
2. Export Market and Firm Heterogenity
3. Export Market Participation and R&D Investment
4. Firm Heterogeneity and Multinational Corporations
THIS COURSE WILL TAKE PLACE AT KUL. More information can be obtained from
conny.schuurmans@econ.kuleuven.be or annie.vercruysse@econ.kuleuven.be


2) 30 March-2 April: Prof. MARK ROBERTS (PENN STATE)
Title: Static and dynamic models of Competition: theory and empirics ?


The first part of the course will introduce students to static models
of market competition focusing on empirical models of production and
demand for differentiated products. The second part of the course
will focus on empirical models of entry and exit.


THIS COURSE WILL TAKE PLACE AT UCL ECON-CORE
Mon 30 March : 10.45-12.45 and 2-4pm at CORE in room b -135
Tuesday 31 March : 10.45-12.45 at CORE in room b -135
Wednesday 1 April : 10.45 -12.45 at ECON in room d-144
Thursday 2 April : 10.45-12.45 at ECON in room d-262  

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Belgian Day of International Trade Economists


Friday March 27th 2009, the Jacquemin Chair will organize a one day workshop (Belgian Day of International Trade Economists) joint with PAI project  (ECON-UCL/CORE-UCL/Ghent/ULB) and ECORE
hosted by CORE-UCL (Center for Operations Research and Econometrics), where Belgian trade professors present academic papers.
Participants will come from UCL, Gent, KUL, ULB.

Keynote speakers on this event include :


André SAPIR (ULB-Breugel)
Mark ROBERTS, specialist in industrial economics (Penn State)
Bee AW, specialist in the analysis of firm dynamcis (Penn State)
Eric BOND, specialist in Competition Issues (Vanderbilt University)
Daniel TRACA (Solvay)
Gerald WILLMANN (KU Leuven)
Bruno CASSIMAN (IESE)
Josef KONINGS (EU Commission, BEPA)
Paola CONCONI (ULB)
Maurizio ZANARDI (ULB)  

EVENTS 2007 -2008 

Lecture Series 

Special SEL sessions

International Trade Conference 

 

Lecture series spring 08

  • Hylke Vandenbussche, Jacquemin Chair UCL
    on  "Topics EU Policies : Introduction"
    February 15, 2008. 
  • Eric Faucompret, University of Antwerp (former dean)
    on "Turkish Accession in the EU : fact or fiction ?
    February 29, 2008 
    Slides  
  • Carola Maggiulli, EU Commission, DG Tax Policy, Head of unit
    on " Tax Competition in Europe"
    March 7, 2008
    Slides      (.ppt) - with actualization 
  • Ann Houtman, EU Commission, Director Internal Affairs
    on " EU Internal Market Issues"
    March 14, 2008 
  •  Jean-Louis-Colson, EU Commission, DG Competition, Head of Unit
    on "State Aid Policy"
    March 21, 2008 
  • Bertin Martens, EU Commission, Deputy Chief Economist DG Trade
    on " EU Trade with China"
    April 11, 2008 
  • Kirtikumar Mehta, EU Commission, Director Competition
    on "Antitrust-policy in the EU"
    April 25, 2008

Announcement of the event

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Special SEL sessions 


 
Des sessions spéciales du Séminaire Economique de Louvain de l'année académique 2007-2008, sont consacrées à la Chaire Alexis Jacquemin et aux thèmes de recherche qu’elle promeut. Le séminaire a réuni autour de thèmes de recherche d’actualité des personnalités du mode académique et non-académique impliqués dans les questions de politique commerciale, politique fiscale et politique de concurrence :   

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International Trade conference

 

 Speakers and papers 


Plenary session IV : 9:00 - Auditoire Montesquieu 01, Place Montesquieu - Louvain-la-Neuve

Jonathan EATON (New York University)
Trade at the firm level


Parallell session V : 14:00 - 17:45 - Auditoire 61, Collège J.Leclercq - Place Montesquieu, 1 -  Louvain-la-Neuve

  Chairmen 
 

EVENTS 2006-2007 

Lecture series 

Workshop on Globalization

Special SEL session 

Inauguration 

 

Lecture series 

Speakers 

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Workshop on Globalization

 

 Speakers and abstracts of the papers 

 


Trade Unions Go Global !

We analyze the link between occupational health and safety (OHS) and the role of trade unions in a globalizing world. We argue - consistent with economic history - that worker movements play a crucial role in making work places safer. We propose a model of institutionalized worker movements, i.e. trade unions, where trade unions set work place safety and firms choose employment. More safety is good for workers as it reduces the probability of being injured at work but it is bad for a firm as it tends to reduce productivity of the firm. From a social welfare perspective, there is an optimal level of occupational safety. Trade between a country with trade unions setting work place safety (the North) and a union-free country (the South) can imply a reduction in work standards in the North. When trade unions are established in the South, world-wide welfare increases.

 

 

Globalization and Individual Gains from Trade

We analyze the impact of globalization on the individual gains from trade in a general equilibrium model of monopolistic competition in which agents are heterogeneous between and within countries. Our variable elasticity setting allows us to disentangle two of the  main channels through which trade affects consumer welfare: product diversity and pro-  competitive effects. We show that, although trade always reduces the price-wage ratios in both countries, its impact on variety is less unambiguous. Whereas consumers’ choice set  in the country with the lower average labor efficiency always expands, that in the country  with the higher average labor efficiency may actually shrink. When the latter occurs,  the agents who put higher values on variety are more likely be hurt by trade because the increase in purchasing power does not allow to compensate for the reduction in variety. Calibrating our model on estimates for the U.S. income distribution in 1997, and using  data on 185 countries, our findings suggests that trade with countries of similar GDP per capita makes all agents better off; whereas trade with larger countries having lower GDP per capita may adversely affect up to 15-20% of agents.

 

  Trade Liberalization and Productivity Growth

This paper presents a trade model with firm-level productivity differences and R&D-driven growth. Trade liberalization causes the least productive firms to exit but also slows the development of new products. The overall effect on productivity growth depends on the size of intertemporal knowledge spillovers in R&D. When these spillovers are relatively weak, then trade liberalization promotes productivity growth in the short run and makes consumers better off in the long run. However, when these spillovers are relatively strong, then trade liberalization retards productivity growth in the short run and makes consumers worse off in the long run.

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Special SEL session 

Speakers and papers
 

  • Séminaire économique de Louvain (SEL) joint "Econometrics seminar - CORE"
    Jan DE LOECKER (Stern School of Business, New York University)
    Product differentiation, multi-product firms and estimating the impact of trade liberalization on productivity
    Paper (.pdf) - June 1st, 2007
  • SEL joint "Spatial Economics seminar - CORE"
    Gianmarco OTTAVIANO (Universita di Bocconi)
    Openness to trade and industry cost dispersion : evidence from a panel of Italian firms
    Paper (.pdf) - May 10, 2007
  • SEL
    Marcel GERARD (FUCAM and UCL)
    Reforming the taxation of multi-jurisdictional enterprises in Europe
    Paper (.pdf) - March 22, 2007
  • SEL joint "Spatial Economics seminar - CORE",
    Wouter VERGOTE (Saint-Louis, Brussels)
    On the Role of Retaliation in Trade Agreements
    Paper (.pdf) - December 7, 2006
  • SEL joint "Spatial Economics seminar - CORE"
    Daniel BERNHOFEN (Université of Nottingham)
    Predicting the factor content of trade : theory and evidence
    October 19, 2007
  • SEL joint "Spatial Economics seminar - CORE"
    Keith E. MASKUS (University of Colorado at Boulder)
    Vertical markets and price divergence inintegrated markets
    Paper (.pdf) (Joint paper with Mattias GANSLANDT, (The Research Institute of Industrial Economics, Stockholm))
    October 12, 2006
  • SEL
    Maurizio ZANARDI (University of Tilburg CENter)
    Does antidumping contribute to trade liberalization ? an empirical analysis
    Paper (.pdf) (Joint paper with Michael O. Moore, George Washington University)
    September 28, 2006

 

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Inauguration of the Chair 

Le thème de l'inauguration de la Chaire Jacquemin  :
"Made in China, processed in Europe, sold in US : Firms and Global production"


Professor Jim MARKUSEN, University of Colorado, Boulder
Offshoring of White Collar Services 

Professor Peter NEARY, University of Oxford
Firms and Markets : From Local to Global ? 

 

Dans l'actualité de l' Université catholique de Louvain

Dans la lettre de la Fondation Louvain, octobre 2006 en page 4

Dans la Revue Louvain de décembre 2004 , en page 1

 

 

 

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