18/11/2025 | 12:45Karine Moukaddem(IRES/LIDAM, UCLouvain)will give a presentation on Dreaming Beyond Borders: Aspirations, Networks, and Migration Intentions of Young Women in LebanonAbstractMigration intentions are widely recognized as key precursors to actual migration.

13/11/2025 | 12:45Daniel Wainstock( University of Oxford)will give a presentation on Five Millennia of Nation-BuildingAbstractThe relationship between states and collective identities is not straightforward.

12/11/2025 - 10:30Antonio Vivencio Betanzo(Maastricht University) will give a presentation on Gravity without GravitasAbstract

06/11/2025 | 12:45Kirill Shakhnov(University of Surrey) will give a presentation on Short- and Long-Run News: Evidence from Giant Mineral DiscoveriesAbstractThe bulk of the news shocks literature focuses on shocks materializing after four or five quarters, with limited evidence on news about longer-run events.

04/11/2025 | 12:45 Vincent Notte (IRES/LIDAM, UCLouvain)will give a presentation on Exchange rate pass-through and monetary policy: a counterfactual SVAR analysisAbstractUnderstanding how exchange rate fluctuations are transmitted to inflation is critical for monetary policy design.

30/10/2025 | 12:45Cuimin Ba(University of Pittsburgh)will give a presentation on Over- and Underreaction to Information: Belief Updating with Cognitive ConstraintsAbstractThis paper explores how cognitive constraints interact with the information environment to determine whether people overreact or underreact to information.

29/10/2025 | 10:30 | OnlineTommaso Sonno(University of Bologna and CEP-LSE)will give a presentation on Large Scale Land Acquisitions: Trees, Trade, and Structural ChangeAbstract: By 2022, large-scale land acquisitions, a key component of agricultural foreign direct investment, covered more than 4% of the world’s arable land.

28/10/2025 | 12:45 | LECL 60Charles de Pierpont de Burnot(IRES/LIDAM, UCLouvain)will give a presentation on The Roman roots of the Western European trade linkagesAbstract:This research examines the persistent legacy of Roman integration in current trade linkages across Western Europe.

24/10/2025 - D.251Leo ZhangPortfolio Selection with Downside Risk Optimization: Distributional Robustness and Ambiguity AversionDownside risk and ambiguity aversion are central concerns in portfolio selection.

23/10/2025 | 12:45Maya Eden(University of Zurich)will give a presentation onFixed Point Utilitarianism (very preliminary)AbstractHow should policymakers make decisions that affect the population trajectory? I propose a choice rule which reflects the goal of maximizing the sum of utilities of those people who will end up existing. This choice rule consists of a solution to a fixed point problem.