Solvay Brussels School - Economics & Management

Research Seminar in Applied Economics and Management

jointly organised by

Solvay Brussels School of Economics and Management, DULBEA and Centre Emile Bernheim

Thursday: from 12.15 p.m. to 1.45 p.m.

New Location: Seminar Room R42.2.110

42 av. F.D. Roosevelt, Brussels

Seminar Coordinators:

Prof. jmattijs [at] ulb [dot] ac [dot] be (Jan Mattijs)
Prof. pgmeon [at] ulb [dot] ac [dot] be (Pierre-Guillaume Méon)

Contact Persons: vlahaye [at] ulb [dot] ac [dot] be (Véronique Lahaye) and aurousse [at] ulb [dot] ac [dot] be (Aurélie Rousseaux)

PROGRAMME 2011-2012

• October 5, 2011: Time-varying risk premium in large cross-sectional equity datasets by Olivier Scaillet (CH, GFRI Universite de Geneve and Swiss Finance Institute). Co-written with Patrick Gagliardinia and Elisa Ossolab. From 11.30 a.m to 12.30 p.m.

• October 13, 2011: Computable General Equilibrium and Multicriteria Decision Making Models: an Alternative Approach by Manuel Alejandro Cardenete (ES, Universidad Pablo de Olavide de Sevilla - Institute for Prospective Technological Studies (IPTS) – European Commission). Co-written with Francisco J. Andre.   

• November 3, 2011: Democratization under the threat of revolution: Evidence from the Great Reform Act of 1832 by Raphael Franck (IL, Bar Ilan University). Co-written with Toke S. Aidt.      

• November 7, 2011 : Does AIDS Treatment Stimulate Negative Behavioral Response? A Field Experiment in South Africa by Plamen Nikolov (US, Harvard University) 

• November 17, 2011: Le nouveau management public vu d'en bas: objectifs théoriques et réalités pratiques. Etude de cas dans des hôpitaux français by Nicolas Belorgey (FR, Centre Maurice-Halbwachs CNRS-EHESS-ENS)

• November 29, 2011 : 12.30-2.00pm – RSAEM-CERMi Seminar To Switch or Not to Switch – Can Individual Lending Do Better in Microfinance Than Group Lending, by Helke WAELDE (DE, Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz)

• December 1, 2011: Behaviour and Investment Actions within Fund Managers and their Markets
  - Developing and analysing a grounded theory of fund management by John Holland (UK, University of Glasgow)  
  

• December 6, 2011 : Foreign Currency Loans - Demand or Supply Driven? by Martin Brown (CH, Swiss Institute of Banking and Finance - University of St.Gallen).
  Co-written with Karolin Kirschenmann and Steven Ongena      
  This seminar is organised jointly with the APEC research group of the VUB 

• December 15, 2011: Responsabilité et contrôle dans la haute fonction publique  by Véronique Chanut (FR, Université de Paris II Panthéon-Assas)
  Presentation based on two papers:
  I. La créativité dans l'évaluation du potentiel des dirigeants en univers bureaucratique : le cas des membres du corps préfectoral en France. Co-written with Frank Bournois      
  II. Réinventer l’évaluation. Les nouvelles règles du jeu RH dans une administration publique. Co-written with Jacques Rojot.  
           
• January 12, 2012: Choosing procedures for collective decision making by Hans Peter Grüner (DE, University of Mannheim)

• January 26, 2012: Stock Returns, Governments and Market Efficiency - France, 1871-2008 by David Le Bris (FR, BEM Bordeaux Management School)   

• February 9, 2012: Mechanism Design and Intentions by Félix Bierbrauer (DE, University of Cologne). Co-written with Nick Netzer.

• February 23, 2012: Depression Econometrics: A FAVAR Model of Monetary Policy During the Great Depression by Albrecht Ritschl (LSE, UK). Co-written with Pooyan Amir-Ahmadi. 
  
  
• March 8, 2012: Global Co-Evolution of Firm Boundaries: Process Commoditization, Capabilities Development, and Path Dependencies by Silvia Massini (UK, University of Manchester)

• March 15, 2012: Crafting the integrative value proposition for large scale transport infrastructure hubs: a stakeholder management approach by Michael Dooms (BE, Vrije Universiteit Brussel) 

• March 22, 2012: Do Children Lead to Less Spousal Love? by Shoshana Grossbard (US,San Diego State University, University of Zaragoza and IZA) 

• April 19, 2012: Returns and Fundamentals in International Art Markets by Christophe Spaenjers (FR, HEC Paris)

   

•  April 26, 2012:  Academic Dynasties: Decentralization and Familism in the Italian Academia by Ruben Durante (FR, Sciences Po). Co-written with Roberto Perotti and Giovanna Labartino.

• May 10, 2012: Risk and Discrimination by  Josh Ederington (US, University of Kentucky). Co-written with Jenny Minier and C. Jill Stowe