Category: Research

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    Climate Matching in Migration

    On 18 June 2025, we were delighted to welcome Prof. Marco Tabellini from Harvard Business School. As part of our lecture series on Cross-Border Labor Mobility, Prof. Tabellini delivered an insightful lecture on “Climate Matching in Migration”.

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    Forty years of Schengen: Where do we stand?

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    2025 Pierre Werner Scholarship laureates

    Following a rigorous evaluation by the Fondation Pierre Werner management committee, four outstanding doctoral researchers have been selected as recipients of the 2025 Pierre Werner Scholarship.

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    Migration as adaptation to climate change

    On 6 May 2025, we were delighted to welcome Prof. Katrin Millock from the Paris School of Economics. As part of our lecture series on Cross-Border Labor Mobility, Prof. Millock delivered an insightful lecture on “Migration as adaptation to climate change”.

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    Celebrating the 2024 ECL Prize winners in Economics and Finance

    On 23 April 2025, the Master in Quantitative Economics and Finance (MQEF) programme, together with the Economist Club Luxembourg (ECL) organised an event to celebrate academic excellence and award the ECL Prize for the Best Master’s Thesis in Economics and Finance. The prize is awarded as part of the Memorandum of Understanding between the ECL…

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    Call for participation: “The European Republic” – utopia, political project, imperative necessity?

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    GREITMA DTU: Exploring the Intersection of Sustainability and Innovation in the EU Single Market

    A new doctoral training unit (DTU) is taking shape within the Faculty of Law, Economics and Finance (FDEF) at the University of Luxembourg. Under the leadership of coordinator Eleftheria Neframi, thirteen PhD candidates are beginning their academic journey by taking on challenging research topics that explore the effects of the green and digital transformations within…

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    WorkYP project highlighted as a Horizon Europe success story

    From 2020 to 2023, Associate Professor in European and comparative Labour Law, Luca Ratti, led the “Working Yet Poor” project at the University of Luxembourg. The project, which received a 3.2 million EUR grant through the EU’s Horizon 2020 programme, sought to uncover the roots of in-work poverty across Europe and put proposed policy actions…

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    Insights from Evidence on Colombia’s Regularization Programs for Venezuelan Forced Migrants

    On 27 March 2025, we were delighted to welcome Prof. Sandra Rozo from The World Bank. As part of our lecture series on Cross-Border Labor Mobility, Prof. Rozo delivered an insightful lecture on “Insights from Evidence on Colombia’s Regularization Programs for Venezuelan Forced Migrants”.

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    FDEF Researchers receive over 1 million euros in FNR CORE funding

    This research proposal, exploring the intersection of hedge fund value creation and data-driven modelling, aligns seamlessly with Luxembourg’s national priorities of fostering a knowledge-driven data economy and facilitating industrial and service transformation. More generally, this project provides an evaluation of the ability of the asset management industry to produce information, provide liquidity, and improve economic…

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