Topic : Sciences économiques & gestion

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    Research Economic Seminar: Distributionally Robust Mechanism Design

    Auctions are routinely used in economic transactions that are characterized by demand uncertainty, ranging from the sale of financial instruments (e.g., U.S. Treasury bills), antiques, collectibles and commodities (e.g., radio spectra, electricity and carbon emissions) to livestock and holidays.  We study the problem where an indivisible good is auctioned to multiple bidders, for each of…

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    Research Economic Seminar: The Effect of Research Grants on the Scientific Output of University Professors – Evidence for Luxembourg

    A major source of research funding for individual university professors are competitive research grants. With focus on Luxembourg, we present results from a difference-in-difference analysis which show that research grants by the Luxembourg National Research Fund (FNR), the central research funding agency in Luxembourg, increase the scientific output of university professors by 31%. We further…

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    Research Economic Seminar: The Effect of Research Grants on the Scientific Output of University Professors – Evidence for Luxembourg

    A major source of research funding for individual university professors are competitive research grants. With focus on Luxembourg, we present results from a difference-in-difference analysis which show that research grants by the Luxembourg National Research Fund (FNR), the central research funding agency in Luxembourg, increase the scientific output of university professors by 31%. We further…

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    Research Economic Seminar: Corruption and Growth: Long-run Historical Evidence

    We employ a newly assembled indicator of corruption from Varieties of Democracy (V-Dem) to examine the effects of corruption on economic growth. The V-Dem indicator is coded for almost all contemporary and historical polities since the year 1900 and, for some countries, since the French Revolution. This extensive data source allows us to exploit long-run,…

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    Lunchseminar in Economics: Priority Queueing Systems with Deceptive Customers

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    Research Economic Seminar: Finite sample properties of the GMM Anderson-Rubin test and identification issues

    In the construction of the GMM version of the Anderson and Rubin (AR) test statistic there is the choice to use either uncentered or centered moment conditions to form the weighting matrix. We show that, when the number of moment conditions is moderately large, the centered GMM-AR test is oversized. At the same time, the…

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    Virtual PhD Defense: Essays on market microstructure and banking

    Supervisor: Prof. dr. Jos Van BOMMEL, University of LuxembourgPlease note that only authorized persons can attend the defense on site.

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    Lunchseminar in Economics: Normalizations and misspecification in skill formation models

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    Lunchseminar in Economics: Inside the White Box – Unpacking the Determinants of Quality and Vertical Specialization

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    Research Economic Seminar: Return migration and self-employment: Is there a ‘jack-of-all-trades’ effect?

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