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Demographics, Wealth, and Global Imbalances in the Twenty-First Century
En savoir plusThe Department of Finance of the University of Luxembourg is pleased to invite you to this seminar with Adrien Auclert from Stanford University. AbstractWe use a shift-share approach to quantify the general equilibrium effects of population aging on wealth accumulation, real interest rates, and capital flows. Combining population projections with household survey data from the US and…
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Research Economic Seminar: Outsourcing Decisions for Additive Manufacturing
En savoir plusManufacturing firms have started to implement emerging additive manufacturing (AM) technologies at an industrial scale. With industrial potential comes the challenge for firms to identify appropriate governance structures for AM transactions. Firms are in conflict whether they should outsource AM or pursue it in-house. We investigate why manufacturing firms opt for specific transaction governance structures…
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PhD Defense : Encadrement des cryptomonnaies en droit pénal européen: réflexions sur la mise en réseau du droit.
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Research Economic Seminar: Labor market tightness and recruitment of foreign skilled workers
En savoir plusWhile recruiting foreign skilled workers in the United States is costly in time and money, firms’ demand for foreign workers has largely increased over the last decade. This paper explores the determinants of this increasing demand and documents the role played by labor market tightness and by the increasing number of international students graduated from…
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Lehman’s Lemons: Do Career Disruptions Matter for the Top 5%?
En savoir plusAfter a break, the Department of Finance is pleased to resume its seminar series this Spring. At this stage, we expect most of our seminars to take place online. Please take note of the schedule of the seminars which may change given the circumstances. We appreciate your flexibility and hope to return to a more…
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Research Economic Seminar: The Causal Effects of R&D Grants: Evidence from a Regression Discontinuity
En savoir plusDirect public support for business R&D is a well-established remedy to market failures, yet empirical evidence on its effectiveness yields conflicting results. The paper investigates the impact of the first European public R&D grant program targeting small and medium enterprises (i.e. the SME Instrument) on a wide range of firm outcomes. We leverage the assignment…
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Research Economic Seminar: Transboundary Haze Games: Local Capture and Common Agency
En savoir plusWe study how transboundary, intergovernmental fire and haze negotiations interact with local, subnational government collusion and capture in a decentralized country. The local government collusion and capture problem is modelled as a competing principals and common agency problem that interacts with the central government’s game of chicken. The results show that the central government can…