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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…
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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…
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Research Economic Seminar: Distributionally Robust Mechanism Design
En savoir plusAuctions 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…