Organisation : Département Sciences économiques et gestion
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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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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: 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…
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Research Economic Seminar: The Effect of Research Grants on the Scientific Output of University Professors – Evidence for Luxembourg
En savoir plusA 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
En savoir plusA 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
En savoir plusWe 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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Research Economic Seminar: Finite sample properties of the GMM Anderson-Rubin test and identification issues
En savoir plusIn 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
En savoir plusSupervisor: Prof. dr. Jos Van BOMMEL, University of LuxembourgPlease note that only authorized persons can attend the defense on site.