Organisation : Faculté de Droit, d’Économie et de Finance (FDEF)

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    Research Economic Seminar: The Impact of a Possible Trump Reelection on Immigration Pressure in Alternative Countries

    AbstractJoint  work with Michel Beine, Michel Bierlaire, Evangelos Paschalidis, and Silvia VarottoWhen people think about potential destinations for location choice, they may prefer countries along a set of shared characteristics like language, economic structure, governance, or geography. Similarities and substitution effects across these dimensions have often been neglected in migration choice models. We motivate their…

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    Lunchseminar in Economics : Recycling promoting policies in a dynamic model of resource use with endogenous R&D

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    Lecture What is political about constitutional review?

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    Researchers of tomorrow present their work during the 2023 DSEFM poster session

    On 15 Feb 2023 was held the yearly edition of the Doctoral School in Economics, Finance and Management‘s (DSEFM) Poster Session.

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    PhD Defense:  A Principled Judicial-Regulatory Framework Analysis of Approaches to Hate Speech under European, German, Irish and English Human Rights Law 

     JURY MEMBERS :Prof. Dr Mark COLE, Université du LuxembourgChairProf. Dr Jörg GERKRATH, Université du LuxembourgSupervisorProf. Dr Ana-Maria GUERRA MARTINS, juge à la cours EDHVice-ChairProf. Dr. Sally Broughton-Micova,  University of East AngliaMemberDr. Natalie Alkviadou, JustitiaMember

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    Book Launch: Researching the ECJ: Methodological Shifts and Law’s Embeddedness

    Presentation by Fernanda G. Nicola, Washington College of Law, American UniversityVera Fritz, Centre for Modern European Studies, University of Copenhagen“Judge Biographies as a Methodology to Grasp the Dynamics inside the CJEU and Its Relationship with EU Member States”- Discussant: Judge Siniša Rodin, CJEUKaren McAuliff, Birmingham Law School“Through the Lens of Language: Uncovering the Collaborative Nature…

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    Research Economic Seminar: Job insecurity, savings and portfolio choices – an Italian experiment

    AbstractJob insecurity has consequences outside of the labour market. Using the 2012 Fornero reform as a natural experiment, we show that greater insecurity on the labour market increases precautionary savings. Provided that household income remained constant, this increase in precautionary savings translates mechanically into a reduction in consumption. However, the job-insecurity elasticity of consumption depends…

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    DF Lunch Seminar : Markup Shocks and Asset Prices

    Abstract:We explore the asset pricing implications of shocks that allow firms to extract more rents from consumers. These markup shocks directly impact the representative household’s marginal utility and the firms’ cash flow. Using firm-level data, we construct a measure of aggregate markup shocks and show that the price of markup risk is negative, that is,…

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    Research Economic Seminar: The Impact of the UK hospitals procurement type on facility management costs

    AbstractPrivate Finance Initiatives (PFI) is a specific type of Public-Private Partnerships (PPP) that has been widely used in the UK since the early 80s. This study ex-post compares facility management costs of hospitals supplied through PFI with those under traditional procurement. Using the ERIC panel dataset covering 2017 to 2021, we estimate the impact of…

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    Research Economic Seminar: Uncovering the role of education in the uptake of preventive measures against malaria in the African population

    AbstractIn many African countries where malaria is endemic, this life-threatening disease is a leading cause of death. What role does education, in particular numeracy and literacy, play in malaria prevention and treatment-seeking? In this study we apply a birth cohort approach, which allows us to cover a time span of 60 years, and therefore, to…

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