International Conference on
New Challenges in Economic Research
September 3 and 4, 2007
Host
Department of Economics
Université catholique de Louvain
This conference is sponsored by:
ARC project on New Macroeconomic Perspectives in Development
PAI project on Equilibrium Theory and Optimization for Public Policy and Industry regulation
Chaire Alexis Jacquemin on Politiques micro-économiques européennes
Local organizers: Raouf Boucekkine (coordinator), Bart Cockx, Pierre Dehez, Frédéric Docquier, Henri Sneessens, Bruno Van der Linden, Hylke Vandenbussche and Raf Wouters.
Secretary: Claudine Stage,
Monday, September 3
9:00 Welcome
(Montesquieu Building Entrance Hall)
9:30 Plenary session I: Labour Economics (Aud. Montesquieu 01)
Chairman : Bruno Van der Linden (UCL, Louvain-la-Neuve)
Dale Mortensen (Northwestern University)
Island matching and the volatility of unemployment
11:00 Coffee break
11:30 Plenary session II: Migration and Development (Aud. Montesquieu 01)
Chairman : Frédéric Docquier (UCL, Louvain-la-Neuve)
Mark Rosenzweig (Yale University)
Education and migration: a global perspective
13:00 Lunch
14:30-17:00 Parallel session I : Labour Economics (Aud. Leclercq 60)
Chairman: Maarten Goos (KUL, Leuven)
Klaus Wälde (University of Würzburg and CESifo)
Time-dependent unemployment insurance with endogenous search effort
Bruno Crépon (CREST-INSEE, CEPR and IZA)
Policy evaluation in equilibrium. The case of job search counselling in
France.
Bas van der Klaauw (Free University Amsterdam, CEPR and IZA)
Structural empirical evaluation of job search monitoring
14:30-17:00 Parallel session II : Migration and Development (Aud; Leclercq 61)
Chairman: Jean-Marie Baland (FUNDP, Namur)
Andrew Mountford (Royal Holloway University of London)
The brain drain and the world distribution of income
Hillel Rapoport (Bar Ilan University and EQUIPPE, Université de Lille II)
Migration and FDI: complements or substitutes
Herbert Brucker (IAB, Nurnberg)
Does migration trigger human capital investment?
14:30-17:00 Session III : Monetary Macroeconomics (Aud Leclercq 62)
Chairman: Robert Kollmann (Free University of Brussels)
Carlos Thomas (London School of Economics)
Search, matching frictions and optimal monetary policy
Michael U. Krause (Deutsche Bundesbank)
Inflation dynamics with search frictions: a structural econometric analysis
Keith Kuester (European Central Bank)
Real price and wage rigidities in a model with matching frictions
17:00 Coffee break
17:45 Plenary session III: Methodology (Aud. Montesquieu 01)
Chairman: Pierre Dehez (UCL, Louvain-la-Neuve)
Werner Hildenbrand (Universität Bonn)
Reflections on the modelling methodology in applied demand analysis
20:00 Conference dinner
Tuesday, September 4
9:00 Plenary session IV: International Trade (Aud. Montesquieu 01)
Chairman : Hylke Vandenbussche (UCL, Louvain-la-Neuve)
Jonathan Eaton (New York University)
Trade at the firm level
10:30 Coffee break
11:00 Plenary session V: Growth Theory (Aud. Montesquieu 01)
Chairman: Raouf Boucekkine (UCL, Louvain-la-Neuve)
Oded Galor (Brown University and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
Unified growth theory
12:30 Lunch
14:00-16:30 Parallel session IV: Growth Theory (Aud. Leclercq 60)
Chairman : David de la Croix (UCL, Louvain-la-Neuve)
Omer Moav (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
Inequality in land ownership, the emergence of human capital promoting institutions and the great divergence
Uwe Sunde (IZA, Bonn)
Human capital, mortality and fertility: a unified theory of the economic and demographic transition
Omar Licandro (European University Institute, Florence)
"The father of child is father of man": implications for the demographic transition
14:00-17:45 Parallel session V: International Trade (Aud. Leclercq 61)
Chairmen : Joep Konings and Gerald Willman (KUL, Leuven)
Andrew Bernard (Tuck School, Dartmouth)
Multi-product firm and trade liberalization
Francis Kramarz (CREST-INSEE)
Trade, wages and employment using firm- level data
Keith Head (University of British Columbia)
Gravity and heterogeneity
Marc Melitz (Princeton University)
The dynamics of firm-level adjustment to trade liberalization
16:30 Coffee break
18:00 Closing plenary session (Aud. Montesquieu 01)
Chairman: Raf Wouters (National Bank of Belgium)
Jacques Drèze (UCL, Louvain-la-Neuve)
General equilibrium, incomplete markets and macroeconomics
19:30 Farewell drink