Derniers événements annoncés

Gambling on Development: Why Some Countries Win and Others Lose

During the EOS conference (jointly with UCLouvain, UNamur, KU Leuven and UAntwerp) Professor Stefan Dercon is launching his new book entitled-Gambling on Development: Why Come Countries and Others Lose

De la recherche à l'entrepreneuriat

Evènement de présentation du nouveau programme de financement Win4SpinOff du SPW Recherche.

PhD Channel, saison 2

Claire Rommelaere et l'équipe du Service AudioVisuel remettent le couvert, littéralement ;-) Quel que soit votre statut, (re)découvrez cette web-série qui évoque avec humour les difficultés des parcours de recherche !

Investment Income Inequality and Current Account Imbalances

Current account regressions show that when top income shares are added to the comprehensive set of conventional explanatory variables used by the IMF, they predict significantly larger current account deficits in a cross-section of advanced economies, but with important outliers among countries that have pursued export-led rather than finance-led growth strategies. To study this mechanism, we develop a DSGE model where the income share of top earners increases at the expense of bottom earners. Due to preferences for wealth, top earners have a much higher marginal propensity to save than bottom earners, as they do in the data. We find that, when the redistributive shock has a large positive effect on asset values, and if domestic financial markets are large, the result will be a sizeable current account deficit. On the other hand, when the redistributive shock mostly affects relative labor incomes, and if domestic financial markets are small, the result will be a current account surplus.

Faculty of sciences - Interdisciplinary Training School for PhD Students

Impacts à long terme de la pollution sur l’homme et sur les écosystèmes

Conférence gratuite ouverte à tous.

Atelier diffusion des sciences et vulgarisation scientifique

Cet atelier gratuit s'adresse à toute personne intéressée par la diffusion des sciences (étudiants, enseignants, journalistes, chercheurs, curieux,…).

7th European Summer School in Process Thought

The seventh summer school of the European Society for Process Thought focuses this year on Alfred North Whitehead's book, The Function of Reason (1929). In this work, Whitehead integrates the final causality in his cosmological theory. In the European literature, hints harmonics do not only pervade the works and thoughts of Maine de Biran and Gilles Deleuze, but also those of Henri Bergson, Friedrich Nietzsche and Charles Pierce The reading of "The Function of Reason" thus opens a space to discuss the occurrence of purpose in the nature of reality.

7ème conférence annuelle EPCUS: REPETITION ↔ TRANSFORMATION

Conférence destinée aux étudiants universitaires, visant à faire découvrir ou à redécouvrir le monde de la psychanalyse sur base des enseignements de Freud. Le thème retenu pour cette année est "REPETITION ↔ TRANSFORMATION"

"L'humain, cet ornithorynque"

Colloque international en hommage à Christophe Adam organisé par le Groupe de contact Phénoménologie Clinique, en association avec l’ULB, l’UCLouvain, l’ULiège, le SSM de Dinant, l’UPPL et le FNRS. Nous nous réjouissons de vous retrouver nombreux pour cet événement qui s’annonce exceptionnel (à l’image de Christophe).

Cash Transfers and Formal Labor Markets: Evidence from Brazil

Cash transfer programs have expanded widely in developing countries and have been credited for sizable reductions in poverty. However, their potential disincentive effects on beneficiaries’ labor supply have spurred a heated policy debate. This paper studies the impact of a large-scale program (Bolsa Familiain Brazil) on local labor markets in a context where such concerns could be particularly strong: eligibility is means-tested and we focus on the formal labor market, where earnings are more easily verifiable. Yet, we find that an expansion of Bolsa Familia increased local formal employment, using variation in the size of the reform across municipalities. The evidence is consistent with multiplier effects of cash transfers in the local economy, which dominate potential negative effects on formal labor supply among beneficiaries.

Scientific Day & Inauguration of IRis-F1

A scientific day on high resolution and dual-comb spectroscopies to present and celebrate this new technique.