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Faculty of Economics and Management Naamsestraat 69 3000 Leuven google map
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Current and Upcoming
Events
2010
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July 2-5 |
CHINA SUMMER ECONOMICS INSTITUTE
The objective of the
China Summer Economics Institute is
to create a network and community of
top-level scholars working on
Chinese economic development. This
initiative is co-sponsored by UC
Berkeley, University of Chicago
Booth School of Business,
LICOS-Center for Institutions and
Economic Performance at the
Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Hong
Kong University and the School of
Economics and Management at Tsinghua
University in collaboration with the
BREAD, NBER and CEPR networks of
academic economists.
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Past Seminars & Events
2009
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June 27 - July 1 |
CHINA SUMMER ECONOMICS INSTITUTE
The objective of the
China Summer Economics Institute is
to create a network and community of
top-level scholars working on
Chinese economic development. This
initiative is co-sponsored by UC
Berkeley, University of Chicago
Booth School of Business,
LICOS-Center for Institutions and
Economic Performance at the
Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Hong
Kong University and the School of
Economics and Management at Tsinghua
University in collaboration with the
BREAD, NBER and CEPR networks of
academic economists.
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May 27-29 |
LICOS is organizing the first ever
BEERONOMICS CONFERENCE.
Venue:
Leuven (Belgium), from the 27th to 29th May 2009.
Call for papers
deadline January 1, 2009.
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A conference on the economics of beer, brewing and related activities.
Please send abstract or paper to:
submissions@beeronomics.org
Our
[FLYER] summarises most important information. |
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May 6 |
Whither
the Bretton Woods Institutions after the
G-20 London Summit?
A lecture by Mr. Willy KIEKENS, the IMF Executive Director.
The lecture is co-organized by GGS (Centre
for Global Governance Studies) and LICOS (Centre
for Institutions and Economic Performance). The lecture will take place
on Wednesday 6 may, 6 PM in Auditory Zeger Van Hee,
Tiensestraat 41.
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March 30-
April 2 |
UC Louvain and
LICOS are organizing
Ph.D. Course
"Static and Dynamic
Models of Competition: Theory and
Empirics?"
by Prof. Mark
Roberts
(Penn State University)
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PROGRAM:
The first part of the course will introduce students to static models of market
competition focusing on empirical models of production and demand for
differentiated products. The second part of the course will focus on empirical
models of entry and exit.
SCHEDULE:
Mon 30 March: 10.45-12.45 pm and
2-4pm at CORE in room b -135, Louvain-la-Neuve
Tuesday 31 March: 10.45-12.45 in room
at CORE in room b -135, Louvain-la-Neuve Wednesday 1 April: 10.45 -12.45pm at
ECON in room d144, Louvain-la-Neuve
Thursday 2 April: 10.45-12.45am in
room at ECON in room d-262, Louvain-la-Neuve
[DOWNLOAD THE PROGRAM] |
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2008
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October 22 |
Seminar "Multinational, Tax Holidays, and
Technology Transfer" by Kaz Miyagiwa |
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Jointly organized by
LICOS and CES at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven.
Venue: 12.00-13.30, HOG 02.101, Naamsestraat 69
Click here
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October 8 |
Workshop on International Trade
and Productivity in China’s Manufacturing Sector |
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Jointly organized by
LICOS and CES at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven.
Venue: 2pm-5.30pm, HOG 02.101, Naamsestraat 69
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June 27 - July 1 |
China Summer Institute, hosted by Tsinghua University Beijing
Call for papers
deadline February 29, 2007.
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Jointly organized by UC Berkeley - the Chicago
Graduate School of Business, LICOS - Katholieke Universiteit Leuven and the
School of Economics and Management - Tsinghua University. Click
here
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February 13 |
1pm - 2pm HOG 02.101 |
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Technical Efficiency and Institutional Change: A Stochastic Frontier Analysis of the Nicaraguan Coffee Industry |
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LICOS Seminar by Silvia Saravia Matus (University of Sheffield) |
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February 11 |
6pm - 8pm room HOG 00.85 |
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China’s exports - threat or opportunity?
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LICOS China Policy Seminar - click
here for a list of speakers |
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February 12 |
1pm - 2pm HOG 03.101 |
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Joint Seminar LICOS - MSI by Ari Van Assche
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Institutions and Multinational Entry Strategy |
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2007
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November 20-29 |
China from the Bottom Up
PhD course by Scott Rozelle (Stanford University) |
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More information available
here.
Slides and readings are available
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June 26 |
Development Conference Day |
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Pinxtenzaal (HOG 02.101), FETEW, Naamsestraat 69, 3000 Leuven |
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Schedule available
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June 4 |
Workshops on Land, Institutions and Development and Land and European Agricultural Policy |
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May 7-11 |
Ph.D. Course by Gérard Roland (University of California Berkeley) |
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"The Economics of Institutional Reform and Development in China" |
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Schedule available
here |
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Feb
20 |
1pm - 2pm room, HOG 03.101 |
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AFI-LICOS seminar by Rosanne Vanpée |
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"The Value of Clean Hands: Public Policy and International
Asset Allocation" |
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Feb 15 |
1pm - 2pm room, HOG 03.101
(Seminar cancelled) |
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LICOS seminar by Gianfranco De Seminone (Università degli studi di Milano) |
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"Skilled Migration, Quality of Education and FDI" joint with Daniele Checchi (Universita degli Studi di Milano and IZA) and Riccardo Faini (Universita di Roma Tor Vergata and CEPR) |
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Feb 14 |
8pm - 9.30pm, Auditorium Zeger Van Hee, Tiensestraat 41, 3000
Leuven |
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LICOS lecture by Professor Tim Josling (Stanford University)
with comments by Professor Hylke Vandenbussche |
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"The WTO Doha Round: What's at Stake?" |
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2006
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Dec 14 |
12am - 1pm room, HOG 03.101 |
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Joint Seminar AFI - LICOS by Nancy Huyghebaert, Qi Quan and Lijian Sun |
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"Financing Decisions in Newly Privatized Chinese Firms: Does a Stock Market Quotation Really Provide Disciplining?" |
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