Seminar on Firm Analysis jointly organised with five universities
With a view to stimulating reflection and research based on individual firm-level data, the National Bank of Belgium, in collaboration with the KUL, UCL, UGent, ULB and UMons, organises seminars to which internationally renowned experts are invited to present the findings of their latest research work, mostly empirical, on firm behaviour.

The purpose of these seminars is twofold. One aim is to enable interested parties to attend a conference presented by an academic researcher with an international reputation. The other is to enable the Bank's staff and members of Belgian university institutions to meet the guest speaker and benefit from his or her expertise during the guest's visit to the National Bank.

Agenda

Date Speaker Topic
05/06/2013 James Tybout
(Pennsylvania State University)		 A Search and Learning Model of Export Dynamics
Invitation - Abstract
Fall 2013 Pol Antràs
(Harvard University)		 (to be confirmed)


Previous seminars

Date Speaker Topic
13/05/2013 Jean Marc Robin (Sciences-Po) Labour Market Reforms and Unemployment Dynamics
Presentation - Abstract
18/04/2013 Beata Javorcik
(Oxford University)		 Multi-Product Firms at Home and Away: Cost- versus Quality-based Competence
Presentation - Abstract
26/02/2013 Jan De Loecker (Princeton University) Prices, markups and Trade Reform
Presentation - Abstract
30/11/2012 Eric Bartelsman (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) Employment Protection, Technology Choice, and Worker Allocation
Presentation - Abstract
21/11/2012 Thierry Mayer (Sciences Po) Gravity Equations: Workhorse,Toolkit, and Cookbook
Presentation - Abstract
05/10/2012 James Harrigan (University of Virginia) Export prices of U.S. firms
Presentation - Abstract
07/05/2012 Eric Verhoogen (Columbia University) Export Destinations and Input Prices: Evidence from Portugal
Presentation - Abstract
16/04/2012 Francis Kramarz (ENSAE) Firm-to-Firm Trade: Imports, Exports, and the Labor Market (in collaboration with Jonathan Eaton, Samuel Kortum and Raul Sampognaro)
Presentation - Abstract
02/03/2012 Costas Arkolakis (Yale University) Staggered Adjustments and Trade Dynamics (in collaboration with Jonathan Eaton and Samuel Kortum)
Presentation - Abstract
07/12/2011 Jon Romalis (University of Chicago, Booth School of Business) International Prices and Endogenous Quality
(in collaboration with Robert Feenstra)
Presentation - Abstract
24/10/2011 John Haltiwanger (University of Maryland) The Slow Growth of New Plants: Learning about Demand?
(in collaboration with Lucia Foster and Chad Syverson)
Presentation - Abstract