The project Working, Yet Poor (WorkYP) is focused on the increasing social trend of working people at risk or below the poverty line. The overall purpose is to effectively prevent the risk of social dumping, reduce economic shocks, and grant EU citizens, mostly those who do not circulate,...

We estimate empirically the impact of the insolvency and bankruptcy code (IBC) on corporate leverage in India. The analysis builds on the Prowess database. For the estimations we use the difference in differences approach, where listed firms are used as the control group. We find that the IBC...

Economists typically make simplifying assumptions to make the solution and estimation of their highly complex models feasible. These simplifications include approximating the true nonlinear dynamics of the model, disregarding aggregate uncertainty or assuming that all agents are identical. While...

The workshop provides an opportunity for graduate students to present their ongoing work in the field of theoretical and empirical labor market research and receive feedback from leading scholars in the discipline. Topics: - Labor supply, labor demand and unemployment ; - Evaluation of labor...

We examine the effect of regional favoritism on firms’ access to credit. Using firm-level data on a large sample of 29,000 firms covering 48 countries, we investigate the hypothesis that access to credit of firms is higher in the birth regions of national political leaders. We find evidence...

The objective of the conference, organized by the TSE Digital Center at the Toulouse School of Economics, with the help of CEPR, is to discuss recent contributions to the understanding of the digital economy and its consequences for modern societies. The conference will feature contributions in...

Doctoral supervision is becoming an important challenge for many institutions delivering management education at the doctoral level. The emergence of a global market for recruiting of Faculty members makes the quality of doctoral education and doctoral supervision in Management and Business...

The Health Economists’ Study Group, popularly known as HESG, exists to support and promote the work of health economists. The group is intended for health economists rather than more generally for people interested in health economics. Although the group has an academic function – the...

We evaluate the impact of loan-to-value restrictions on household financial vulnerability. Using Norwegian tax data, we first document a beneficial leverage effect, in which households respond to the regulation by reducing house purchase probabilities, debt and interest expenses. Second, we...

Conference theme: Management Praxis in the African Context: Sustainability, Responsibility and Ethics. The conference will be organized around the following tracks: - Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management; - Strategy and International Management; - Entrepreneurship and Small...