We show that managers can raise firm value by imitating other public firms’ strategies because imitation enhances their ability to obtain information from their own stock price or their peers’ stock prices, which improves the efficiency of their investment decisions. This conformity effect is...

Research Economic Seminar: "Environmental Policy, Technology Adoption and the Size Distribution of Firms"

Children face very different chances of getting ahead in life depending on the circumstances of their birth. Parenting and its role in the diverging destinies of rich and poor children are discussed in this lecture. Inequality begins at home. It develops from the differences in the ways advantaged...

2nd International Summer School on Knowledge-Driven Innovation and Entrepreneurship   The University of Luxembourg Incubator invites PhD, postdocs and young researchers to its 2nd International Summer School on Knowledge-Driven Innovation and Entrepreneurship, taking place in the beautiful...

Are you a Bachelor, Master or PhD student in Finance, Law, Social Sciences, IT, Economics, Communication, Linguistics, etc and interested to discover job, traineeship and fellowship opportunities in European Institutions ? Are you a professional wishing to work for the EU?  Then join us on 21st...

Save the date today! Come and meet us with your friends & family on Saturday, 23 March 2019 from 9.00 to 16.00 on Belval Campus in Esch-sur-Alzette. You will meet staff and students at presentations & information stands ready to answer your questions regarding: the University of Luxembourg &...

Presentation Relativity can be applied to physics, but what about ethics? This interactive session explores ethical challenges for physicists, and provides tools for both problem-solving and dilemma avoidance. Historical cases will be explored for benchmarking, including identifying the ethical...

  About the presentation The fundamental properties of every material, ranging from rocks to high-tech superconductors, are typically determined at the nanoscale by the complex interaction of atoms and subatomic particles. How is it possible to observe such phenomena since they are incredibly...

This short half-day seminar aims to improve participants’ (research supervisors) understanding of equality, diversity and inclusion in the context of postgraduate research supervision. This approach explicitly looks at gender within research environments and is focused on exposing inappropriate...

  EURAXESS organizes a training on the new immigration law which will focus on the national hiring process of PhD and postdocs, in the presence of the Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs. This event is only open to EURAXESS Luxembourg network members: University of Luxembourg, Fonds National...