As part of its lecture series ‘Inequality and…?’, a lecture on the topic ‘Inequality and Personal Responsibility’ will be held at the European Investment Bank (EIB) on Thursday, 27 April 2017. Main coordinators of this lecture series are FNR PEARL Chairs Professors Conchita D’Ambrosio and Louis...

LuxDoc meets at the Banff mountain film festival in Utopolis Kirchberg. The world's 8 best mountain and adventure films! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UFaGgxGsdbY Big stories on big screen.   Buy your ticket already online for 16.50 Euros https://booking.utick.be/?module=MODCATALOGUEDATES&P...

The EIB Institute is partnering with the University of Luxembourg, and others in organising a series of lectures under the general theme of #Inequality   The next lecture on the series will take place on 29 March at 13:00, on the topic "Inequality and #ClimateChange" and will be presented by Prof...

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...

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...

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