Announcement


Current seminars:

June 13th 2007 (IESEG):
Steven Van Passel (Policy Research for Sustainable Agriculture, Belgium) &
Guido Van Huylenbroeck (University Ghent, Belgium)
Factors of Farm Performance: An Empirical Analysis of Structural and Managerial Characteristics.

June 20th 2007 (IESEG):
Pierre Ouellette (Université du Québec, Montréal)
Comparaison de l’efficience des hôpitaux privés et publics: Québec vs Californie.


Seminars and Other Activities

1. Opening session:

November 19th 2003:
Philippe Vanden Eeckaut (University Lille III)
Overview of past and actual studies in frontier analysis
Laurens Cherchye (Catholic University of Leuven)
The nonparametric approach to optimizing behavior: An economics perspective

2. Seminars:

February 3th 2004 (IAG, Louvain-la-Neuve)
(1) Per Agrell (UCL-IAG/CORE)
The Micro-Productivity Paradox Revisited.

(2) Policy Modeling For Common Pool Resources: The Case of Fisheries

March 18th 2004 (IFRESI):
Emili Grifell-Tatjé (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona)
Decomposing the Dividend

May 6th 2004 (IFRESI):
Paul Wilson (University of Texas at Austin)
Robust Nonparametric Estimation of Efficiency and Technical Change in U.S. Commercial Banking

May 26th 2004 (IFRESI):
Robert G. Chambers (University of Maryland & University of Western Australia)
The Precautionary Principle and Pareto Optimality in an Uncertain World

October 28th 2004 (IFRESI):
Bert Balk (Erasmus University Rotterdam & Statistics Netherlands):
The Measurement and Decomposition of Productivity Change: Exercises on the Netherlands' Manufacturing Industry

March 14th 2005 (IFRESI):
Jean-Paul Chavas (University of Wisconsin-Madison):
“Economies of Scope in Research and Development at U.S. Research Universities”.

March 21th 2006 (IFRESI):
Shunsuke Managi (Yokohama National University):
“Environmental Policies in China”.

February 19th 2007 (IESEG):
Mugur Jitea (ISA, Lille)
“An Application of Positive Mathematical Programming to Analyse the Effects of the Common Agriculture Policy in Transylvania”.

3. Marketing Application Group:

January 22nd 2004.
1st working meeting: Discussion of article: Kamakura, W.A., T.B. Ratchford, J. Agrawal (1988) Measuring Market Efficiency and Welfare Loss, Journal of Consumer Research, 15(3), 289-302.
2nd working meeting: Postponed.