While EU countries have been able to rely on a more resilient social model and a science-based approach in managing the Covid crisis more successfully so far than the US, Europe has fallen short in matching the US effort to incentivise Covid vaccine innovation. This is due to a lower level of financial investment and …
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Business Club: Le bilan économique après 6 mois de pandémie
L’Europe économique s’est-elle enfin réveillée, peut on coupler des politiques vertes à un idéal de croissance économique, faut-il craindre un nouveau krach boursier ?
FNRS.live
Le « monde d’après » vu par 5 chercheurs FNRS Lors de cette première édition des FNRS.live, les conférences en ligne du FNRS, 5 chercheurs FNRS ont esquissé les opportunités, les défis et les enjeux qui s’offrent à nos sociétés pour envisager l’après crise, sanitaire mais aussi économique et sociale.
Learning from the Curve
Students and researchers at ECARES team up to better understand COVID-19 and its economic implications.
In Institutions We Trust? The Economics of Institutional Change
Both the 2008 global financial crisis and the current COVID-19 pandemic have profoundly impacted our economies and livelihoods. A global crisis affects popular trust in our institutions’ capacity to deal with the challenges ahead, acting as a stress test on national and global institutions.
HiCN Call for Papers “Social unrest and violent conflict in times of pandemics”
The 16th Annual 16th Annual Workshop of the Households in Conflict Network will be an online event this year, due to the Covid-19 pandemic. The world is experiencing an shock of massive proportions, with a host of unexplored questions and uncertain answers. Scholars can contribute substantially to the debate, in particular a network as ours with a …
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Newspaper articles related to the Corona crisis
Some interviews on the covid-19 crisis in Belgian press.
SEMINARS
From now on and until the end of the academic year, all research seminars/conferences organised or hosted by ECARES will take place virtually. Please check the links in the calendar of events.
Inaugural Lecture for the International Francqui Chair of Olivier Scaillet
THE VALUE ADDED FROM ACTIVE FUND MANAGEMENT – Capitant Brussels and the finance research groups from UCL, UGent, ULB, ULiège, UNamur, and VUB are excited to invite you to the inaugural lecture by professor Olivier Scaillet, laureate of the International Francqui Chair 2020 in human sciences.
ECARES Doctoral Lectures – Thierry Mayer, SciencesPo
Gravity vs IO: Trade Policy, Mergers and Multinational Production. Recent work in international trade builds on the structural gravity model to provide useful tools for counterfactual policy analysis. The trade approach is economical in terms of data requirements, and can handle large scale problems in terms of country coverage, together with sophisticated models, where firms can decide among …
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