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.
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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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(Post-)Doctoral Workshop
On Tuesday December 17 : presentations by our Babies, Teens and Young Adults
The Future of Work
The labor market is undergoing profound changes, raising multiple policy challenges. There is a need to stimulate labor mobility while protecting workers; increase productivity and employment levels while containing income inequality; accommodate globalization and technological change while ensuring equal opportunities for everyone.
Interview with Philip Verwimp on the Nobel Prize in Economics
Philip Verwimp was interviewed on VRT (flemish public radio) on the Nobel Prize in Economics for Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo and Michael Kremer. Interview is in Dutch.
Building a Centre for Impact Evaluation in Morocco
Philip VERWIMP has received a grant (2019-2024) from the Higher Academy for Research and Teaching (ARES) to set up a centre for the evaluation of public policies at Moulay Ismail University of Meknes, Morocco.