UNCTAD/Academy of International Business Award

Baptiste Souillard received the UNCTAD/Academy of International Business Award for the Best Research Work on International Investment and Development for his paper “The Indirect Effect of Import Competition on Corporate Tax Avoidance.”

Paper prizes for Fabrizio Leone

We are very proud to announce that our PhD student Fabrizio Leone has won the best paper prizes at the “XXXV Jornadas de Economía Industrial” and “RIEF Doctoral Meeting” for his work on “Multinational Enterprises, Technology Transfers and Robot Adoption“.

Chocs transitoires, effets permanents

Une guerre civile ne s’arrête pas quand les armes se taisent. Est-ce que cela s’applique aussi à la crise du Covid-19 ? Philip Verwimp, February 13, 2021

André Sapir has been appointed as member to the High-Level Advisory Group on the main economic and social challenges the European economy will face in the post-Covid environment. The 8-member Group will advise the European Commissioner for the Economy, Paolo Gentiloni, on issues that include: the medium- to long-term impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on …

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ECARES Doctoral Lectures 2020-2021

Ruben Durante, UPF will give lectures on “Text Analysis for Economists”

12 MOIS, 12 EXPERTS

2020, année hors norme; et 2021? Douze chercheuses et chercheurs décryptent plusieurs temps forts de l’année écoulée et quelques grands rendez-vous à venir. Contribution of Glenn Magerman (October 2020)

“Il faudrait une cotisation solidarité sur les revenus” – Mathias Dewatripont

Mathias Dewatripont, économiste, était l’invité du Grand Oral RTBF/Le Soir ce samedi 28 novembre 2020 à 9h10 sur La Première. Au lendemain de l’annonce de la réouverture règlementée de certains commerces, pour préparer des fêtes qui s’organiseront en mode ultra mineur, il fait le bilan de la crise et des lendemains qui arrivent.

The ECARES Research Master Merit Award is an annual prize given to an outstanding student who is accepted into the doctoral school at ECARES.  The total amount of this prize is of 10.000 euros and will be given at the beginning of the academic year (2021-2022).

WRDS Best Paper Award for Research Examines Role of Governance in Portfolio Results

Wharton Research Data Services (WRDS) is pleased to announce Marco Becht, Goldschmidt Professor of Corporate Governance at Université libre de Bruxelles, Solvay Brussels School of Economics and Management; Julian R. Franks, Professor at London Business School; and Hannes F. Wagner, Associate Professor at Bocconi University as recipients of the Drexel Governance Conference WRDS Best Paper Award.

China and the WTO: Why Multilateralism Still Matters – Petros Mavroidis and André Sapir

An examination of China’s participation in the World Trade Organization, the conflicts it has caused, and how WTO reforms could ease them

ERC Starting Grant for Paula Gobbi

Paula received an ERC Starting Grant. Her study will focus on Inheritance, Demographics, and Economic Development (IDED)

How to strengthen European industries’ leadership in vaccine research and innovation.

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.