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).

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.

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

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

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 . Read more…

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 ?

Students and researchers at ECARES team up to better understand COVID-19 and its economic implications.

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.