News
8 milliards de terriens: faut-il arrêter de faire des enfants ?
Le 15 novembre, l’humanité passera un nouveau cap : nous serons 8 milliards sur terre. C’est 2 milliards de plus qu’en 1998, 5 milliards et demi de plus que dans les années 50.
L’Europe cherche la porte de sortie de sa crise énergétique
Some thoughts on possible electricity markets intervention by our colleague Estelle Cantillon: competition policy has a role to play, as well as retail price regulation.
Noether Distinguished Scholar Award
The American Statistical Society selected Marc Hallin as the recipient of this prestigious award
The Fight to Save Ukraine’s 5.2 Million Displaced Kids From Trauma of War
an interview of Philip Verwimp by Adam Piore (July 6, 2022)
Best Paper Prize
We are very proud to announce that our PhD student Fabrizio Leone has won the best paper prize at the “XX SIEPI Workshop” for his work “Foreign Ownership and Robot Adoption“.
« Quel bilan tirer de la vaccination anti-Covid sur le plan industriel et économique ? »
Tribune: Mathias Dewatripont pointe, dans une tribune au « Monde », les succès et les échecs de la stratégie européenne de soutien à la recherche pharmaceutique, d’achat et de distribution des vaccins menée pendant la pandémie de Covid-19.
3 FNRS ASP Grants
Congratulations to our PhD students who obtained FNRS reasearch grants : Dimitri Konen, Fabrizio Leone and Giovanni Marianni.
First UCB-SBSEM symposium on Business and Society on June 27, 2022
This symposium is part of UCB and the Solvay Brussels School’s aspiration to contribute to a healthy debate on the roles and responsibilities of business in the ecosystem that “makes society”, so that society can flourish and set the path to a desirable future for the generations to come.
Young Researcher Award from the EU Tax Observatory
for Baptiste Souillard, for his paper “Profit Shifting, Employee Pay, and Inequalities: Evidence from US-Listed Companies.“
ECORES Summer School 2022
After two cancellations, we finally have the ECORES summer school again. So good to be inspired by great keynotes and young potentials!
Christine De Mol elected Member of the “Classe des Sciences de l’Académie royale de Belgique”
Congratulations, Christine !
Ehpad : l’entreprise à mission est-elle la solution ?
Mathias Dewatripont explique dans quelles conditions un statut d’entreprise à mission pourrait faire la différence par rapport aux pratiques de responsabilité sociétale inadéquates mises en place aujourd’hui par certains opérateurs de maisons de retraite.
Women Lead to Inspire Award
Our PhD candidate Zhanar KONYS was selected for the Women Lead to Inspire Award by Bain & Company.
2022 ECORES Summer School – Social behavior and public policy
From May 30 to June 1, KULeuven hosts the 2022 ECORES Summer School “Social behavior and public policy” in Leuven. Deadline for full paper submission is March 1, 2022.
Francqui workshop on the economics of the family
An international workshop on the economics of the family is organized at the University Foundation in Brussels on May 23-24, 2022.