Institute of Economic and Social Research

Welcome to IRES!

IRES is a research centre in economics of the Université Catholique de Louvain (UCLouvain). The research centre was founded in 1928. With the Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE), the Institut de Statistique, Biostatistique et Sciences Actuarielles (ISBA) and Louvain Finance (LFIN) and the platform Support en Méthodologie et Calcul Statistique (SMCS), IRES now belongs to the Louvain Institute of Data Analysis and Modeling in economics and statistics (LIDAM).

Upcoming Events at IRES

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UCLouvain Economics Seminar - Jacob Bas

Jacob Bas (Vrij Universiteit Amsterdam) will give a presentation on Should we tax capital income or wealth? Abstract: The answer is: we should tax capital income. This conclusion...
12:45

IRES Lunch Seminar - Jing-Rong Zeng

Jing-Rong (Rosa) Zeng (IRES/LIDAM, UCLouvain) will give a presentation on Beggar Thy Neighbor? Illicit Gold Trade and Conflict in the African Great Lakes Region Abstract: We...
16:00

Leuven-Louvain Trade Workshop - Ibai Ostolozaga,...

Ibai Ostolozaga (University of the Basque Country) will give a presentation on Intra-National Trade, Misallocation and Relative Prices   For further information on how to...
12:45

UCLouvain Economics Seminar - Jonas von Wangenheim

Jonas von Wangenheim (University of Bonn) will give a presentation on Organizational Change and Reference-Dependent Preferences Abstract: Reference-dependent preferences can...
12:45

IRES Lunch Seminar - Andrea Marcucci, Universita della...

Andrea Marcucci (Università della Svizzera Italiana) will give a presentation on TBA Abstract:
16:00

Leuven - Louvain Trade Workshop - Ying Dai, Aarhus...

  Yin Dai (Aarhus University) will give a presentation on Quality Complementarity of Imported Inputs and Output Quality
12:45

UCLouvain Economics Seminar - Andreas Madestam,...

Andreas Madestam (Stockholm University) will give a presentation on TBA Abstract:
12:45

IRES Lunch Seminar - Morteza Ghomi, Bank of Spain

  Morteza Ghomi (Bank of Spain) will give a presentation on TBA Abstract:
12:45

UCLouvain Economics Seminar - Daniel Gottlieb, LSE

Daniel Gottlieb (London School of Economics) will give a presentation on TBA Abstract:
12:45

IRES Lunch Seminar - David de la Croix, IRES

David de la Croix (IRES/LIDAM, UCLouvain) will give a presentation on TBA Abstract:
12:45

UCLouvain Economics Seminar - Leander Heldring,...

Leander Heldring (Northwestern University) will give a presentation on TBA Abstract:

What's new at IRES

Call for Papers - CEPR Workshop on "Ethnicity, Identity...

Call for Papers CEPR Workshop on "Ethnicity, Identity and Conflict", joint with UCLouvain, Belgium Date 23-24 June 2025 Brussels, Belgium (Funded by FNRS) Submision Deadline...
Job Offer

Postdoctoral position in the Economics of Identity at...

The IDnomics research team, based at the University of Namur and the University of Louvain, is inviting applications for one two-year postdoctoral fellowship position starting on September 1,...
LIDAM in the Me

"Si on exclut du chômage plus vite, il faut laisser y...

Le Pr. Bruno Van der Linden a été interrogé par l'Echo sur la mesure de limitation de la durée maximale d’octroi des allocations de chômage proposée par la coalition Arizona. Lire l'article...