Institute of Economic and Social Research

Welcome at IRES!

IRES is a research center of the Université Catholique de Louvain (UCL). The center was founded in 1928. With the Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE) and the Institut de Statistique, Biostatistique et Sciences Actuarielles (ISBA), IRES now belongs to the Louvain Institute of Data Analysis and Modeling in economics and statistics (LIDAM).

Forthcoming Events

May 14, 2019

IRES Lunch Seminar

Christian Kiedaisch (UNamur)

Christian Kiedaisch (UNamur) will give a presentation on Inequality and Demand-Driven Innovation: Evidence from International Patent Applications

May 16, 2019

UCLouvain Economics Seminar

Pietro Biroli (University of Zurich)

Pietro Biroli (University of Zurich) will give a presentation on Genetics and Health Insurance: How Genes and Insurance Status Affect Smoking Decisions after Health Shocks Abstract:...

May 20, 2019

IRES Lunch Seminar joint with Doctoral Workshop

Javier García-Cicco (Central bank of Argentina)

Javier García-Cicco (Central Bank of Argentina) will give a presentation on Revisiting the Exchange Rate Pass Through: A General Equilibrium Perspective Abstract: A large literature...

May 21, 2019

IRES Lunch Seminar

Lingwei Wu (University of Bonn)

Lingwei Wu (University of Bonn) will give a presentation on The Economic Motives For Foot-Binding Abstract: What are the origins of gender-biased social norms? As a painful custom that...

May 23, 2019

UCLouvain Economics Seminar

Sydney Ludvigson (New York University)

Sydney Ludvigson (New York University) will give a presentation on How the Wealth Was Won: Factor Shares as Market Fundamentals Abstract: We provide novel evidence on the driving...

May 24, 2019

16th Belgian Day for Labour Economists

Original picture : CC FOTO:FORTEPAN / Konok Tamás id Programme 9:15 - 9:30 Registration 9:30 - 10:45 @Auditorium Skills...

What's new?

May 02, 2019

Regards économiques n°146