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

20 May 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...

21 May 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...

23 May 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...

24 May 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...

28 May 2019

IRES Lunch Seminar

William Parienté (UCLouvain, IRES)

William Parienté (UCLouvain, IRES) will give a presentation on Cream skimming and the comparison between social interventions. Evidence from entrepreneurship programs for at-risk youth...

What's new?

May 22, 2019

Call for papers

7th Belgian Macroeconomics Workshop - Call for Papers

The 7th Belgian Macroeconomic Workshop will take place on September 13th 2019 at Ghent University. The workshop aims at creating a network of researchers working in closely related fields, and is...

May 02, 2019

Regards économiques n°146

Évolution de l’emploi en Belgique : tentons d’y...

Dans ce numéro de Regards économiques, trois questions sont étudiées. D’une part, nous examinons si, en Belgique, la relation entre l’emploi et l’activité économique (telle que...

April 29, 2019

Centralisme et régulation dans les universités de la...

Le Pr. David de la Croix a contribué au site Le Livre noir de l'enseignement supérieur en Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles. Retrouvez sa contribution "Centralisme et régulation dans les...

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