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

12:45

UCLouvain Economics Seminar - Leander Heldring

Leander Heldring (Northwestern University) will give a presentation on The cost of state-building: Evidence from Germany Abstract: This paper studies the impact of a...

12th Christmas Meeting of Belgian Economists

Programme 09:30 - 10:00 Registration with Coffee 10:00 - 11:30 Sigrid Suetens (Tilburg University) Double Redistribution Standards  ...

What's new at IRES

Regards économiques - Focus 33

La méthode Coué 2.0 des plateformes numériques : Quand...

Dans ce nouveau Focus de Regards économiques, le Pr. Paul Belleflamme s'intéresse aux pratiques des plateformes numériques. La controverse Roblox Le Pr. Belleflamme part de la récente...

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,...