Institut de recherches économiques et sociales (IRES)

L’école des sciences économiques de Louvain (UCL) reconnue pour la qualité de sa recherche par IDEAS/RePEc

Ce classement prestigieux place aujourd’hui les économistes de l’UCL en tête en Belgique, devant leurs collègues de la Solvay Brussels School of Economics and Management (ULB). En outre, les économistes de l’UCL se situent à la 12ème place du classement européen, et la 33ème place du classement mondial.

Isabelle Cassiers (Professor at ECON, qualifed Researcher of F.R.S.-FNRS, U.C.L) is one of the prize-winner of the International Wernaers Fund for Research and knowledge spread award.

This award honor her research on the theme « "Redefinir la prosperite : recherche multidisciplinaire sur les impasses de notre modele de developpement et sur les conditions d'une societe ecologiquement soutenable et humainement desirable, en particulier : la recherche d'indicateurs alternatifs au PIB"

The reward has been given to the « Fondation Louvain » in order to hire a young ESL degree holder to help them in her work on this theme. Ghislain Errembault has already taken his duties

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Since September, IRES has a new chairman. Vincent Bodart has been elected for 3 years to succeed to Bruno Van der Linden.
Frédéric Docquier will keep the responsibility of Research Director for the coming academic year.

Following the workshop organised by IRES in Sept. 2010, Vincent Vandenberghe and Jan van Ours are publishing a Special Issue of De Economist on the labour market implications of ageing and the employability of older individuals (click to see and download the papers)
 

Etienne Lehmann (CREST, INSEE and IRES research associate) has been nominated for the price of the best young French economist. You can find more about it in an article published in Le Monde Economie of Tuesday 24 May 2011. Copies are available at the IRES Library