The Department of Economics is an internationally visible and respected research group in the European research scene. Our Department members are from a diverse international background and we recruit our PhD students worldwide. Our fields of research are mainly on societal relevant topics in labour economics – in its broadest sense – from macroeconomic as well as microeconomic perspectives. The research topics range from public economics, to family economics, social network analysis, revealed preference theory, fiscal policy, international trade, economic geography, crime and gender economics. Furthermore, our Department members are also very active in the fields of industrial organisation, health economics and socioeconomic inequality of health and the history of economic thought.
Research Seminar: Wednesday 21/5 - 12:30 - S.KS.103
Krishna Pendakur: "Gender Inequality in Expenditure"
In Memoriam Roselinde Kessels (26/11/79-4/4/2025)
Article by Guido Erreygers, Roselinde Kessels and Chris Gotwalt in PLOS ONE: "Revisiting Pearl’s influenza studies by bootstrapping for forward variable selection with a null factor”
Article by Sunčica Vujić
Operation allied force: unintended consequences of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization bombing on children’s outcomes
Article by Guido Erreygers and Giovanni Di Bartolomeo in 'The European Journal of the History of Economic Thought'
‘Un Amateur de Chiffres’. The economic contributions of the Italian-Belgian engineer Angelo Della Riccia (1867–1938)
Article by Sam Cosaert in 'International Economic Review'
Intertemporal Consumption with Anticipating, Remembering, and Experiencing Selves - with Tom Potoms (University of Sussex)
Article by Wilfried Parys to be published in 'Cambridge Journal of Economics'
"Ricardo’s finances and Waterloo: legends by Samuelson and others lack historical evidence"
Article by Sunčica Vujić in 'Journal of Social Policy'
Which training leads to employment? The effectiveness of varying types of training programmes for unemployed jobseekers in Flanders - with Jonas Wood and Karel Neels
