ECARES / ULB

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ECARES / ULB
European Centre for Advanced Research in Economics and Statistics
Homepage:	http://www.ecares.org/
Location
City:	Brussels
Country:	Belgium

The mission of ECARES is to encourage high-quality research in economics with special emphasis on policy issues relevant to Western and Eastern Europe, and to provide a meeting place for academics, professional economists, and civil servants from the EC Commission. This interaction is exemplified by our “lunchtime meetings” jointly organized with CEPR, where academic economists present their research to an audience composed of civil servants from the European Commission and of members of the academic and business communities.

On the academic side, ECARES keeps serving as a force to recruit a number of non-Belgian researchers of international reputation, who have taught in the best universities in the world. Combined with the extensive international experience of the Belgian researchers at ECARES, this feature gives our research centre a diversity which is among the highest in Europe.

Over the years, ECARES researchers have developed expertise in a number of major fields of economics, in particular:

• The evaluation of European integration policies and its dynamics of “deepening” and “widening”,
• The analysis of economies in transition, in Eastern Europe and in China,
• The structure and behavior of banking and financial markets,
• The theory and empirics of macroeconomics, including its political economy component,
• The behavior and organization of firms and markets,
• The theory and applications of econometrics,
• The statistical analysis of time series data.

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List of members registered on site:

	Email	Phone	Homepage
Victor Ginsburgh	vginsbur@ulb.ac.be	+32 2 650 38 46	www.ulb.ac.be/rech/inventaire/chercheurs/4/CH124.html