25th February 2021 – from 12:30 until 13:30 (Microsoft Teams) Seminar (CEREC-CAPE) : Housing market responses to the mortgage interest deduction

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Sven Damen (University of Antwerp) 25th February 2021 – from 12:30 until 13:30 (Microsoft Teams) Seminar (CEREC-CAPE) : Housing market responses to the mortgage interest deduction Governments around the world use tax subsidies to stimulate homeownership. Whether or not these subsidies affect homeownership crucially depends on the degree of capitalization into house prices. We study…

12th February 2021 (12pm) « Unemployment versus Early Retirement after Job Loss: An Assessment of the Belgian Pre-Pension Program »

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Octave De Brouwer (ULB) 12th February 2021 (12pm) « Unemployment versus Early Retirement after Job Loss: An Assessment of the Belgian Pre-Pension Program » Most OECD countries provide extended and/or more generous unemployment schemes at the end of the career. These schemes are sometimes referred as “unemployment tunnels” as they allow laid off workers to…

18th September 2020 « From Bretton Woods to 2008 and beyond: The Evolutions and Challenges of Global Financial and Monetary governance »

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Keynote speaker: Prof. Michael D. Bordo (Rutgers University, NBER) This international conference on monetary economics and economic history will focus on the crises and transformations in international monetary and financial governance from Bretton Woods to the 2008 crisis. It will analyse the responses of central banks and governments in terms of monetary policies and new…

16th December 2019 – Conference in Finance

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« FINANCIAL AND ECONOMIC INTEGRATION: CHALLENGES AND PROSPECTS» 8:45 – 9:10               Registration and welcome coffee 9:10 – 9:15               Welcome speech 9:15 – 10:45             Session chair: Lieven Baele, Tilburg University 9:15 – 9:55              “Capital flow deflection under the magnifying glass” Filippo Gori (OECD), Etienne…

22th November 2019 – Conference in Public Finance

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9h30 – 10h10 : Marc Bourgeois (Tax Institute, Université de Liège), « Tax reform and mobility within the institutional framework of federal Belgium: « Mission Impossible »? » 10h10 – 10h50 : Bruno De Borger (Universiteit Antwerpen), “Road pricing: why we need it and why we don’t have it” 11h20 – 12h : Stef Proost (KU Leuven), « Electric cars and public finance » 12h – 12h40…

24th May 2019 – CEREC Workshop in Economics

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– 09h15 – 10h00 : Glenn Magernan (ULB): « Price Updating with Production Networks »; joint work with Cedric Duprez (NBB) – 10h00 – 10h45 : Ata Atai (Hungarian Academy of Sciences), « Multi-sided assignment games on m-partite graphs”; joint work with Marina Nunez (University of Barcelona) – 11h15 – 12h00 : Heiner Schumacher (KULeuven), « Equilibrium Contracts and Boundedly Rational Expectations”; joint work with…

3th May 2019 – CEREC Workshop in Public Finance

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– 09h00 – 09h30 : Alex Van Steenbergen (Federal Planning Bureau): “Belgian transport policy through direct taxation: an overview”. – 09h30 – 10h00 : Christophe Speth (CEREC, USL-B): « Reforming the Fiscal Treatment of Company Cars: CoCaTax« , joint work with Gilles Grandjean and Tom Truyts. – 10h00 – 10h30 : Kris Boudt (VUB, Ghent University, Free University of Amsterdam): « Pension reform: Feasibility…

4th April 2019 – Les midi de l’IRIB

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« Réformer la politique des voitures de société : CoCaTax » Intervenant : Tom Truyts (Université Saint-Louis – Bruxelles) Discussion : Benjamin Wayens (ULB et Université Saint-Louis – Bruxelles) Animation : Hélène Latzer (Université Saint-Louis – Bruxelles) La congestion automobile et une meilleure connaissance des conséquences de la pollution de l’air font que le traitement fiscal avantageux des voitures…