CAPE is thrilled to invite you to the inaugural Beamm conference on public finance and public policy evaluation, happening on Monday, May 26th, 2025. This conference comes at a crucial time for public policies, facing unprecedented environmental, technological, demographic, and geopolitical challenges. Beamm.conf25 aims to bring together top national and international researchers, policymakers, young researchers,…
We’re happy to share that we have received EFRO-FEDER funding for our beamm.brussels project. The European Regional Development Fund – ERDF – is one of the main instruments of the European Union’s regional cohesion policy, which aims to ensure balanced, sustainable development based on solidarity throughout the 27 member states of the European Union. The…
Alexandre Girard talks about Geert Wilders’ “Nexit” in the online newspaper “Le vif” – what if the Netherlands left the European Union? : click here
Muriel Dejemeppe, Matthieu Delpierre, and Mathilde Pourtois analyse the main effects of a recruitment aid called “Impulsion moins de 25 ans” introduced in Wallonia in July 2017. Their article is available in the October 2023 edition of UCLouvain’s popular science journal “Regards économiques”. Download here.
Alexandre Girard was invited to talk about the rise of bankruptcies in Versus, Michel Geyer’s TV show on BX1. With Ludivine de Magnanville (Présidente de la Fédération Horeca Bruxelles), Sophie Heuskin (UCM Bruxelles) et Michaël Vossart (député Bruxellois, DéFI). Listen to the show : here.
Alexandre Girard gave an interview about the increase of savings rates to Le Soir. Read the interview here.
Willem Sas, CEREC research associate and professor of Public economy from Sterling University (Scotland) discusses the first post-Brexit agreement in an interview for Trends. Link to the interview : here
In Les cahiers de l’IBSA No 10 (February 2023), Astrid Adam analyzes spending reviews. In her paper, the PhD student in Economics from University Saint-Louis addresses several questions: In what context have spending reviews emerged in Europe and elsewhere? Which steps articulate a spending review? What are the best practices in terms of governance? Download…
Economic recession seems to be on everyone’s lips. Several European states could indeed enter it in 2023. But what is a recession really? How does it impact the general population ? Where does it emerge from, and how can we get out of it? Hélène Latzer, a professor of economics at the University of Saint-Louis…
November 9, 2022 : Alexandre Girard from Université Saint Louis et Clément Fontan from UCLouvain are the 2 guests of the program “Déclic”. They speak about the difficult reform of the european budgetary rules. Link to the program : here