Thematically, special focus is on public procurement markets, however, papers from other fields of public and political economics are welcome to apply. From an empirical point of view, we appreciate papers that focus on the application of modern identification methods on administrative and...

Updated on 1 day program! Program: - Global income risk, performance-based contracts, and redistributive taxation; - Do fiscal statements matter? Evidence from Japanese municipalities; - Labor market effects of reducing the gender gap in parental leave entitlement; - Long-run optimal labor...

The purpose of the workshop is twofold: - Build a bridge between economists at UCLouvain and Osaka University to exchange academics and doctoral students; - Promote collaboration between Belgian and Japanese economists, notably in the area of public economics in which CORE has a long standing...

The objective of the workshop is to improve the understanding of the links between fiscal policy and long-run economic growth. The sessions of the workshop will cover the following topics: • The composition of public expenditure and economic growth • Taxation, public investment and...