Identification
Personal identification
- Full name
- Micael Ricardo Castanheira de Moura
Citation names
- Castanheira, Micael
Author identifiers
- Ciência ID
- C31E-0E3E-7107
- ORCID iD
- 0000-0002-3511-9947
Addresses
- ECARES, ULB CP 114/4, Av. Roosevelt, 50, 1050, Brussels, Ixelles, Belgium (Professional)
Websites
Knowledge fields
- Social Sciences - Economics and Business - Economics
Languages
Language | Speaking | Reading | Writing | Listening | Peer-review |
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French (Mother tongue) | |||||
English | Proficiency (C2) | Proficiency (C2) | Proficiency (C2) | Proficiency (C2) | Proficiency (C2) |
Italian | Advanced (C1) | Advanced (C1) | Advanced (C1) | Advanced (C1) | Advanced (C1) |
Dutch | Advanced (C1) | Advanced (C1) | Advanced (C1) | Advanced (C1) | Advanced (C1) |
Portuguese | Intermediate (B1) | Intermediate (B1) | Intermediate (B1) | Intermediate (B1) | Intermediate (B1) |
Education
Degree | Classification | |
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1993/09/15 - 1998/05/15
Concluded
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Ph.D. (Doktor (PhD))
Major in Economics
Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium
"Essays on Strategic Voting and on the Speed of Restructuring" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
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La Plus Grande Distinction |
1992 - 1993
Concluded
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Master in Econometrics (Master)
Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium
"Vitesse optimale de transition dans les pays de l'Est: une analyse en équilibre général" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
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La Plus Grande Distinction |
1988 - 1992
Attended
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Undergraduate studies in Economics (Bachelor)
Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium
"Transfert de technologie et développement: l'apport de la théorie de la croissance endogène" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
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La Plus Grande Distinction |
Affiliation
Science
Category Host institution |
Employer | |
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2017 - Current | Coordinating Researcher (Research) | Fonds de la Recherche Scientific, Belgium |
Fonds de la Recherche Scientific, Belgium | ||
2012 - Current | Principal Investigator (Research) | Fonds de la Recherche Scientific, Belgium |
Université Libre de Bruxelles European Center for Advanced Research in Economics and Statistics, Belgium | ||
2014/09 - 2017/01 | Visiting Researcher (Research) | New York University Department of Economics, United States |
New York University Department of Economics, United States | ||
2000 - 2012 | Auxiliary Researcher (Research) | Fonds de la Recherche Scientific, Belgium |
Université Libre de Bruxelles European Center for Advanced Research in Economics and Statistics, Belgium | ||
2000/10/01 - 2003/09/01 | Coordinating Researcher (Research) | Université Libre de Bruxelles European Center for Advanced Research in Economics and Statistics, Belgium |
Université Libre de Bruxelles European Center for Advanced Research in Economics and Statistics, Belgium | ||
1999 - 2000 | Researcher (Research) | Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium |
Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium | ||
1997 - 1999 | Researcher (Research) | EU Framework Programme for Research and Innovation Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions, Belgium |
Università Bocconi Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research, Italy |
Teaching in Higher Education
Category Host institution |
Employer | |
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2012 - Current | Associate Professor (University Teacher) | Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium |
Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium | ||
2003 - 2012 | Assistant Professor (University Teacher) | Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium |
1992 - 1997 | Tutor (University Teacher) | Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium |
Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium |
Projects
Grant
Designation | Funders | |
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2020 - 2024 | The Paradox of Belgian Inequality Studies: Belgium Less unequal than others?
BE-PARADIS
Researcher
Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium
Universiteit Antwerpen, Belgium Katholieke Universiteit Leuven Onderzoekseenheid Economie, Belgium |
Belspo - Belgian Science Policy Office
Ongoing
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2019 - 2021 | Political Competition and Inequality
35271954
Principal investigator
Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium
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Fonds de la Recherche Scientific
Ongoing
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Outputs
Publications
Book |
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Book chapter |
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Conference paper |
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Journal article |
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Magazine article |
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Working paper |
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Activities
Supervision
Thesis Title Role |
Degree Subject (Type) Institution / Organization |
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2021 - Current | Essays on Inequality
Supervisor
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Economics (PhD)
Université Libre de Bruxelles European Center for Advanced Research in Economics and Statistics, Belgium
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2010 - 2017 | Essays on Political Behavior
Supervisor of Marco Giani
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PhD in Economics (PhD)
Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium
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2012 - 2016 | Three Essays in Economics of Education
Co-supervisor of Alice Duhaut
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PhD in Economics (PhD)
Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium
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2012 - 2014 | The role of information in exchange rate policy and the reaction of banks during the 2007/08 crisis
Co-supervisor of Geoffrey Minne
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PhD in Economics (PhD)
Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium
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2008 - 2012 | Essays in product diversity and urban transportation
Co-supervisor of Renaud Foucart
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PhD in Economics (PhD)
Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium
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2006 - 2009 | Essays in Game Theory Applied to Political and Market Institutions
Supervisor of Laurent Bouton
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PhD in Economics (PhD)
Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium
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2001 - 2004 | Essays on the Economics of Parties and Information-Based Discrimination
Co-supervisor of Benoit S. Y. Crutzen
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PhD in Economics and Statistics (PhD)
Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium
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Event organisation
Event name Type of event (Role) |
Institution / Organization | |
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2019/11 - Current | Global Economic Challenges Network Online Conference (2019/11)
Conference (Co-organisor)
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2021/10/01 - 2021/10/01 | The Looming Federal Debt Limit, October 1, 2021, co-organizer with Brian Madigan and Francis Vella (both Georgetown University) (2021/10/01 - 2021/10/01) | |
2021/06/14 - 2021/06/14 | Populism: Economic Causes, Consequences, and Solutions, June 14, 2021, with Sergei Guriev (Sciences Po), Dani Rodrik (Kennedy School, Harvard University), Antonio Spilimbergo (IMF), and Shéhérazade Semsar de Boisséson (Politico Europe). Conference co-organizer with Francis Vella (Georgetown University) (2021/06/14 - 2021/06/14) | |
2018/05/18 - 2018/05/18 | Organizer: Brussels Political Economy Workshop (2018/05/18 - 2018/05/18)
Workshop (President of the Organising Committee)
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Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium |
2017/06/19 - 2017/06/20 | Co-organiser: Brussels PECO 2017 (2017/06/19 - 2017/06/20)
Conference (Co-organisor)
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Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium |
2017/03/02 - 2017/03/03 | Organiser: Brussels Political Economy Workshop 2017 (2017/03/02 - 2017/03/03)
Workshop (President of the Organising Committee)
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Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium |
2011/09 - 2011/09 | Lisbon Meeting, September 2011 (Member of the organizing committee and speaker) (2011/09 - 2011/09) | |
2009/08 - 2009/08 | 1st APE-X meeting (Analysis in Political Economy – bruXelles) on “The Rise and Fall of Democracy”, August 2009. Organizer
and speaker (2009/08 - 2009/08)
Meeting (President of the Organising Committee)
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Event participation
Activity description Type of event |
Event name Institution / Organization |
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2020/12 - Current | COVID-19 Policy Responses and Implications for Our Economic Future
Conference
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Global Economic Challenges Network Online Conference
Georgetown University, United States
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2020/07 - Current | In Institutions we Trust? The Economics of Institutional Change
Conference
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Global Economic Challenges Network Online Conference
Georgetown University, United States
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2020/05 - Current | Worker Protection: Reopening the World’s Economies in the Presence of COVID-19
Conference
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Global Economic Challenges Network Online Conference
Georgetown University, United States
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2019/11 - Current | The Future of Work
Conference
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Global Economic Challenges Network Conference and Policy event
Université Libre de Bruxelles European Center for Advanced Research in Economics and Statistics, Belgium
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2016/12/10 - Current | 4th Columbia Political Economy Conference, December 10th, 2016 (invited speaker) | 4th Columbia Political Economy Conference
Columbia University in the City of New York Official Bookstore, United States
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2021/11/16 - 2021/11/16 | Chile's Post-Pandemic Challenges: A Conversation with Rodrigo Cerda (finance minister of Chile); Dr. Alejandro Werner (founding director, Georgetown Americas Institute) | Chile's Post-Pandemic Challenges |
2020/08/10 - 2021/10/08 | ITAM, Mexico, 8/10/2020 “How Trump Triumphed: Multi-Candidate Primaries with Buffoons” | How Trump Triumphed: Multi-Candidate Primaries with Buffoons
Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México, Mexico
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2021/07/01 - 2021/07/02 | Electoral Systems and Inequalities in Government Interventions: on the impact of redistricting in India, joint with Laurent
Bouton, Guilhem Cassan, Garance Génicot, and Francesca Gensenius. Presented at: Workshop "Policy Making, Institutions and
Regional Development: Theory and Evidence". Dortmund University, Germany, July 1-2, 2021
Workshop
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Policy Making, Institutions and Regional Development: Theory and Evidence
Technische Universität Dortmund, Germany
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2018/06/28 - 2018/06/29 | Invited Speaker: POLECONUK, 2nd Political Economy Workshop
Workshop
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POLECONUK, 2nd Political Economy Workshop
University of Bath, United Kingdom
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2018/05/25 - 2018/05/26 | Invited Speaker: 9th LSE-NYU conference on Political Science and Political Economy
Conference
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9th LSE-NYU conference on Political Science and Political Economy
London School of Economics and Political Science, United Kingdom
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2018/04/26 - 2018/04/26 | Invited speaker: Political Economy workshop at CREST
Workshop
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Political Economy workshop at CREST
Ecole Polytechnique Department of Economics, France
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2018/03/02 - 2018/03/03 | Invited Speaker: 3rd Belgian-Japanese Public Finance Workshop
Workshop
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3rd Belgian-Japanese Public Finance Workshop
Université catholique de Louvain Center for Operations Research and Econometrics, Belgium
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2017/11/08 - 2017/11/09 | Keynote Speaker: 3rd Lille Workshop on Political Economy
Workshop
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3rd Lille Workshop on Political Economy
Université de Lille, France
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2016/07/11 - 2016/07/13 | A-PET: Association for Public Economic Theory, General Conference Rio de Janeiro July 11-13, 2016 (speaker) | A-PET: Association for Public Economic Theory, General Conference |
2016/06/23 - 2016/06/25 | EPSA: 6th Annual General Conference of the European Political Science Association, Brussels, June 23-25, 2016 (speaker) | EPSA: 6th Annual General Conference of the European Political Science Association |
2016/06/14 - 2016/06/15 | Cornell Political Economy Conference (C-PEC), Cornell University, June 14-15, 2016 | Cornell Political Economy Conference (
Cornell University, United States
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2015/05/01 - 2015/05/02 | 4th CIRPÉE Political Economy conference, Montréal, May 1-2, 2015 (discussant) | 4th CIRPÉE Political Economy conference |
2015/03/18 - 2015/03/22 | Québec Political Economy Conference – 18 -22 March 2015 - Mont Tremblant, Canada (invited speaker) | Québec Political Economy Conference |
2014/06/19 - 2014/06/21 | EPSA: 4th Annual General Conference of the European Political Science Association, Edinburgh, 19-21 June 2014 (speaker, chair and discussant) | EPSA: 4th Annual General Conference of the European Political Science Association |
2014/03/21 - 2014/03/22 | Washington PECO, Georgetown University, March 21-22, 2014 (invited) | Washington PECO, |
2013/06/20 - 2013/06/23 | EPSA: 3d Annual General Conference of the European Political Science Association, Barcelona, 20-23 June 2013 (speaker) | EPSA: 3d Annual General Conference of the European Political Science Association |
2013/04 - 2013/04 | Nanterre: Workshop "Voting Theory and Elections", April 2013 (speaker)
Workshop
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Voting Theory and Elections |
2012/10 - 2012/10 | Priorat Workshop in Social Protests and Political Influence, October 2012 (speaker)
Workshop
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Priorat Workshop in Social Protests and Political Influence |
2012/09 - 2012/09 | Sixth Academia Belgica Francqui Foundation Rome Conference, September 2012 (speaker)
Conference
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Sixth Academia Belgica Francqui Foundation Rome Conference |
2012/06/21 - 2012/06/23 | EPSA: 2nd Annual General Conference of the European Political Science Association, Berlin, 21-23 June 2012 (speaker)
Conference
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EPSA: 2nd Annual General Conference of the European Political Science Association |
2012/06 - 2012/06 | European Political Economy Workshop (ERASMUS Universiteit Rotterdam), June 2012 (speaker)
Workshop
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European Political Economy Workshop
Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam, Netherlands
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2012/03 - 2012/03 | First Warwick Workshop in Political Economy (discussant), March 2012
Workshop
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First Warwick Workshop in Political Economy |
2011/06 - 2011/06 | Priorat Workshop in Theoretical Political Science, June 2011 (speaker) (Scientific Committee: Enriqueta Aragonès, Andrea Mattozzi, and Thomas Palfrey) | Priorat Workshop in Theoretical Political Science |
2011/04 - 2011/04 | ECPR Joint Sessions of Workshops - St Gallen, April 2011 (speaker and discussant) | ECPR Joint Sessions of Workshops |
2010/10 - 2010/10 | MOVE (Markets, Organizations and Votes in Economics) workshop: Selection of Politicians, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona,
October 2010 (speaker)
Workshop
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MOVE (Markets, Organizations and Votes in Economics)
Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain
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2010/06 - 2010/06 | Erasmus Workshop in Political Economy: Organization, Selection, Group Power and the Media: Rotterdam, June 2010. (speaker)
Workshop
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Erasmus Workshop in Political Economy: Organization, Selection, Group Power and the Media
Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam Erasmus School of Economics, Netherlands
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2010/03 - 2010/03 | Tax Forum (European Commission), March 2010. (speaker) | Tax Forum |
2009/12 - 2009/12 | PIEP (Harvard): Political Institutions and Economic Policy Conference - December 2009. (speaker)
Conference
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Political Institutions and Economic Policy Conference
Harvard University Department of Economics, United States
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2009/05 - 2009/05 | PEDI (Hoover – Stanford): Political Economy of Democratic Institutions – May 2009. (speaker) | PEDI (Hoover – Stanford): Political Economy of Democratic Institutions |
2008 - 2008 | LSE-NYU Conference on Political Science and Political Economy – 2008. (speaker)
Conference
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LSE-NYU Conference on Political Science and Political Economy
London Business School Department of Economics, United Kingdom
New York University Department of Economics, United States |
Association member
Society Organization name | Role | |
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2019/01/01 - Current | Global Economic Challenges Network | Founding member and Belgian President |
Committee member
Activity description Role |
Institution / Organization | |
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2017/10 - Current | Co-director of the Georgetown-Solvay joint Master in Political Economy
Director
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Université Libre de Bruxelles European Center for Advanced Research in Economics and Statistics, Belgium |
2016 - Current | Member of the Board Solvay Executive Education
Member
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Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium |
2016 - Current | Scientific Board on National Accounts
Member
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Nationale Bank van België, Belgium |
2008 - Current | Institut Belge des Finances Publiques
Member
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Institut Belge des Finances Publiques, Belgium |
2006 - 2011 | Director of European Network for Training in Economic Research (ENTER)
Director
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European Network for Training in Economic Research, Germany |
Consulting
Activity description | Institution / Organization | |
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2009 - Current | Scientific advisor for the Institut des Comptes Nationaux (Observatoire des prix, Belgian Ministry of the Economy) | Ministère de l'Économie , Belgium |
2015 - 2016 | Expert for the World Bank (preparatory work for the World Development Report, with Laurent Bouton, Garance Genicot, and Dario Sansone) | World Bank, United States |
Course / Discipline taught
Academic session | Degree Subject (Type) | Institution / Organization | |
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2018 - Current | Course instructor: Social Choice and Voting | École Polytechnique, France | |
1998 - Current | Course Instructor: Microeconomics, Advanced topics in microeconomics, Topics in Political Economics, Introductory Microeconomics, Introductory Economics, Macroeconomics, Industrial Organisation | Undergraduate, Master and PhD courses | Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium |
2022/02 - 2022/05 | Topics in Political Economics: Inequality, third edition | Economics (Graduado) | Université Libre de Bruxelles European Center for Advanced Research in Economics and Statistics, Belgium |
2021/02 - 2021/06 | Topics in Political Economics: Inequality, second edition | Economics (Master) | Université Libre de Bruxelles European Center for Advanced Research in Economics and Statistics, Belgium |
2020/02 - 2020/06 | Topics in Political Economics: Inequality | Economics (Master) | Université Libre de Bruxelles European Center for Advanced Research in Economics and Statistics, Belgium |
2015 - 2015 | Course Instructor: Topics in Political Economics | Graduate level | New York University Department of Economics, United States |
1997 - 2003 | Course Instructor: Macroeconomics, International Macroeconomics | Undergraduate and Graduate level | Università Bocconi, Italy |
Journal scientific committee
Journal title (ISSN) | Publisher | |
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2018/06 - Current | European Economic Review | Elsevier |
2018 - Current | European Economic Review (0014-2921) | Elsevier |
Other jury / evaluation
Activity description | Institution / Organization | |
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2000 - Current | Refereeing: American Economic Journal: Micro, American Economic Review, American Journal of Political Science, American Political Science Review, Econometrica, Economics of Governance, Economic Inquiry, Economic Journal, Economic Systems, Economic Theory, Economics of Transition, European Economic Review, European Journal of Political Economy, Games and Economic Behavior, Journal of Common Market Studies, Journal of Comparative Economics. | |
2000 - Current | Refereeing: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, Journal of Economic Theory, Journal of the European Economic Association, Journal of Law, Economics and Organization, Journal of Politics, Journal of Public Economic Theory, Journal of Public Economics, Political Science Research and Methods, Political Studies, Public Choice, Quarterly Journal of Political Science, Review of Economic Studies, Scandinavian Journal of Economics, Social Choice and Welfare, Theoretical Economics. |
Distinctions
Award
2014 | Crédit de Recherche FNRS
Fonds de la Recherche Scientific, Belgium
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Title
2009 | Officier de l’Ordre de Léopold II
Federale Overheidsdienst Kanselarij van de Eerste Minister, Belgium
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Other distinction
2014 | Elected Member of the European Political Science Association Council
European Political Science Association Council, Ireland
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