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The Department of Economics brings together talent in the discipline of economics to advance knowledge through research, teaching and outreach to society at large. It stimulates inter-university and interdisciplinary collaborations, as well as those forged with economic players in business, administration, and international public and non-governmental organizations.
Presentation
The Department has a dozen full-time academics, around 20 PhD students, researchers and post-docs, and one administrative staff member.
It is responsible for organizing teaching in Bachelor's, Master's and PhD economics. Specifically, he co-organizes with the Management Department the Bachelier en Sciences Economiques et de Gestion and, with UCLouvain, the Master en Sciences Economiques, as well as the Specialized Master in International Economics and Development Economiques.
Members are engaged in research within the DEFIPP Research Institute and around three main themes: development economics, regional economics and economic policy, and macroeconomics and financial economics.