ECARES (European Center for Advanced Research in Economics and Statistics) is a joint initiative of the Institut d’Etudes Européennes (IEE) at the Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB), and of the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR), an network of around 500 researchers in Europe.
It aims to encourage high-quality research in economics with special emphasis on policy issues relevant to Western and Eastern Europe, and to provide a meeting place for academics, professional economists, and civil servants from the EC Commission.
ECARES specialises in a number of major fields of economics, in particular:
- The evaluation of European integration policies and of its dynamics of “deepening” and “widening”
- The analysis of economies in transition, in Eastern Europe and in China
- The structure and behavior of banking and financial markets
- The theory and empirics of macroeconomics, including its political economy component
- The behavior and organization of firms and markets
- The theory and applications of econometrics
Website includes details of the regualar seminars held at ECARES, details of courses, staff, and lists of research, not yet available in full-text.