Beamm.conf26, our annual conference on public finance and public policy evaluation!
We are pleased to invite you to Beamm.conf26, a one‑day conference bringing together researchers and practitioners working on public finance, policy evaluation, and evidence‑based policymaking.
The conference will take place on June 30, 2026, at UCLouvain Saint‑Louis Brussels.
Call for Posters – Early-Career Researchers We’re looking for poster presentations from PhD students and early-career researchers! This is a great opportunity to showcase ongoing work, get feedback, and network with peers and experts. How to apply? Send an extended abstract (max. 2 pages) to cape-saintlouis@uclouvain.be by June 1, 2026.
Cathal O’Donoghue (University of Galway) - «Integrating Environmental and Social Protection Policy to Deliver Fair Decarbonisation»
Gilles Grandjean (CAPE – UCLouvain Saint-Louis) - «Incorporating the Prebound Effect in Housing Energy Retrofit: Distributional Results for Belgium»
Tom Truyts (CAPE – UCLouvain Saint-Louis) - «The Beamm policy evaluation platform: present and future»
Antoine Soetewey (CAPE – UCLouvain Saint-Louis) – «Common data for a shared reality - Information extraction from data with statistically enhanced LLMs»
Simon Watteyne (Université Libre de Bruxelles) - «The role of banks in public finance. How American and British bankers intervened in the Belgian debt and monetary crisis of the 1920s.»
Koen Declercq (CAPE – UCLouvain Saint-Louis) – «Declining unemployment benefits for low-income household heads with family responsibilities: Impact on job finding» Matteo Richiardi (ISER - University of Essex) - «Demand and Supply of Care Over the Life Course»
Karina Doorley (Trinity College Dublin) - «Artificial Intelligence and Income Inequality. Evidence from Ireland.»
Paula Gobbi (Université Libre de Bruxelles) - «Housing inequality in Belgium: Novel estimates and a policy application.»