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The extraordinary years of 1989-1991: ECARE.
The creation of ECARE in 1991 (since 1999 ECARES European Center for Advanced Research in Economics and Statistics ). Teaching introductory economics.
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December 5, 2025 at 2:32 PM
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Utiliser les avoirs russes gelés en Belgique pour aider l’Ukraine est conforme au droit international
Au regard du droit international, l’usage des avoirs russes gelés pour financer l’aide à l’Ukraine est légal. Les objections d’Euroclear, du Premier ministre Bart De Wever et du ministre des Affaires ...
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December 4, 2025 at 12:59 PM
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The extraordinary years of 1989-1991: part VIII (The Moscow coup and its aftermath)
Being in Moscow just after the failed coup.
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November 28, 2025 at 1:38 PM
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The text of the Elinor Ostrom Life-Time Achievement Award I received at the SIOE2025 Conference.
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2025 Awards | SIOE
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November 24, 2025 at 12:04 PM
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The extraordinary years of 1989-1991: part VII.
A semester at UC Davis invited by John Roemer.
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November 21, 2025 at 1:33 PM
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The extraordinary years of 1989-1991: part V.
Overnight obsolescence of central planning studies, participating in the debates on privatization policies.
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November 14, 2025 at 1:41 PM
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The extraordinary years of 1989-1991: part V.
How the Dewatripont-Roland papers on the political economy of transition came about.
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November 7, 2025 at 1:54 PM
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The extraordinary years of 1989-1991: part IV.
Meetings at the IMF on transition in Central Europe, attending the historical last Sovietology Congress in Harrogate, receiving an attracting job offer from Katholieke Universiteit Leuven.
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October 31, 2025 at 2:29 PM
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The extraordinary years of 1989-1991: part III.
The beginning of transition trajectories in post-communist countries and Heddy's near fatal car accident.
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October 24, 2025 at 3:47 PM
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The extraordinary years of 1989-1991: part II.
Beginning of transition in Poland in January 1990, Big Bang versus gradualist strategies.
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October 17, 2025 at 12:53 PM
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The extraordinary years of 1989-1991: part I.
Leftists at the NATO conference, meeting Gorbachev's advisers at the European Commission, the Fall of the Berlin wall and the collapse of communism in Central Europe.
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October 10, 2025 at 1:14 PM
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Spending time in Moscow (1988): part II.
Glasnost (transparency) in action in Moscow. Back to my family. The contrast between Moscow and Bologna.
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October 3, 2025 at 10:22 AM
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Living in Moscow (1988): part I.
Experiencing simultaneously the glasnost and explosion of free expression and the shortage economy.
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September 26, 2025 at 12:31 PM
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Becoming Doctor Roland: 1987-1988.
Highlights of my dissertation, public defense and publication at L'Harmattan.
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September 19, 2025 at 1:35 PM
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Working on my Ph.D with two small children
Elsa was born in 1983 and Florence was born in 1984.
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September 12, 2025 at 12:12 PM
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Working on my Ph.D. (1983-1987): part III
Discovering Kornai's magnum opus, learning Russian, discovering the absence of real plans ... and the arrival of Gorbachev.
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September 5, 2025 at 12:37 PM
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Working on my Ph.D. (1983-1987): part II
Investment cycles and bad quality of products under central planning and the birth of Florence.
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August 29, 2025 at 8:20 PM
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Working on my Ph.D. (1983-1987): part I
By the time I finished my BA, Jacky Nagels offered me a full-time job as his teaching assistant (TA) for his course on introductory economics in social sciences, which allowed me to work on my doctora...
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August 22, 2025 at 11:00 PM
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Going to University (1979-1983): part IV.
Operations research, business cycles, Anti-Equilibrium, honors thesis and ... Elsa.
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August 15, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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August 8, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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Going to University (1979-1984): Part II
Learning economics, optimiztion, computer languages
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August 1, 2025 at 2:18 PM
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Going to University (1979-1984): part I
Throughout the 1970s, I had often gone to ULB for numerous political events. October 1979 was different. I went to the campus but as a fresh student of economics.
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July 25, 2025 at 1:59 PM
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Looking back at my Maoist years (1971-1981): part III.
Education of an activist, personality destruction but also some positive lessons.
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July 18, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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Looking back at my Maoist years (1971-1981): II.
What lessons did I draw then and later on from my years as a Maoist activist?
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July 11, 2025 at 1:55 PM
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Looking back at my Maoist years (1971-1981): I.
What lessons did I draw then and later on from my years as a Maoist activits?
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July 4, 2025 at 2:45 PM