3rd Workshop of the Political Economy Working Group — Programme

Workshop
Published

February 3, 2025

The Political Economy Working Group held a workshop on 3 February 2025 at Université Libre de Bruxelles (Salle Kant).

Location: 39 Avenue F. D. Roosevelt, 1050 Bruxelles.

Below is the programme of the day.

Doctoral Morning

Chair: Zoé Evrard (CRISP)

9:30 – 9:50 — Welcome Coffee

9:50 – 10:00 — Welcome Words
Zoé Evrard (CRISP)

Session I (10:00 – 10:40)

  • Francisco Padilla (UCLouvain) —
    “The Role of the ECB in EU Financial Reforms Since the Financial Crisis”
    Discussants: Tom Massarts (ULB) & Aurélien Goutsmedt (UCLouvain)

Session II (10:40 – 11:20)

  • Tanguy Brun (UCLouvain) —
    “Intégrer la critique écologique. La finance privée comme lieu de production des normes du capitalisme vert”
    Discussants: Santiago Dierckx (UCLouvain) & Loris Gathy (ULiège)

Shaping Economic Discourse: Ideological Content, Narratives and Infrastructural Frameworks

Session III (11:30 – 12:10)

  • Giuseppe Montalbano (University of Luxembourg) —
    “Beyond Market-Based Sustainable Finance? Paradigm Conflicts and Financial Interests in the EU Climate-Related Prudential Regulation”
    Discussant: Mélissa Kasongo (Banque nationale de Belgique)

12:10 – 13:40 — Lunch Break

Chair: Ariane Gemander (ULB)

Session IV (13:40 – 14:20)

  • Tom Duterme (ICHEC) —
    “Quand les amis ne suffisent plus : Enquête sur les ‘conditions de félicité’ des communications des banques centrales”
    Discussant: Clément Fontan (UCLouvain)

Session V (14:20 – 15:00)

  • Jérôme Deyris (Sciences Po), Bart Stellinga (WRR) & Matthias Thiemann (Sciences Po) —
    “Central bankers as migrating birds: How inflation shapes the rhetorical strategies of doves and hawks”
    Discussant: Anna Zech (Université Paris 1 / ULB)

15:00 – 15:20 — Coffee Break

Session VI (15:20 – 16:00)

  • Tiago Moreira Ramalho (ULB) & James Wood (University of Cambridge) —
    “The Inflation Crisis and the Ignorance-Independence Conundrum in Neoliberal Central Banking”
    Discussant: Pavlos Roufos (Potsdam University)

Session VII (16:00 – 16:40)

  • Daniel Zamora (ULB) —
    “Les besoins contre les préférences”
    Discussant: Zoé Evrard (CRISP)

17:00 – 17:30 — General Meeting

Drinks