5th Workshop of the Political Economy Working Group — Programme
The Political Economy Working Group will hold its 5th workshop on 30 January 2026 at Université Saint-Louis Bruxelles (Salle du Conseil).
Below is the programme of the day.
Doctoral Morning
9:15 – 9:30 — Welcome Words
Session I (9:30 – 10:45)
Chair: Zsuzsanna Szeredi
Anna Zech — “Central Bank Watchers: Experts or Entourage?”
Discussant: Céleste BonnamyFrancesca Romana Paradiso — “Governance through indeterminacy: Climate regulation and supervision between risk and alignment to net zero”
Discussant: Tiago Moreira Ramalho
Session II (11:00 – 11:40)
Chair: Aurélien Goutsmedt
- Louis Dembour — “The 2024 Inheritance Tax Reform in the Walloon Region – A Socio-Political Analysis of the political legitimation, redistributive effects and budgetary constraints of the fiscal reform”
Discussant: Simon Watteyne
Session III – Book Proposal Panel (11:40 – 13:00)
Chair: Aurélien Goutsmedt
Zoé Evrard — “Resilient Planning Infrastructures. Planning, Expertise, and the Quiet Neoliberalization of the Belgian Model”
Amandine Crespy, Clément Fontan, and Tiago Moreira Ramalho —
“Left Behind: The Promises and Pitfalls of the European Agenda for a Just Green Transition”
13:00 – 14:00 — Lunch Break
Afternoon Session
Session IV (14:00 – 14:45)
Chair: Loris Gathy
- Félicien Pagnon, Christel Dumas, and Tom Duterme — “Green Bonds in Belgium”
Discussant: Santiago Dierckx
Session V (15:00 – 16:15)
Chair: Loris Gathy
Mattia Lupi — “Central Bank Activism and the Boundaries of Independence”
Ruben Kremers and Johannes Petry —
“Battle of the futures: Offshore finance, pricing power, and the geopolitics of derivative markets”
Discussant for the session: Clément Fontan
Keynote Speaker
Session VI (16:30 – 17:30)
Chair: Zsuzsanna Szeredi
- Benjamin Braun —
“When did being rich become so easy? Diversification, control, and asset manager capitalism”
17:30 – 18:00 — General Meeting of the Working Group
18:00 — Drinks
