6th Workshop of the Political Economy Working Group — Programme

Workshop
Published

June 2, 2026

The Political Economy Working Group will hold its 6th workshop on 19 June 2026 at ICHEC Brussels (Room 431). If you want to attend, please write to Aurélien Goutsmedt and Ariane Gemander to register.

Below is the programme of the day.

9.15 - 9.45 Welcome coffee & Welcome Words

9.45 - 11.30: Doctoral Session

Chair: Aurélien Goutsmedt (ICHEC)

Zsuzsanna Szeredi (UCLouvain) : Engineering supranational agendas through the legal infrastructure of EU Public Finances (the Financial Regulation of the EU)

Discussant: Antonin Thyrard (Université Sorbonne Paris Nord)

Maxence Tessier (UCLouvain Saint-Louis Bruxelles) : Socio-histoire européenne de l’inflation sous-jacente

Discussant: Félicien Pagnon (ICHEC)

11.45 - 13.00: Green Political Economy

Chair: Tom Duterme (ICHEC)

Balthazar De Robiano (European University Institute) : Are redistribution and environmentalism doomed ? The asset economy and France’s political transformation

Klaudia Prodani (University of Twente) : Conservation science at a crossroads: does recasting biodiversity loss as a source of financial risks harm or protect nature?

Session discussant: Tiago Moreira Ramalho (ULB)

13.00 - 14.00 Lunch Break

14.00 - 15.15: European Political Economy

Chair: Ariane Gemander (ULB)

Aurélien Goutsmedt (ICHEC): A Keynesianism That Refused to Die - The Drèze–Malinvaud Initiative (1993) and the European Commission

Antonin Thyrard (Université Sorbonne Paris Nord) : Heavy Money - the stalling of EU-led financial engineering

Session discussant: Damien Piron (ULiège)

15.30 – 16.30: KEYNOTE SPEAKER

Andrea Binder (Free University Berlin)

Chair: Tom Duterme (ICHEC)

16.30 - 17.00 General meeting of the Working Group

17.00 Drink