How do international migration and internal mobility of migrants shape local populations? Developing a spatial microsimulation model of population dynamics with application in infectious disease modelling.

Karel Neels (University of Antwerp)

The job preferences of war refugees and their underlying motivations

Dieter Verhaest (KULeuven)

Bart Cockx (UGent)

Title : TBC

Enhancing fairness in climate action through policy packages

Toon Vandyck (KULeuven)

“Achieving a fair transition to climate neutrality requires a careful balancing of policy options. Here, we quantitatively evaluate the equity implications of different EU climate policy packages, considering …

Laurens Cherchye (KULeuven) – TBC

The Psychology of Poverty

Bram Vervliet (KULeuven)

“Poverty claims lives. It leads to premature death, hinders personal development, undermines physical health, and triggers mental disorders. The stress caused by financial scarcity is chronic and extremely heavy. Despite the strong resilience …

When Wealth Taxes Don’t Bite: Behavioural Responses to the Belgian Financial Wealth Tax

Thérèse Bastin (ULB)

“This paper examines taxpayers’ behavioural responses to a specific wealth tax. Leveraging an unprecedented tax on the financially wealthiest individuals and a unique individual banking …

Income Pooling and Within Household Risk-Sharing: Evidence from Data on Individual Expenditures

Fabio Blasutto (ULB)

Tax Misperceptions and Labor Supply: A Two-Wave Survey Experiment in the Netherlands

Robert Dur (Erasmus University Rotterdam)

(joint work with Job Harms and Arjan Non)

Abstract: In countries with a complex tax system, it can be difficult for people to correctly assess their effective marginal tax …

Sigrid Suetens (Tilburg University) – TBC

Non-parametric test of Single-crossing indifference curves

Thomas Demuynck (ULB)

Indifference curves are single crossing if one individual has more intense preferences for a certain good compared to the other. We show that in a consumption setting, single crossing indifference curves are equivalent …

Urbanization Meets the Environment

Caroline Miehe - NOVAFRICA, Nova University Lisbon

Climate change is intensifying natural disasters such as floods, which are especially destructive in coastal cities. At the same time, conflict and environmental stress are driving rapid, often unregulated urban …

Cross‑border multimodal mobility in the Greater Region: modelling framework and synthetic population development (MMUST+)

Morgane Dumont (HEC Liège)

International Microsimulation Association (IMA) World Congress 2026

Brussels July 1–3, 2026

UCLouvain Saint-Louis Bruxelles

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