Tom Truyts

Tom Truyts

Professor of Public Economics

UCLouvain Saint-Louis - Bruxelles

Biography

Tom Truyts is a professor of Public Economics at UCLouvain Saint-Louis Bruxelles. His research interests include public finance, microsimulation modelling, transport and environmental economics, fiscal federalism and data science. His former research was focussing on game theory, auction theory and economic history. Tom Truyts coordinates the Beamm project, an effort to build an online open-acces comprehensive tax-benefit microsimulation model for Brussels and Belgium.

Tom Truyts is the director (together with Gilles Grandjean) of the Center for Applied Public Economics (CAPE), co-director of the Institut de Recherches interdisciplinaires sur Bruxelles (IRIB) and a member of the Center for Research in Economics (CEREC), all at UCLouvain Saint-Louis Bruxelles.

Interests
  • Public finance
  • Microsimulation modelling
  • Data science
  • Transport, environment, social inequality, fiscal federalism
  • I used to work on game theory, auction theory, economic history
Education
  • PhD in Economics, 2008

    KU Leuven

  • MSc in Economics, 2003

    KU Leuven

  • Master in Economics (licentiaat), 2002

    KU Leuven

  • Master in History (licentiaat), 1999

    KU Leuven

Projects

 
 
 
 
 
Coordinator
Beamm project
Coordinator
Jan 2019 – Present Brussels

Beamm is

  • a comprehensive tax-benefit microsimulation model
  • available online and in open-access
  • running on mostly administrative data
  • and a platform for scientific research and policy support.
  • Visit the beamm.brussels platform
 
 
 
 
 
Promoter
Beamm.brussels
Promoter
Jan 2020 – Present Brussels

Beamm.brussels is

  • a project to build a comprehensive tax-benefit microsimulation model for the Brussels Capital Region
  • available online and in open-access
  • running on a micro-dataset representing the population of the Brussels Capital Region
  • focussing on tax-benefit competences of the Region
  • beamm.brussels was co-funded by Innoviris in the Prospective Research for Brussels program (2020-2024) and is currently co-funded by the European fund for Regional Development for the Brussels Capital Region EFRO-FEDER (2024-2029).
  • Visit the beamm.brussels platform.
 
 
 
 
 
Promoter
TaxFam - Tax Design and Family Dynamics
Promoter
Sep 2023 – Sep 2028 Brussels

summary

  • Action de Recherche Concertée (ARC) project at UCLouvain Saint-Louis Bruxelles
  • Focusses on the interaction between the tax system and intra-household behavior
  • What is the fiscal unit, the individual or the household? How is the tax burden divided over different types of households? What is the optimal distribution of fiscal pressure over different household types?
  • How does the fiscal treatment of the costs of raising children affect intra-household behavior, such as the labor supply of the second-income earner?
  • How does the fiscal treatment of divorces impact intra-household behavior?
 
 
 
 
 
Researcher
Smartmove
Researcher
Sep 2020 – Present Brussels

summary

  • project to assess the socio-economic impact of Smartmove
  • Smartmove is a system of smart kilometer charges for the Brussels Capital Region
  • together with Transport & Mobility Leuven
  • report first stage available in NL or FR
 
 
 
 
 
Institut bruxellois de statistique et analyse (IBSA-BISA)
Methodological support
Institut bruxellois de statistique et analyse (IBSA-BISA)
Sep 2020 – Present Brussels

summary

  • Various methodological support for IBSA-BISA
 
 
 
 
 
Vlaamse Overheid
Interregional transfers
Vlaamse Overheid
Jan 2023 – May 2024 Brussels

summary

  • Calculation of the interregional financial transfers in Belgium
  • Report 2023 (in Dutch) available here
  • Report 2024 (in Dutch) available here
 
 
 
 
 
Vlaamse Overheid
Study Steering Mobility Tax System
Vlaamse Overheid
Mar 2023 – Jun 2024 Brussels

summary

  • Calculation socio-economic impact of different tax reforms w.r.t. road transport
  • Together with Transport & Mobility Leuven
 
 
 
 
 
Vlaamse Overheid
Study Behavioral Reactions Personal Income Tax Reforms
Vlaamse Overheid
Oct 2023 – Oct 2024 Brussels

summary

  • Calculation behavioral reactions of Flemish households (labor market activity) to personal income tax reform scenarios

Publications

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(2022). Entry in first-price auctions with signaling. International Journal of Game Theory (2022).

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(2021). Auctions with signaling concerns. Journal of Economics & Management Strategy (2021), 30(2), 420-448.

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(2021). Signalling in auctions: Experimental evidence. Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization (2021), 187, 448-469.

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(2020). Smartmove: analyse d'impact. SMARTMOVE : Analyse d’impact - Effets sur la mobilité et les coûts externes du transport, effets budgétaires et effets socio-économiques (2020).

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Contact

  • Boulevard du Jardin botanique 43, Brussels, 1000
  • To find my office E1 in the Saint-Louis maze, enter the university via the parking in the Rue du Marais, enter the building at the corner of Rue du Marais and the Boulevard du Jardin botanique through the second door at the left, take the elevator to the 4th floor, and find office E1.