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 a large-scale, online, open-acces tax-benefit microsimulation model for Brussels and Belgium, in order to make precise tools for the evaluation of public policies broadly available to policy makers, civil society, media and citizens.
Tom Truyts is director of the Center for Applied Public Economics (CAPE) and a member of the Center for Research in Economics (CEREC), both at UCLouvain Saint-Louis Bruxelles.
- Public finance
- Microsimulation modelling
- Data science
- Transport, environment, social inequality, fiscal federalism
- I used to work on game theory, auction theory, economic history
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PhD in Economics, 2008
KU Leuven
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MSc in Economics, 2003
KU Leuven
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Master in Economics (licentiaat), 2002
KU Leuven
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Master in History (licentiaat), 1999
KU Leuven
News & posts
Projects
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
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.
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- 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?
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- Various methodological support for IBSA-BISA
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- Calculation socio-economic impact of different tax reforms w.r.t. road transport
- Together with Transport & Mobility Leuven
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- Calculation behavioral reactions of Flemish households (labor market activity) to personal income tax reform scenarios
Publications
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.
