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

News & posts

Start TaxFam Project
Start of the TaxFam project September 16th 2023 marks the start of our ARC (Action de Recherche Concertée) project TaxFam. TaxFam stands for Tax Design and Family Dynamics. During the coming 5 years, we will study the interaction between the fiscal system and the structure of Belgian households.
Last updated on Oct 31, 2023 1 min read R
New homepage built in R blogdown and Hugo
Digital resurrection! I am happy to be back online with a new personal homepage. Building this website was a very pleasant experience, thanks to: The R Blogdown package
Last updated on Oct 22, 2021 1 min read R

Projects

 
 
 
 
 
Beamm project
Coordinator
Beamm project
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
 
 
 
 
 
Beamm.brussels
Promoter
Beamm.brussels
Jan 2020 – Present Brussels

Beamm.brussels is

  • a project to built a comprehensive tax-benefit microsimulation model for the Brussels Capital Region
  • available online and in open-access at beamm.brussels (coming soon)
  • running on a micro-dataset representing the population of the Brussels Capital Region
  • focussing on tax-benefit competences of the Region
  • beamm.brussels is funded by Innoviris in the Prospective Research for Brussels program
 
 
 
 
 
Smartmove
Researcher
Smartmove
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

Publications

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Tom Truyts, Olivier Bos (2022). Entry in first-price auctions with signaling. International Journal of Game Theory (2022).

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

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Tom Truyts, Olivier Bos (2021). Effets de réputation dans les enchères : l'inégalité des perdants. Revue économique (2021), 72(3), 443-458.

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Tom Truyts, Olivier Bos, Francisco Gomez-Martinez, Sander Onderstal (2021). Signalling in auctions: Experimental evidence. Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization (2021), 187, 448-469.

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Tom Truyts, Griet De Ceuster, Inge Mayeres, Bart Ons, Christophe Heyndrickx, Gilles Grandjean, Vasylyna Sheremeta (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.