Welcome to the website of the department of Social economics at the Gent University

The Department of Social economics is one of the seven departments working within the Department of Economics of Ghent University. She is responsible for education, research and service in the field of social economy.

The field of social economy is very wide. Besides the fundamental disciplines of microeconomics, macroeconomics and econometrics, the activities of the department focuses on employment and labor, income, social security, public finance and fiscal policy, the determinants of economic growth and public economics. This website shows how each of these subdomains by the Department of Social Economy is actually concrete outlined.

All staff of the Department of Social Economy are members of the research group SHERPPA (Study Hive for Economic Research and Public Policy Analysis). You find all information about their research on the website of SHERPPA: http://www.sherppa.be.