 After the division of the disciplines, disequilibrium economics became the major and most influential research area at CORE differentiating the center from the US practices and establishing it as a specific school in macroeconomics.By 1973, when the Ford grant ended, CORE had expanded its permanent faculty to 21 members with about as many visitors.The maintenance of the center was taken over by the university, supported by external funding through various research contracts with the Belgian government and different organizations.