Name "Responsible (Organisation)" "Activity (Organisation)" "Affiliation (Researcher)" "Beitske Boonstra" "Fokelien Kootstra" "Department of Languages and Cultures, Department of Linguistics" "David Helleboogh" "Centre for Statistics" "Niel HENS" "The Center for Statistics has an international reputation in statistical research (both theoretical and applied). In the domain of mathematical statistics, research is carried out in a.o. the following fields: bootstrap methods, smoothing techniques, censored data, asymptotic theory. Research in applied statistics focuses on biostatistics (longitudinal data analysis, clustered data, missing data, multivariate methods, clinical trials, epidemiological studies) as well as bioinformatics and statistical genetics.The fundamental research in mathematical and applied statistics is the corner-stone for a sound analysis of real-world problems, coming from a variety of fields; Examples are: registration and analysis of data from psychiatry, public health surveys, clinical trials (cancer, AIDS, hypertension,...), epidemiological research, risk factors when exposed to toxic substances in the environment, etc" "Broes De Cat" "Beatrijs Moerkerke" "Department of Data-analysis" "Operations Research and Statistics Research Group (ORSTAT) (main work address Leuven)" "In operations research, a challenging research area is combinatorial optimization. Next to exact methods such as branch-and-bound, branch-and-price, also approximation algorithms are studied. Assignment and scheduling problems, winner determination problems and research on client-oriented vehicle routing problems are some of the subjects under study. Further emphasis is placed on machine scheduling, resource-constrained project planning and on project portfolio management. Deterministic approaches as well as methods taking the uncertainty into account are investigated. Additionally, nonparametric frontier based methods are studied both theoretically and empirically with applications in a variety of economic domains (e.g., finance, microeconomics and macroeconomics). The statistical research topics cover a range of challenging research subjects. Currently, important topics arising with the availability of data in high dimensions are investigated, as well as topics related to the analysis of incomplete data. This requires dealing with identifiability, estimation and variable selection under sparsity, computational algorithms, robustness, and hypothesis testing. The results can be used in time series analysis, for graphical modeling of e.g. medical data, and for the analysis of duration data, coming from e.g. unemployment studies. Another research area is the design and analysis of experiments with applications in industry, marketing, transportation and health economics.Next to the methodological research, ORSTAT investigates computational aspects, both for statistics and for operations research. In this way the applicability of the proposed methods is facilitated and often software is made available through websites. " "Athanasios Ramkaj" "Gert Willems" "Accountancy and Finance" "Kris Hardies" "In the research group Accountancy and Finance fundamental and applied research in the areas of ""Accountancy"", ""Financing"" and ""Insurance"" is been executed. Below is an overview of the various research topics that are discussed in the study. The field of accountancy: • Financial accounting: external reporting, international accounting, investor communication, imitation behaviour of companies, environmental reporting, narrative reporting, internet reporting, transition to IFRS and influence on reported financial position, quality of financial reporting; • Management accounting and control: short term cost assignment systems, long term cost behavior analysis, planning and control; • Audit: audit quality, auditor independence & expertise, public oversight, assurance services, assurance on sustainability & environmental reporting; • Management information systems: implementation of accounting information systems, evolutions in the field of XBRL, influence of implementation of ERP-systems; • Earnings management: profit control mechanisms, factors influencing profit control, IFRS earnings management vs. national accounting standards. The field of finance: • Financial management: evolution of the role of the CFO, financing policy of Belgian public companies, the use of financial techniques in capital budgeting, value-based management and creation of shareholders value, financial risk management; • Financial economics: the functioning of financial markets, stock and bond returns, optimal portfolio selection, investment evaluation, reversion of extreme price drops in financial markets, statistical modelling of stock prices, credit default swap evaluation; • Banking and insurance: profitability of banks, reporting assessment in the field of risk policy, the role of Belgian mixed banks; • Personal finance: personal wealth risk, comparison of the right of usufruct and the right of building. The field of accounting & finance: • Corporate governance, accounting and finance in business groups and MNO''s; • SME-management: the use of financial bootstrapping techniques, management accounting and control systems for SME''s; • Family businesses: financial management, succession in family firms • Tax-management: transfer pricing, fiscal rulings, international tax systems The field of insurance: • Stochastic models in financial and actuarial mathematics • Distributions of financial and actuarial quantities with stochastic interest rates: analytical calculations and approximation methods in the case of incomplete information • Dependent risks: dependence measures and copula modeling"