Name "Responsible (Organisation)" "Activity (Organisation)" "Affiliation (Researcher)" "Business and Law" "Wouter Verheyen" "The mission of the Research Programme Business & Law is to perform high-quality legal-scientific research concerning the relationship between Business and Law. Within the Faculty of Law research is carried out on European law, tax law and economic law (including commercial law, company law and financial law) and the patrimonial aspects of family law. Merging these research strands into one research programme with a strong focus on Business and Law has considerable added value. This includes, among others, an increased coherence between research results and higher research visibility following the fact that researchers' publications, books doctoral thesises and research projects are embedded in the programme. The same applies to conferences, workshops and congresses." "Maritza Toro Lopez" "Tine Compernolle" "Engineering Management" "Judith Verweijen" "Ingrid Moons" "Product development, Marketing" "Rosamunde Elise Van Brakel" "Metajuridica, Fundamental rights centre, Criminology" "Thomas Vanoutrive" "Research Group for Urban Development" "Greet De Block" "Centre for Urban History" "Department of Economics, Leuven" "Jo Van Biesebroeck" "1.ECONOMETRICS:*Empirical economic models: country models, global models , specification, estimation & simulation.*Consumer demand: systems of demand functions for economies as a whole and for groups of products. *Portfolio models: descriptive models for financial investment.*New technology & employment: microeconomic impact of technological change on employment.*Labor contracts: the allocation of risk over partners & time.*Foundations of Social security:socio-economic efficiency, role of private & public institutions.* Social choice:aggregation of individual preferences.*Financial models:asset pricing, term structure of interest rates, predicting stock market returns & volatility. 2.MONETARY & INFORMATION ECONOMICS:*Saving & financial wealth in Belgium. Database on macroeconomic & financial savings. Analysis, within the framework of portfolio models, of recent changes in the sectoral  & asset allocation with respect to institutional & structural adjustments.*Monetary policy & financial innovations in Belgium. Database of monetary & financial variables. Analysis of the implications of financial internationalization, innovation & deregulation for the functioning of financial markets, for the role of financial intermediation & for monetary & credit policies : operational rules for macroeconomic policy making in the context of a small open economy.* Foundation of financial intermediation: asymmetric information, technology, data on mergers & strategic management analysis of the banking industry.*Mergers 3. ECONOMIC POLICY:* Social security: health insurance (risk adjustment), pension systems.*Efficiency measurement:social capital & economic performance.*Welfare economics:distributive justice (survey research),Optimal taxation,Construction of micro- simulation models.*Imperfect competition in goods & labor markets *Macroeconom. policy design & coordination.*Public finance:macro-economic impact of deficits & debt, debt management.*Public finance in an economic  & monetary union. 4. INTERNATIONAL ECONOMICS: *International monetary problems. *Theory of exchange rate determination.*The application of chaos theory to the foreign exchange market.*The economics of monetary integration.*Economic intergration on Europe: the single market. *International trade & imperfect competition. 5. ECONOMIC HISTORY: *Economic growth, structural change & productivity in Belgium (1760-2000 ):reconstruction of historical national income accounts from available statistical material and qualitative sources; Modelling of the process of economic development in Belgium; Comparison of Belgian economic performance to that of other countries. *Business History, 19th & 20th centuries *History of the port of Antwerp, 20th century.*History of European economic integration (19th & 20th centuries). 6. DEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS:*Macro- & microeconomic analysis of development issues. * Development aid. *Debt. *Terms of Trade. *Constraints on private enterprise development in developing countries. *Civil war and economics in Africa *Food market integration *Food security *Poverty analysisstrategies *Health in developing countries *Child labour *Africa *Asia *Latin America. 7. ENERGY, TRANSPORT & ENVIRONMENT:*Policy optimization for energy, transport & environmental problems: costs & benefits of t he use of different policy instruments for the different parties involved.*Particular emphasis on integration of sectoral objectives with more global economic objectives (public finance aspects, economic welfare, etc ..)." "Simon Bothof" "Doctoraatsbegeleiding, Cosmopolis Centre for Urban Research, Geography"