Projects
Sustainable financial services - the finance trilemma KU Leuven
Sabbatical Veerle Colaert: Handbook FInancial Regulation / Research Project Sustainable Finance KU Leuven
I am developing a research project on “Sustainable Finance”. Since the European Commission launched its Sustainable Finance Action Plan in March 2018, numerous legislative initiatives have been taken to weave sustainability into financial regulation. As a result, within a few years, the entire regulatory framework will have been rewritten to encourage the financial sector to finance sustainable projects. Although a great deal of research has ...
Essays on Corporate Finance in Export-Oriented Belgian Firms KU Leuven
This research project aims to establish an understanding of the linkage between export activities and issues in corporate finance of Belgian small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). In spite of SMEs being the main contributors to economic growth and development, the extant literature on the linkage between internationalization and corporate financing policy is confined to large listed firms. This research gap stems largely from a lack of ...
Social History of finance. University of Antwerp
Digital transformation in finance Ghent University
To embrace the promising potential of the emerging information technology (IT), organizations need effective digital transformation (DT) strategies to be developed, which require subtle understanding of the disruptive IT and its source of value creation. However, an obstacle in this regard is absence of a common language between financial experts and IT professionals, exacerbated by the intricacy of distributed ledger technology (DLT). While ...
Issues on SME Networking, Financial Reporting, Performance and Finance Ghent University
This proposal intends to investigate the interrelations between SME networking, financial reporting, performance and financing. First, we examine whether SME networking contributes to company success. Secondly,we plan to investigate whether networking SMEs benefit in terms of better conditions in the loan market. Finally, we investigate whether the quality of financial reports is reflected in credit conditions of SMEs.
The potential of quantum-based methodologies in time series analysis in economics and finance Ghent University
The inclusion of classical physics based methodologies into the fields of economics and finance is common in contemporary econophysical research. However, quantum physics based approaches are more rare. The aim of this research proposal is to investigate the potential of such quantum algorithms in an economic and financial setting. In particular, methodologies based on quantum walks will be of great value. The quantum based methodologies will ...
Essays on multivariate statistics in finance KU Leuven
The research concerns multivariate statistical methods to model and estimate financial asset prices. In one strand the research will be concerned with estimating systemic risk and extreme dependencies between asset prices in a more flexible fashion. In another strand the effects of outliers in asset prices and pricing factors on the estimated model structure will be considered.
Accounting, Tax and Corporate finance Ghent University
Relation between taxes, Financial reporting and other elements in decision making processes in companies Impact of taxes on pricing in financial markets Impact of differences in tax regimes and financial reporting in different countries.