Organisations
Operations Research and Statistics Research Group (ORSTAT) (main work address Leuven) KU 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 ...
Operations Research and Statistics Research Group (ORSTAT) (main work address Brussels) KU 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 ...
Department of Economics, Leuven KU Leuven
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 & ...
Economics University of Antwerp
Research Centre of International Economics, Leuven KU Leuven
Topics are micro-level evaluation of Trade Policy; Corporate Tax Competition in Europe and trade protection and antidumping policy of EU - Market power and productivity measurement of firms - Pricing decisions of firms - Trade and trade policy - Corporate taxation
Public Governance Institute KU Leuven
Careers and public personnel systems; task profiles and function description of the employees in Belgian medium-sized cities : study and development of standards for personnel; state of the art of personnel and finance in Belgian municipalities. Auditing and organizational analysis in public agencies and non-profit organizations; personnel policy-personnel management and human resources (career development, career planning) ; the organization ...
LICOS - Centre for Institutions and Economic Performance KU Leuven
The research team focuses on the analysis of the economics of transition, with a special emphasis on empirical testing of theory using micro economic databases. The latter include firm level data collected by means of large scale business survey data. The main research topics that we focus on include: - the analysis of firm restructuring in transition countries, using approaches from Schumpeterian growth theory. - the analysis of job ...