PhDs

Dr. Andrea Perchiazzo 

Essays in Quantitative Risk Management and Financial Engineering.

Promotors: prof. dr. Carole Bernard & prof. dr. Steven Vanduffel

Dr. Jinghui Chen 

Dependence Uncertainty with Applications in Finance and Insurance.

Promotors: prof. dr. Steven Vanduffel & prof. dr. Carole Bernard

Dr. Kirill Dragun

Advances in Robust Covariance Estimation and Optimal Payoff Choice for Financial Decision Making.

Promotors: prof. dr. Kris Boudt (VUB), prof. dr. Steven Vanduffel (VUB) & prof. dr. Koen Schoors (UGent)

Dr. Andrew Ronnie Mugenyi 

Stakeholder Behaviour and Organisational Change Outcomes in University Development Cooperation Projects.

Promotors: prof. dr. Michaël Dooms (VUB) & prof. dr. Joshua Wesana (MMU)

Dr. Claudia Alba Ortuño 

Drivers of Effective Support to Base of the Pyramid Entrepreneurs.

Promotors: prof. dr. Nikolay Dentchev & prof. dr. Elvira Haezendonck

Dr. Rodrigue Kazzi 

Advancing Model Uncertainty Assessment to Address Actuarial Modelling Challenges. All models are wrong, but how wrong can they be?

Promotors: prof. dr. Carole Bernard & prof. dr. Steven Vanduffel

Dr. Laura Molinari 

Essays on Infrastructure Asset Management.

Promotors : prof. Dr. Elvira Haezendonck (VUB) & prof. dr. Vincent Mabillard (ULB)

Dr. Olivier Nataf

Essays on Credit-Rating Agencies.

Promotor: prof. dr. Lieven De Moor

Dr. Ewoud Heyndels 

Empirical Analysis of Belgian Entrepreneurial Careers via Robust Clustering and Predictive Modelling.

Promotor: prof. dr. Kris Boudt

Dr. Linde Kerckhofs 

Accounting for Personality: From Career Starts to Partnerships in Accounting.

Promotors: prof. dr. Marie-Laure Vandenhaute (VUB) & prof. dr. Kris Hardies (UA)

Dr. Andrea Gabriela Samaniego Diaz 

Drivers of Entrepreneurial Success at the Base of the Pyramid.

Promotors: prof. dr. Nikolay Dentchev (VUB) & prof. dr. Edgar Eugenio Izquierdo Orellana (EPSOL, Ecuador)

Dr. Nabil Bouamara

Unraveling Financial Risk.

Promotors: prof. dr. Kristien Smedts (KU Leuven) & prof. dr. Kris Boudt (VUB)

Dr. Romel Brun Andrade

Business Model Drivers at the Bottom of the Pyramid.

Promotors: prof. dr. Nikolay Dentchev (VUB) & prof. dr. Osvaldo Gutierrez Andrade (UCB)

Dr. Jorge Salas Vargas

Entrepreneurial Competencies at the Base of the Pyramid.

Promotors: prof. dr. Nikolay Dentchev (VUB) & prof. dr. Alejandro Banegas (UAGRM)

Dr. Wouter Vangeel

The Influence of Housing Taxation on the Housing Market.

Promotors: prof. dr. Lieven De Moor (VUB) & prof. dr. Laurens Defau (Johannes Kepler University Linz)

Dr. Wenjing Wang

University-Industry Collaboration on Innovation.

Promotor: prof. dr. Kris Boudt

Dr. Laurens Vercruysse

Data Protection in the Smart City. An Economic and Managerial Analysis.

Promotors: prof. dr. Michaël Dooms & prof. dr. Caroline Buts

Dr. Corrado De Vecchi

Essays on Optimal Portfolio Choice and Model Risk Assessment.

Promotors: prof. dr. Carole Bernard & prof. dr. Steven Vanduffel

Dr. Jason Jahir Roncancio Marin

Entrepreneurial Universities as Agents of Social Change.

Promotor: prof. dr. Nikolay Dentchev

Dr. Philippe Eiselein

Managing Social Enterprises: Scaling and Conflicting Objectives.

Promotor: prof. dr. Nikolay Dentchev

Dr. Hong Ahn Luu

Essays on Better Statistics for Price Predictability and Household Resilience in a Food Security Context.

Promotor: prof. dr. Kris Boudt

Dr. Laurens De Gauquier

The Impact of Service Robots in Retail.

Promotors: prof. dr. Malaika Brengman & prof. dr. Kim Willems

Dr. Mychal Langenus

Collaboration Challenges for Sustainable Port Competitiveness: The Need for Strategic Information Management.

Promotors: prof. dr. Michaël Dooms & prof. dr. Elvira Haezendonck

Dr. Si Qian

Predictors of Employee Voice and Voice Resilience: A Process Approach.

Promotors: prof. dr. Bert Schreurs (VUB) & prof. dr. Shi Wei (RUC)

Dr. Abel Alan Diaz Gonzalez

Ecosystems and Universities in Support of Social Entrepreneurship: Insights from Latin America.

Promotor: prof. dr. Nikolay Dentchev

Dr. Stephanie Van De Sanden

Optimizing Digital Signage for In-Store Marketing: Insights on Adoption Intentions and Message Persuasiveness.

Promotors: prof. dr. Kim Willems & prof. dr. Malaika Brengman

Dr. Samuel Borms

Sentiment and Econometrics: Toward A Unified Framework of Textual Sentiment Analysis for Economic and Financial Applications.

Promotors:  prof. dr. David Ardia (Université de Neuchâtel) & prof. dr. Kris Boudt (VUB) 

Dr. Andres Algaba

Data Aggregation Filters for Timely Economic and Financial Decision Making.

Promotors: prof. dr. Kris Boudt (VUB) & prof. dr. Koen Inghelbrecht (UGent)

Dr. Magali Geerts

The Implementation of Sustainability Strategies in Ports. Contextual Challenges Confronting Port Managing Bodies.

Promotor: prof. dr. Michael Dooms

Dr. Maria Renée Barreal Zapata

Understanding Value for Stakeholders Through Psychological Contracts. The Case of Bolivian Non-profit Organizations.

Promotors: prof. dr. Michaël Dooms & prof. dr. Roland Pepermans

Dr. Marie-Laure Vandenhaute

Audit Quality and Audit Partners’ Behavior: Insights into Audit Firms’ Incentive Structures. Empirical Evidence of Audit Partner Compensation and Audit Firm Equity Structure.

Promotors: prof. dr. Joël Branson (VUB) & prof. dr. Kris Hardies (UAntwerpen)

Dr. Keven Bluteau

Essays on Modelling Latent Variables in Economics and Finance.

Promotors: prof. dr. David Ardia (UniNE) & prof. dr. Kris Boudt (VUB) 

Dr. Jiang Ye

Essays on Optimal Portfolio Choice.

Promotors: prof. dr. Steven Vanduffel & prof. dr. Carole Bernard 

Dr. Prabesh Luitel

Emerging Market Sovereign Credit Ratings and Spreads.

Promotors: prof. dr. Rosanne Vanpée (KU Leuven), prof. dr. Piet Sercu (KU Leuven) & prof. dr. Lieven De Moor (VUB)

Dr. Dries Cornilly

Statistical Methods for Robust Financial Decision Making.

Promotors: prof. dr. Tim Verdonck (KU Leuven), prof. dr. Kris Boudt (VUB) &  prof. dr. Steven Vanduffel (VUB)

Dr. Laurens Defau

Pension Funds: Current Issues in Asset Management.

Promotor: prof. dr. Lieven De Moor

Dr. Ha Giang Nguyên

Essays on Dynamic Portfolio Strategies.

Promotor: prof. dr. Kris Boudt

Dr. Dries Schockaert

International Standards on Auditing: An institutional driver for Audit Quality. Empirical research within the financial sector on indices of compliance using auditor reporting characteristics.

Promotor: prof. dr. Joël Branson

Dr. Muhammad Wajid Raza

Essays on Shariah Compliant Equity Investments.

Promotor: prof. dr. Kris Boudt

Dr. Svetlana Boyadzhieva - Georgieva

A Model for Integrating Earned Value Management and Risk Management in Project Implementation.

Promotors: prof. dr. Matilda Alexandrova - Boshnakova (UNWE) & prof. dr. Nikolay Dentchev (VUB)

Dr. Wouter Thierie

Essays in PPP Financing. An analysis of financial aspects of Public-Private Partnerships.

Promotor: prof. dr. Lieven De Moor & prof. dr. Elvira Haezendonck