Projects
Didactic research within economics and business economcs education Ghent University
At Ghent University, the educational master's degree in economics has started since the 2019-2020 academic year. This project will strengthen the didactic research in the economics and business economics field. In Flanders, Economics is no longer a specific subject for a particular educational programme in secondary education. Since September 1, 2019, financial-economic competences have been added as 1 of the 16 key-competences that all ...
Economic and financial databases for state-of-the-art empirical research in finance, business and economics KU Leuven
Economics and business schools can only excel in quantitative empirical research when an excellent infrastructure and high quality databases are available to the researchers. The requested infrastructure consists of a set of novel top-level financial and economic databases, as well as a user-friendly upgraded state-of-the art platform to access these data. This implies a very significant expansion and upgrade of the databases currently ...
Economic and Financial databases for top quantitative research in finance, business and economics. KU Leuven
Economic and Financial Data Infrastructure for Empirical Research in Economics and Business KU Leuven
The Hercules infrastructure (2016) of the Faculty of Economics and Business (FEB) consists of six large databases, which allows 900 researchers in 4 different campuses and across 7 research departments to engage in state-of-the-art research. Early 2019, an in-house survey revealed that data needs are expanding. An international benchmarking exercise compared FEB’s data infrastructure to other high-quality research institutions. The ...
Economic and Financial Data Infrastructure for Empirical Research in Economics and Business KU Leuven
The HERCULES (2016) infrastructure of the Faculty of Economics and Business (FEB) consists of six large databases, which allows 900 researchers in 4 different campuses and across 7 research departments to engage in state-of-the-art research. Early 2019, an in-house survey revealed that data needs are expanding. An international benchmarking exercise compared FEB’s data infrastructure to other high-quality research institutions. The ...
PhD-position in Business Economics, Faculty of Economics and Business KU Leuven
My preliminary research interest lies in the relationship between audit fees (especially abnormal audit fees), audit quality, and earnings management, and my current research proposal focuses on the impact of non-audit services to audit quality.
Big data for empirical research in business and economics - Databases & software for research in accounting, banking, economics, and (corporate) finance Ghent University
Our research in business and economics is geared towards producing high-quality, mainly empirical, research aimed at publication in highly ranked journals. For the areas covered in this proposal (economics, banking, (corporate) finance, accounting), this objective requires permanent access to essential databases with granular raw data. They constitute the basic infrastructure to support all types of fundamental and policy-oriented research. ...