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 ...
Sustainable Finance and Innovation KU Leuven
In order to uncouple economic development from resource use, climate change and loss of biodiversity, innovative solutions need to be developed. Recent academic and practical efforts have demonstrated that a sustainability transition achieving this goal is technically and economically feasible. Nevertheless, corresponding investments remain niches. This is puzzling because the efficient market hypothesis assuming perfect information in ...
The Social History of Finance. University of Antwerp
Social History of finance. University of Antwerp
Essays in Empirical Banking and Finance. KU Leuven
The main focus of the dissertation is on the effect of financial regulation and market design to credit provision, liquidity and social welfare. In Chapter 1 we study how the structure of exchanges related to priority rules affects order execution, social welfare and market fragmentation, while the second chapter investigates the interaction of similar type of orders on different venues, with implications on how to migrate volume back from ...
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 ...
Global Digital Technology Networks: Charting the Intersections of Finance and Big Tech Vrije Universiteit Brussel
technology companies such as Alibaba, Amazon, Google, etc. over many aspects of life. Financial
services, which are increasingly delivered in an online/digital way, are no exception. While
geographers have studied how banks are deploying financial technologies such as Artificial
Intelligence and Big Data, the growing dependence ...