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Topics investigated in Finance

The 7 main topics studied by LIDAM members in finance are :

Faculty Members

Bertrand Candelon
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Rudy De Winne
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Catherine D'Hondt
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Natacha Gilson
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Philippe Grégoire
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Nathan Lassance
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Mikael Petitjean
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Isabelle Platten
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Frédéric Vrins
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Post-Doc and PhD Students

  • Roland Bouillot
  • Antoine Duysinx
  • Nadia El Mhouar
  • Drilona Emrullahu Peci
  • Arnaud Germain
  • Thomas Grava
  • Pierre Houssière
  • Sami Kallal
  • Floris Laly
  • Braima Mané
  • Liana Nersisyan
  • Thi Nhung Luong
  • Ilona Tellier
  • Antoine Trotin
  • Rodolphe Vanderveken

 

Sponsors LIDAM promoters Projects titles LIDAM researchers Beginning End

FSR

Rudy de Winne Retail Investors and Multi-Asset Portfolio Choices over Time Aiste PETKEVICIUTE November 2019 November 2024

FNRS

Aspirant

Frédéric Vrins Recovery rates: modeling and practical implications

Paolo Gambetti

September 2019 September 2021
ARC Olivier Corneille, Rudy de Winne, Eryc Ghysels, Catherine d'Hondt, Leonardo Madio, Frédéric Vrins Negative and ultra-low interest rates: behavioral and quantitative modelling (NEMO) Linqi Wang, Pavel Tretiakov et Aleksandar Todorovic September 2018 September 2023
FSR Rudy de Winne Retail investors and multi-asset portfolio choices over time   October 2018 September 2020
FSR Frédéric Vrins Conic martingales and credit risk modeling Cheikh Mbaye October 2017 November 2019
FNRS Aspirant Frécéric Vrins Information -Theoretic approach to portfolio optimization Nathan Lassance   September 2020
FNRS Aspirant Rudy de Winne, Eric Ghysels Real time econometrics using mixed frequency data Jonas Striaukas Octover 2018 October 2022
FNRS CDR Frédéric Vrins Credit risk modelling and stochastic recovery rates   2018 2019
FNRS CDR Leonardo Iania Uncertainty and monetary policy   January 2018 December 2019
FNRS PDR Leonardo Iania Uncertainty, macroeconomic fluctuations and asset prices   October 2015 September 2019

You will find below our recent publications (journal articles, book chapters and books) in Finance.

  • Article de journal
    • 2026
      Vrins, F. (2026). On the distribution of the integral of a function with respect to a Brownian bridge. Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics, 477, 117-174. (Original work published 2026)
    • Vrins, F. (2026). Joint pricing of default-free and defaultable claims in a reduced-form model featuring a martingale part. European Journal of Operational Research, 329(1), 180-197. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejor.2025.09.043 (Original work published 2026)
    • Asimit, V., Chen, Z., & Lassance, N. (2026). Distribution-free shrinkage of high-dimensional mean vector. Journal of Business and Economic Statistics. Accepted/in-press. (Original work published 2026)
    • 2025
      Barbagli, M., François, P., Gauthier, G., & Vrins, F. (2025). The role of CDS spreads in explaining bond recovery rates. Journal of Banking & Finance, 174, 107414. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbankfin.2025.107414 (Original work published 2025)
    • D’Hondt, C., Petitjean, M., El Hichou, Y., & et al. (2025). Uncovering the profile of passive exchange-traded fund retail investors. Finance : revue de l’Association française de finance. Accepted/in-press. https://doi.org/10.3917/fina.pr.040 (Original work published 2025)
    • Distaso, W., Roccazzella, F., & Vrins, F. (2025). Business cycle and realized losses in the consumer credit industry. European Journal of Operational Research, 323(3), 1024-1039. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejor.2024.12.026 (Original work published 2025)
    • Kallal, S. (2025). Is fiscal countercyclicality growth enhancing? Evidence from developing countries over the period 1990–2019. Journal of Economic Asymmetries, 32, e00416. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jeca.2025.e00416 (Original work published 2025)
    • Desagre, C., Laly, F., & Petitjean, M. (2025). Revisiting the trading activity of high-frequency trading firms around ultra-fast flash events. Financial Innovation, 11, 68. https://doi.org/10.1186/s40854-024-00726-z (Original work published 2025)
    • Degryse, H., De Winne, R., Gresse, C., & Payne, R. (2025). Duplicated Orders, Swift Cancellations, and Fast Market Making in Fragmented Markets. Management science. Accepted/in-press. https://doi.org/10.1287/mnsc.2023.01789 (Original work published 2025)
    • Candelon, B., & Roccazzella, F. (2025). Evaluating Inflation Forecasts in the Euro Area and the Role of the ECB. Journal of Forecasting, 44(3), 978-1008. https://doi.org/10.1002/for.3235 (Original work published 2025)
    • Bellofatto, A., Broihanne, M.-H., & D’Hondt, C. (2025). Financial knowledge acquisition and trading behavior: empirical evidence from an online information tool. Financial Markets and Portfolio Management, 39, 1-45. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11408-024-00459-0 (Original work published 2025)
    • Kan, R., & Lassance, N. (2025). Optimal Portfolio Choice with Fat Tails and Parameter Uncertainty. Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, 60(8), 3753-3790. (Original work published 2025)
    • Lassance, N., Vanderveken, R., & Vrins, F. (2025). Optimal Portfolio Size under Parameter Uncertainty. Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis. Accepted/in-press. (Original work published 2025)
    • Germain, A., & Vrins, F. (2025). Credit selection in collateralized loan obligation: Efficient approximation through linearization and clustering. European Journal of Operational Research. Accepted/in-press. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejor.2025.11.015 (Original work published 2025)
    • Ben Naceur, S., Candelon, B., Elekdag, S., & Emrullahu, D. (2025). Is FinTech Eating The Bank’s Lunch? Journal of International Financial Management and Accounting. Accepted/in-press. https://doi.org/10.1111%2Fjifm.12242 (Original work published 2025)
    • Mugrabi Otero, F., Belkhir, M., Naceur, S., Candelon, B., & Choi, W. G. (2025). Macroprudential Policy and Bank Systemic Risk: Does Inflation Targeting Matter? Emerging Markets Review. Accepted/in-press. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ememar.2025.101397 (Original work published 2025)
    • 2024
      D’Hondt, C., De Winne, R., & Todorovic, A. (2024). Target return as efficient driver of risk-taking. Review of Behavioral Finance, 16(1), 130-166. https://doi.org/10.1108/RBF-09-2022-0216 (Original work published 2024)
    • Kan, R., Lassance, N., & Wang, X. (2024). The distribution of sample mean-variance portfolio weights. Random Matrices: Theory and Applications, 13(1), 2450002. https://doi.org/10.1142/S2010326324500023 (Original work published 2024)
    • Mazza, P., Petitjean, M., & Tohlukov, A. (2024). Financial Performance and The Legal Landscape: An International Study of Controversial Business Activities. Economics, Management, and Financial Markets, 19(2), 60-86. https://doi.org/10.22381/emfm19220244 (Original work published 2024)
    • Feilian Xia, Thewissen, J., Shrestha, P., & Shrestha, P. (2024). The power of a name: Exploring the relationship between ICO name fluency and investor decision making. International Review of Financial Analysis, 93, 103142. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.irfa.2024.103142 (Original work published 2024)
    • Candelon, B., Joëts, M., & Mignon, V. (2024). What makes econometric ideas popular: The role of connectivity. Research Policy, 53(7), 105025. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.respol.2024.105025 (Original work published 2024)
    • Lassance, N., Martín-Utrera, A., & Simaan, M. (2024). The Risk of Expected Utility under Parameter Uncertainty. Management science, 70(11), 7644-7663. (Original work published 2024)
    • Plotkina, D., Hoffmann, A. O. I., Roger, P., & D’Hondt, C. (2024). Gender vs. personality: The role of masculinity in explaining cognitive style. Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Finance, 44. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbef.2024.100995 (Original work published 2024)
    • Lassance, N., Vanderveken, R., & Vrins, F. (2024). On the Combination of Naive and Mean-Variance Portfolio Strategies. Journal of Business and Economic Statistics, 42(3), 875-889. (Original work published 2024)
    • Algieri, B., Iania, L., Leccadito, A., & Meloni, G. (2024). Message in a bottle: Forecasting wine prices. Journal of Wine Economics, 19, 64-91. https://doi.org/10.1017/jwe.2024.3 (Original work published 2024)
    • De Bondt, W., De Winne, R., & D’Hondt, C. (2024). Measuring speculation beyond day trading and bets on lottery-like stocks. International Review of Financial Analysis, 96(A), 103632. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.irfa.2024.103632 (Original work published 2024)
    • Candelon, B., & Moura, R. (2024). A Multicountry Model of the Term Structures of Interest Rates with a GVAR. Journal of Financial Econometrics, 22(5), 1558-1587. https://doi.org/10.1093/jjfinec/nbae008 (Original work published 2024)
    • Hafner, C., & Wang, L. (2024). Dynamic portfolio selection with sector-specific regularization. Econometrics and Statistics, 32, 17-33. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecosta.2022.01.001 (Original work published 2024)
    • Ansaram, K., & Petitjean, M. (2024). A Global Perspective on the Nexus Between Energy and Stock Markets in Light of the Rise of Renewable Energy. Energy Economics, 131, 107406. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eneco.2024.107406 (Original work published 2024)
    • D’Hondt, C., Roger, P., Hoffmann, A., & Plotkina, D. (2024). Is There a Gender Gap in the Birthday‐Number Effect? The Case of Lotto Players and the Role of Sequential Choice. Journal of Gambling Studies, 40, 1439-1463. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10899-024-10288-5 (Original work published 2024)
    • 2023
      Candelon, B., & Hasse, J.-B. (2023). Testing for Causality between Climate Policies and Carbon Emissions Reduction. Finance Research Letters. Accepted/in-press. (Original work published 2023)
    • Desagre, C., Paolo Mazza, & Petitjean, M. (2023). Crypto market dynamics in stressful conditions. Applied Economics. Accepted/in-press. https://doi.org/10.1080/00036846.2022.2108754 (Original work published 2023)
    • Hafner, C., & Wang, L. (2023). A dynamic conditional score model for the log correlation matrix. Journal of Econometrics, 237(2), 105176. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jeconom.2021.09.004 (Original work published 2023)
    • Shrestha, P., Thewissen, J., Arslan‐Ayaydin, Ö., & Parhankangas, A. (2023). A sense of risk: Responses to crowdfunding risk disclosures. Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal, 17(4), 925-970. https://doi.org/10.1002/sej.1480 (Original work published 2023)
    • Barbagli, M., & Vrins, F. (2023). Accounting for PD-LGD dependency: A tractable extension to the Basel ASRF framework. Economic Modelling, 125, 106321. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.econmod.2023.106321 (Original work published 2023)
    • Iania, L., Collage, R., & Vereycken, M. (2023). The Impact of Uncertainty in Macroeconomic Variables on Stock Returns in the USA. Journal of Risk and Financial Management, 16(3), 189. https://doi.org/10.3390/jrfm16030189 (Original work published 2023)
    • Lassance, N., & Vrins, F. (2023). Portfolio Selection: A Target-Distribution Approach. European Journal of Operational Research, 310(1), 302-314. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejor.2023.02.014 (Original work published 2023)
    • Argyropoulos, C., Candelon, B., Hasse, J.-B., & Panopoulou, E. (2023). Toward a Macroprudential Regulatory Framework for Mutual Funds. International Journal of Finance and Economics. Accepted/in-press. (Original work published 2023)
    • Vrins, F., & Wang, L. (2023). Asymmetric short-rate model without lower bound. Quantitative Finance, 23(2), 279-295. https://doi.org/10.1080/14697688.2022.2156384 (Original work published 2023)
    • Albert J. Menkveld, Anna Dreber, Felix Holzmeister, Juergen Huber, Magnus Johannesson, Michael Kirchler, Sebastian Neusüss, Michael Razen, Utz Weitzel, Hasse, J.-B., & et al. (2023). Non-Standard Errors. The Journal of Finance. Accepted/in-press. (Original work published 2023)
    • Iania, L., Tretiakov, P., & Wouters, R. (2023). The risk premium in New Keynesian DSGE models: The cost of inflation channel. Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, 155, 104732. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jedc.2023.104732 (Original work published 2023)
    • Vrins, F. (2023). SVB, Crédit Suisse, ... au suivant ? Regards économiques, Focus(30). https://doi.org/10.14428/regardseco2023.03.30.01 (Original work published 2023)
    • Lassance, N. (2023). An Analytical Shrinkage Estimator for Linear Regression. Statistics & Probability Letters, 194, 109760. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.spl.2022.109760 (Original work published 2023)
    • Candelon, B., & Moura, R. (2023). Sovereign yield curves and the COVID-19 in emerging markets. Economic Modelling, 127, 106453. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.econmod.2023.106453 (Original work published 2023)
    • Weber, M., Striaukas, J., Schumacher, M., & Binder, H. (2023). Regularized regression when covariates are linked on a network: the 3CoSE algorithm. Journal of Applied Statistics, 50(3), 535-554. https://doi.org/10.1080/02664763.2021.1982878 (Original work published 2023)
    • Boulier, J.-F., D’Hondt, C., Jawadi, F., Prat, G., Rozin, P., & Taffler, R. (2023). How Do Investor’s Expectations and Emotions Drive Financial Asset Prices in Times of Crises and Uncertainty: The Analysis of Experts’ Opinions. Bankers, Markets & Investors, 2023/4(175), 3-12. (Original work published 2023)
    • Roger, P., D’Hondt, C., Plotkina, D., & Hoffmann, A. (2023). Number 19: Another Victim of the COVID‐19 Pandemic? Journal of Gambling Studies (Online), 39(3), 1417-1450. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10899-022-10145-3 (Original work published 2023)
    • Algieri, B., Iania, L., & Leccadito, A. (2023). Looking ahead: Forecasting total energy carbon dioxide emissions. Cleaner Environmental Systems, 9, 100112. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cesys.2023.100112 (Original work published 2023)
    • Duterme, T. (2023). Bloomberg and the GameStop saga: the fear of stock market democracy. Economy and Society, 52(3), 373-398. https://doi.org/10.1080/03085147.2023.2189819 (Original work published 2023)
    • 2022
      Desagre, C., D’Hondt, C., & Petitjean, M. (2022). The rise of fast trading: Curse or blessing for liquidity? Finance : revue de l’Association française de finance, 43, 119-158. https://doi.org/10.3917/fina.pr.i (Original work published 2022)
    • Babii, A., Ghysels, E., & Striaukas, J. (2022). Machine Learning Time Series Regressions With an Application to Nowcasting. Journal of Business and Economic Statistics, 40(3), 1094-1106. https://doi.org/10.1080/07350015.2021.1899933 (Original work published 2022)
    • Lassance, N., Vrins, F., & DeMiguel, V. (2022). Optimal portfolio diversification via independent component analysis. Operations research, 70(1), 55-72. https://doi.org/10.1287/opre.2021.2140 (Original work published 2022)
    • Gambetti, P., Roccazzella, F., & Vrins, F. (2022). Meta-Learning Approaches for Recovery Rate Prediction. Risks, 10(6), 124. https://doi.org/10.3390/risks10060124 (Original work published 2022)
    • Mbaye, C., & Vrins, F. (2022). Affine term structure models: a time-change approach with perfect fit to market curves. Mathematical Finance, 32(2), 678-724. https://doi.org/10.1111/mafi.12342 (Original work published 2022)
    • Mbaye, C., Sagna, A., & Vrins, F. (2022). A general firm value model under partial information. The Journal of Computational Finance, 26(1). https://doi.org/10.21314/JCF.2022.020 (Original work published 2022)
    • Belkhir, M., Ben Naceur, S., Candelon, B., & Wijnandts, J.-C. (2022). Macroprudential policies, economic growth and banking crises. Emerging Markets Review, 53, 100936. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ememar.2022.100936 (Original work published 2022)
    • Duterme, T. (2022). Do modern stock exchanges emerge from competition? Evidence from the “Belgian Big Bang”. Review of Evolutionary Political Economy, 3(2), 351-371. https://doi.org/10.1007/s43253-022-00069-4 (Original work published 2022)
    • Lassance, N. (2022). Reconciling mean-variance portfolio theory with non-Gaussian returns. European Journal of Operational Research, 297(2), 729-740. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejor.2021.06.016 (Original work published 2022)
    • Petitjean, M. (2022). Judging the functioning of equity markets in 2020: A bird’s-eye (re)view. Bankers, Markets, and Investors, 169, 1-11. (Original work published 2022)
    • Arslan-Ayaydin, Ö., Chen, S., Ni, S. X., & Thewissen, J. (2022). Is cross-listing a panacea for improving earnings quality? The case of H- and B-share firms in China. International Review of Financial Analysis, 81, 102113. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.irfa.2022.102113 (Original work published 2022)
    • D’Hondt, C., Merli, M., & Roger, T. (2022). What drives retail portfolio exposure to ESG factors? Finance Research Letters, 46(Part B), 102470. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.frl.2021.102470 (Original work published 2022)
    • Hoffmann, A., Plotkina, D., Roger, P., & D’Hondt, C. (2022). Superstitious beliefs, locus of control, and feeling at risk in the face of Covid-19. Personality and Individual Differences, 196, 111718. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2022.111718 (Original work published 2022)
    • Candelon, B., Luisi, A., & Roccazzella, F. (2022). Fragmentation in the European Monetary Union: Is it really over? Journal of International Money and Finance : theoretical and empirical research in international economics and finance, 122, 102545. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jimonfin.2021.102545 (Original work published 2022)
  • Chapitre de livre
    • 2025
      Candelon, B., & Hadzi-Vaskov, M. (2025). Convergence vs. Divergence in Emerging Market Sovereign Spreads. In Jaap Bos, Mark Sanders (eds) (ed.), Convincing Economics : Essays in honour of Prof. Dr. Clemens Kool (p. p. 93-111). Maastricht University Press. https://doi.org/10.26481/mup.2501