Research
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LIDAM Research Areas
Given LIDAM is a cross-sector research institute, it is not surprising that it covers a wide range of research areas. For the sake of consistency, we present them by disciplines subdivided in topics.
Research at LIDAM revolves around 5 main disciplines :
- Economics/Econometrics
- Finance
- Operations Research
- Quantitative Geography
- Statistics and Actuarial Sciences
For each discipline, you will find the researchers active in this discipline, the ongoing research projects and the recent publications.
Inside these disciplines, LIDAM researchers focus on more specific topics. To discover which topic are investigated, please visit our discipline pages.
CORE Recent Publications
Journal Articles
1. Lété, Quentin; Smeers, Yves; Papavasiliou, Anthony. Power Generation Investment Under Zonal Electricity Pricing with Market-Based Re-dispatch. In: The Energy Journal, Vol. 47, no.1, p. 131-164 (2026). doi:10.1177/01956574251367717. http://hdl.handle.net/2078.1/308304
2. Belleflamme, Paul; Li, Muxin; Perilleux, Anaïs. Sharing Economy Platforms in the Face of Crises: A Conceptual Framework. In: Sustainability, Vol. 17, no.14, p. 6370 (2025). doi:10.3390/su17146370. http://hdl.handle.net/2078.1/303714
3. Jourquin, Bart. Reconsidering airport economic impact assessments: A bottom-up comparative analysis of Belgian airports. In: Journal of Air Transport Management, Vol. 128, no.102854, p. 17 (2025). doi:10.1016/j.jairtraman.2025.102854. http://hdl.handle.net/2078.1/303940
4. Atay, Ata; Mauleon, Ana; Vannetelbosch, Vincent. Limited Farsightedness in Priority‐Based Matching. In: Journal of Public Economic Theory, Vol. 27, no.4, p. e70044 (2025). doi:10.1111/jpet.70044. http://hdl.handle.net/2078.1/304650
5. Catanzaro, Daniele; Dehaybe, Henri; Pesenti, Raffaele. New heuristics for phylogeny estimation under the balanced minimum evolution criterion. In: Bioinformatics (Oxford, England), Vol. 41, no.7 (2025). doi:10.1093/bioinformatics/btaf361 (Accepté/Sous presse). http://hdl.handle.net/2078.1/304894
6. Creemers, Stefan. Speeding up Grover’s algorithm. In: European Journal of Operational Research, Vol. 326, no. 1, p. 13-27 (2025). doi:10.1016/j.ejor.2025.02.034. http://hdl.handle.net/2078.1/299480
7. Pérez Armas, Luis Fernando; Deleplanque, Samuel; Aggoune, Riad; Creemers, Stefan. A Hybrid Column Generation-Based Heuristic for Solving the Parallel Machine Scheduling Problem with Sequence-Dependent Setup Times. In: Philosophical transactions. Series A, Mathematical, physical, and engineering sciences, (2025). (Accepté/Sous presse). http://hdl.handle.net/2078.1/304867
8. Goncalves de Souza, Edson Antonio; Mlinar, Tanja; Van den Broeke, Maud; Creemers, Stefan. Dynamic Programming in Inventory Management: A Review. In: Computers & Operations Research, Vol. 183, p. 107164 (2025). doi:10.1016/j.cor.2025.107164. http://hdl.handle.net/2078.1/304874
9. Deleplanque, Samuel; Pérez Armas, Luis Fernando; Creemers, Stefan. solQHealer: Quantum Procedures for Rendering Infeasible Solutions Feasible: A Proof of Concept with the Maximum Independent Set Problem and 3-SAT. In: Journal of Heuristics, Vol. 31, p. 30 (2025). doi:10.1007/s10732-025-09564-3. http://hdl.handle.net/2078.1/304889
10. Herings, P. Jean-Jacques; Mauleon, Ana; Vannetelbosch, Vincent. Do stable outcomes survive in marriage problems with myopic and farsighted players?. In: European Journal of Operational Research, Vol. 322, no.2, p. 713-724 (2025). doi:10.1016/j.ejor.2024.12.043. http://hdl.handle.net/2078.1/299977
IRES Recent Publications
Journal Articles
1. Angelini, Laura; Bertinelli, Luisito; Cömertpay, Rana; Maystadt, Jean-François. The impact of foreign media on political mobilization during the Arab Spring. In: World Development, Vol. 199, p. 107218 (2026). doi:10.1016/j.worlddev.2025.107218. http://hdl.handle.net/2078.1/307042
2. Belleflamme, Paul; Li, Muxin; Perilleux, Anaïs. Sharing Economy Platforms in the Face of Crises: A Conceptual Framework. In: Sustainability, Vol. 17, no.14, p. 6370 (2025). doi:10.3390/su17146370. http://hdl.handle.net/2078.1/303714
3. de la Croix, David; Kotala, Clara. Scholars and Literati at the University of Vich (1599–1713). In: Repertorium eruditorum totius Europae, Vol. 15, p. 21-25 (2025). doi:10.14428/rete.v15i0/Uvich. http://hdl.handle.net/2078.1/304202
4. de la Croix, David. Scholars and Literati at the University of Åbo (Turku) (1640–1800). In: Repertorium eruditorum totius Europae, Vol. 15, p. 27-33 (2025). doi:10.14428/rete.v15i0/Turku. http://hdl.handle.net/2078.1/304533
5. Desterbecq, Charlotte; Dupras, Charles; de Maack, Valentina; Tubeuf, Sandy. Healthcare sobriety and pollution awareness for a green healthcare sector: a Belgian qualitative study. In: Environmental Research: Health, (2025). doi:10.1088/2752-5309/adc4fe. http://hdl.handle.net/2078.1/300041
6. Desterbecq, Charlotte; Harrison, Mark; Tubeuf, Sandy. What are the revealed and stated population preferences for environmental sustainability in healthcare? A scoping review. In: Pharmacoeconomics, (2025). doi:10.1007/s40273-025-01479-y. http://hdl.handle.net/2078.1/299273
7. de la Croix, David; Gkopi, Anna Maria. Scholars and Literati at the University of Trier (1454–1798). In: Repertorium eruditorum totius Europae, Vol. 15, p. 35-43 (2025). doi:10.14428/rete.v15i0/Trier. http://hdl.handle.net/2078.1/305060
8. Bousquet, Julie; Gasten, Anna; Kadigo, Mark Marvin; Maystadt, Jean-François; Salemi, Colette. Does perceived labor market competition increase prejudice between refugees and their local hosts?: Evidence from Uganda and Ethiopia. In: Journal of Development Economics, Vol. 175, p. 103481 (2025). doi:10.1016/j.jdeveco.2025.103481. http://hdl.handle.net/2078.1/299751
9. Jiang, Dong; Zhuo, Jun; Chen, Shuai; Hao, Mengmeng; Xe, Xiaolan; Ide, Tobias; Maystadt, Jean-François. Climate change expected to increase conflict risks over the next decades across sub-Saharan Africa. In: The Innovation Geoscience, Vol. 3, no.3, p. 100139 (2025). doi:10.59717/j.xinn-geo.2025.100139. http://hdl.handle.net/2078.1/302163
10. Vandenberghe, Vincent. Productivity labour adjustment costs. How do new hires and leavers (Incl. retirees) compare?. In: Journal for Labour Market Research, Vol. 59, p. 1-16 (2025). doi:10.1186/s12651-025-00391-4. http://hdl.handle.net/2078.1/302188
ISBA Recent Publications
Journal Articles
1. Soetewey, Antoine; Heuchenne, Cédric; Claes, Arnaud; Descampe, Antonin. AssociationExplorer: A user-friendly Shiny application for exploring associations and visual patterns. In: SoftwareX, Vol. 33, p. 102483 (2026). doi:10.1016/j.softx.2025.102483. http://hdl.handle.net/2078.1/307529
2. Denuit, Michel; Robert, Christian Y. Equal compensations under actuarially fair contributions in endowment contingency funds. In: Risk Sciences, Vol. 1, p. 100005 (2025). doi:10.1016/j.risk.2024.100005. http://hdl.handle.net/2078.1/293870
3. Kiriliouk, Anna; Lee, Jeongjin; Segers, Johan. X-Vine Models for Multivariate Extremes. In: Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series B, Statistical methodology, Vol. 87, no.3, p. 579-602 (2025). doi:10.1093/jrsssb/qkae105. http://hdl.handle.net/2078.1/303809
4. Bailly, Gabriel; von Sachs, Rainer. Nonlinear wavelet threshold estimation of time-varying covariance matrices in a log-Euclidean manifold. In: Journal of Time Series Analysis, (2025). doi:10.1111/jtsa.70011 (Accepté/Sous presse). http://hdl.handle.net/2078.1/303967
5. Thi Thuy Van Nguyen; Heuchenne, Cédric; Kim Duc Tran; Guillaume Tartare; Kim Phuc Tran. SVDD control charts based on MEWMA technique for monitoring Compositional Data. In: Computers & Industrial Engineering, Vol. 201, no.1, p. 110865 (2025). doi:10.1016/j.cie.2025.110865. http://hdl.handle.net/2078.1/300619
6. Leluc, Rémi; Portier, François; Segers, Johan; Zhuman, Aigerim. Speeding up Monte Carlo Integration: Control Neighbors for Optimal Convergence. In: Bernoulli : a journal of mathematical statistics and probability, Vol. 31, no.2, p. 1160-1180 (2025). doi:10.3150/24-BEJ1765. http://hdl.handle.net/2078.1/299432
7. Marion, Rebecca; Lederer, Johannes; Govaerts, Bernadette; von Sachs, Rainer. VC-PCR: A prediction method based on variable selection and clustering. In: Statistica Neerlandica, Vol. 79, no. 1, p. e12358 (2025). doi:10.1111/stan.12358. http://hdl.handle.net/2078.1/292125
8. Van Keilegom, Ingrid; Deketelaere, Benjamin. Quantile regression for interval censored data using an Enriched Laplace distribution. In: Electronic Journal of Statistics, Vol. 19, no.1, p. 54-86 (2025). doi:10.1214/24-EJS2334. http://hdl.handle.net/2078.1/299541
9. Simon, Pierre-Alexandre; Trufin, Julien; Denuit, Michel. Bivariate Poisson Credibility Model and Bonus–Malus Scale for Claim and Near-Claim Events. In: North American Actuarial Journal, Vol. 29, no.1, p. 74–93 (2025). doi:10.1080/10920277.2023.2293210. http://hdl.handle.net/2078.1/299562
10. Hafner, Christian. Explanatory factors of French retail wine prices. In: Applied Economics Letters, Vol. 32, no. 2, p. 259-262 (2025). doi:10.1080/13504851.2023.2266565. http://hdl.handle.net/2078.1/281197
LFIN Recent Publications
Journal Articles
1. Vrins, Frédéric. On the distribution of the integral of a function with respect to a Brownian bridge. In: Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics, Vol. 477, p. 117174 (2026). http://hdl.handle.net/2078.1/307212
2. Vrins, Frédéric. Joint pricing of default-free and defaultable claims in a reduced-form model featuring a martingale part. In: European Journal of Operational Research, Vol. 329, no. 1, p. 180-197 (2026). doi:10.1016/j.ejor.2025.09.043. http://hdl.handle.net/2078.1/306066
3. D'Hondt, Catherine; Petitjean, Mikael; El Hichou, Younes. Uncovering the profile of passive exchange-traded fund retail investors. In: Finance : revue de l'Association française de finance, (2025). doi:10.3917/fina.pr.040 (Accepté/Sous presse). http://hdl.handle.net/2078/294397
4. Kallal, Sami. Is fiscal countercyclicality growth enhancing? Evidence from developing countries over the period 1990–2019. In: Journal of Economic Asymmetries, Vol. 32, p. e00416 (2025). doi:10.1016/j.jeca.2025.e00416. http://hdl.handle.net/2078.1/301277
5. Desagre, Christophe; Laly, Floris; Petitjean, Mikael. Revisiting the trading activity of high-frequency trading firms around ultra-fast flash events. In: Financial Innovation, Vol. 11, p. 68 (2025). doi:10.1186/s40854-024-00726-z. http://hdl.handle.net/2078/294398
6. Candelon, Bertrand; Roccazzella, Francesco. Evaluating Inflation Forecasts in the Euro Area and the Role of the ECB. In: Journal of Forecasting, Vol. 44, no. 3, p. 978-1008 (2025). doi:10.1002/for.3235. http://hdl.handle.net/2078.1/293931
7. Kan, Raymond; Lassance, Nathan. Optimal Portfolio Choice with Fat Tails and Parameter Uncertainty. In: Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, (2025). (Accepté/Sous presse). http://hdl.handle.net/2078.1/293928
8. Distaso, Walter; Roccazzella, Francesco; Vrins, Frédéric. Business cycle and realized losses in the consumer credit industry. In: European Journal of Operational Research, Vol. 323, no. 3, p. 1024-1039 (2025). doi:10.1016/j.ejor.2024.12.026. http://hdl.handle.net/2078.1/296736
9. Barbagli, Matteo; François, Pascal; Gauthier, Geneviève; Vrins, Frédéric. The role of CDS spreads in explaining bond recovery rates. In: Journal of Banking & Finance, Vol. 174, p. 107414 (2025). doi:10.1016/j.jbankfin.2025.107414. http://hdl.handle.net/2078.1/299927
10. Ben Naceur, Sami; Candelon, Bertrand; Elekdag, Selim; Emrullahu, Drilona. Is FinTech Eating The Bank’s Lunch?. In: Journal of International Financial Management and Accounting, (2025). doi:10.1111%2Fjifm.12242 (Accepté/Sous presse). http://hdl.handle.net/2078.1/300159