Research news @ SBS-EM
Thursday, April 14, 2011 (Updated on 14th November 2011)
UPDATE- Five SBS-EM doctoral students selected to take part in Lindau-Nobel meeting
Five doctoral students from Solvay Brussels School were selected among a pool of 2,000 applicants worldwide to take part in the 4th Lindau-Nobel meeting in Economic Sciences this summer.
This is the first time SBS-EM was asked to nominate participants for this meeting that will bring together about 450 promising scholars with 19 Nobel laureates in Economics for 4 days of intense intellectual exchanges. "The fact that all of our nominated candidates were selected is a strong signal of their quality and the quality our doctoral program." commented Estelle Cantillon, Director of Research at SBS-EM.
The selected candidates are Stephanie COLLET (supervisor: K. Oosterlinck), Mate FODOR (P. Legros), Renault FOUCART (M. Castanheira), Charles MATHIAS (D. Veredas), and Malwina MEJER (B. van Pottelsberghe).
Congratulations to these promising young scholars and their supervisors, and best wishes for them for an intellectually exciting meeting!
UPDATE - Watch the videos of the event
More information on the Lindau-Nobel series
Thursday, December 23, 2010
Estelle Cantillon, Director of Reasearch at SBS-EM, awarded
The University of Brussels Foundation For Reasearch is a recent initiative from the University of Brussels authorities to shine a light on leading research at the university. The first three recipient of the foundation award were selected by an international scientific committee and received their price on the 8th of December 2010. Among the three groundbreaking researchers was Solvay Brussels School's Director of Research, Estelle Cantillon for her work on organisation, creation and evolution of markets.
Learn more about Estelle Cantillon or watch her interview.
Know more about the University of Brussels Foundation.
Tuesday, June 22, 2010
SBS-EM researchers successful in the last call of the ARC grants (2010-2015)
In the last call for Actions de Recherches Concertées (ARC grants), SBS-EM researchers together with researchers from the Faculty of Sciences won two of these important grants. Together with Siegfried Hörmann from the Faculty of Sciences, our colleagues Catherine Dehon (ECARES) and Davy Paindaveine (ECARES) won an ARC grant for their project on “statistical methods for complex static and dynamic dependence models”. This project aims at developing new methods to tackle the increasing complexity (due to improvements in measurement and storage devices) of current financial datasets. The new methods will be designed for standard correlation models, elliptical models, independent component models, as well as, in a time series framework, multivariate GARCH models and dynamic functional models, while the methodology adopted is mainly related to nonparametric and robust inference, statistical depth, Le Cam’s theory of statistical experiments, time series analysis, and stochastic approximation theory.
Domenico Giannone, Robert Kollmann and Christine De Mol (all from ECARES) won an ARC grant for their projects on “High-dimensional data in Economics and Finance”. This project focuses on the issue of exploiting large information sets in macroeconomics and finance, in particular through the development of a systematic framework for dynamic factor models of high-dimensional time series (i.e. large cross-sections), the analysis of the properties of Bayesian shrinkage methods for large cross-sections, and the study of asset prices and portfolio management with large information and many assets.
Tuesday, June 15, 2010
Wernaers Prize awarded to CERMi co-directors
The Belgian National Science Foundation (FNRS) awarded one of the 2010 Wernaers Prizes to CERMi co-directors Marek Hudon, Marc Labie, and Ariane Szafarz for their organization of the First European Research Conference on Microfinance on June 2nd to 4th, 2009, at the Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB). The Wernaers Prizes rewards research and knowledge diffusion.
Monday, June 21, 2010
Five SBS-EM faculty members at the Academy of Management this year
Our colleagues Patricia Garcia-Prieto, Marek Hudon, Carine Peeters, Nicolas van Zeebroeck and Olivier Witmeur had a paper accepted for presentation at the annual meeting of the Academy of Management. This annual meeting is the biggest academic meeting for management sciences. This is the first time that SBS-EM has such a large contingent.
June 2010
Doctoral student wins DRUID awards
Doctoral student Gaetan de Rassenfosse won DRUID's Young Scholar Best Paper Award for his paper "How much do we know about firms' propensity to patent and should we worry about it?". DRUID (Dynamics of Institutions and Markets in Europe" is part of DIME, a research network of excellence working on the economics and social consequences of increasing globalisation and the rise of the knowledge economy. It is sponsored by the 6th framework programme of the European Commission. Gaetan de Rassenfosse has just completed his doctoral studies at ECARES and will join the University of Melbourne on a lectureship in Fall 2010.