Past Activities

ORGANIZATION OF SCIENTIFIC EVENTS

  • 16 October 2015 - Doctoral Workshop in Economics. Organized by UNamur, University St. Louis, and UCL
  • 7 May 2015 - Doctoral Workshop in Finance. Organized by UNamur and UCL
  • 5-6 May 2015 - Doctoral Workshop in Economics. Organized by UNamur, University St. Louis, and UCL
  • 22 January 2015 - Doctoral Workshop in Economics. Organized by UNamur, University St. Louis, and UCL
  • 19 December 2014 - Job Market Candidates Workshop (UNamur). Organized by Université Paris X, University of Orléans, UCL, UNamur.
  • 5 December 2014 - Conference on Financial Networks. Organized by the University of Orléans, UCL, UNamur.
  • 1-4 December 2014 - Winter School in Financial Networks. Organized by the University of Orléans, UCL, UNamur.
  • 19 March 2014 - 3rd PhD Student Conference in International Macroeconomics and Financial Econometrics. Organized by University Paris X, UCL, Namur.
  • 20 June 2013 - 1st Belgian Financial Econometrics Day
    Oscar Bernal Diaz, Jean-Yves Gnabo.
  • 27 March 2013 - 2nd PhD Student Conference in International Macroeconomics and Financial Econometrics. Organized by University Paris X, UCL, Namur.
  • 12 November 2012 - The Macroeconomics of Sovereign Debt.
    Romain Houssa.
  • 29 October 2012 - Unconventional Monetary Policy of Central Banks during the Global Financial Crisis.
    Christelle Lecourt,
  • 27–29 October 2010 - African Economic Conference.
    Romain Houssa.

Participation to conferences

2015

  • Seminar in Economics at Fordham University

    Marco Geraci, 27 Oct 2015

  • 3rd International PhD colloquium HEC Université de Liège
    Oscar Bernal, 23 October 2015

  • Conference on Complex Systems

    Carl-Henrik Dahlqvist, 2 Oct 2015

  • BENET 2015

    Marco Geraci, 30 Sep 2015

  • National Bank of Austria Conference: "Towards a Genuine Economic and Monetary Union"
    Alain de Crombrugghe, 10-11 September 2015

  • Financial Risk and Network Theory

    Marco Geraci, 8 Sep 2015

  • Havard University Conference in honor of Eric Maskin: "Markets, mechanisms and more"
    Alain de Crombrugghe, 16-17 July 2015

  • 14th International Workshop on Econometrics and Statistics

    Malik Kerkour, 27 May 2015

  • LEO seminar (University of Orléans)

    Jean-Yves Gnabo, 25 Apr 2015

  • 4th PhD Student Conference in International Macroeconomics and Financial Econometrics

    Marco Geraci, 18 Mar 2015

  • ECARES Internal Seminar

    Marco Geraci, 13 Mar 2015

  • CESifo Area Conference on Macro, Money and International Finance

    Romain Houssa, 20 Feb 2015

2014

  • Networks in Economics and Finance, Joint UNamur and UCL Workshop
    Carl-Henrik Dahlqvist, 5 December 2014
  • 8th CSDA on Computational and Financial Econometrics
    Marco Geraci, 1-5 December 2014
  • Young Scholars Initiative, Institute for New Economic Thinking
    Nicolas Scholtes, 10-11 November 2014
  • 3L Finance Research Workshop, HUB
    Nicolas Scholtes, 8 October 2014
  • Belgian Network Research Meeting
    Nicolas Scholtes, 3 October 2014
  • Conference of the Financial, Engineering and Banking Society
    Carl-Henrik Dahlqvist, 21 June 2014
  • 12th INFINITI Conference on International Finance,
    Grégory Guilmin, 9 June 2014 
  • 14th Belgian Financial Research Forum
    Olivier Hubert, Carl-Henrik Dahlqvist, 27 May 2014 
  • World Finance Conference
    Alexandre Girard, 3 July 2014
  • International Symposium on Forecasting
    Romain Houssa, 29 June 2014
  • 7th International Risk Management Conference
    Oscar Bernal Diaz, 23-24 June 2014
  • 18th International Conference on Macroeconomics Analysis and International Finance
    Alexandre Girard, 30 May 2014
  • CESifo Area Conference on Macro, Money and International Finance,
    Romain Houssa, 21-22 February 2014

2013

  • 12ème Journée d’Économétrie
    Marco Geraci, Grégory Guilmin, Nicolas Scholtes, 11 December 2013
  • Workshop on SPS – Related Market Access Challenges & Opportunities, WTO
    Romain Houssa, 14-18 October 2013
  • Panique, Contagion et Crise: Complexité de la Finance, Collège Belgique.
    Oscar Bernal Diaz, 24 September 2013
  • 28th Annual Congress of the European Economic Association
    Grégory Guilmin, 26 August 2013
  • Pre-Conference on Macroeconomic Challenges Facing Low-Income Countries, IMF
    Romain Houssa, 22-23 July 2013 
  • 12th INFINITI Conference on International Finance
    Jean-Yves Gnabo, Grégory Guilmin, 10-12 June 2013
  • 17th International Conference on Macroeconomics Analysis and International Finance
    Jean-Yves Gnabo, Grégory Guilmin, 30 May – 1 June 2013
  • 30th French Finance Association Conference
    Alexandre Girard, 31 May 2013
  • 3L Finance Research Workshop, HUB
    Grégory Guilmin, 24 May 2013
  • WHU-CEUS Conference on "The Future of Economic Policies in Europe"
    Olivier Hubert, 16-17 May 2013
  • Economic Development in Africa, CSAE Conference
    Romain Houssa, 17-19 Mars 2013 
  • CESifo Area Conference on Macro, Money and International Finance
    Romain Houssa, 22-23 February 2013
  • ESL Doctoral Workshop
    Olivier Hubert, 25 January 2013 

2012

  • PhD Day in Management ULB, ULg, UMons, Louvain School of Management
    Alexandre Girard, 18 December 2012
  • Journée d'Etude: Développements Récents en Finance et Economie
    Oscar Bernal Diaz, 20 September 2012 
  • INFINITI Conference on International Finance
    Malik Kerkour, 11-12 June 2012
  • 11ème Journée d’Économétrie
    Malik Kerkour, 5 June 2012
  • International Finance, Banking and Insurance Congress
    Malik Kerkour, 18-22 April 2012
  • 15th SGF Conference 2012- Swiss Society for Financial Markets Research
    Malik Kerkour, 30 March 2012

2011

  • Doctoral Workshop in Finance and Microfinance
    Malik Kerkour, 1 December 2011
  • Conference Annuelle des Économistes de Langue Française
    Romain Houssa, 17 November 2011
  • Recent Developments in Spatial Econometrics
    Romain Houssa, 1 July 2011
  • North American Meeting of the Econometric Society
    Romain Houssa, 9 -12 June 2011
  • CASE Conference
    Romain Houssa, 10-13 March 2011

2010

  • 5th Annual Methods in International Finance Network Workshop
    Malik Kerkour, 16-17 October 2010
  • European Economic Association Conference 2010
    Romain Houssa, 23 August 2010
  • Chinese Economic Association
    Romain Houssa, 12-13 July 2010

CEREFIM INTERNAL SEMINARS

The CeReFiM Internal Seminars aim at giving PhD students the opportunity to present their ongoing work to Senior Researchers in an atmosphere that fosters the discussion and emergence of new research ideas.

The CeReFiM Internal Seminars are scheduled once a month.

  • Incentive compatible debt restructuring. Alain de Crombrugghe, 10 December 2015.
  • Commonality among equity mutual funds: impact on financial stability and price discovery. Annelies Casteleyn, 18 November 2015.
  • Empirical framework for macroeconomic policies in Sub-Saharan Africa. Jolan Mohimont, 15 October 2015.
  • Monetary-Fiscal policy nexus and its impact on the cost of government borrowing. Olivier Hubert, 7 May 2015
  • Monetary policy and central bank intervention in the Euro Area. Matthieu Picault, 12 March 2015
  • The effective combination of risk-based strategies with momentum and trend following. Grégory Guilmin, 25 February 2015
  • Trust and credit freezes in an agent-based bilayer network model of the interbank market. Nicolas Scholtes, 29 January 2015
  • Effective network inference through multivariate information transfer estimation. Carl-Henrik Dahlqvist, 13 November 2014
  • Assessing the impact of unscheduled sovereign rating announcements on bonds, stocks and exchange rates. Alexandre Girard, 9 October 2014
  • Determinants of sovereign wealth funds investments. Malik Kerkour, 28 November 2013

FACULTY SEMINARS

The Faculty seminars are co-organized by the Center of Research in the Economics of Development (CRED), the Centre for Research in Regional Economics and Economic Policy (CERPE) and the Center of Research in Financial Management (CeReFiM). The Faculty Seminars are scheduled once a week.

The complete list of the Faculty Seminars can be found here.

FIXS INTERNAL SEMINARS

FIXS stands for Financial CompleX System and regroups several disciplines under the same project. The internal seminars are scheduled every two weeks.

The complete list of the FIXS Seminars can be found here.

CESAM Research Seminars

  • CESAM Research Seminar, Louvain School of Management
    Alexandre Girard, 19 June 2014
  • CESAM Research Seminar, Louvain School of Management
    Carl-Henrik Dahlqvist, 3 April 2014
  • CESAM Research Seminar, Louvain School of Management
    Grégory Guilmin, 14 March 2014
  • CESAM Research Seminar, Louvain School of Management
    Nicolas Scholtes, 21 November 2013
  • CESAM Research Seminar, Louvain School of Management
    Grégory Guilmin, 21 March 2013

OTHER RESEARCH SEMINARS

  • RSAEM Research Seminar, Solvay Brussels School of Economics and Management
    Alexandre Girard, 8 May 2014
  • CERGAM - University of Aix-Marseille
    Jean-Yes Gnabo, 17 April 2014 
  • Laboratoire d’Économie d’Orleans (LEO) Research Seminar
    Grégory Guilmin, 4 March 2014
  • Research Seminar as part of course on Tail Risk, ULB
    Marco Geraci, 25 February 2014
  • UNTACD Seminar,
    Romain Houssa, 16 October 2013
  • Brown Bag Research Seminar, University of Missouri
    Romain Houssa, 12 September 2013
  • University of Orléans
    Jean-Yves Gnabo, 17 May 2013 
  • ENIAM Research Seminar
    Romain Houssa, 28 March 2013
  • IREEP Research Seminar,
    Romain Houssa, 28 March 2013
  • Namur Center for Complex Systems Research Seminar
    Jean-Yves Gnabo, 8 January 2013
  • Maastricht University Research Seminar
    Romain Houssa, 15 December 2011
  • Laboratoire d’Économie d’Orleans (LEO) Research Seminar
    Romain Houssa, 20 April 2011

POSTER SESSIONS

  • Winter School and Workshop on Networks in Economics and Finance
    Marco Geraci, 5 December 2014
  • 12ème Journée d’Économétrie
    Alexandre Girard, Carl-Henrik Dahlqvist, 11 December 2013

VISITINGS AND RESEARCH STAYS

  • Universidad Catόlica Boliviana, La Paz Bolivia
    Paul Reding, October 2015
  • VU University Amsterdam
    Annelies Casteleyn, April - September 2015
  • Sante Fe Institute
    Nicolas Scholtes, July 2014 
  • University of Missouri, Columbia
    Romain Houssa, 9-14 September 2013
  • University College Dublin
    Jean-Yves Gnabo, 2013 
  • Laboratoire d'Economie d'Orléans
    Jean-Yves Gnabo, 2012 & 2013
  • The Graduate Institute of International Development Studies, Geneva
    Alain de Crombrugghe