PhD Graduates - International Economics

2026

    • Justine Miller, June 2026, Disentangling the Spaghetti Bowl of Regional Integration

2025

    • Yingmin Wei, September 2025, The Impact of Foreign Direct Investment on R&D Networks, Innovation, and Productivity

2024

    • Pablo Muylle, September 2024, Government Influence and Economic Dynamics: A Comprehensive Study of State-Owned Enterprises, Political Connections, and Import Competition in the European Business Economy 

2022

    • Els Bekaert, October 2022, Understanding migration drivers : the role of health and climate factors
    • Killian Foubert, January 2022, Essays on migration (intentions) and terrorism

2021

    • Bram De Lange, April 2021, State-Ownership and the European Economy

2020

    • Ruben Dewitte, January 2020, Firm heterogeneity in international trade

2018

    • Yelter Bollen, February 2018, The domestic politics of EU trade policy : the political-economy of CETA and anti-dumping in Belgium and the Netherlands. (Université Libre de Bruxelles)

 2017

    • Angelos Theodorakopoulos, August 2017, Internationalisation and firm performance. (KU Leuven, VIVES - Research Centre for Regional Economics)

 2015

    • Stijn Ronsse, December 2015, Explorations in Cliometrics. (Idea Consult; Ghent University)
    • Victoria Purice, October 2015, Multinational activity and firm performance. (University of Groningen)
    • Samuel Standaert, September 2015, Economic integration and corruption: resolving measurement and endogeneity problems through state-space modeling. (Ghent University)

 2014

    • Karolien Lenaerts, December 2014, Firm-level heterogeneity and the demand and supply side of foreign direct investment spillovers

 2013

    • Ilse Ruyssen, April 2013, Determinants of international migration. (Université catholique de Louvain)

 2012

    • Marijn Verschelde, June 2012, Nonparametric production and frontier analysis: applications in economics

 2011

    • Stefan Van Parys, February 2011, Empirical contributions to international and local tax interaction

 2008

    • Bert Vanbergen, October 2008, Are social welfare states facing a race to the bottom?: a theoretical perspective