Macroeconomics, Policy and Econometrics Research Group

PhD students

 

Bruno Ferreira Albuquerque 

Research interests:

  • Monetary policy
  • Empirical macroeconomics
  • The interaction between household debt and economic activity 

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Stef De Visscher

Research interests:

  • Measuring total factor productivity
  • Impact of ageing on productivity 
  • Bayesian time-varying parameter models

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Ignace De Vos

Research interests:

  • Dynamic panel data models
  • Factor-augmented regression
  • Bootstrap

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Willem Devriendt

Research interests:

  • Ageing
  • Pension reform
  • Fiscal policy
  • OLG modeling

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Martin Iseringhausen

Research interests:

  • Applied (Bayesian) econometrics
  • Empirical macroeconomics
  • Modeling volatility

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Marco Onofri

Research interests:

  •  Empirical Macroeconomics

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Frederic Opitz

Research interests:

  •  Empirical Macroeconomics

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Wouter Van der Veken

Research interests:

  • Empirical macroeconomics
  • Food commodity markets
  • (Bayesian) VAR

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Pieter Van Rymenant

Research interests:

  • Long-run economic growth
  • Demographic change
  • Inequality
  • Fiscal policy
  • Overlapping Generations (OLG)

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Alex Verhoijsen 

Research interests:

  • Applied econometrics

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Joris Wauters

(Fulltime employee at the research department of the National Bank of Belgium)

Research interests:

  • Business cycle analysis
  • wages and prices
  • Macro-economic policy

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