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Welcome to my webpage.  I am a senior economist at the research department of the National Bank of Belgium. I am also an affiliated  associate professor at the department of Finance at Tilburg University.

Since April 2024, I am visiting part-time the ECB, at DGR-FIR as a Lead Economist, primarily in the context of the ESCB Research Network ChaMP (Challenges for Monetary Policy in a Changing World).  

Twice a year, I organize a workshop of the Empirical Financial Intermediation network. jointly with Mike Marathasian and Klaas Mulier. The aim of the EFI network is to organize small workshops on empirical financial intermediation during which researchers receive ample time to present and receive feedback on their work in a friendly atmosphere. 

In my empirical research, I examine various aspects of financial intermediation, related to :

• bank-firm relationships and shock transmission

• bank lending specialization

• empirical methods to decompose credit supply from credit demand

• the role of collateral in lending

• financial intermediation along firms' supply chain

Recent and Upcoming presentations :

• CEPR 2026 joint workshop IMO/ESF at IESE Business School

• Seminar at Universitat Pompeu Fabra (September 26)

• ESCB research cluster 3 at the European Central Bank (November 26)

It will be a pleasure to be reviewing papers for:

• BIS-CEPR-Gerzensee-SFI Conference on Financial Intermediation

• the 16th edition of the Empirical Financial Intermediation workshop (Brussels)