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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 new 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 aspect 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

Upcoming presentations :

• "Collateral and Credit" at 3rd Research Cluster of ESCB (Bundesbank, 11/2025)

• the CEPR Paris Symposium (December 5-10/2025) in RPN European Financial Architecture

• ASSA meetings in Philadelphia (Jan 3-5, 2026)

  • AFA: Supply chain spillovers of Private equity buyouts* (presentation by Cédric Huylebroek)

  • IBEFA:  Collateral and Credit* (presentation by Tong Zhao)

  • IBEFA: Identifying relationship-specific credit supply and demand

• Seminar at Banque de France;  March 31, 2026

It will be a pleasure to be reviewing papers for:

• the European Finance Association 2026 (in Ghent ❤️)

• the 8th Summer Conference on Financial Intermediation and Corporate Finance 2026

• IBEFA 2026 (Summer meeting)

• 15th FEBS conference at EUI in 2026