Peter Reusens

Articles

• • Reusens, P., van Kempen, T. Vandenbergh, J., Vastmans, F. & Damen, S. (2025) Impact of the Flemish energy renovation obligation on house prices, NBB Economic Review.

  • Reusens, P. Vastmans, F. & Damen, S. (2023).  A new framework to disentangle the impact of changes in dwelling characteristics on house price indices, Economic Modelling, 106252, 1-22. (NBB Economic Review version and dataset) (Webinar recording) 

  • Boudt, K.,  De Block, A., Langenus, G. and Reusens, P. (2023) Nowcasting GDP through the lens of economic states. NBB Working paper series,  445, 1-56 (pdf)

  • Reusens, P. (2023) De Belgische woningmarkt: trends en recent verloop, Bank- en Financiewezen, 3, Maart, 1-8.  (pdf)

  • Reusens, P. (2023) Highlights of the NBB ad hoc business survey and the outlook for business investment, Bank- en Financiewezen, 1, 69-74. (pdf)

  • Reusens, P., Vastmans, F. and Damen, S. (2022) The energy efficiency of the Belgian dwellings and its impact on house prices (Extended NL version in Bank en Financiewezen) (SUERF policy brief)

  • Reusens, P. and Warisse, Ch. (2018) House prices and economic growth in Belgium, Economic Review, National Bank of Belgium, December, 81-106 (pdf) (press release). Press coverage: (De Tijd) (De Standaard)

  • Reusens, P. and Croux, C. (2018). Linearly transforming variables in the VAR model, how does it change the impulse response? Journal of Econometric Methods, volume 7, issue 1 (pdf)

  • Reusens, P. and Croux, C. (2017). Detecting time variation in the price puzzle: A less informative prior choice for time varying parameter VAR models. Studies in Nonlinear Dynamics & Econometrics, volume 21, issue 4 (pdf)

  • Reusens, P. and Croux, C. (2017). Sovereign credit rating determinants: a comparison before and after the European debt crisis. Journal of Banking & Finance, 77, 108–121 (pdf)

  • Basselier, R., Langenus, G. and Reusens, P. (2017) The potential growth of the Belgian economy. Economic Review, National Bank of Belgium, September, 37-53 (pdf)

  • Reusens, P. (2014). A little less ‘statistical significance’ and a little more ‘economic importance’, please! ECONnect, Faculty of Economics and Business KU Leuven, 22-24 (pdf)

  • Croux, C. and Reusens, P. (2013). Do stock prices contain predictive power for the future economic activity? A Granger causality analysis in the frequency domain, Journal of Macroeconomics, 35(0), 93-103. (pdf) Single-Country R-code, Multi-Country R-code

Blog posts 

• • Langenus, G. and Reusens, P. (2025). Is inflation actually good news for homeowners? NBB blog

PhD Dissertation

• • Reusens, P. (2016). Essays on time varying relationships in multi-country macroeconomic time series, Faculty of Economics and Business KU Leuven, 546 KU Leuven, Advisors Christophe Croux and Frank Smets (pdf) 

Editorial activities

• • Member of the Editorial Board of ECONnect, the quarterly magazine of the Faculty of Economics and Business at KU Leuven (2012-2016)

  • Referee for: Research in International Business and Finance, The Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance, The North American Journal of Economy and Finance, Journal of Macroeconomics, Journal of Supercomputing, National Bank of Belgium Working Papers, Studies in Nonlinear Dynamics & Econometrics, The Economics of Transition, Scottish Journal of Political Economy

Teaching experience

• • Guest lecturer: Antwerp Management School (2020), UGent (2022, 2024)

  • Teacher for the computer sessions of business statistics, KU Leuven (2012-2016)

  • Supervisor of master thesis students, KU Leuven (2012-2016)