Emiel Sanders

As a fifth-year PhD candidate at Ghent University's Department of Economics, I specialize in empirical banking research, with a focus on bank valuations, cost of equity, lending, and systemic risk. My work is supported by funding from the Ghent University Special Research Fund (BOF, 2023-2024) and the Research Foundation Flanders (FWO, 2024-2028). In September 2026, I joined the ECB as a PhD Trainee in the Systemic Risk and Financial Institutions Division of the Directorate General Macroprudential Policy and Financial Stability (DG-MF).

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Email: emiel.sanders@ugent.be

LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/emiel-sanders-3ba1a117b 

Department of Economics (Ghent University): Sint-Pietersplein 5, 9000 Gent (Belgium)