Hi! I am an Associate Professor of Finance at the Faculty of Economics and Business (KU Leuven).
My research focuses on the interactions between financial markets, technologies and policy. As such, I am interested in :
1. how new technologies transform (or not!) financial interactions
2. how financial constraints condition the development of new technologies.
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[new!] No Country for Dirty Money? The Economic Footprint of Anti-Money Laundering Standards
with Cesare Fracassi (UT Austin) and Eric Lee (UT Austin)
Working Paper - SSRN, 2025The Interoperability of Financial Data
with Elif Cansu (KU Leuven) and Tamas Vadasz (KU Leuven)
Working Paper - SSRN, 2025Asset Overhang and Technological Change
with Hans Degryse (KU Leuven, CEPR) and Joris Tielens (NBB)
Forthcoming @ the Review of Financial Studies, 2024
versions:SSRN · CEPR WP · VoxEU coverageDecentralised Finance (DeFi): information frictions and public policies
Report prepared for the EU Commission - DG Fisma , 2022
Compressing Over-the-Counter Markets
with Marco D’Errico (European Systemic Risk Board)
Operations Research, 2021
Winner of the Ieke van den Burg Prize (2017) · Best Paper at ECMI Annual Conference (2020)
Video 1 · Video 2The Price of Complexity in Financial Networks
with Stefano Battiston (UZH), Guido Caldarelli (IMT Lucca), Robet May (Oxford) and Joseph E. Stiglitz (Columbia)
Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, 2016