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Arnaud Germain

Maître de conférences invité

SSH/LSM Louvain School of Management (LSM)

Researcher in Quantitative Finance, especially optimization and machine learning for credit risk:

  • Default prediction
  • Loan selection
  • Pattern recognition
2026
Dissertation

Germain, A. (2026). On clustering for credit risk management : applications to loan selection and default prediction.


Working paper

Germain, A., & Vrins, F. (2026). Clagging: An efficient alternative to bagging (LIDAM Discussion Paper LFIN 2026/02).


Journal article

Germain, A., & Vrins, F. (2026). Credit selection in collateralized loan obligation: Efficient approximation through linearization and clustering. European Journal of Operational Research, 330(1), 326-342. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejor.2025.11.015 (Original work published 2026)


2024
Working paper

Germain, A., & Vrins, F. (2024). Credit selection in Collateralized Loan Obligation: efficient approximation through linearization and clustering (LIDAM Discussion Paper LFIN 2024/06).


Year Label School
2022 Master of Business Engineering (Master of Science: MSc) Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (KUL) (Belgique)
2022 Master ingénieur de gestion à finalité spécialisée UCLouvain | Université catholique de Louvain (Belgique)

<p>I am currently a&nbsp;Teaching Assistant&nbsp;on the following courses:&nbsp;</p>

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    <li>&nbsp;Credit &amp; Interest Rates Risk&nbsp;(LLSMS2226)</li>
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