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Welcome at LFIN !

LFIN, Louvain Finance, is a research center of the Université catholique de Louvain, located in Louvain-la-Neuve (Belgium). It has been founded in 2016 and it now houses about 11 professors, and 15 researchers.

LFIN promotes and contributes to academic research in Finance via its research projects and the organization of top-level PhD courses, conferences and other public research activities. The Center’s main area of expertise are related to most of the areas of finance, including Asset Pricing, International Finance, Asset and Risk Management, Mathematical Finance, Macro-Finance, Market Microstructure, Corporate Finance and Behavioral Finance.

The center is leading several innovative projects, such as the first Bloomberg learning center in Belgium and it is supported in its activities by leading private institutions such as TreeTop Asset Management and Candriam.

Together with CORE, IRES, ISBA, LFIN, and SMCS, LFIN is part of the Institute of Multidisciplinary Research for Quantitative Modeling and Analysis (LIDAM) where researchers develop and use a coherent set of tools and methods for quantitative modeling and analysis in their various fields of expertise.

The LFIN Calendar

What's new at LFIN ?

  • 21 November 2024
    Fast & Serious with Tom Duterme
     Meet Tom Duterme, a PhD student at UCLouvain (LIDAM), working at the intersection of sociology and finance .In this video, Tom delves into his research on the role of financial information in gu
  • 21 October 2024
    Budget 2025, retour à l'équilibre d'ici 2034 : les ambitions du gouvernement sont-elles réalisables ?
    Bertrand Candelon (LFIN). Ce mercredi 16 octobre, les gouvernements wallon et de la Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles (FWB) ont présenté leur budget pour les cinq années à venir. Au programme
  • 27 August 2024
    Placer son argent à l'étranger pour de meilleurs taux d'intérêt, légal mais peu intéressant?
    Bertrand Candelon (LFIN). De nombreux Belges vont vouloir réinvestir l'argent mis dans le bon d'état. Malgré des taux plus attractifs à l'étranger, ce n'est pas toujours avantageux. [...]
  • 6 February 2024
    Antoine Duysinx (LFIN) has written one of the three best finance dissertations in Belgium in 2023
      Antoine Duysinx (LFIN) has written one of the three best finance dissertations in Belgium in 2023 !  The subject ?

Latest LFIN Publications

  • 10 February 2025
    LFIN Reprint 2024/16
     A sense of risk: Responses to crowdfunding risk disclosures / Prabal Shrestha, James Thewissen, Özgür Arslan-Ayaydin, Annaleena Parhankangas. In: Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal, 2023, v
  • 10 February 2025
    LFIN DP 2024/06
     Credit selection in Collateralized Loan Obligation: efficient approximation through linearization and clustering / Arnaud Germain, Frédéric Vrins. Despite its role in the global financial c