Kristiaan KERSTENS

Kristiaan KERSTENS is a Full Professor of Economics at IÉSEG School of Management and serves as a CNRS Researcher. His primary affiliations include the LEM (Laboratoire d’Économie Moderne) research group. He holds an HDR (Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches) in Economics from the University of Lille 3, France (1999), and a Ph.D. in Economics from KU Leuven (Brussels), Belgium (1994).

Research Interests: KERSTENS focuses on efficiency measurement and productivity analysis across public and private sectors, with particular emphasis on nonparametric methods (e.g., DEA and FDH). His work explores topics such as nonconvex technologies, cost functions, scale economies, portfolio optimization with higher moments, and applications in healthcare, fisheries, and banking. He has contributed to foundational debates on the implications of convexity assumptions in economic modeling and has pioneered frontier-based approaches for evaluating organizational performance.

• Awarded the Prime d'excellence scientifique (2010–2013) from CNRS for four consecutive years.
• Received the Outstanding peer reviewer honor from Elsevier in 2012.
• Included in the ANBAR Electronic Intelligence for a 1999 Citation of Excellence.

Advising & Grants: No formal advisee名单 (students) are listed in the provided materials. His research has been supported by collaborations with institutions like CNRS and through multidisciplinary projects in operational research and economics.

Labs & Teams: Active member of the LEM research group, contributing to studies on productivity, efficiency, and frontier-based modeling. Collaborates with international researchers on topics ranging from healthcare systems to financial markets.