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Geert Van Campenhout serves as Associate Professor at KU Leuven's Faculty of Economics and Business (FEB), based at the Brussels Campus where he heads Subdivision 16 within the Finance Research Group. His academic work bridges finance, behavioral economics, and policy-oriented research with practical applications across EU contexts.
His research centers on Financial Literacy as a transformative tool for consumer behavior, investigating how education impacts financial decision-making through experimental methodologies. He explores Investment Management dynamics including portfolio strategies and mutual fund analysis, while integrating Behavioral Finance perspectives on information processing. His corporate finance work examines Capital Structure and SME Financing challenges, complemented by Economic Psychology frameworks analyzing cognitive biases in financial contexts.
Publication trends (2019-2023) reveal methodological consistency in experimental approaches (randomized trials, discrete choice experiments) applied to financial literacy interventions. Recent work shows increasing interdisciplinary convergence, particularly in the 2025-2029 project merging behavioral economics with digital learning tools for financial education. Climate finance emerges as a new frontier through his 2023 EU catastrophe insurance study.
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Van Campenhout actively supervises doctoral research as co-promotor, notably guiding J.E. Maldonado's 2022 thesis on parental educational involvement and K. De Beckker's 2020 financial literacy dissertation. His grant portfolio features the current €-funded project "Innovative Approaches to (Financial Literacy) Education" (2025-2029) developing behavioral-digital learning frameworks, alongside the completed "Should Parents Get Homework?" study (2017-2022) examining home-based learning interventions.
As core faculty in KU Leuven's Finance Research Group, he contributes to Brussels-based interdisciplinary collaborations addressing EU financial challenges. The group specializes in translating behavioral finance insights into practical tools for consumer protection and SME financing, frequently partnering with educational institutions and policy bodies on financial literacy initiatives across European markets.