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Kristien Smedts is an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Economics and Business (FEB) at KU Leuven, specializing in financial markets, risk management, and econometric modeling. She actively contributes to research on macroeconomic uncertainty, credit risk, and financial market microstructure.
- Faculty of Economics and Business (FEB), KU Leuven
- Research Focus: Financial Markets, Risk Management, Econometrics
- Teaching: Investments, Bank- en Financiewezen (Financial Economics)
Her work explores dynamic correlations between asset classes, extreme market movements, and regulatory impacts on banking systems. Recent publications analyze macroeconomic uncertainty effects on stock returns, novel copula models for stock-bond comovement, and machine learning applications in credit risk assessment.
Notable research projects include "Risk Management of Illiquid Investments" and "Financial Structures", with a focus on promoting market stability and policy development in entrepreneurial finance.