Faculty of Applied Economic Sciences welcomes new doctoral and post-doctoral grant holders

Sarah Van Oerle obtained an IWT-doctoral grant on Customer co-creation during innovation: structure and impact of virtual social networks. Her promoter is Annouk Lievens.
Kande Kazadi  obtained a FWO-doctoral grant to work on Customer co-creation capabilities – The critical resources and routines for creating innovation with customers. His promoters are Annouk Lievens and Dominik Mahr.
Mathias Reynaert obtained a FWO-doctoral grant and will make an Economic analysis of environmental policy in the European Car Market . His promoters are Bruno De Borger (University of Antwerp) and Frank Verboven (KU Leuven).
Roselinde Kessels obtained a FWO post-doctoral grant to work on Design of discrete choice experiments adapted to the respondent's cognitive process. Her promoter is Peter Goos.

Thomas Peeters receives VvE-award 2011
Thomas Peeters was granted the 'Vereniging voor Economie'-Award 2011 for his paper 'Media Revenue Sharing as a Coordination Device in Sports Leagues' . Thomas Peeters is a FWO-doctoral researcher of the department of Economics. The jury described his paper as: "Zeer goed en helder geschreven paper, vernieuwende inzichten, sterk uitgewerkte speltheoretische analyse over de werking van revenue sharing als coördinatiemiddel met toepassing op één sector (sport). Ook wordt het feit dat de inzending dat van één auteur is zeer geapprecieerd.”

The University of Antwerp and KBC establish a research chair in financial risk management

Risk management is currently a hot topic in the financial sector; a fact borne out repeatedly over recent months and years by the financial crisis. New insight into the subject will lead to improved risk management in the future. Precisely for this reason, the UA and KBC join forces and create the KBC chair in Risk Management, which will focus on financial risk management. The chair will fund a doctoral study to thoroughly examine the management of financial risks. "These risks exist in two areas", explains prof. dr. Jan Annaert. "You have market risk and credit risk; the first covers the chance of stock price fluctuations and focuses on the short-term of maximum ten days, whilst credit risk includes, for example, the possibility that borrowers are unable to pay their loans, and that involves a longer term up to a year." Both risks, according to Jan Annaert, are related. "But until now, not much research has been carried out into the subject. While it's possible for academics to obtain information on market risk, it is much more difficult to access data on credit risks. But a financial institution  like KBC has that data, which is why this cooperation is so interesting. The UA can supply the academic know-how, and KBC will provide the data and share the relevant practical problematics involved".
Prof. dr. Jan Annaert and prof. dr. Marc De Ceuster will be the UA-members of the scientific committee of this four-year venture. Click to open the press release .

Antwerp Rail School 2011 | Meeting or competing?
 
Following the successful Antwerp Rail School 2010, Lloyd's Register's Transportation Academy and TransportNET have the pleasure to announce the Antwerp Rail School 2011 with the theme Meeting or competing? Are you a professional or student interested in the latest developments concerning ports, logistics and rail connections? Would you like to know more about rail in an urban environment? Would you like to participate in the discussion on air and rail: competition or complementary? If so, then join us from 23 to 27 May at the Antwerp Rail School 2011! Click for more information on the programme and registration fee .

Prof. dr. Peter Goos received the Top Senior Researcher Award of the Erasmus School of Economics

During a special Awards Ceremony which was held on February 21st, 2011, the management team of the Erasmus School of Economics expressed its appreciation towards her academic staff by announcing Peter Goos as Top Senior Researcher for his high quality research performance. Peter Goos is a full professor at the Department of Environment, Technology and Technology Management of the Faculty of Applied Economics of the University of Antwerp. Peter Goos is president of the StatUaCenter for Statistics (University of Antwerp), and part-time full professor in the Department of Marketing of the Erasmus School of Economics (Erasmus University of Rotterdam).  His main research area is the optimal design of industrial experiments and discrete-choice experiments (also known as stated preference studies or conjoint-choice experiments). However, he is also interested in vehicle routing problems.

Prof. dr. Peter Goos receives the 2011 Microsoft Research Distinguished Visiting Fellowship

Peter Goos received the 2011 Microsoft Research Distinguished Visiting Fellowship for his participation in the research programme on Design of Experiments at the Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences in Cambridge (UK). 
The Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences is a national and international visitor research institute. It runs research programmes on selected themes in mathematics and the mathematical sciences with applications over a wide range of science and technology. It attracts leading mathematical scientists from the UK and overseas to interact in research over an extended period.

BNP Paribas Fortis Chair assigned to the Faculty of Applied Economic Sciences of the University of Antwerp

On 27 September 2010, the official signing took place at the University of Antwerp of the BNP Paribas Fortis chair on transport, logistics and ports. The chair consists of a multi-annual contract, funding a professorship position at the Department of Transport and Regional Economics . The aim of the chair is to conduct research on selected topics in the domains of transportation, logistics and seaports. Furthermore, an important goal is also to set up dissemination events, targeting transport scientists and the interested public on the one hand, and interested students through specific events on the other hand. Thierry Vanelslander will be the chair holder.

University of Antwerp launches ACTRAMAR: the knowledge centre for Transport- and Maritime Law

At the end of the 19th century, Antwerp was at the basis of international maritime law. With the establishment of the knowledge centre ACTRAMAR  the University of Antwerp and the Antwerp Maritime Academy continue this tradition and will stimulate research in this domain even more than ever.

Air Transport Colloquium 2010

The worldwide financial crisis has increasingly become a global economic crisis, with big impact on air transport and all its actors. Because of the derived character, the air transport sector has been clearly affected by the decrease of international economic activity, industrial production and trade. Within the transport sector, air transport turned out to be more sensitive than other modes. Some have recovered better than others, some are still struggling for survival.