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Economics, Finance, Management and Public Policy


Economic development is a core concern for our societies, with finance playing a key role. For their part, public authorities, private-sector decision-makers and other social stakeholders are demanding to be better informed about the issues and mechanisms at work in these fields. The ULB is actively developing research activities in these fields, of both a fundamental and applied nature. Approaches used vary from team to team and from their orientation (fundamental research / applied research), and range from modelling the behaviour of economic players (individuals, households, companies, public authorities) to their empirical validation, via the use of laboratory experiments, historical perspectives, qualitative and institutional analyses. Moreover, several teams are actively involved in developing mathematical and statistical tools in the field of economics and finance. All in all, the research teams working in the field of economics, management, finance and public policy cover a wide spectrum of issues, including the banking and finance sectors, competition policy and economic regulation, European integration, globalisation, regional development, the economies of developing countries, the labour market, education, health, the environment, entrepreneurship, marketing, innovation and RD, the non-commercial sector and HR management.


Mathematics and Statistics


Algebra, analysis, differential geometry, mathematical physics, probabilities, statistics, financial mathematics, solving under-determined problems - this diversity reflects the variety of research conducted these days in mathematics. Even if the public at large might sometimes think that the field of mathematics is ''exhausted'', this is by no means the case, with it continuing to constitute an extremely active research field. At the ULB, mathematics research involves both fundamental and applied research. From partial differential equations to the theory of probabilities, via differential geometry and group theory, the various fundamental research subjects relate to some of today's most important unsolved questions. These subjects are fully in tune with the outstanding tradition of the ULB School of Mathematics, as reflected by Théophile de Donder (1872-1957) and Théophile Lepage (1901-1991), or by Jacques Tits (born in 1930) and Pierre Deligne (born in 1944, Fields Medal in 1978), both of whom are former ULB students. For its part, the work done in applied mathematics and statistics provides ULB researchers with state-of-the-art tools in a whole range of disciplines: actuarial science, theoretical physics, computer science, operations research, economics, finance, social sciences, public health, epidemiology, biostatistics, etc. In these various fields, specialised groups have been developed, working at the interface of mathematics research and discipline-related research.