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Curriculum Vitae

General Information

Full Name Benjamin Peeters
Email benjaminpeeters@protonmail.com
Phone +32 496 399 505
Languages English, French, Chinese
ORCID 0000-0002-5095-2021

Education

  • 2023
    PhD in Economics
    UCLouvain Saint-Louis Brussels, Belgium
    • Thesis: Empirical Assessments of Financial Interdependencies Since the 1970s
    • Supervisors: Alexander Girard, Jean-Christophe Defraigne
    • Focus: Portfolio optimization models, balance-of-payment crises, international monetary policy spillovers
    • Thesis Repository
  • 2016
    Master in Economics
    UCLouvain, Belgium
  • 2016
    Master in Electrical Engineering
    UCLouvain, Belgium
  • 2015-2017
    Certificates
    UCLouvain, Belgium
    • Economic and Social Ethics (2017)
    • Statistics (2015)
    • Radiation Protection (2015)

Experience

  • 2023 - present
    Postdoctoral Researcher
    Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK), Germany
    • Research Department Transformation Pathways
    • Examining links between physical and financial risks of climate change
    • Working with REMIND model on climate damages and adaptation costs
    • Analyzing climate risk effects on capital costs in developing nations
  • 2016 - 2023
    PhD Researcher and Teaching Assistant
    UCLouvain, Belgium
    • Doctoral research on financial interdependencies
    • Teaching assistant for multiple courses in economics and statistics
    • Supervised student projects and tutorials

Teaching Experience

  • 2023-2024
    Lecturer
    National Chengchi University (NCCU), Taiwan
    • Regional Integration and EU-Asia Relations
    • Regional Studies - European Union International Relations
    • France in International Affairs (taught in French)
  • 2017-2023
    Teaching Assistant
    UCLouvain, Belgium
    • Econometrics (ECGE1330)
  • 2016-2019
    Teaching Assistant
    UCLouvain, Belgium
    • Macroeconomics (ECGE1211)
    • Probability Theory (INGE1131)
    • Advanced Statistics (INGE1231)
  • 2016-2018
    Teaching Assistant
    UCLouvain, Belgium
    • Operational Research (INGE1312)
    • Applied Statistics (ECGE 1232)

Research Interests

  • Climate Economics
    • Climate damages and adaptation costs
    • Climate risk effects on capital markets
    • Integration of financial risk in climate-economy models
  • Macroeconomics and Finance
    • Financial interdependencies and crises
    • International monetary policy spillovers
    • Balance-of-payment crises
    • Portfolio optimization
  • International Economics
    • Financial globalization
    • Regional integration
    • Economic cycles in semi-peripheral countries
  • Methods
    • Time-series econometrics
    • Spatial econometrics
    • Panel data analysis
    • General equilibrium modeling

Skills

  • Econometric Analysis (R, Stata, Python)
  • Climate-Economy Modeling (REMIND)
  • Statistical Programming
  • Data Visualization
  • Academic Writing and Publishing
  • Multilingual Teaching (English, French, Chinese)