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Curriculum Vitae
General Information
| Full Name | Benjamin Peeters |
| benjaminpeeters@protonmail.com | |
| Phone | +32 496 399 505 |
| Languages | English, French, Chinese |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5095-2021 |
Education
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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
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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
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2025 - 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
- Developing the MINDCET model with energy supply emulators from REMIND
- Climate damages to capital, reconstruction dynamics, labour productivity, trade
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2023 - 2024 Postdoctoral Researcher
National Chengchi University (NCCU), Taiwan - College of International Affairs
- 1-year research and study grant
- Supervisor: Prof. Cho-hsin Su
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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
Publications
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Peer-reviewed
- Cyclical pattern in international financial flows to the semi-periphery. International Review of Economics & Finance, Vol. 104, 2025. doi:10.1016/j.iref.2025.104456
- Can the Energy Transition Be Smooth? A General Equilibrium Approach to the EROEI. Sustainability, 2020. With J.-F. Fagnart and M. Germain. link
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Working papers
- Modeling Climate Damage on Capital: Reconstruction Dynamics and Investment Allocation in Growth Models. With F. Piontek, 2025.
- How has Financial Globalization impacted Monetary Policy? An overview. 2024.
- Medium-Term Cycles and Financial Crises in Semi-periphery Countries. With J.-C. Defraigne. Under review at World Development.
- Monetary policy response or economic integration: what drives international monetary policy spillovers? With A. Girard and J.-Y. Gnabo. Under review at JIMF.
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2023 PhD thesis
- Empirical Assessments of Financial Interdependencies Since the 1970s. hdl.handle.net/2078.3/273394
Teaching Experience
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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)
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2017-2023 Teaching Assistant
UCLouvain, Belgium - Econometrics (ECGE1330)
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2016-2019 Teaching Assistant
UCLouvain, Belgium - Macroeconomics (ECGE1211)
- Probability Theory (INGE1131)
- Advanced Statistics (INGE1231)
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2016-2018 Teaching Assistant
UCLouvain, Belgium - Operational Research (INGE1312)
- Applied Statistics (ECGE 1232)
Research Interests
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Climate Economics
- Climate damages to capital and reconstruction dynamics
- Labour productivity impacts and trade
- Integration of climate damage in growth models
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Macroeconomics and Finance
- Financial interdependencies and crises
- International monetary policy spillovers
- Balance-of-payment crises
- Portfolio optimization
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International Economics
- Financial globalization
- Regional integration
- Economic cycles in semi-peripheral countries
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Methods
- Time-series econometrics
- Spatial econometrics
- Panel data analysis
- General equilibrium modeling
Skills
- Econometric Analysis (R, Stata, Python)
- Climate-Economy Modeling (MINDCET/REMIND)
- Statistical Programming
- Data Visualization
- Academic Writing and Publishing
- Multilingual Teaching (English, French, Chinese)