Ronald Mahieu

Ronald Mahieu is professor of Finance and Innovation at TIAS School for Business and Society. He is also the director of theBusiness Analytics Lab, which focuses on research activities in the fields of big data, predictive analytics, and corporate data management. Before joining TIAS on the Tilburg University campus, Dr. Mahieu was a professor of Entrepreneurial Finance at Eindhoven University of Technology, and an associate professor of finance and financial econometrics at RSM Erasmus University, and Tilburg University. He received his Ph.D in 1995 from Maastricht University. During his Ph.D studies he was a visiting scholar in the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University. Dr. Mahieu holds a Master degree in econometrics from Erasmus University.

Dr. Mahieu regularly teaches in both undergraduate, graduate, post-graduate and executive programmes. His most recent teaching activities are focused on business analytics, risk management, (entrepreneurial) finance, and decision-making under uncertainty.

In addition to his academic activities Dr. Mahieu has worked as a consultant/teacher for companies like Abp/APG, Shell Pensioenfonds, Hoogovens, Fortis, ABN Amro, Philips, Essent, Eneco, Nuon, and the Dutch Ministry of Finance.

Expert areas: Finance (Asset Pricing, Financial Derivatives, Financial Mathematics, International Finance, Investments, Quantitative Finance), Quantitative Methods (Econometrics, Statistics)

Education

• PhD Maastricht University (1991 — 1995)
• MSc Erasmus University Rotterdam (1986 — 1991)

Companies

• Director Business Analytics Lab TIAS School for Business and Society (2014)
• Professor of Finance and Innovation TIAS School for Business and Society (2012)
• Academic Director Executive PhD Programmes TIAS School for Business and Society (2012 — 2014)
• Associate professor of Financial Econometrics Tilburg University (2008 — 2014)
• Professor of Entrepreneurial Finance Eindhoven University of Technology (2009 — 2013)
• Partner FinEdge International (2002 — 2011)
• Associate professor of Finance RSM Erasmus University (2001 — 2008)
• Assistant professor of Finance RSM Erasmus University (1999 — 2000)
• Consultant Ortec Consultants (1996 — 1999)

Publications

T. van Bommel, E. Nijssen, and R. Mahieu, "Technology Trajectories and the Selection of Optimal R&D Project Sequences", 2014, forthcoming IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management.

R. Mahieu and P. Mooren, “Kanttekeningen bij de toepassing van reële opties voor de waardering van hightech start-ups”, 2014,. VBA Journaal, Volume 30 (voorjaar), pp. 35-39.

M. Pieterse-Bloem and R. Mahieu, "Factor decomposition and diversification in European corporate bond markets", 2012, Journal of International Money and Finance, volume 32, 194-213.

X. Huang and R. Mahieu, “Performance Persistence of Dutch Pension Plans”, 2012, De Economist, volume 160, 17-34.

B. Tims and R. Mahieu, 2010, “International Portfolio Choice: A Spanning Approach”, in Nonlinear Financial Econometrics: Forecasting Models, Computational and Bayesian Models, Eds. G.N. Gregoriou and R. Pascalau, Palgrave MacMillan