Supervisor list from Department of Economics and Business ...

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Supervisor list from

Department of Economics and Business Economics

Master’s Thesis in Economics and Business Administration (cand.merc.)

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MSc in Business Economics and Auditing ...................................................................................................... 1

MSc in Business Intelligence .......................................................................................................................... 1

MSc in Finance ............................................................................................................................................... 5

MSc in Finance and International Business ................................................................................................... 8

MSc in International Economic Consulting .................................................................................................. 14

MSc in Logistics and Supply Chain Management / Operations and Supply Chain Analytics ....................... 18

MSc in Business Administration (SOC) ........................................................................................................ 20

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MSc in Business Intelligence Name E-mail Topics in spring/autumn 2021

Allan Würtz [email protected] Econometric methods

Machine Learning methods

Panel Data methods

Prediction

Ana Alina Tudoran [email protected] Data mining in electronic commerce

Bayesian modelling

Churn analysis

Marketing research methods

Segmentation analysis of E-shoppers

Online recommender systems

Behavioural patterns of web users

Anita Bech Borup [email protected] Data Mining

Advanced Analytics

Data Warehousing

Business Intelligence and Business Analytics

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Benjamin Liengaard [email protected] Analysis of survey data

Applications and/or methodological developments within partial least squares structural equation modelling

Employee and membership satisfaction

Bezirgen Veliyev [email protected] Forecasting financial and economic variables with machine learning methods

Bjarne Taulo Sørensen [email protected] Analysis of scanner data

Segmentation

Customer satisfaction

Positioning

Consumer behaviour

Market research analysis

Employee satisfaction analysis

Christian Winther Kristensen

[email protected] Business Intelligence

Data warehousing architecture and dimensional modelling

Big data analytics

Self-service BI and governance

Cloud computing and data platforms

Eric Hillebrand [email protected] Supervised learning, neural networks, regression trees, bagging, boosting, or model averaging

Erland Hejn Nielsen [email protected] Operations and supply chain management (SCM), in particular demand management as well as LEAN/production management

Dynamic systems analysis, in particular stochastic queuing systems and system dynamic

Guðmundur Stefán Guðmundsson

[email protected] Network analysis of macroeconomic/financial data

Social network analysis

Machine learning methods in finance and business economics

Hans Jørn Juhl [email protected] Predictive analytics

Unsupervised learning

Churn analysis

Customer analytics

Recommender systems

Hongyan Jenny Li [email protected] Operations and Supply chain management

Business process modelling and improvement

Optimization and simulation

Multiple criteria decision making

Revenue and price optimization

Jesper Wulff [email protected] Machine/statistical learning

Applied Statistics incl. Bayesian statistics

Statistical myths and urban legends

Johan Clausen [email protected] Data mining











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Business analytics and business intelligence

Big data analytics

Predictive analytics

BI applications in a business context

Jorge Hansen [email protected] Forecasting with machine learning methods

Forecasting with Google trends

Text mining

Forecasting accounting/financial variables

Forecasting macro variables

Time series analysis

Kirstine Emilie Gaard Brix

[email protected]

BI applications in a business context

Forecasting

BI and agile

BI strategies

Data warehousing

Technology in a BI-context (AI, IoT etc.)

Utilising data – strategies in enterprise digitalisation

Kristina Risom Jespersen

[email protected] Business intelligence systems and capabilities in organizations

Business model development

Innovation management

Information systems and strategy

Digital business platforms

Technology development and disruption analysis

Business networks and performance

Mads Brink Hansen [email protected] Business Intelligence

Data warehouse

Big data

Performance management

Machine Learning

Design thinking & data-driven innovation

Data visualization

Mads Christian Nielsen

[email protected] Network analysis

Text mining

Time series analysis

Data mining

Martin Petri Bagger [email protected] Experimental methods

Qualitative/quantitative and mixed methods

Natural language processing

Advanced analytics

Business analytics and Business Intelligence

Consumer behaviour

Visual attention and Eye tracking

Martin Rud Langerhuus

[email protected] Data Warehousing

Business Intelligence








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Data-driven decision-making and business value creation

Data governance and data management

Business Intelligence strategy and architecture

Storytelling and visualization of data

Self-service Business Intelligence

Mogens Dilling-Hansen

[email protected] Quantitative marketing research

Customer behaviour/customer analytics

Analysis of firm performance

R&D/innovation

Industry studies

Firm-based analysis: Ad-hoc analysis

Morten Berg Jensen [email protected] Econometric models in marketing research

Customer and employee satisfaction

Customer analytics

Absence behaviour

Statistical learning

Morten Kriegbaum [email protected] Business analytics and Business Intelligence

Data governance and user strategy

BI strategy

Business Intelligence Architecture

Data storytelling and visualization

Self-service BI

Nick Rishøj Danmand [email protected] Machine Learning

Deep Learning

Artificial Intelligence

Neural Networks

Natural Language Processing

E-commerce

Recommender systems

Phillip Heiler [email protected] Supervised Machine Learning Methods for Applied Data Analysis

Model Selection for Business Problems

Steen Nielsen [email protected] Performance measurement & management (private and public comp)

Modern management accounting models (e.g. balanced scorecard, activity-based costing, stress analysis, etc.)

Stochastic budget simulation

Yunus Emre Ergemen [email protected] Forecasting economic and financial time series

Dynamic factor models and their use in forecasting

Forecasting energy prices and loads

Machine learning methods for classification and forecasting problems

Forecasting mortality indicators








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MSc in Finance Name E-mail Topics in spring/autumn 2021

Alexander Koch [email protected] Topics in experimental economics

Topics in behavioural economics

Behavioural economics applied in Citizen Science Games

Anil Kumar [email protected] Corporate finance

Real estate finance

Real estate indices

Real option

Return comovement

Antonia Grohmann [email protected] Financial development

Financial inclusion

Household financial decision making

Financial education

Borrowing decisions

Carsten Tanggaard [email protected] Markets in financial instruments

Charlotte Christiansen [email protected] Return comovement and integration

Empirical volatility modelling

Empirical asset pricing

International financial markets

Christian Rix-Nielsen [email protected] Corporate finance

Equity valuation

Asset pricing

Financial statement analysis

Real options

Investment strategy and choice

Competition effect on signalling

Screening of investment opportunities

Efficient markets

Deregulations

Asymmetric information (moral hazard, adverse selection etc.) in accounting and finance

Principal-agent models in accounting and finance

Christoffer Thimsen [email protected] Forecasting using machine learning techniques

All topics on banking

All topics on corporate finance

Christoph Merkle [email protected] Personal finance

Behavioural finance

Financial forecasting

Experimental finance/economics

Financial technology

Claes Bäckman [email protected] Housing and mortgage markets

Wealth inequality

Consumption and savings









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Daniel Borup [email protected] Forecasting of macroeconomic (labour market, busyness cycle, inflation variables, etc.) or financial variables (asset returns, volatility, etc.)

Machine learning applications in finance and macroeconomics

Empirical and theoretical asset pricing

Text mining (e.g. news media, surveys, Google Trends) for financial or macroeconomic applications

Fixed-income/term structure modelling

Einar Kjenstad [email protected] Financial intermediation

FinTech

Strategic interaction and corporate policy

Corporate finance

Elisa Nicolato [email protected] Advanced models for derivatives pricing

Fixed-income securities

Structured products

Credit derivatives

Eric Hillebrand [email protected] Stock return predictability

Forecasting realized volatility

Forecasting yield curve data with dynamic factor models

Erik Christian Montes Schütte

[email protected] Forecasting

Return predictability

Machine learning methods in finance

Jan Bartholdy [email protected] Empirical corporate finance: M&A, IPO, capital structure, dividend policy etc.

Behavioural corporate finance

Banking

Efficiency of financial markets

Sustainable finance

ESG

John Kennes [email protected] Empirical analysis of mortgage choice

Empirical analysis of credit markets

Microeconomics of financial technology

Monetary policy and regulation

Matching theory and market design

Jonas Nygaard Eriksen [email protected] Return predictability


Asset pricing anomalies

Currency risk premia

Juan Carlos Parra-Alvarez

[email protected] Macro-finance

Monetary economics

Asset pricing

Computational methods in macroeconomics

Macroeconomics and housing markets









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Leonidas Enrique de la Rosa

[email protected] Behavioural finance

Contract theory and incentive design

Governance structures

Financial regulation and supervision

Bank liquidity and capital requirements (e.g., Basel Accords)

Malene Kallestrup-Lamb

[email protected] Longevity risk

Pension

Mortality modelling

Retirement

Health

Michael Christensen [email protected] Personal economics

Macroeconomics

Monetary theory and policy

Finance

Mikkel Bennedsen [email protected] Modelling and forecasting electricity prices

Econometric analyses of commodity markets

Volatility modelling/forecasting

Time series analysis by state space methods (Kalman or particle filters)

Rough volatility (modelling, simulation, forecasting, pricing etc.)

Negar Ghanbari [email protected] Corporate Finance

Niels Strange Grønborg

[email protected] Mutual fund performance

Portfolio theory

Empirical finance

Olga Balakina [email protected] Household finance

Financial literacy

Peter Løchte Jørgensen

[email protected] Derivatives

Asset management

Socially Responsible Investment (SRI) and ESG

Financial regulation

Risk management and measures

Pierluigi Vallarino [email protected] Option pricing

Asset pricing

Risk management

Returns forecasting with machine/deep learning

Ran Xing [email protected] Empirical asset pricing

Mutual fund performance

Quantitative investment strategies

Profitability of technical analysis

Salman Huseynov [email protected] Estimation and analysis with dynamic term structure models

Fixed income securities

Predictability in financial markets

Topics in macro-finance







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Simon Bodilsen [email protected] Portfolio selection

Volatility forecasting

Machine learning methods for finance

Stefan Hirth [email protected] Corporate finance

Financial intermediation

Strategic interaction and corporate policies

Credit ratings

Behavioural Finance

Stig Vinther Møller [email protected] Asset pricing

Empirical finance

Time-varying risk premia and the macroeconomy

Economic forecasting

Thomas Kokholm [email protected] Credit risk

Derivatives pricing


Volatility modelling and volatility derivatives

Asset allocation

Thomas Quistgaard Pedersen

[email protected] Empirical asset pricing


Bubbles

Tom Aabo [email protected] Behavioural corporate finance

Tom Engsted [email protected] Empirical analysis of price and return determination in stock and bond markets

Empirical analysis of return predictability in stock and bond markets

Yuan Li [email protected] Stock return predictability in cross-section

Market efficiency


Accounting based valuation

Financial earnings' forecasts

MSc in Finance and International Business Name E-mail Topics in spring/autumn 2021

Anil Kumar [email protected] Corporate finance

Real estate finance

Real estate indices

Real option

Return comovement

Antonia Grohmann [email protected] Financial development

Financial inclusion

Household financial decision making

Financial education










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Borrowing decisions

Charlotte Christiansen [email protected] Return comovement and integration

Empirical volatility modelling


International financial markets


Equity valuation

Asset pricing


Real options




Efficient markets

Deregulations



Christoffer Thimsen [email protected] Forecasting using machine learning techniques

All topics on banking

All topics on corporate finance

Christoph Merkle [email protected] Personal finance

Behavioural finance

Financial forecasting

Experimental finance/economics

Financial technology


Wealth inequality


Daniel Borup [email protected] Forecasting of macroeconomic (labour market, busyness cycle, inflation variables, etc.) or financial variables (asset returns, volatility, etc.)

Machine learning applications in finance and macroeconomics

Empirical and theoretical asset pricing

Text mining (e.g. news media, surveys, Google Trends) for financial or macroeconomic applications

Fixed-income/term structure modelling

Einar Kjenstad [email protected] Financial intermediation

FinTech

Strategic interaction and corporate policy

Corporate finance

Elisa Nicolato [email protected] Advanced models for derivatives pricing

Fixed-income securities

Structured products








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Credit derivatives

Eric Hillebrand [email protected] Stock return predictability

Forecasting realized volatility

Forecasting yield curve data with dynamic factor models

Erik Christian Montes Schütte

[email protected] Forecasting


Machine learning methods in finance

Erik Strøjer Madsen [email protected] Industrial economics

Development economics

International economics

Corporate performance

Labour Economics

Evelyn C. Braumann [email protected] Enterprise risk management (ERM) in non-financial firms

Corporate governance/board of directors

Risk reporting

Finn Schøler [email protected] Valuation


Corporate governance in a financial accounting perspective

Frédèric Warzynski [email protected] Industrial economics

Economics of strategy (in particular how to align organizational structure with strategy)

Personnel economics (analysis of careers and wages within firms)

Estimation of productivity growth, markups and the effect of competition on efficiency (e.g. the dynamics of competition in new EU member states)

Outsourcing and efficiency

Ina Jäkel [email protected] Globalization & trade policy

Firm internationalization

International migration

European integration

Firm performance: productivity, product quality, outsourcing etc.

Jackie M.L. Chan [email protected] Globalization and international trade

Foreign direct investment (FDI)

Multinational firms

Chinese and Asian economies

Jan Bartholdy [email protected] Empirical corporate finance: M&A, IPO, capital structure, dividend policy etc.

Behavioural corporate finance

Banking

Efficiency of financial markets










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Sustainable finance

ESG

Jan Bentzen [email protected] Cost benefit analysis

Energy economics

John Kennes [email protected] Empirical analysis of mortgage choice

Empirical analysis of credit markets

Microeconomics of financial technology

Monetary policy and regulation

Matching theory and market design

Jonas Nygaard Eriksen [email protected] Return predictability


Asset pricing anomalies

Currency risk premia

Juan Carlos Parra-Alvarez

[email protected] Macro-finance

Monetary economics

Asset pricing

Computational methods in macroeconomics

Macroeconomics and housing markets










[email protected] Behavioural finance

Contract theory and incentive design


Financial regulation and supervision

Bank liquidity and capital requirements (e.g., Basel Accords)

Malene Kallestrup-Lamb

[email protected] Longevity risk

Pension

Mortality modelling

Retirement

Health

Martin Møller Andreasen

[email protected] Asset pricing

Mette Trier Damgaard [email protected] Consumer behavioural biases and firm responses

Michael Christensen [email protected] Personal economics

Macroeconomics

Monetary theory and policy

Finance

Michael Koch [email protected] Labour market effects of globalization

Firms in international trade










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Mikkel Bennedsen [email protected] Modelling and forecasting electricity prices

Econometric analyses of commodity markets

Volatility modelling/forecasting

Time series analysis by state space methods (Kalman or particle filters)

Rough volatility (modelling, simulation, forecasting, pricing etc.),

Negar Ghanbari [email protected] Corporate finance

Niels Peter Mols [email protected] Foreign entry mode

Internationalization of the firm

Strategy and marketing

Transaction cost analysis

Economic analysis of contracts



Portfolio theory

Empirical finance

Olga Balakina [email protected] Household finance

Financial literacy

Peter Løchte Jørgensen

[email protected] Derivatives

Asset management

Socially Responsible Investment (SRI) and ESG

Financial regulation

Risk management and measures

Philipp Schröder [email protected] International economics

Globalisation

Global firms and internationalisation

European Monetary Issues

Foreign Direct Investments

Country studies

Sector studies

Ran Xing [email protected] Empirical asset pricing

Mutual fund performance

Quantitative investment strategies

Profitability of technical analysis

Rui Zhang [email protected] International trade

Firms in the global economy

Quantitative spatial economics

Chinese economy

Simon Bodilsen [email protected] Portfolio selection

Volatility forecasting

Machine learning methods for finance

Steen Nielsen [email protected] Performance measurement & management (private and public comp)

Design and simulation of Accounting Models (both within management and financial acc., e.g.








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balanced scorecard, activity-based costing, stress analysis, etc.)

Stochastic budget simulation




Credit ratings

Behavioural finance

Stig Vinther Møller [email protected] Asset pricing

Empirical finance

Time-varying risk premia and the macroeconomy

Economic forecasting

Thomas Kokholm [email protected] Credit risk

Derivatives pricing


Volatility modelling and volatility derivatives

Asset allocation

Thomas Quistgaard Pedersen

[email protected] Empirical asset pricing


Bubbles

Tom Aabo [email protected] Behavioural corporate finance

Tom Engsted [email protected] Empirical analysis of price and return determination in stock and bond markets

Empirical analysis of return predictability in stock and bond markets

Valdemar Smith [email protected] Strategic analysis of specific companies

Industrial economics: cartelization

Economics/strategic analysis of specific cartel cases

Industrial economics: mergers and acquisitions

Analysis of specific mergers and acquisitions

Studies of industrial sectors, competition and growth

The real estate market

Valerie Smeets [email protected] International trade and firms organization

Automation and skills

Retraining

Economic consequences of COVID-19

Firm growth and productivity

Yuan Li [email protected] Stock return predictability in cross-section

Market efficiency


Accounting based valuation

Financial earnings' forecasts










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MSc in International Economic Consulting Name E-mail Topics in spring/autumn 2021

Ahmad Hassani [email protected] Real Estate Economics

Urban Economics

Housing Economics

Alexander Koch [email protected] Topics in Experimental Economics

Topics in Behavioural Economics

Behavioural Economics applied in Citizen Science Games

Allan Sørensen [email protected] International economics

International trade

Economic policy

Industrial economics & industry dynamics

Economics of globalization

Anna Piil Damm [email protected] Economics of Migration

Urban Economics

Education Economics

Labour Economics

Applied Microeconomics

Astrid Würtz Rasmussen

[email protected] Family economics and family friendly policies

Population economics

Labour economics and evaluation of labour market policies

Education

Christian Bjørnskov [email protected] Economic Growth

Political Economy

Foreign Aid


Wealth inequality


Daniele Nosenzo [email protected] Topics in Experimental Economics

Topics in Behavioral Economics

Elena Mattana [email protected] Student debt and aid

Intergenerational mobility

Family interactions

Economics of Education

Labour Economics

Applied Microeconometrics

Erik Strøjer Madsen [email protected] Development economics

Industrial economics and firm strategies

International economics and trade policies

Industry studies and firm performance

Innovation, R&D and disruptions

Eva Rye Johansen [email protected] Education economics

Family economics

Risky health behaviour

Frédèric Warzynski [email protected] Industrial economics











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Economics of strategy (in particular how to align organizational structure with strategy)

Personnel economics (analysis of careers and wages within firms)

Estimation of productivity growth, markups and the effect of competition on efficiency (e.g. the dynamics of competition in new EU member states), Outsourcing and efficiency

Giovanni Pellegrino [email protected] Monetary economics

Applied macroeconometrics (structural vector autoregressions and effects of macroeconomic shocks)

Uncertainty

International macroeconomics

Ina Jäkel [email protected] Globalization & trade policy

Firm internationalization

International migration

European integration

Firm performance: productivity, product quality, outsourcing etc.

Jackie M.L. Chan [email protected] Globalization and international trade

Foreign direct investment (FDI)

Multinational firms

Chinese and Asian economies

Jan Bentzen [email protected] Cost benefit analysis

Energy economics

John Kennes [email protected] Empirical analysis of labour markets

Empirical analysis of school/day-care choice

Empirical analysis of household finance

Theory of matching

Theory of market design

Julia Nafziger [email protected] Behavioural economics

Experimental economics

Applied micro theory

Incentives in organisations

Industrial organization









Lars Skipper [email protected] Labour market policy evaluation

Applied microeconometrics









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Firm-based training and productivity

Health economics

Luca Macedoni [email protected] Trade Policy


Martin Paldam [email protected] Development economics

Public Choice

Mette Trier Damgaard [email protected] Nudging, Behavioural economics

Consumer behavioural biases and firm responses

Public economics

Michael Koch [email protected] Labour market effects of globalization


Michael Rosholm [email protected] Estimation of treatment effects, design of evaluation studies, randomised experiments

Employment policy and evaluation

Policies for children and youth, and evaluation of them

Mogens Dilling-Hansen

[email protected] Case studies

Industry studies

Firm performance

Strategic analysis


Innovation/Research & Development

Market research

Customer satisfaction

Quantitative analysis in general

Nabanita Datta Gupta [email protected] Health economics

Family economics

Economics of ageing

Development economics

Niels Peter Mols [email protected] Transaction cost theory

Resource-based view of the firm

Foreign entry mode

Make-or-buy analysis

Economic analysis of contracts

Niels Skipper [email protected] Health economics

Nicola Maaser [email protected] Microeconomic theory

Applied game theory


Political economy

Collective decision-making

Nina Smith [email protected] Compensation schemes for top executives

Empirical human resource management

The gender gap in top management

Firm diversity and firm performance

Promotions and careers in organizations











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Peter Jensen [email protected] Early childhood education

Economics of education

Population and labour market issues

Philipp Schröder [email protected] Export and internationalization of firms

FDI

Industrial organisation/Industrial economics

Impact of regulation on businesses

Globalisation, trade international markets

WTO and EU issues

Economic policy (Euro, fiscal, debt, reforms)

Rui Zhang [email protected] International trade

Firms in the global economy

Quantitative spatial economics

Chinese economy

Sarah Schroeder [email protected] Globalisation, trade and FDI

Firms and workers in the global economy

Multinational firms

Trade and firm organisation

Timo Hener [email protected] Environmental economics

Family and population economics

Health and labour economics

Economics of crime

Public policy and evaluation

Timo Trimborn [email protected] Fiscal policy

Economic growth

Population economics

Environmental economics

Housing economics

Tor Eriksson [email protected] Asian economies (esp. China, Japan)

Personnel economics (economic analysis of wage and HRM politics within firms and organizations)

Understanding differences in performance between individuals or firms or countries

International labour markets

Corporate performance differences - what explains them?

Incentive systems in firms and organizations - what works, what not and why?

Valdemar Smith [email protected] Corporate performance


Economics of strategy

Valerie Smeets [email protected] International trade and firms organization

Automation and skills

Retraining

Economic consequences of COVID-19









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Firm growth and productivity

MSc in Logistics and Supply Chain Management / Operations and Supply Chain Analytics Name E-mail Topics in spring/autumn 2021

Ata Jalili Marand [email protected] Service operations management

Service/Queue pricing

Operations management

Supply chain management

Operations-marketing coordination

Christian Larsen [email protected] Inventory control

Production planning and control

Simulation

Markov decision models

Erland Hejn Nielsen [email protected] Operations and supply chain management (SCM), in particular demand management as well as LEAN/production management

Dynamic systems analysis – in particular stochastic queuing systems and system dynamic

Hartanto Wijaya Wong

[email protected] Supply chain design and management


Inventory management

Production planning

Simulation

Hongyan Jenny Li [email protected] Operations and Supply chain management

Business process modelling and improvement

Optimization and Simulation

Multiple criteria decision making

Revenue and price optimization

Jens Lysgaard [email protected] Routing

Distribution planning

Heuristics

Optimization methods

Johan Clausen [email protected] Big data inventory management

Julian Georg Simon Baals

[email protected] Optimization and heuristics in just-in-time logistics

Lars Relund Nielsen [email protected] Optimization

Simulation

Production planning and control

Scheduling

Routing, distribution and transportation

Multi criteria optimization









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Marcel Turkensteen [email protected] Sustainability and Logistics (e.g. environmental impact of products)

Transportation

Location and routing

Network design

Michael Malmros Sørensen

[email protected] Decision analysis

Distribution and transportation

Logistics & supply chain management

Optimisation modelling

Simulation modelling

Sanne Wøhlk [email protected] Distribution and transportation

Optimization and heuristics

Transport and planning related to waste collection

Waste and recycling

Optimization in project planning

Simon Niklas Emde [email protected] Scheduling

Optimisation methods

Supply chain management (SCM)


Transportation

Steen Nielsen [email protected] Supply chain costing

Financial management in supply chains

Profitability analysis and performance of distribution channels

Statistical performance (e.g. using data-mining and machine learning)

Sune Lauth Gadegaard

[email protected] Optimization

Multi-criteria optimization

Workforce planning







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MSc in Business Administration (SOC) Name E-mail Topics in spring/autumn 2021


Equity valuation

Asset pricing


Real options




Efficient markets

Deregulations




[email protected] Information economics

Performance evaluation, incentive systems, motivation


Psychology and economics



Portfolio theory

Empirical finance

Nina Smith [email protected] Compensation schemes for top executives

Empirical human resource management

The gender gap in top management

Firm diversity and firm performance

Promotions and careers in organizations




Credit ratings

Behavioural finance





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