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Dion Bongaerts
Professor of Financial Technology and Data Analytics
Rotterdam School of Management (RSM)
Erasmus University Rotterdam

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Dion Bongaerts is an Professor of Financial Technology and Data Analytics at RSM Erasmus University and Academic Director Fintech at the Erasmus Center for Data Analytics. He specializes in the behavior of credit rating agencies, the pricing of credit risky instruments, the origins and effects of market illiquidity, and FinTech (with a focus on Blockchain and AI). His work has been presented at major conferences around the world, including the AFA, WFA, EFA, and NBER meetings and published in top tier academic journals including the Journal of Finance, Review of Financial Studies, the Journal of Financial Economics, and Management Science. He has received several grants, including a Veni and a Blockchain Research grant from the Dutch National Science Foundation (NWO) and a Lamfalussy Fellowship from the ECB. Prof. Bongaerts holds a PhD degree in Finance from the University of Amsterdam, an MSc in Econometrics from Maastricht University, and has been a visiting scholar at Yale School of Management, University of Pittsburgh, and the Central University of Finance and Economics in Beijing. Moreover, he has several years of professional experience as a risk management quant at ABN-AMRO bank.

Publications

Academic (11)
Professional (1)
External (1)
  • Bongaerts, D. (2010). Overrated Credit Risk. [Doctoral Thesis, University of Amsterdam]. Uva.

Activities

  • RSM BV
    Start date approval: 04 Oct 2022
    End date approval: 03 Oct 2025
    Place: ROTTERDAM
    Description: Divers ExecEd/MBA; variabel # uren per opdracht
  • SYNNAX
    Start date approval: 22 Mar 2023
    End date approval: 21 Mar 2026
    Place: DUBAI
    Description: Advisory on tokenization, blockchain, platform, AI
  • Stichting 2Tokens
    Start date approval: 22 Mar 2023
    End date approval: 21 Mar 2026
    Place: DEN HAAG
    Description: co lecturer course on tokenization
  • 2Tokens
    Start date approval: 24 Jun 2023
    End date approval: 23 Jun 2026
    Place: 'S-GRAVENHAGE
    Description: Advies inzake gebruik van blockchain-based tokens
  • Finext
    Start date approval: 30 May 2024
    End date approval: 29 May 2027
    Place: DEN HAAG
    Description: Middle management bijpraten over AI in Finance
  • Europe economics
    Start date approval: 25 Jul 2024
    End date approval: 31 Dec 2024
    Place: LONDON
    Description: Academic advisor report for FCA
  • Europe Economics
    Start date approval: 15 Aug 2024
    End date approval: 31 Dec 2025
    Place: LONDEN
    Description: Advies EC DG FISMA
  • Achmea
    Start date approval: 08 Oct 2024
    End date approval: 07 Oct 2027
    Place: APELDOORN
    Description: Contra-expertise in rechtszaak

Awards

Courses

Data Management & Ethics

  • Study year: 2024/2025, 2023/2024, 2022/2023, 2021/2022, 2020/2021
  • Code: BM02BAM
  • Level: Master

Principles of Financial Modeling

  • Study year: 2024/2025, 2023/2024, 2022/2023, 2021/2022, 2020/2021
  • Code: BM08BAM
  • Level: Master

Finance & Investments Honours Class

  • Study year: 2024/2025, 2023/2024, 2022/2023, 2021/2022, 2020/2021, 2019/2020
  • Code: BMHON1FI
  • Level: Master

Introduction Week

  • Study year: 2024/2025, 2023/2024, 2022/2023, 2021/2022, 2020/2021
  • Code: BMIWFI
  • Level: Master

FI master thesis

  • Study year: 2024/2025, 2023/2024, 2022/2023, 2021/2022
  • Code: BMMTFI
  • Level: Master

BAM Master Thesis & Internship

  • Study year: 2024/2025, 2023/2024, 2022/2023, 2021/2022
  • Code: BMMTIBAM
  • Level: Master

Past courses

FinTech: Business models and Applications

  • Study year: 2023/2024, 2022/2023, 2021/2022
  • Code: BM26BAM
  • Level: Master

BAM Master Thesis & Internship

  • Study year: 2021/2022, 2020/2021
  • Code: BMMTBAM
  • ECTS: 16 Level: Master

Corporate finance

  • Study year: 2020/2021, 2019/2020
  • Code: BKB0023
  • Level: Bachelor 2, Pre-master

FinTech: Business models and Applications

  • Study year: 2020/2021
  • Code: BM16BAM
  • ECTS: 6 Level: Master

Risk management

  • Study year: 2020/2021, 2019/2020, 2018/2019, 2016/2017, 2015/2016
  • Code: BM04FI
  • ECTS: 5 Level: Master

ERIM Research Clinic Finance

  • Study year: 2019/2020, 2017/2018, 2016/2017, 2015/2016
  • Code: BERMRC005
  • ECTS: 4 Level: Master

Risk Management

  • Study year: 2018/2019, 2017/2018, 2016/2017
  • Code: BM04FI-A
  • ECTS: 4 Level: Master

Topics in FinTech

  • Study year: 2017/2018
  • Code: BERMSS020
  • ECTS: 3 Level: Master

Boundaries of Financial Research

  • Study year: 2016/2017, 2015/2016
  • Code: BERMASC036
  • ECTS: 1 Level: Master

Publishing Strategy

  • Study year: 2015/2016
  • Code: BERMSKL010
  • ECTS: 1 Level: Master

Featured in the media

  • Intangible assets yield higher returns

    Article that explores research by Dion Bongaerts and his colleagues which shows that companies with many intangible assets provide investors with above-average returns.

  • Liquidity and clientele effects in green debt markets

    Dirk Schoenmaker & Dion Bongaaerts' research on modelling green and regular bond markets proposes an alternative security design that preserves green earmarking but prevents fragmentation.

  • Green bond issuance: Denmark's split offering

    An article in which Dion Bongaert's and Dirk Schoenmaker's research on green bonds is mentioned. The research proposed unbundling green bonds into a standard bond and a green certificate to take care of the green earmarking of…

  • Studio Erasmus - Kan blockchain het internet redden?

    Dion Bongaerts, Associate Professor of Finance at RSM discusses blockchain and the internet during Studio Erasmus.

Featured on RSM Discovery

The puzzle about the bitcoin halving

The recent bitcoin price run-up could be caused by the upcoming bitcoin halving. In an efficient market, this is not something we would expect.