Remembering Stefan Kesenne (1950–2021)

Thomas Peeters

doi:10.1177/15270025211039446

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Stefan Kesenne has died on June 21, 2021. Dr Kesenne was an emeritus professor at the University of Antwerp and the University of Leuven. He will be remembered as an inspiring, honest, and courageous man with strong ethical convictions. His groundbreaking research and unwavering support for the academic community will leave a permanent mark on the sports economics research landscape.

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Stefan was born on April 18, 1950, in Heusden, a town in the eastern Belgian province of Limburg
In 1973, Stefan started working as a research and teaching assistant at the Univesitaire Faculteit Sint Ignatius Antwerpen (UFSIA), which would later become the University of Antwerp
Of leisure consumption goods and leisure time. He would still recall to this laptop-spoiled PhD-student how he used punch cards to calculate these 10 precious coefficients on a room-sized computer. After his PhD, he got a permanent position at UFSIA teaching econometrics, labor economics, and, as soon as it became a field in its own right, sports economics

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Stefan was born on April 18, 1950, in Heusden, a town in the eastern Belgian province of Limburg. In 1973, Stefan started working as a research and teaching assistant at the Univesitaire Faculteit Sint Ignatius Antwerpen (UFSIA), which would later become the University of Antwerp. Stefan’s early research focused on the econometrics of time allocation models. 1 Department of Applied Economics, Erasmus School of Economics, ECASE, Tinbergen Institute and Erasmus Research Institute in Management (ERIM), Rotterdam, the Netherlands

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