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Food from Somewhere? Urban Households, Access to Land and Alternative Food Entitlements in the Late Medieval City. University of Antwerp

Tim Soens
Centre for Urban History
Medieval cities were obsessed by food, food supplies and food shortages. Like in most pre-1900 societies, extreme weather conditions, warfare, trade conflicts easily disrupted the precarious food supplies, resulting in recurrent and virulent price spikes and potentially unleashing social unrest. No wonder then, that urban food supplies or 'Feeding the city' has been a prominent topic in economic history for decades, with a particular emphasis on ...

Burdened by taxes? Measuring the tax load in Hellenistic Egypt (332-30 BC) KU Leuven

Katelijn Vandorpe
Ancient History, Leuven

The special documentation of Ptolemaic Egypt (thousands of papyri and potsherds containing among other things tax receipts and tax lists) informs us in detail about the complex fiscal system. Hence the country is known for its many taxes and its bureaucracy. But does that imply that the tax burden was high? The project wants to measure, for the first time, the tax burden in Egypt by using a new typology of taxes combined with representative ...

The pre-industrial transformation of boys' labour. From learning through apprenticeships to being employed as an unskilled, cheap workforce? (1550 – 1800). University of Antwerp

Bert De Munck
Centre for Urban History
This project will challenge and add to the knowledge of child labour by determining how the logics behind sending children to the labour market in the Southern Netherlands (more specifically Ghent and Antwerp) changed between the 16th and late 18th century. In doing so, it will determine how mentalities and practises on children's education and labour transformed in urban societies and will shed light on children of learning and working age as a ...

Inflation target and inflation volatility informed VAR evidence on monetary policy shock transmission KU Leuven

Michal Kobielarz
Department of Economics, Leuven

We enrich a standard monetary VAR with information about a) the central bank's (implicit) inflation target, using estimates from a theoretical DSGE model or the unobserved components model of Stock andWatson (2007), and b) inflation volatility, using estimates from a model with stochastic volatility. Both types of measures provide information that proves important in the nominal interest rate shock identication in that it strongly alleviates ...

The rise of free trade in comparative perspective. University of Antwerp

Hilde Greefs
Centre for Urban History
Free trade developed in the nineteenth century as an ideology and controversial political issue. My research highlights the rise of free trade as such in midcentury in several countries, including Great Britain, France, and Belgium. In all these countries free trade associations formed during the 1840s and agitated on behalf of the liberalization of international trade, developed and maintained connections with one another, and pursued an ...

To Be Seen: Nubian Displacement and en-gendered Resistance in 'Public' Space. University of Antwerp

Els De Vos
Henry van de Velde
This project investigates how gender relations become manifest in the design, uses and representations of the built environment of displaced Nubians, an African population that was displaced and resettled in 1964, under a development-induced displacement and resettlement (DIDR) scheme. It does so in order to develop a toolkit for designers who want to work with marginalized communities.Gender aspects of disposition and post-displacement ...

Historical high-quality company-level data for Europe (EURHISFIRM). University of Antwerp

Jan Annaert
Accountancy and Finance
EURHISFIRM designs a world-class research infrastructure (RI) to connect, collect, collate, align, and share detailed, reliable, and standardized long-term financial, governance, and geographical data on European companies. EURHISFIRM enables researchers, policymakers, and other stakeholders to develop and evaluate effective strategies to promote investment, economic growth and job creation. The RI provides the tools for long-term analysis ...

The Battle for the Right to Strike: An Intellectual History of the Networks of Employers, Trade Unions, and Social Ethicists Preparing, Defining, and Promoting Gaudium et Spes’ Teaching on Labor (1957-1968) KU Leuven

Mathijs Lamberigts
Research Unit of History of Church and Theology

On December 7, 1965 the Second Vatican Council recognized the workers’ right to strike (Gaudium et Spes, § 68). This novelty in conciliar history and Catholic Social Teaching is a symbol for the hard-fought battle of networks with years of practical experience concerning the meaning of labor. This project will develop an intellectual history of three international representative networks that prepared, defined and further promoted a ...

The impact of "degrowth" and market economies on welfare and sustainability: a historical exploration. University of Antwerp

Tim Soens
Centre for Urban History
Growth used to be seen as a precondition for welfare and sustainability, but this consensus is criticised by the degrowth movement. Degrowth is defined as a paradigm shift towards nonaccumulation, sharing economies and commons. Degrowth does not refer to slow or absent growth in market economies. The movement claims that non-market economies without accumulation strategies are more capable of sustaining high average income levels and sustainable ...

Essays on applied structural macroeconometrics KU Leuven

Ferre De Graeve
Department of Economics, Leuven

My research focuses primarily on monetary policy, and on its interaction with fiscal policy. The first project on which I will be working, together with Prof. Ferre de Graeve, will aim at assessing the effects of changes in the maturity structure of government debt on the macroeconomy. My research will then further investigate related issues in monetary and fiscal policy. I will primarily work with econometric models for time series involving ...