Projects
The Physiological and Economic Impact of Neighborhood Green Space on the Stress, Behavioral development, and mental Wellbeing of Children (GreenBrain) Hasselt University
The life and thought of northern prehistoric hunter-gatherers: ethnographical and ethnoarchaeological theory and analysis of the behavioral and material expression of the relationship between ideology and ecology Ghent University
The research proposal consists of the application of the new anthropological paradigm to the study of northern European prehistoric hunter-gatherers with specific focus on the relationship between ecology - the reality of the world in which human beings must survive - and ideology - the human cognition and perception of that world. The new anthropological paradigm sees ecology and ideology as dynamic and dialectic entities, whose relationship ...
Search behavior in the marriage market, household formation and economic decisions: a revealed preference analysis. University of Antwerp
Search behavior in the marriage market, household formation and economic decisions: a revealed preference analysis KU Leuven
The aim of this project is to explicitly integrate marriage decisions in the wider context of household decisions when divorce is a possible option. This project wants to better understand the interplay between the search for partners, household formation and economic decisions. The idea is that making an investment in the ability to search for a better partner affects the characteristics of the match, but also the bargaining position in the ...
Belgian Economy Today: A high-frequency data aggregation and visualisation platform for adequate and timely economic analysis Ghent University
In turbulent Covid-19 times, we experience shocks that have an immediate impact on the financial situation of economic actors. Tracking these changes with accounting data, monthly surveys or quarterly macro-economic data leads to numbers that are neither timely nor accurate: they are not detailed enough and published with a release lag. The solution is a digital platform called Belgian Economy Today. The platform aggregates, distributes and ...
Belgian Economy Today: A high-frequency data aggregation and visualisation platform for adequate and timely economic analysis Vrije Universiteit Brussel
immediate impact on the financial situation of economic actors.
Tracking these changes with accounting data, monthly surveys or
quarterly macro-economic data leads to numbers that are neither
timely nor accurate: they are not detailed enough and published with
a release lag.
The solution is a digital platform called Belgian Economy Today. The ...
The Impact of Credit Frictions on the Dynamics of International Trade. KU Leuven
Contemporaneous macroeonomic models invariantly rely on economywide shocks to explain aggregate fluctuations. The role of microeconomic shocks (e.g. to individual firms) has generally been overlooked. The relevance of small shocks for the macroeconomy was downplayed by Robert Lucas’ (1977) renowned essay on real business cycles. His argument is simple but powerful: if shocks that affect individual firms are idiosyncratic (i.e. random), these ...
Trust and societal impact in the sharing economy: A cooperative advantage? KU Leuven
Sharing economy organizations such as Uber and Airbnb are increasingly contested for their negative societal impact (Ertz & Leblanc-Proulx, 2018; Kuhn & Maleki, 2017): market power imbalance, poor labour conditions, unsustainable consuming behavior, etc. Some authors argue that a cooperative organizational model, the so-called platform cooperatives, can offer a solution to these problems by generating trust relationships, both among ...