Projects
The shape and impact of ideological competition in local politics. A study of local party manifestos in Flanders Ghent University
This project wants to take a closer look at the shape and impact of ideological competition in Flemish local politics. By means of a quantitative analysis of local party manifestos we study the structure of electoral conflict and the differences between parties. Combined with other data we will also assess the role of ideological competition for voters, candidates and coalitions.
International Migration and Refugee Law Moot Court Competition Ghent University
The first International Migration and Refugee Law Moot Court Competition was organized by the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam in 2019. The Ghent University team won the first edition and will organize the next edition in March 2022 (after postponement due to Covid in 2020). A moot court simulates a court hearing, (i.e. an appeal against a negative decision regarding an international application) in which participants file a legal submission, ...
Taming ecosystem power of platforms through contract and competition law. University of Antwerp
Competition, price dispersion and the role of government interventions in globalizing consumer goods markets KU Leuven
The ongoing process of globalization does not only involve the production side through the development of global value chains, but also final goods markets through larger distribution networks and an increased amount of consumer cross-border trade. This project studies competition, price dispersion and the role of government interventions in globalizing consumer goods markets. The first part studies competition and international price ...
Truth is Broken: Online conspiracy theories in competition with science KU Leuven
Shared interest or mutual competition? The organization of voluntary jurisdiction in the Southern Low Countries during the late Middle Ages (1273-1433). Ghent University
The narrow research focus on late medieval public notaries has led to a distorted view on the organization and recording of voluntary jurisdiction in the Southern Low Countries. Starting from a comparative bottom-up approach, this project will assess how notaries co-existed and interacted with other legal actors, and will finally result in a more fine-grained understanding of this contemporary complex juridical reality.
Bank competition and financial stability KU Leuven
Analyze how the lending standards of a bank is affected by the decisions taken by the remaining banking system, namely in terms of risk-taking. The existing literature on bank competition offers two opposite results – on one hand, more competition may lead banks to take on too much risk; on the other hand, competition leads to lower interest rates which increases the proportion of “safe” loans in the pool of loan applicants.
Global knowledge spillovers between market rivals: cross-border internal linkage strategies in R&D, multi-location technology competition, and heterogeneity in IPR policies KU Leuven
An important risk for multinational enterprises (MNEs) performing R&D at a global level is unintended technology diffusion to other firms (knowledge spillovers). One way a MNE can aim to reduce the risk that its knowledge and technologies are misappropriated by others is to adopt an R&D strategy focusing on control through internal linkages across dispersed R&D units. This project addresses three related and important issues. ...
The Legal Anatomy of the Social Market Economy. Framing Supplementary Pensions in EU Competition and Internal Market Law KU Leuven
For more than thirty year, the legal relationship between social protection, competition law and the EU internal market has proven to be an uneasy one. In the EU, it was generally assumed that social protection in all its areas, is primarily a State prerogative, whereas competition law focuses on the conduct of private undertakings. One of the most controversial aspects is how the EU economic constitution — in particular the competition and ...