Projects
Transnational Normativity in an Age of Estrangement. Loans and Credit in Consilia and Decisiones in the Northern and Southern Low Countries (ca. 1500-1680). KU Leuven
In the early modern period, the Low Countries performed a key role in trade and commerce on the European continent. In their ‘Golden Ages’, Antwerp and Amsterdam attracted merchants from all over Europe, and even beyond. The development of commerce and finance within this transregional reality raised new normative questions on how to deal with novel financial techniques. At the same time, public, private and ecclesiastical debtors were in a ...
Corporate board decisions in a context of pluralism of interests. A qualitative risk-assessment of corporate law mechanisms dealing with cancellation of board decisions. KU Leuven
The action to declare a company board decision null and void (hereafter 'the action') is a powerful enforcement tool. It allows to sanction a board decision - first and foremost an internal giving - with a sanction that possibly has repercussions outside the internal sphere of a company. On the one hand that is exactly what the concerned action intends to do: it in essence aims to bar the legal effects of a board decision ab initio ...
COnfident DEcisions KU Leuven
Virtually every decision people make comes with a sense of confidence – a subjective estimate of decision quality. The human capacity for confidence has tremendous social, clinical, and industrial impact. For example, children who can correctly judge their own level of confidence perform better academically. In the elderly, confidence declines faster than other cognitive functions. Clinically, confidence plays a key role in our understanding ...
Towards a better understanding of climate (im)mobility: identifying environmental shocks, the role of retain factors and dynamics in migration decisions Ghent University
Huge predictions of climate migration are put forward in the public debate. Yet, current academic studies come to different conclusions or often do not seem to pick up a clear positive effect of environmental shocks on migration. The project aims to improve the identification of the impact of environmental shocks on (im)mobility in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), a region extremely vulnerable to the impacts of climate change. It brings a new ...
Psychology of Data-Driven Decisions KU Leuven
In the last decade, many companies have made major investments in data analytics. Most conversations around data-driven decision-making emphasize metrics, algorithms, and technology. While that’s understandable given the quick developments in these areas, the danger is we lose sight of decisions, people, and psychology. The goal of this project is to unravel how managers interpret marketing metrics, examine how their interpretations influence ...
Beyond NIMBY, starting points to strengthen democratic support for local decisions VIVES
Law and economic analysis of the value of biodiversity in government decisions KU Leuven
Even though the value of biodiversity has been studied from different perspectives, the value of one individual specimen within a species’ population, its habitat and living environment as well as the value of an individual habitat within its context has not been studied extensively in the academic literature. Firstly, we will examine how biodiversity is explicitly and implicitly defined by the legislator. Based on a textual analysis we will ...
Time to give up? Establishing a survey panel on how accumulations of interactions with government affect psychosocial well-being and citizen decisions to give up during procedures. University of Antwerp
The Impact of SARS-CoV-2 Vaccine R&D decisions on the downstream Covid-19 Immunization System - Improving Strategic and Operational Preparedness for Future Virus Crisis Outbreak KU Leuven
Huge R&D efforts are still ongoing with the ultimate aim to provide the world with a vaccine in the coming year(s) against the Covid-19 virus. To achieve the ultimate goal of providing equitable access, and reaching the desired health outcomes of preventing new infections, deep insights in the impact of decisions made in the R&D stage of the novel vaccine on the vaccine supply chain and broader immunization system are needed. We ...