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 ...
Beyond NIMBY, starting points to strengthen democratic support for local decisions VIVES
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
Unravelling early cell fate decisions during human preimplantation development KU Leuven
The lineage segregation events during early embryonic development are coordinated by the dynamics of extracellular signals. They assure the correct specification of the inner cell mass (ICM), giving rise to the embryo proper, and the primitive endoderm (PrE), contributing to extra-embryonic tissues, in the epiblast (Epi). Despite the great importance of the Epi/PrE lineage segregation during early embryonic development, the lack of suitable ...
Sabbatical Laurens Cherchye: Household decisions and individual welfare: a life cycle perspective KU Leuven
This research focuses on the analysis of family spending of income and time (including labor supply and domestic work), and its impact on the wealth of individual family members (parents and children). In my previous research, I developed non-parametric methods for a revealed preference analysis of these family decisions based on static family consumption models. I followed a so-called non-unitary approach, in which the interaction between ...
Linking strategic, tactical and operational decisions in the operating room department to achieve operational excellence Ghent University
The endeavor for operational excellence in the operating room (OR) department is hampered by the uncertainty underlying the patient demand for healthcare resources. Incorporating this uncertainty is complicated since the planning and scheduling decisions involving both resources and patients are typically organized according to a hierarchical decision structure due to the different nature and time horizons of the involved decisions in ...
Pro-debtor judicial decisions in bankruptcy: Causes and consequences Ghent University
Bankruptcy court competition may lead to an increased pro-debtor biased decision making in big-case Chapter 11 procedures. We test this hypothesis in response to a shift of popularity for big-case Chapter 11 procedures from the bankruptcy court of Delaware to the one of South District of Texas. Our first empirical evidence confirms that there is an increased tendency of judicial decisions to be more in favor of the debtor than the creditor. ...
Behavioural insights on individuals' investment decisions KU Leuven
The project’s goal is to examine what determines investments in sustainability at the individual level. This research will apply experimental finance research methods (e.g., surveys) to study research questions, such as: whether or what non-cognitive abilities of individuals (e.g., emotional stability, conscientiousness, agreeableness) drive their investments in sustainable stocks, funds, or bonds? While setting up the experiment, this ...