Projects
Beyond role conflict? Work flexibility, task division and the balance between work and familiy in Europe. KU Leuven
Horizontal Inequalities and Food Riots in Africa. KU Leuven
In recent years, protest events in a range of African countries have attracted widespread interest and public debate. The sharp increase in world food prices in 2007 and 2008, for example, was associated with the occurrence of a wave of food riots on the continent. In a number of countries, including Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Côte d’Ivoire, Egypt, Morocco, and Tunisia, protests erupted against high costs of living and frequently escalated into ...
Unobserved Heterogeneity in Technological Change and Dynamic Gains From Trade. Ghent University
While the current economic situation requires strong and persistent productivity growth to maintain economic prosperity, this growth is hampered by an increasingly uncertain international environment. The welfare cost associated with this uncertain international environment, however, remains unclear. Current quantitative trade models are not sufficiently general nor reliable to provide a clear picture of the impact of trade on technological ...
The Fast-Track to Technological Change: Railways, Market Access and Industrialization in Belgium KU Leuven
The project will for the first time digitize spatially and sectorally disaggregated high-quality census information on labor and output market variables in the various Belgian population, industrial and agricultural censuses and detailed information contained in the historical (light) railway archives for the period 1846-1914. These data are subsequently used to better understand how Belgium’s forerunner role in ‘railwayfication’ has shaped ...
INSIGHTS ON THE RECONFIGURATION OF FRAGILE INDUSTRIAL WATERFRONTS DEFINED BY CLIMATE CHANGE AND ECONOMIC DECLINE. The case of Coney Island Creek, New York. KU Leuven
At first sight, cities are accumulations of the tangible, the perceivable and the more static: buildings and streets, infrastructures and waterways, houses and schools and parks and supermarkets. But cities worldwide are simultaneously under constant pressure from an intangible discourse, from changes caused by shocks and stresses, which require them to respond and adapt in a resilient way. These shocks and stresses can result from ...
The Macroeconomic Effects of Superstar Firms: Why Policymakers Should Care KU Leuven
The thesis will analyze the role of supply chain networks in the transmission and propagation of economic shocks. In particular, it looks at how multipliers adjust once firm heterogeneity is taken into account. It evaluates how the impact of economic policy changes once granular dimensions of the macroeconomy are taken into account.
The Spatial Political Economy of Discontent KU Leuven
We live in an unequal world, where both incomes and political convictions continuously seem to diverge. On the economic front, Piketty’s publication of ‘Capital in the 21st Century’ has made it commonplace to talk about the current period as a second Belle Époque where the richest 1% appropriate an ever larger share of national income. On the political front, the post-1980 period was an era of ‘rising regionalism’ with a geographical ...
Winners and Losers from Globalization and Market Integration: Insights from Micro-Data KU Leuven
Globalization, and market integration more generally, has created winners and losers around the world. Recent political events (e.g. US elections and Brexit) show that many people are concerned and demand policies to stop globalization through new trade barriers and limits on free movement of people. Research on the precise impact of globalization and market integration has been constrained by measurement and data problems. Theoretical and ...
Sabbatical Johan Eyckmans: Integrated climate and circular economy KU Leuven
My current research work consists of two main tracks: (1) economics of climate change (in particular integrated assessment modeling and international environmental agreements, see Bakalova and Eyckmans 2019) and (2) economic analysis of circular economy (in particular economic modeling of material flows, see GarcÃa-Barragán, J.F., Eyckmans, J. and Rousseau, S. 2019). So far these two tracks were rather separate but during the last couple of ...