Projects
Offshore Wind Power in Electricity Markets: Regulatory and Market Design Implications under Flow-Based Market Coupling KU Leuven
An important element of the ongoing transition towards a sustainable energy system is the increasing share of wind power in the electricity mix globally. Wind power is highly variable by nature leading to geographical and temporal mismatches between supply and demand. Therefore, there is an increasing opportunity for cross-border trade of electricity from low-cost regions to high-cost regions to unlock economic welfare gains.
The ...
Balancing Market Designs for Market Power Mitigation in Interrelated Electricity Markets: An Agent-Based Approach KU Leuven
Strong performance on a global market and market power and the allocation of resources KU Leuven
In this research proposal I describe the two main research programs on which I will focus over the next five years (2015−2020). The two topics are sufficiently distinct and therefore I will describe them separately. Both topics, however, draw substantially on some of my earlier work. In particular some of the methodological contributions to the estimation of production functions and markups have opened a set of new research avenues; including ...
The Aggregate Implications of Market Power M-POWER KU Leuven
It has been long understood by economists that market power can negatively affect welfare by limiting output, stifling innovation, and introducing inefficiencies in the overall allocation of production. On the one hand, there is ample evidence from case-studies, that the presence of market power, in the form of explicit or implicit cartels and other practices of anti-competitive behavior, can lead to substantial damages to producers and ...
Market Power in Value Chains KU Leuven
We analyze the determinants of technological progress and productivity gains, and relate them to economic growth.
Seeds of Market Power: The Intellectual Property-Antitrust Interface in Seed and Biotech Markets. KU Leuven
During the past decades concentration in several global agricultural input industries, colloquially referred to as the agribusiness industry or 'agribusiness', has risen significantly. This had led to six large firms - BASF, Bayer, Dow Chemical, DuPont, Monsanto and Syngenta (known as the 'Big Six') - dominating most of the agribusiness markets, in particular the markets for seeds and agrochemicals. Since mid-2016, three major mergers ...
Energy grid and power markets KU Leuven
Background: The energy landscape is changing drastically. The share of renewables has increased significantly, and will continue to do so in the foreseeable future. In liberalized energy markets, the interplay between the different actors, markets and policy interventions, together with the high uncertainty (e.g., regarding technological progress) has made it more difficult and at the same time more important to anticipate the impact of ...
NANOLUX: Singly and doubly Ce3+ and Eu2+ doped silicate garnet nanoceramic phosphors for high power white light emitting diodes Ghent University
The goal of this project is the synthesis of doubly doped calcium-yttrium silicate materials with the general formula {Ca2Y}[Mg,Sc,Al,Ga]2(Ga,Al,Si)3O12. These Ce3+ and Eu2+ doped ceramic materials will be studied as new phosphors for white-light emitting diodes (LEDs). It will be especially innovative to obtain these materials as transparent nanoceramic layers.