Projects
Chains of intermediaries: an analysis of the corporate law problems caused by chains of intermediaries in the holding of shares in listed companies and their possible solutions: a comparative legal analysis. Ghent University
The ultimate investor in shares issued by a listed company rarely has a direct link with that company Rather, the investor usually holds these shares through a chain of intermediaries and/or securities accounts This sometimes causes problems when the ultimate investor wants to vote his shares, when information has to be exchanged between the company and the investor or when the investor wants to exercise certain “overnance rights” such as ...
From Grammatical to Didactic Modelization: A Comparative Analysis of Early Romance Grammaticography (up to 1600) (French, Occitan, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese) KU Leuven
My research concerns the historiography of grammar as the descriptive 'hard core' (Swiggers 2012) of the history of linguistics, more specifically the earliest grammatical descriptions of the Romance languages. The time span chosen (13th century-1600), corresponding to the foundation of the vernacular traditions, provides us with a primary corpus of some 50 titles, representing 5 language areas (viz., Occitan, French, Italian, ...
Patent Governance, Patent Reforms & Institutional Change: A Comparative Analysis of Patent Reforms in Europe, the US and Japan. University of Antwerp
Surviving in a challenging political and policy context? A comparative analysis of Belgian, Dutch and French political party think tanks KU Leuven
Political party think tanks (also known as study centres, scientific institutes or research foundations) are considered to be the brains of political parties. Despite their crucial role in various political systems, there is little academic research on their functions. Currently, political party think tanks are under pressure, both from the party politics side (such as electoral decline of traditional parties) and from recent trends in the ...
The interaction between information structure, syntax and semantics: a comparative linguistic and interdisciplinary analysis. KU Leuven
One of the major functions of language is to convey information between speakers and hearers. Speakers have several linguistic means at their disposal to structure the information they want to communicate, e.g. active (Nous avons pris la décision) vs passive sentences (La décision a été prise) refer to the same referential content but the way in which the information is structured differs. Information Structure (IS) is a basic ingredient of ...
EU decision-making with regard to international negotiations in first pillar domains: a comparative principal-agent analysis. KU Leuven
Comparative welfate state analysis with survey based social security benefit recipiency data. KU Leuven
Historical Canons and Canonization in Belgium and Hungary: a comparative analysis with a European perspective from the late 18th century to the early 21st century (COMPAIR) KU Leuven
Governance of urban agriculture in a comparative perspective : a sociological analysis Research Institute for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food
In this project, we analyze how the phenomenon of urban agriculture in four western cities is developed and managed, and to what degree the (different) context leads to a different type of urban agriculture, with differences in degree of innovation and professionalization. In a number of urban regions, urban agriculture is appearing as an alternative production, distribution and consumption ...