Projects
The role of soluble guanylate cyclase isoforms in the relaxation effect of vascular smooth muscle cells and in penile corpora cavernosa Ghent University
Erection and vasorelaxation under the influence of NO and NO-releasing substances is based on activation of soluble guanylyl cyclase, existing in different isoforms. Using transgene mices, his project aims to find out the specific isoforms involved in these processes. This is important for the development of selective drugs for the treatment of hypertension and erectile dysfunction.
Taxation of corporate groups under the Belgian corporate income tax system KU Leuven
The rise of corporate groups has challenged the traditional corporate income tax system under which each company is considered an autonomous legal entity and is taxed accordingly. The underlying rationale is that each independent economic activity presupposes an independent legal entity. Hence, legal reality coincides with economic reality. The same rationale cannot apply to corporate groups as the constituting group companies are merely part ...
Corporate Social Performance of Multinational Corporations: Multinational Exposure, Corporate Resources, and Comparative Institutionalism KU Leuven
This dissertation examines the conditions for a high-level CSP by employing corporate social performance (CSP) as the reflection of corporations’ active participation in delivering the SDGs (van Zanten & van Tulder, 2018). A focus on multinational corporations (MNCs) is motivated by the central role of MNCs in sustainable development (Buckley, Doh, & Benischke, 2017; Kolk, 2016). MNCs’ global network facilitates the global adoption of ...
Corporate Tax Avoidance and Corporate Social Responsibility of Multinationals Ghent University
The Macroeconomics of corporate Debt: Causes and Consequences of the corporate debt overhang. Ghent University
Firm leverage dynamics remain a blind spot of macroeconomics despite their impact on productivity and financial stability. This proposal investigates the role of banks’ sentiment in the structural rise in firm leverage in a corporate finance model with behavioural banks. It empirically tests the role of banks’ biases by offering a new way to measure banks’ optimism with artificial intelligence.
The Macroeconomics of corporate Debt: Causes and Consequences of the corporate debt overhang Ghent University
Following a decade of low interest rates, firm leverage has increased substantially. This structural rise in firm leverage, aggravated by the COVID-19 crisis, threatens financial stability and might lead to another lost decade of low productivity. While household leverage has attracted extensive research after the Great Financial Crisis, firm leverage dynamics remain a blind spot of macroeconomics. Studies on the drivers of firm leverage fail ...
Private International Law and International Corporate Mobility: Directive (EU) 2019/2121 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 November 2019 amending Directive (EU) 2017/1132 as regards cross-border conversions, mergers and divisions University of Antwerp
Tenure track appointment in corporate finance within the framework of the SSH strategic support plan Ghent University
To increase the research and teaching capacity of the Ghent University SSH Faculties a Special Research Fund pre-allocation of 15 additional tenure track positions – three for each Faculty – was provided in 2011.
The pressure of the past: persistence in corporate finance policies Ghent University
In organizational studies, there is a strong belief that understanding the history of an organization is important to understand its current situation (e.g., Kipping & Ãœsdiken, 2014). However, little research exists on the pressure of the past in corporate finance policies. In this project, we first investigate whether the precautionary measures (e.g., maintaining a high cash balance and low leverage ratio) taken at the founding of a ...