Projects
Firm level heterogeneity and the demand and supply side of FDI spillovers Ghent University
This project investigates spillovers from foreign to domestic firms. Three types of characteristics determine the direction and magnitude of spillovers. Therefore positive spillovers are conditional rather than automatic. We consider spillover to depend on U+2018demandU+2019 side characteristics (domestic firmsU+2019 characteristics), U+2018supplyU+2019 side characteristics (foreign subsidiariesU+2019 characteristics), and ...
The role of financial literacy in behavioural biases and insurance demand KU Leuven
The idea of this work is to show how cognitive and behavioral biases may explain shifts in the demand of insurance, and how the knowledge of financial literacy may help us to solve those cognitive and behavioral dissonances that may be detrimental to the financial well-being of individuals.
On the rice: a holistic approach to identify countries with an imminent imbalance between rice supply and demand in Africa KU Leuven
Understanding supply and demand of rice in Africa is essential to tackling challenges of food security. A balance between both is complex: supply and demand are determined by production, consumption and trade, which in turn influence each other: when there is more demand for rice, more is produced or traded. But, if more is produced, more rice can be consumed. Actually, these three form a triangle. Today, the corners of this triangle are ...
Novel methodologies to assess the system value of heterogeneous, limitedly controllable demand response in power systems a high penetration of renewable energy sources KU Leuven
Demand response (DR) is considered a possible game-changing technological break-through in the integration of e.g. intermittent solar and wind power. DR allows load to accommodate changes in solar and wind power output by shifting demand in time. A significant number of residential loads contain some form of energy storage, which allows these loads to simultaneously be fully responsive and non-disruptive in terms of the perceived energy ...
Holistic performance assessment of demand controlled ventilation concerning VOCs in the indoor environment. Ghent University
The indoor air we breathe in on a daily basis contains more than just the oxygen we need, the air is polluted by people and their activities, furniture and building materials. One group of pollutants are the Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs) and are mainly emitted by building materials. When the exposure to VOCs gets too high, there are significant health risks (cancer, non-hereditary asthma,…). Nowadays, buildings are fitted with a ...
Evaluation of Contemporary Social Housing in Meeting the Demand of the Deprived Households and Filling the Gap of the Housing Market During the Last Decade in Tehran, Iran KU Leuven
This research aims to scrutinize the achievement of contemporary social housing programs in meeting the demand of the low-income households during the previous decade in Tehran, Iran; and to evaluate the impacts of these programs on the social and spatial order in the Tehran metropolitan area.
This research theoretically attends to the long-established debate about the nature of social housing (policy). Does it primarily accommodate ...
Advanced resource planning in the healthcare sector: impact of time-varying demand. KU Leuven
Inequality, consumption, and climate change policy: the demand side matters Ghent University
This research project studies the influence of inequality on an economy’s environmental impact and the implications of this influence for climate change mitigation policy. A key observation underlying this research project is that inequality influences a society's environmental impact through the effects of inequality on consumption: (1) inequality might induce increased positional consumption, and (2) low-income households tend to have ...
Aggregate demand models for differentiated products: computation, inference, and applications. KU Leuven
Our goal is to develop improved methods of estimation and inference for the BLP model, named after seminal work by Berry (1994) and Berry, Levinsohn, and Pakes (1995). The BLP model is the standard framework for the analysis of demand and supply for differentiated products in oligopolistic markets. It has become a key analytical tool in industrial organization and many other fields in economics. The demand side of the model is an aggregate ...