Projects
Operating Grant Masterclass CSR government: CSR development framework for governments Ghent University
Implementing CSR actions in several government sustainability is much stronger on the agenda of Flanders. Why? Companies like the principle of voluntary CSR, which remains conceptual incontournable, but practice reveals something else. We can all of us to contribute to solutions to environmental and social problems: less often get in the car, our home or commercial building better insulation, efficient energy and water use hop about, respect ...
The government as shareholder: reality or metaphor? To what extent is company law “coloured” by the presence of a government shareholder? Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Government Ownership and Competition: Empirical evidence from the European Airline Industry following the COVID-19-Pandemic KU Leuven
This project aims to empirically assess the impact of government ownership on competition. The COVID-19 pandemic and subsequent governmental equity interventions in the European airline industry provide for a particularly ideal setting to investigate this topic, and this for several reasons. First, airline markets and competition therein are well-defined and well-understood. Second, European countries offered rescue packages differing in size ...
‘Ecologizing’ Urban Planning. The sustainable city in between government and activism (1989 – 2019) KU Leuven
Viceregal Houses, Power, Articulation. The Origins of Political-Economic Government in the Kingdom of Perú in a time of incertainty (1675-1725) KU Leuven
This project examines the governmental transformations that have taken place in Peru in the transition from a domestic economy to one governed by political economy criteria from the viceregal houses between 1675 and 1725. The research will be based on the analysis of the decomposition of the domestic economy, understood as an indirect government governed by personal relationships, to a political economy, where the rationalization and ...
The Janus face of intermunicipal cooperation: caught between public and private between government and undertaking Hasselt University
Autonomous government. Towards a general legal framework for the creation and regulation of autonomous public bodies. University of Antwerp
Sabbatical Katelijn Vandorpe: Burdened by taxes? Fiscal centralization and government control in Hellenistic Egypt. KU Leuven
The extraordinary documentation of Hellenistic Egypt (thousands of papyri and potsherds including tax receipts and lists) informs us in detail about the complex fiscal system of the Nile country, which is known for its many taxes and its bureaucracy. However, the synthesis studies and many detailed studies on the tax system are very outdated. Moreover, many researchers assume that because of the high number of taxes, the tax burden was high, ...