Topics in International Economics KU Leuven
The PhD research will investigate topics in international economics.
The PhD research will investigate topics in international economics.
A fundamental shift is beginning to materialize, portending a structural disruption of International Economic Law: the perception that the Chinese state-centered economic model is irreconcilable with key pillars of the trade, investment and financial rules in force for the past decades. A clash of economic models seems to be coming to a head in the wake of China’s increasingly global economic presence. At the center of the clash of models ...
Het geschil omtrent de Westelijke Sahara tussen de Marokkaanse overheid en het Frente Polisario is één van de langst aanslepende internationale geschillen van onze tijd. Hoewel lang genegeerd, nopen recente nationale en Europese rechtszaken tot duidelijkheid over de vraag of - en onder welke voorwaarden - derde landen en buitenlandse ondernemingen economische en handelsbetrekkingen kunnen hebben met deze regio, gelet op diens status als ...
The aim of this project is to create an infrastructure that stimulates the development of interdisciplinary research. Data comes from different sources, such as academic institutions, international intergovernmental and private organizations, as well as some in-house developed datasets. As an integrated database, HerculesDB combines data from different sources and provides a unified view of this data. It standardizes data according to the ...
Economic sanctions are an important tool of foreign policy. They are used to punish foreign country governments or try to change their policies without resorting to military force. Recent examples are sanctions against Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and Iran’s nuclear program. There is surprisingly little research on how effective these sanctions are. This project wants to address several important gaps in the literature and to contribute ...