Projects
The tax treatment of interest and dividends under tax treaties from the perspective of law and economics KU Leuven
There is an assumption in academic literature and legal practice that tax treaties are effective, i.e. that they succeed in removing tax obstacles and therefore lead to an increase in economic activity between both contracting states. However, there has been remarkably little fundamental research in order to assess whether that assumption is correct. An analysis on the basis of law and economics may offer valuable insights in this respect. ...
The tax treatment of interest and dividends under tax treaties from the perspective of law and economics. KU Leuven
Travel grant for foreign participation in Congress 'Workshop on the Law and Economics of Health Care' in Prague Hasselt University
Comparative law and behavioural economics. KU Leuven
Economic and Competition Law. University of Antwerp
The impact of public procurement law on horizontal and vertical teaming of economic operators in construction pro-jects. Reconciling effective and undistorted competition and the free market Hasselt University
The implementation of the new book XX Belgian Code of Economic Law to liberal professions and the particular consequences for their professional bodies (Orders and Institutes). University of Antwerp
Understanding and addressing economic power in EU competition law KU Leuven
Powerful firms impact evermore parts of our society. Traditionally, competition law aims to maintain the balance on the market. However, certain traditional notions may have reached their limits. Crucial for competition law are the evolving and diverse ways in which an undertaking can accumulate power. The proposed project will apply a fundamental perspective to the notion and treatment of economic power.
The first part focuses on the ...
Law and economic analysis of the value of biodiversity in government decisions KU Leuven
Even though the value of biodiversity has been studied from different perspectives, the value of one individual specimen within a species’ population, its habitat and living environment as well as the value of an individual habitat within its context has not been studied extensively in the academic literature. Firstly, we will examine how biodiversity is explicitly and implicitly defined by the legislator. Based on a textual analysis we will ...