Projects
Offshore Wind Power in Electricity Markets: Regulatory and Market Design Implications under Flow-Based Market Coupling KU Leuven
An important element of the ongoing transition towards a sustainable energy system is the increasing share of wind power in the electricity mix globally. Wind power is highly variable by nature leading to geographical and temporal mismatches between supply and demand. Therefore, there is an increasing opportunity for cross-border trade of electricity from low-cost regions to high-cost regions to unlock economic welfare gains.
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Balancing Market Designs for Market Power Mitigation in Interrelated Electricity Markets: An Agent-Based Approach KU Leuven
Modelling of agricultural markets and market impacts across spatial and temporal scales: Application to climate change scenario studies KU Leuven
Food systems worldwide face a dual challenge from global warming, being adversely affected by climate change and being a large source of greenhouse gas emissions. Simulation studies are crucial to assess the interaction between climate change and food systems. State-of-the-art simulation models are unmatched in scope, but have important shortcomings. In this project I will use empirical insights to advance the representation of markets and ...
Seeds of Market Power: The Intellectual Property-Antitrust Interface in Seed and Biotech Markets. KU Leuven
During the past decades concentration in several global agricultural input industries, colloquially referred to as the agribusiness industry or 'agribusiness', has risen significantly. This had led to six large firms - BASF, Bayer, Dow Chemical, DuPont, Monsanto and Syngenta (known as the 'Big Six') - dominating most of the agribusiness markets, in particular the markets for seeds and agrochemicals. Since mid-2016, three major mergers ...
How are social divides produced in contemporary European labour markets? A macro-micro-macro study of the impact of labour market policy, employment and welfare institutions on workers working conditions and job quality KU Leuven
This is the first study investigating the interaction of macro- and micro-forces producing social divides in contemporary European labour markets by using a macro-micro-macro research model. Social divides are defined as differences in working conditions and job quality of different groups of workers. The research project consists of several steps. Firstly, by using latent class analysis social divides are uncovered. Secondly, country-level ...
Endogenous market structures and the regulation of retail markets. KU Leuven
Exploring the market potential of photoporation as the next generation of intracellular delivery technology for the R&D and cell therapy markets Ghent University
Delivering macromolecular compounds into living cells in vitro or ex vivo is a common requirement for both fundamental biological research as well as biomedical applications. Examples include the intracellular delivery of gene editing molecules to unravel molecular pathways or to create engineered therapeutic cells. Photoporation, which combines laser irradiation with light-sensitive nanomaterials, is an upcoming physical intracellular ...
Macroeconomics and the labor market: measuring and explaining the state of the labor market Ghent University
Accurately estimating the state of the labor market lies at the core of successful macroeconomic policy. This project aims to improve the current
measurement practice by (i) using more appropriate labor market indicators than the standard unemployment rate, (ii) allowing for time-varying coefficients in the relationship of labor market indicators with other macroeconomic variables and (iii) exploiting the panel structure of the ...