Projects
ReTax - Rethinking Real Estate Taxation. KU Leuven
RETAX deals with one of the most crucial and longest-running issues concerning property taxation in Flanders, namely the re-estimation of the cadastral income (KI). The KI is an estimate of the annual net rental value of a building and serves several purposes in the tax systems of federal and regional authorities. Its main function, however, is that it forms the basis for the collection of property tax. The tax legislation requires that the ...
Tax shift within Flemish Housing Taxation. University of Antwerp
Integrating causal Bayesian networks and neural networks for probabilistic reasoning with complex data Ghent University
Probabilistic graphical models, and especially causal Bayesian networks, allow combining data and causal knowledge in a principled way. Based on this framework, we can reason probabilistically about complex systems, even when faced with a significant degree of uncertainty. Despite these benefits, the practical adoption of these models remains limited, due to inability to process data with challenging, but common data properties such as (1) a ...
FWO sabbatical bench fee Ghent University
The objectives of my sabbatical are fourfold:
1. Make significant progress on new research projects with a co-author at Rutgers.
2. Conduct revisions of multiple running research projects with other co-authors located in the US (including
New York and Minneapolis). For this purpose, I plan short visits.
3. Connect with local financiers of entrepreneurship to inform my (new) research.
4. Take specialist courses ...
Digital transformation in finance Ghent University
To embrace the promising potential of the emerging information technology (IT), organizations need effective digital transformation (DT) strategies to be developed, which require subtle understanding of the disruptive IT and its source of value creation. However, an obstacle in this regard is absence of a common language between financial experts and IT professionals, exacerbated by the intricacy of distributed ledger technology (DLT). While ...
The Great Privatization? Industry, Trade and the State in Roman Egypt KU Leuven
The transition from Hellenistic (305–30 BC) to Roman (30 BC–284 AD) rule in Egypt is often cast in terms of a ‘Great Privatization’ of the industry and trade sectors. For the first time, the proposed project will provide an in-depth study of these developments, challenging the narrative of a radical break between a state-controlled versus a market economy following the Roman conquest. It will furthermore redefine the terms of the debate, ...
Wealth and marriage markets KU Leuven
Marriage markets constitute one dimension of wealth inequality:
married people hold on average more wealth than singles, a
phenomenon known as the 'marriage wealth premium'. Yet, existing
studies in the economic literature deal with wealth accumulation and
the dynamics of family formation and dissolution as two separate
topics. This project aims to bridge this gap in order to improve our
understanding of the ...
Fuelling the future with concrete, papers, discourse: competing claims in the making of an oil city, Sekondi-Takoradi, Ghana KU Leuven
In analysing the resource environment in Takoradi, I focus in this PhD thesis on the transformative power of oil on processes of social configurations, meaning-making practices and the processes of value formation such as land conversions. Sekondi-Takoradi is an example of petrolic semiosis at work: oil is not only a metonym for modernity in the form of a modern city, but also for global and urban citizenship.
The city of ...