Projects

The different Belgian tax voluntary disclosure regimes since 2004 each show a large number of faults and uncertainties. Moreover, these faults and the rapid succession of a variety of both temporary and 'permanent' regimes show that a well-thought out approach to deal with tax evaders who want to come clean is, to date, still lacking in Belgian law. This research project aims to fill this gap by establishing a legal-conceptual framework on ...

There is a recent awareness of requiring additional efforts for inference when a selection of variables or models has taken place. This can be placed into the larger framework of correct inference and research integrity.

We focus mainly on the high-dimensional setting and consider these valid post-selection issues for composite estimation, model averaging and dimension reduction. Composite estimation involves using a linear combination ...

Despite claims about religion reasserting itself in the political realm, conflicts about non-religious issues like immigration and law and order appear to have superseded conflicts about religious issues like sexual freedom, abortion, and women’s roles. It is for instance telling that despite their major disagreements, today’s new-leftist and new-rightist political parties agree that religion should be banned from politics. It is also telling ...

The major function of the heart is to continually pump blood through the circulatory system of the entire body to provide nutrients and oxygen whilst removing waste, hence careful regulation is essential. The pump function is driven by electrical signals (action potentials), which are caused as a result of opening and closing of ion channels across the membrane of cardiac myocytes. In mammalian ventricular myocytes the action potential ...