Projects
Essays on the impact of corporate taxation on firm outcomes. KU Leuven
This thesis consists of three distinct studies (chapters 1-3) that all focus on tax planning and how it impacts firm outcomes.
Chapter 1:
We investigate whether firm’s performance is influenced by the employment of top executives who exert a significant effect on their firm’s effective tax rate. Research by Dyreng et al. (2010) provides evidence of the magnitude of top executives’ effect on their firm’s ETR, and calls for research ...
Sabbatical Bart Leten: KU Leuven
The sabbatical period will be used to delve into three new lines of research within the domains of business strategy and innovation management. A first line of research focuses on designing technology license agreements and studying digital technology markets. The central question here is which factors (technology and business characteristics) influence the design of license agreements and how the design choices affect the financial and ...
Why do companies (not) report on Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR)? Ghent University
The objective of this research is to investigate why companies do or do not report on corporate social responsibility (CSR). Companies are not enforced by law to inform the general public on CSR topics, such as actions taken to preserve the environment or programs established to improve the health and safety of employees.
The palaeodemographic and palaeopathological study of the St.Rombout's cemetery, Mechelen KU Leuven
Contextual archaeo-anthropological studies – whereby skeletal and archaeological analyses are treated as one whole – are still uncommon. The detailed study of a sub-sample of 400 individuals from the excavation of St. Rombout’s cemetery in Mechelen, Belgium (10th-18th centuries AD) nevertheless demonstrates its enormous potential. A macroscopic study of mortality patterns and age and sex composition (palaeodemography) and the investigation of ...