Projects
Study in the context of the week of the transfer of a business University of Antwerp
On the process and outcomes of more stringent transfer pricing documentation requirements for business Ghent University
This project investigates the more stringent transfer pricing documentation requirements for companies. Applying qualitative and quantitative methods, it is examined 1) how companies influence the standard-setting of these requirements; 2) to what extent companies face compliance cost when applying the rules; 3) how the requirements affect their firm value. These insights significantly contribute to the current debate for more tax ...
Access to finance for SMEs: young, growth-oriented companies andbusiness transfers. Ghent University
This project is intended to provide policy makers valuable input in their efforts to improve access to finance for SME's. Its main focus is therefore on two main processes: the financing of young, innovative, growth-oriented companies and financing business transfers. Objectives are twofold: gain insight into: (1) the manner in which companies funded during their initial growth phase and their transfer, and (2) how these financing strategies ...
HYDRAX: Design for innovative smart textile by flow-metric method to detect, characterize, and monitor thermal and mass transfers for firefighters, medical and sports and geotextile applications Ghent University
Elasta produces elastic and non-elastic narrow fabrics. Within that range of products they are constantly striving for new innovetions. In that context there have been several contacts with the Dept. of Textiles of Ghent University. Through this contact Elasta was acquainted with the search for a partner to manufactre a textile-based heat flux sensor. From natural phenomena to industrial applications, phase change plays an important role in ...
Unfinished business? Trajectories and global consequences of nationalizations in the copper industry in Latin America and Africa (1950-1980). Ghent University
This project examines nationalizations in the copper industry in Latin America and Africa in the 1960s-70s, which involved some of the largest business expropriations in modern history. While nationalizations have been understood primarily through state-centric perspectives and as a political outcome, this project maintains that nationalizations of industries have to be examined in relation to resource chains in which they were embedded. It ...
Systematic risk in long-term insurance business. KU Leuven
The classical approach to manage insurance risk consists in selling a sufficiently large number of policies. This strategy allows the insurer to reduce the variations of the claim payments per-policy around the corresponding theoretical mean. Nevertheless, the insurer remains exposed to a systematic risk which cannot be completely eliminated by increasing the portfolio size. The presence of this risk is essentially due to the fact that the ...
Why Greece is not Nevada - The Role of Risk-Sharing in Attenuating Business Cycles Within Currency Unions KU Leuven
When several European countries decided to adopt a common currency more than 25 years ago, many economists warned that the currency union would face severe problem because euro area countries lacked alternative mechanisms to smooth out country-specific business cycles. In contrast, the United States have developed mechanisms to cope with asymmetric fluctuations within their national boundaries, such as a high level of labor mobility, income ...