Projects
Home country effects of internationalization on market dynamics, firm level employment and total factor productivity in Europe Ghent University
We analyze the important channel of inter-industry effects of internationalization that the existing literatur has neglected. We consider two types of internationalization: offshoring (sourcing inputs from foreign suppliers) and outward foreign direct investment (relocation of production stages abroad to an affiliated entity). We analyze the impact of inter-industry effectsz of inernationalization on home country firms' i) employment, ii) ...
Marine ecosystem productivity in a gradient of toxic stress and the implications for higher trophic levels Ghent University
In this PhD research, I want to examin to what extend persisten organic pollutants (POPs) affect primary production in the North Sea, relative to the effects of temperature and nutrients. Also, the implications of such effects for seabirds, i.e. a model for higher trophic level species, will be examined.
Measuring and explaining the productivity premium of family firms Hasselt University
From mass noun to count noun in French and Dutch. A contrastive corpus-based study on the nature and productivity of coercion Ghent University
This project proposes a detailed corpusbased contrastive analysis (French vs.Dutch) of a case of coercion, viz. the occasional use of mass nouns in constructions typical of count nouns, including also a limited experimental psycholinguistic verification. Besides the descriptive question (frequency, semantic effetcs, conditions/restrictions), the project addresses the question of the nature and relevance of coercion as a theoretical ...
Crop water productivity and its modeling as a decision support tool for improved agricultural water management. KU Leuven
The influence of nutrients, productivity and climate change on colonisation in subarctic plant communities. University of Antwerp
The Hierarchical lexicon: a contrastive study of productivitiy and schematicity in Nominal Compounds in German, Dutch and Swedish Ghent University
The project investigates the productivity and schematicity of nominal the compounds in German, Ductch and Swedish. Lexicological and Corpus-linguistic data are used to document convergences and divergences and to draw conclusions with regard to morphologica! theory (with special reference to the theory of the 'hierarchiecal lexicon' in construction morphology), the Germanic languages, and contrastive linguistics.
Imperfect markets, the financial crisis and measuring productivity: a micro-econometric analysis Hasselt University
Evaluation of the potentional of native microbial inoculants (Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi and Trichoderma spp.) for control of the yam nemathodes and an omproved soil fertility, yam pruductivity and strobility. Ghent University
This study investigates the diversity of yam nemathodes and their interaction with yam an important staple food in West-Africa. Yam cultivars will be screened for resistance to nematodes. An in virto an in situ approach will reveal the potentails of Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi and trichoderma spp. to control nemathodes, promote yam growth, and improve yam storability.