I am a phd candidate in Economics at Ghent University and work empirically with a large dataset containing all publicly listed firms in the world on corporate financialization and firm behaviour. As I have a background in both political sciences and economics, I try to approach these topics from different perspectives and to contrast and combine insights as well as methods from these very different fields.
However, I am interested in a lot of academic subjects (e.g. labour power, industrial organization) and societal issues (e.g. inequalities and climate change). I love conducting research (most of the time) that is relevant to society, as well as communicating research to the broader public and advocating for societal change. Research does not, can not, and should not happen in a societal void. Therefore, I - with a friend - had some side research projects, such as, for example, retrieving Belgian historical income tax rates from archives and simulating their potential current effects.
Anyway, if you would like to work on fun stuff together, have a question or suggestion about my research or just want to discuss some interesting ideas, do not hesitate to reach out !
Interests: financialization, political economy, corporate governance, shareholder power, industrial organization, empirical methods, data analysis and data visualization in R, inequalities, taxation, macroeconomics, history of economics, … love it all!
Research I am currently working on
Title: When shareholder power kicks in: Corporate financialization as ratchet behaviour and sticky payouts
Now out in Socio-Economic Review!Title: An empirical deconstruction of payout ratios and a world view on corporate financialization: measurement determines results Under review at New Political Econmy
The consequences for investments
Do markups matter for financialization?
Labour as succesful counterveiling power or as battered stakeholder?
