Welcome to my personal webpage. I am a Professor of Economics at the Department of Economics at Ghent University in Belgium.

My field of interest is Applied Economics, especially topics concerning Firm Performance, Foreign Direct Investment, and Regional Economics.                            

View drafts of my current research papers here. Find my publications here.

Latest

• • Financial Crises and the Global Supply Network: Evidence from Multinational Enterprises (with S. Basco, G. Felice and M. Mestieri), NBER WP31216 and CEPR DP18163 conditionally accepted at Journal of International Economics

  • Gains From Trade: Demand, Supply and Idiosyncratic Uncertainty (with R. Dewitte and G. Rayp) forthcoming at Journal of Applied Econometrics

  • The Margins of Ownership Structures - Insights from 150,000 networks over 25 years (with A. Theodorakopoulos)  (redrafting, mail me for a copy) 

Recent papers

• • Regional integration and cross-border FDI spillovers (with V. Purice) - Coverage at voxEU

  • Intangibles within firm boundaries (with A. Theodorakopoulos)

  • Within-firm Pay Inequality and State Ownership (with B. De Lange) 

  • Technology sharing in decentralized business group (with S. Nasini and M. Verschelde)

Recent publications

• • Productivity Effects of Internationalisation Through the Domestic Supply Chain (with A. Theodorakopoulos) published at Journal of Applied Econometrics vol. 36(6)- VoxEU contribution

  • The productivity impact of R&D and FDI spillovers: Characterising regional path development (with A. Spithoven) published at The Journal of Technology Transfer

  • Does a TaxDeduction Scheme Matter for Jobs and Investment by Multinational and Domestic Enterprises? (with J. Konings and C. Lecocq) published at Canadian Journal of Economics - VoxEU contribution