Shock Cities search menu search content Shock Cities Food Prices and Access to Food during the Age of Shocks (1300-1400) Shock Cities. Food Prices and Access to Food in Flemish Cities during the Age of Shocks (1300-1400) Focussing on the economic history of late medieval Flanders, this project studi…

Shock Cities search menu search content Conference presentations Conferences Below are the conferences on which the PhD-researcher has been admitted as speaker (chronologically listed). The presentation that is added has been used in the conference. For every presentation a working paper has been dr…

Nada Rostom doctoral scholarship holder Research Nada Rostom Research team Development processes, actors and policies Shocks, and coping strategies in refugee contexts 01/01/2023 - 31/12/2026 Abstract The research will assess the impact of shocks (including climate change) on coping strategies and l…

Shock Cities search menu search content Publications Access to all the listed publications can be checked on the repository of the University of Antwerp. Monograph S. Espeel, Prices and crises. The grain economy in fourteenth-century Flanders - Forthcoming with the Éditions of the Académie Royale …

Applied Economic Sciences: Economic Policy Master's Thesis Economic Policy student Aleksandar wrote his Thesis about private debt and the effects of stabilization policy Master's Thesis Economic Policy student Aleksandar wrote his Thesis about private debt and the effects of stabilization policy The…

Shock Cities search menu search content Dissertation Abstract Prices and Crises. The Grain Economy in Fourteenth-Century Flanders. This dissertation focuses on the occurrence of food shocks by investigating both the frequency and intensity of price shocks on the grain market in fourteenth-century Fl…

Felipe Bedoya Maya senior researcher - academic interim staff postdoc Research Felipe Bedoya Maya Research team Transport and Regional Economics Inland waterway transport resilience to disruptions: Evidence from the Rhine Alpine Corridor. 15/07/2025 - 14/07/2026 Abstract Inland waterway transport (I…

Transport and Regional Economics search menu search content BNPPF leerstoel connects We sincerely hope that you are doing well and gladly invite you on Tuesday, June 21st at 15h00 to our BNP Paribas Fortis Chair Connects, because we finally can connect again! BNP Paribas Fortis Chair Connects is a l…

Guido Erreygers emeritus with assignment Research Guido Erreygers Research team Economics Expertise I do research about history of economic thought, socioeconomic inequality of health, and linear production systems. Task complexity, framing effects and post-hoc individual-level model analysis in dis…

Chair of Crisis Governance search menu search content Antwerp Crisis Conversations Our lecture series on “Antwerp Crisis Conversations” explores and addresses the challenges we face in an era where organizations' environments are marked by increasingly complex crises, transcending traditional bo…

Stef Espeel postdoc researcher FWO Research Stef Espeel Research team Centre for Urban History Expertise In my recently defended doctoral thesis, I studied the evolution of grain prices, the outbreak of famines and the position of large ecclesiastical landlords on the grain market in 14th-century Fl…

Elsa Leromain tenure track asst. professor About Elsa Leromain Elsa Leromain Contact Stadscampus Show email address Prinsstraat 13 2000 Antwerpen, BEL Elsa Leromain is an Assistant Professor at the University of Antwerp since September 2022 and an Associate Researcher at the Centre for Economic Perf…

Business and Economics Profcast 🎧 Introducing: the FBE-professors and their expertise! Profcast 🎧 Introducing: the FBE-professors and their expertise! In our podcast-series 'Profcast', we chat with professors from the Faculty of Business and Economics about their research and expertise. You ca…

Environmental and Rural History of Urbanized Societies search menu search content Environmental and Rural History of Urbanized Societies Research on the interaction between Environment and Society, from the Middle Ages to the present About ‘Environmental and Rural History of Urbanized Societies’…

Ines Homburg predoc researcher FWO Publications Ines Homburg Essays on migration, policy shocks, and the labour market Source Antwerp, University of Antwerp, Faculty of Business and Economics, 2026,xii, 216 p. Author(s) Ines Homburg, Sunčica Vujić, Joanna Clifton-Sprigg Citation link Refugee expos…

Stef Espeel postdoc researcher FWO Publications Stef Espeel Clothing coffins. New evidence on epidemic and crisis mortality in late-medieval Douai (1340-1500) Source TSEG : tijdschrift voor sociale en economische geschiedenis - ISSN 1572-1701-23:2 (2026) p. 37-74 Author(s) Stef Espeel Citation link …

Maja Mielke unpaid staff Publications Maja Mielke Beyond mammals : the evolution of chewing and other forms of oropharyngeal food processing in vertebrates Source Biological reviews - ISSN 1464-7931-101:3 (2026) p. 1406-1462 Author(s) Daniel Schwarz, Maja Mielke, Stephan Handschuh, Anthony Herrel, P…

Sam Vermeulen unpaid staff Publications Sam Vermeulen The hydrological restoration potential of small landscape depressions in the Nete catchment in Belgium : an ecosystem services-based approach Source Ecological engineering: the journal of ecotechnology - ISSN 0925-8574-226 (2026) p. 1-11 Author(s…

Sunčica Vujić professor Publications Sunčica Vujić The Size and Support for the State Pension Scheme along the Bismarckian-Beveridgean Spectrum: Experimental Evidence from the UK Source Zenodo, 2026, Author(s) Ernesto Anguita Roldán, Nick Deschacht, Sunčica Vujić Citation link Essays on migra…

Rogier van Kooten senior researcher Research Rogier van Kooten Research team Centre for Urban History Expertise Between 2016 and 2021 I have been working on the GIStorical Antwerp project. My research was about better understanding the impact of shocks (e.g. wars, epidemics and famines) on social an…

Sterre Goovaerts doctoral scholarship holder Research Sterre Goovaerts Research team Economics Spatial Dimensions of Household Decision-Making: A Nonparametric Approach 01/05/2026 - 30/04/2030 Abstract This research integrates household and spatial economics to examine how partner, labor, housing, a…

Björn Mestdagh unpaid staff Publications Björn Mestdagh Exploring employee perceptions and attitudinal responses to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) : a robust methodological approach amidst missing value prevalence Source Business strategy and development - ISSN 2572-3170-8:2 (2025) p. 1-…

Wouter Van de Moer predoc researcher FWO Research Wouter Van de Moer Research team Herman Deleeck Centre for Social Policy The dynamics of cumulative inequalities: a multidimensional perspective on ageing. 01/11/2025 - 31/10/2029 Abstract This PhD research proposal aims to address critical gaps in t…

Antwerp Interdisciplinary Platform for Research into Inequality search menu search content AIPRIL seminar series 23 April 2021 Walter Scheidel - Inequality and the endless dance of technology and power Topic In the third talk of our spring 2021 seminar series, Walter Scheidel (Stanford University, U…

Olivier Sterck associate research professor Research Olivier Sterck Research team Development processes, actors and policies Expertise My research is multidisciplinary in scope, building bridges between development economics, refugee studies, and quantitative methods. My research uses impact evaluat…