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…

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 …

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…

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 doctoral scholarship holder 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 (IWT) offers substantial …

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…

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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…

Sam Vermeulen unpaid staff Publications Sam Vermeulen Down to the last drop : economic insights into drought mitigation in agriculture Source Antwerp, University of Antwerp, Faculty of Science,241 p. Author(s) Sam Vermeulen, Steven Van Passel, Jan Cools Citation link Economic effects of drought on a…

Stef Espeel postdoc researcher FWO Publications Stef Espeel Prices and crises. The grain economy in fourteenth-century Flanders Source Brussel, Académie royale de Belgique, 2025,332 p. Author(s) Stef Espeel Citation link Plague and hunger : epidemic-induced pressures on household purchasing power i…

Maja Mielke unpaid staff Publications Maja Mielke Why woodpeckers don’t get concussions Source Physics today - ISSN 0031-9228-77:1 (2024) p. 54-55 Author(s) Sam Van Wassenbergh, Maja Mielke Citation link Woodpeckers minimize cranial absorption of shocks Source Current biology - ISSN 0960-9822-32:1…

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’…

Charlotte Fabri senior researcher Publications Charlotte Fabri Model to simulate the future cost of climate change for humanitarian aid (Replication Package) Source Zenodo, 2025, Author(s) Juha-Pekka Jäpölä, Anna Berlin, Charlotte Fabri, Arthur Hrast Essenfelder, Sepehr Marzi Citation link Compar…

Elie Lunanga unpaid staff Publications Elie Lunanga From demand deficit to development strategy : navigating mini-grid viability in a fragile context Source Antwerp, Institute of Development Policy, University of Antwerp, 2025,42 p. Author(s) Elie Lunanga, Nik Stoop, Marijke Verpoorten, Sébastien D…

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…

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-…

Antwerp Centre of Evolutionary Demography search menu search content Full Paper Presentations 2010 - ACED F.P.P. 2010 T.b.a. = To be announced The location refers to a specific building and room at the Stadscampus. Date Time Location Speaker Title 27/01/2010 13.00h Z.006 Christophe Boone (University…

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 Aim of AIPRIL Objectives The interdisciplinary consortium AIPRIL is a Centre of Excellence at the University of Antwerp. Within a wide and rapidly evolving field of research, it seeks to advance inequality res…

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…