DemoTrans Project

DemoTrans is an impact driven research project that provides policy recommendations with a focus on democratic governance, accountability & transparency

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🌍 Final @DemoTrans Conference–Democracy, Globalisation & the Economy
📅 7–8 May 2026 | #Leuven, #Belgium, #KULeuven

🗓️ Abstract deadline: 15 Feb 2026

🔗 Submit here: https://t.co/clS2he540M

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🎧 New Episode @DemoTrans Podcast Series!

📌Ep. #16: Regional Representation in the European Parliament – What Do MEPs Ask About?

🔉Listen to the podcast here: https://t.co/X5aZ7mxYao

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🎧New Episode @DemoTrans Podcast Series!

Ep #15: Can Public Procurement Drive Sustainability?

🎙Listen to the #podcast here: https://t.co/z886SxgfBS

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🎧 New Episode @DemoTrans #Podcast Series!!!

📌Ep #14: Shallow and Uneven Progress Toward Global Financial Transparency

Listen to the #podcast on @Spotify: https://t.co/r3vt0wnSwl

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🚨Happy to share that our @DemoTrans colleague T.Balbach (w/J.Grandia) organizes a panel on gov't contracting, #publicprocurement & grantmaking at the upcoming #NIG2026 Conference (P23).
📅5–6/2/26
📍 @IOPGI_KULeuven
🗓️ Abstracts 15/10/25

https://t.co/HR1EiqFiBx

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🎧New @DemoTrans Podcast Episode – Out Now!

📌Ep.#13: What Multinational Corporations Actually Pay in Taxes

Listen the podcast here: https://t.co/PllQZDdYjv

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🎧 We're back...and so is the #DemoTrans Podcast Series!

📊This episode dives into the distributional consequences of multinational profit shifting.

🎙https://t.co/2DOrEUsA1d

📃Pol.Brief: https://t.co/ScdlXTC9ye

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📌 Did you miss this?

🔒What happens when financial secrecy rules tighten? Investors play hide-and-seek.

P.Janský,T.Palanská,M.Palanský examine how investors respond to increased financial transparency using a novel dataset covering 2011–2019.

📄https://t.co/S1SZV8T6QZ

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📌 Did you miss this?💼 Do politicians really benefit financially from holding office or is there a hidden cost?
B.Geys & R.J.Sørensen challenge the popular belief that political careers always come with financial rewards.

Full paper: https://t.co/VXKuEF4qfl

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📌 Did you miss this?💼Can bureaucratic elites change their political stripes to survive political turnover?

B.Geys, P.Lægreid, Z.Murdoch, S.W.Yackee challenge the widely held view that partisan identification among top bureaucrats is fixed.

Full paper: https://t.co/Ik9X3DsWdZ

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📌 Did you miss this publication: "EU-induced financialisation and its impact on the Greek wage share, 1999–2021", by G.Gouzoulis, P.Iliopoulos,G.Galanis, exploring the long-term structural impacts of Eurozone integration on the income share of🇬🇷workers.

https://t.co/r8G1gCwZ0b

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📢 Publication Spotlight #DemoTrans

What impact has corporate transparency had on tax avoidance? T.Tuinsma, K. De Witte, P.Janský, M.Palanský, V.Titl examine how a major international tax policy reform is reshaping corporate behavior.

🔗https://t.co/TRes26s8Fr

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Our @DemoTrans team: @UniUtrecht,@USE_UU,@UUCopernicus,@IOPGI_KULeuven,@KU_Leuven,@LeuvenEconomics,@UiB,@corptax_prague,@CharlesUniPRG,@TaxJusticeNet,@REA_research!

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📌 Did you miss our article "The Cost of Favoritism in Public Procurement", by B. Baránek & @vtitl ?

This study explores whether political connections in public contracting help or hurt the public sector.

Read the full article👉https://t.co/BlQDZO1iLA

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Our @DemoTrans team: @UniUtrecht,@USE_UU,@UUCopernicus,@IOPGI_KULeuven,@KU_Leuven,@LeuvenEconomics,@UiB,@corptax_prague,@CharlesUniPRG,@TaxJusticeNet,@REA_research!

Website: https://t.co/Ink3SgqeI4

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🆕 New Publication from #DemoTrans!

How do bureaucrats strategically manage time in the policymaking process?

Vibeke Kroken, Zuzana Murdoch, and Benny Geys examine when and why public administrators choose to slow down or speed up decision-making

🔗https://t.co/aeBUhh3x72

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🆕#DemoTrans #podcast episode🎙️

🏙️What happens to citizen satisfaction as municipalities grow?

🎧Listen to ep.11, based on the work of Ø.Bogen, Z.Murdoch & B.Geys, to find out more:

https://t.co/t6Kd8nzPX6

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📺 How much influence do consulting corporations have over governments?

Don’t miss this insightful @DeutscheWelle documentary from the #BusinessBeyond series featuring contributions from our partner Steven Van de Walle.

https://t.co/onjPJSRitP

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🚨🌎The world’s biggest suppliers of financial secrecy:

1 United States
2 Switzerland
3 Singapore
4 Hong Kong
5 Luxembourg
6 Germany
7 Netherlands
8 South Korea
9 Guernsey
10 Japan

The top suppliers are shifting towards autocracy, #FSI2025 reveals. https://t.co/ELDBAX0o32

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Policy Brief: https://t.co/hORzxdiNBs

Our @DemoTrans team: @UniUtrecht,@USE_UU,@UUCopernicus,@IOPGI_KULeuven,@KU_Leuven,@LeuvenEconomics,@UiB,@corptax_prague,@CharlesUniPRG,@TaxJusticeNet,@REA_research!

Website: https://t.co/UeR7uOq09r

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🚨New @DemoTrans #Podcast (Episode #10)

🎧In this #podcast we welcome R.Nicolas, @vtitl, and @FredoSchotanus's research on how the🇪🇺Structural & Investment Funds (#ESIF) influences the adoption of #GreenPublicProcurement!

▶https://t.co/kQQGY5317W

Full Policy Brief🔽