How do banks react to increased interbank competition? Recent banking theory offers conflicting predictions about the … impact of competition on bank orientation - i.e., the choice of relationship based versus transactional banking - and bank … industry specialization. We empirically investigate the impact of interbank competition on bank branch orientation and …

first confirm previous findings for Belgium suggesting that municipalities interact with each other over the two main local … relevant for today Belgium and might be viewed as a contribution to the ongoing debate on the regionalisation or partial … decentralization of some taxes. -- Tax interactions ; panel data ; spatial econometrics ; local tax rates ; tax competition ; yardstick …

by relaxing it for temporary jobs. These countries are Belgium, Denmark, Germany, Greece, Italy, the Netherlands …