represented 83 percent of the world's population and 91 percent of the world's GDP in 2013. It addresses the following five … setting trade policy? Finally, how liberalized is world trade? The analysis documents the extent of cross … concludes that substantial trade policy barriers remain as an important feature of the world economy …

countries (namely Belgium, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal and Spain compared with Latvia, Lithuania, the Czech … countries. It is relatively small in Norway and Belgium, large in the Netherlands, Italy, Spain, Poland and the Czech Republic …

national teams: Belgium, Brazil, England, Germany, Italy and the Netherlands. We analyze qualifying matches for the European … Championship and World Cup and the matches at the final tournaments of these two events, the Copa America and the Confederations …

tax morale within three multicultural European countries, Switzerland, Belgium and Spain, a choice that allows far more … detailed examination of the impact of culture and institutions using datasets from the World Values Survey and the European …

can be seen from high shares of self-employed and part-timers, as well as temporary workers. Finally, Belgium has large …

) higher overall pay inequality in Germany; (II) higher pay inequalities between employees and workers in Belgium; and (III … institutional details: although Germany and Belgium belong to the same "variety of capitalism", we provide evidence that small …

In a series of experiments conducted in Belgium (Wallonia and Flanders), France and the Netherlands, we compare …

authors of this paper use unique linked employer-employee data from a 2003 survey in Belgium to examine how these bargaining …