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Survey results in 15 European countries for almost 15,000 firms reveal that Belgian firms react more than the average European firm to adverse shocks by reducing permanent and temporary employment. On the basis of a firm-level analysis, this paper confirms that the different reaction to shocks...
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This paper investigates inter-industry wage differentials in Belgium, taking advantage of access to a unique matched …
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This paper documents producer price setting in 6 countries of the euro area: Germany, France, Italy, Spain, Belgium and …
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Using firm-level data for Belgium over the period 1997-2005, we evaluate the elasticity of firms' labor and real …
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) developed by Dickens and Goette (2006) and rely on a large administrative matched employer-employee data set for Belgium over …
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-product-destination exports for Belgium, we show that the particular resilience of services is explained by a significantly lower elasticity to …
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Many trade models of monopolistic competition identify cost efficiency as the main determinant of firm performance in export markets. To date, the analysis of demand factors has received much less attention. We propose a new model where consumer preferences are asymmetric across varieties and...
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Policy-making institutions such as the European Commission, the ECB and the OECD often use unit labor costs as a measure of international competitiveness. The goal of this paper is to examine how well this measure is related to international export performance at the firm level. To this end, we...
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Using a new survey of European households, we study how exogenous variation in the macroeconomic uncertainty perceived by households affects their spending decisions. We use randomized information treatments that provide different types of information about the first and/or second moments of...
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; it analyses the cross-border consumption behaviour of cross-border commuter households residing in Belgium, France and …
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