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Importance et évolution des investissements directs en Belgique

Piette, Christophe - 2007

The aim of this study is to give an overview of recent developments in Belgium’s direct investment relations with the … rest of the world. The analysis is based mainly on two sets of statistics drawn up by the National Bank of Belgium, namely … investment carried out among Belgian companies, on the other. Foreign direct investment (FDI) flows between Belgium and the rest …

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Economic impact of port activity: a disaggregate analysis. The case of Antwerp

Coppens, F.; Lagneaux, F.; van Gastel, G.; Meersman, H.; … - 2007

The economic impact of the port sector is usually measured at an aggregate level by indicators such as value added, employment and investment. This paper tries to define the economic relevance for the regional as well as for the national economy at a disaggregate level. It attempts to identify,...

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Price setting in the euro area: some stylised facts from individual producer price data

Vermeulen, Philip; Dias, Daniel; Dossche, Maarten; … - 2007

This paper documents producer price setting in 6 countries of the euro area: Germany, France, Italy, Spain, Belgium and …

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Imports and Exports at the Level of the Firm: Evidence from Belgium

Muûls, Mirabelle; Pisu, Mauro - 2007

Belgium. Both imports and exports appear to be highly concentrated among few firms and seem to have become more so over time …

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Temporal Distribution of Price Changes: Staggering in the Large and Synchronization in the Small

Dhyne, Emmanuel; Konieczny, Jerzy - 2007

Temporal distribution of individual price changes is of crucial importance for business cycle theory and for the micro-foundations of price adjustment. While it is routinely assumed that price changes are staggered over time, both theory and evidence are ambiguous. We use a large Belgian data...

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Downward wage rigidity for different workers and firms: an evaluation for Belgium using the IWFP procedure

Du Caju, Philip; Fuss, Catherine; Wintr, Ladislav - 2007

in Belgium over the period 1990-2002. Our results show that Belgium is characterised by strong real wage rigidity and …

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Economic Importance of Belgian Transport Logistics

Lagneaux, Frédéric - 2008

This paper is a publication issued by the Microeconomic Analysis service of the National Bank of Belgium. This is the …

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How do firms adjust their wage bill in Belgium? A decomposition along the intensive and extensive margins

Fuss, Catherine - 2008

matched with firms' annual accounts for Belgium over the period 1997-2001. Results point to asymmetric behaviour depending on …

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Job creation, job destruction and firms’ international trade involvement

Pisu, Mauro - 2008

One of the most important predictions made in recent international trade literature based on heterogeneous firms concerns the within-industry job reallocation from firms not involved in international markets to those that are. This paper quantifies the extent of this reallocation using a dataset...

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Do survey indicators let us see the business cycle? A frequency decomposition

Dresse, Luc; Van Nieuwenhuyze, Christophe - 2008

methodology to the euro area countries (EC survey indicators) and to Belgium separately (NBB business survey indicators). The …

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