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Analysis of business demography using markov chains : an application to Belgian data
Coppens, François; Verduyn, Fabienne - 2009
This paper applies the theory of finite Markov chains to analyse the demographic evolution of Belgian enterprises. While other methodologies concentrate on the entry and exit of firms, the Markov approach also analyses migrations between economic sectors. Besides helping to provide a fuller...
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Economic importance of the Belgian maritime and inland ports ; 2020
Rubbrecht, Ilse - 2022
In 2020, Belgian ports generated € 31.8 billion in direct and indirect value added (7% of Belgian GDP) and employed 254 611 full-time equivalents (FTEs) either directly or indirectly (5.9% of Belgian domestic employment including the self-employed). Despite the COVID-19 outbreak, direct...
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Economic importance of the Belgian maritime and inland ports ; 2019
Rubbrecht, Ilse; Dhyne, Emmanuel; Duprez, Cédric - 2021
The main purpose of this Working Paper is providing an overview of the economic importance of the Flemish maritime ports, the Liège port complex and the port of Brussels over the period 2014-2019 in terms of value added, employment and investment based on annual account figures. In 2019,...
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Economic importance of the Belgian maritime and inland ports ; 2018
Rubbrecht, Ilse; Burggraeve, Koen - 2020
This Working Paper provides an extensive overview of the economic importance and development of the Flemish maritime ports, the Liège port complex and the port of Brussels for the period 2013 - 2018 in terms of value added, employment and investment. Each of these ports play a major role in...
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The Belgian production network 2002-2012
Dhyne, Emmanuel; Magerman, Glenn; Rubínova, Stela - 2015
This paper presents the Belgian inter-firm network for the years 2002 to 2012. Combining raw data from VAT listings, VAT declarations and annual accounts information, we build a unique and consistent database containing values of transactions between enterprises in the Belgian economy. The...
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Searching for additional sources of inflation persistence : the micro-price panel data approach
Raciborski, Rafal - 2008
It is often argued that the baseline New-Keynesian model, which relies solely on the notion of infrequent price adjustment, cannot account for the observed degree of inflation sluggishness. Therefore it is a common practice among macro modellers to introduce an ad hoc additional source of...
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Concording EU trade and production data over time
Van Beveren, Ilke; Bernard, Andrew B.; Vandenbussche, Hylke - 2012
This paper provides concordance procedures for product-level trade and production data in the EU and examines the implications of changing product classifications on measured product adding and dropping at Belgian firms. Using the algorithms developed by Pierce and Schott (2012a, 2012b), the...
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Lumpy price adjustments : a microeconometric analysis
Dhyne, Emmanuel; Fuss, Catherine; Pesaran, M. Hashem; … - 2006
This paper presents a simple model of state-dependent pricing that allows identifying the relative importance of both nominal and real factors in price rigidity. Using two rich datasets consisting of a large fraction of the price quotes used to compute the Belgian and French Consumer Price...
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The economic importance of the Belgian ports ; 2017
Gueli, Elena; Ringoot, Pascal; Van Kerckhoven, Marc - 2019
ports rose by 7.3% from € 18 052 million to € 19 368 million (current prices) or roughly 4.4% of Belgium's GDP. All ports …-time equivalent jobs rose by 0.8%, from 115 401 to 116 311 or approximately 2.8% of Belgium's total domestic employment. All ports … Antwerp. As a supplier to both China and the United States, Belgium is indirectly involved in trade between the two countries …
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The Belgian business-to-business transactions dataset 2002-2021
Dhyne, Emmanuel; Duprez, Cédric; Komatsu, Toshiaki - 2023
comprehensive and cohesive database detailing the values of transactions between non-financial corporations in Belgium. This …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014416200