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This report analyses the exposure of business services industry to foreign competition, either through trade or through foreign direct investment. Internationalisation of the Dutch business services industry is compared to the situation in the USA and a number of EU countries. Read also the...
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Tight oligopolies are oligopolies the market characteristics of which facilitate the realisation of supranormal profits for a substantial period of time. We entangle the link between market structure and the possibility of welfare reducing behaviour by firms. A useful distinction can be made...
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This Working Paper gives an overall picture of the horeca industry in Belgium. The study focuses in particular on aspects of business demography, the importance of the sector for the Belgian economy, its development since the mid‐nineties and the financial health of horeca companies. Since the...
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-practice knowledge and innovations throughout the economy. Remarkably, the BS industry has itself a very poor record of productivity … openness to foreign competition. The main weaknesses relate to meagre innovation efforts and a stagnating labour productivity … relate to: strengthening the BS industry's own productivity development; achieving more market transparency; getting more …
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Dutch Abstract: Nederlandse toezichthouders worstelen met hun missie. De Nederlandse samenleving lijkt tegenwoordig meer van hen te verwachten dan ‘enkel' handhaven, maar ruimere taakopvattingen brengen net zo goed spanningsvelden met zich. Deze spanningsvelden zijn bij uitstek zichtbaar bij...
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