Family businesses are an important part of the world economy (Anderson and Reeb, 2003) and show significant differences in their corporate governance compared to non-family firms. Although displaying evident unique features, family firms have received relatively little attention as distinct from...

This paper provides new empirical evidence about the relationship that may exist between real exchange rates and commodity prices in developing countries that are specialized in the export of a main primary commodity. It investigates how structural factors like the exchange rate regime, the...

Commodity currency literature recently stressed the importance of commodity prices as a determinant of real exchange rates in developing countries (Cashin, Cespedes and Sahay 2004). We provide new empirical evidence on this issue by focusing on countries which are specialized in the export of...

Commodity currency literature recently stressed the importance of commodity prices as a determinant of real exchange rates in developing countries (Cashin, Cespedes and Sahay 2004). We provide new empirical evidence on this issue by focusing on countries which are specialized in the ex-port of...

Les conditions conjoncturelles se sont nettement améliorées en Belgique durant la seconde partie de 2010. Dans l’industrie et les services, l’activité s’est raffermie et les entrepreneurs estiment à l’heure actuelle que le climat des affaires est redevenu très favorable. De leur...

L’économie belge a progressé à un rythme particulièrement soutenu au 1er trimestre. En dépit d’une incertitude élevée, suscitée notamment par la remontée des prix pétroliers et la crise de la dette souveraine dans la zone euro, les perspectives économiques pour le reste de...

Les hésitations de la reprise économique mondiale, l’aggravation de la crise de la dette souveraine en Europe, les risques d’une nouvelle crise financière et les difficultés budgétaires de nombreux pays avancés ont fortement entamé la confiance des agents économiques de par le monde...

In this paper, we develop a bivariate two factor-two country GARCH model of stock returns in order to investigate whether exchange rate fluctuations have a significant impact on the conditional mean, variance, and correlation of industry stock returns. Weekly data for seven industries in five...

Economic theory considers economic growth and wage costs as crucial determinants in the process of job creation. In this paper, we try to quantify the relationship that exists between these variables in Belgium. Our objective being mainly the use of the empirical model for forecasting purposes,...

While most of the literature on the determination of real exchange rates is focused on the role of standard macroeconomic variables, there exists however a few papers that are more concerned by the impact of factors which are usually considered to play a key role in the process of economic...