Im ersten Halbjahr 2000 setzte sich der wirtschaftliche Aufschwung fort. Das reale Bruttoinlandsprodukt dürfte um 3 3/4 % zugenommen haben, die Arbeitslosenquote im Jahresdurchschnitt auf 8,5 % gesunken sein. Die öffentlichen Haushalte waren annähernd ausgeglichen, und die Leistungsbilanz...

Die belgische Wirtschaft hat die westeuropäische Wachstumsflaute überraschend gut überstanden Das reale Bruttoinlandsprodukt expandierte 2003 um etwa 1%. Auf dem Arbeitsmarkt verschlechterte sich die Lage aber weiterhin, und die Arbeitslosenrate stieg im Jahresdurchschnitt auf 8¼% an. Die...

Keynesian economics dominated economic thought and macroeconomic policy-making in the 1950s and 1960s. However, the diffusion of Keynesian economics has been uneven. In this paper, we compare the spread of Keynesian economics in two continental European countries: Belgium and Italy. We focus on...

We quantify and explain the firm responses and worker impacts of foreign demand shocks to domestic production networks. To capture that firms can be indirectly exposed to such shocks by buying from or selling to domestic firms that import or export, we use Belgian data with information on both...

We use survey evidence on reported spending in hypothetical energy price shock scenarios to study novel features of the price elasticity of energy demand and the marginal propensity to consume (MPC) after paying the energy bill. We document several nonlinearities depending on the sign and...

R&D encompasses plenty of activities which are usually summarized under the terms of basic research, applied research and development. Although basic research is often associated with low appropriability it provides the fundamental basis for subsequent applied research and development....

The ability of firms to establish R&D collaborations that combine resources, exploit complementary know-how, and internalize R&D externalities has been shown to be of high importance for the successful creation and implementation of new knowledge. We argue in this article that collaborative R&D...