In this paper, I assume the existence of distribution of urbanamenities having its maximum at the city center. These amenities are viewed as a surrogate for all kinds of outside opportunities taht consumers encounter within urban areas. Using the Hotelling model, I study the impact of these...

This Working Paper is aimed at describing the current version of Federal Planning Bureau's medium-term macrosectoral model, named HERMES. This model is used to produce on a regular basis medium-term outlooks for the Belgian economy. In addition to the main macroeconomic aggregates (GDP, private...

We study the link between economic structure and growth in the 43 Belgian ?arrondissements? between 1991 and 1997. We find empirical evidence that local economic structure has a significant impact on the local growth of the service sector as a whole. Sectoral specialization and competition would...

In this paper, we assume the existence of a distribution of urban amenities having its maximum at the city center. These amenities are viewed as a surrogate for all kinds of opportunities, economic, social, cultural, that consumers encounter within urban areas. Using the Hotelling model, we...

Ce rapport de recherche a pour objet l’étude du coût budgétaire attendu et des effets économiques probables d’un programme ambitieux d’allocations-loyers en Région de Bruxelles-Capitale (RBC) selon 3 scénarios :(1) allocations-loyers versées à 5000 ménages demandeurs de logements...