This paper proposed an adjusted “shared-input” version of the popular efficiency measurement technique Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) that enables evaluating municipality waste collection and processing performances in settings in which one input (waste costs) is shared among treatment...

Purpose of the paper. This paper investigates whether product line breadth, innovation and company size can be linked with export performance. The focus is on the relationship between export performance and firm performance, especially for family brewers in Belgium. Research method. A...

The New Math reform which swept Europe in the 1960’s was primarily instigated by the Commission Internationale pour l’Étude et l’Amélioration de l’Enseignement des Mathématiques. Since its foundation in 1952 the CIEAEM held annual meetings where mathematicians, logicians and...

This paper proposes a non-parametric methodology to construct composite scores of citizen satisfaction with local police corpses. More precisely, the paper advocates a custom made version of the popular Data Envelopment Analysis approach, also referred to as the ‘Benefit-of-the-Doubt’-model....

We examine the profitability of implementing a short term trading strategy based on predicting the error in analysts' earnings per share forecasts using publicly available information. In the 1998-2010 I/B/E/S data, the strategy of taking a long (short) position in stocks with the most...

In this paper we explore tentatively and formally the differences between bond and equity home bias and foreign bias based on one large scale dataset including developed and emerging markets for the period 2001 to 2010. We set the stage by tentatively and formally linking the diversion of bond...

This study investigates whether young unemployed graduates who accept a job below their level of education accelerate or delay the transition into a job that matches their level of education. We adopt the Timing of Events approach to identify this dynamic treatment effect using monthly calendar...

In case of a takeover, the acquiring firm has to choose whether to retain the acquired firm’s incumbent auditor or to switch to its own auditor. In the current paper, we explore the drivers of auditor switching by the acquired firm after a takeover among a sample of Belgian takeovers....

This paper uses a robust (order-m) Data Envelopment Analysis approach to evaluate the efficiency of Tour de France cycling teams for the period 2007- 2011. Since there are multiple ways in which this event can be successful for a cycling team, we take it that managers face strategic input...