The Health Concentration Index is a frequently used indicator for the measurement of the socioeconomic inequality of health. This note starts from a discussion of some of the weaknesses of this index. It then presents two possible alternative measures. The first is an adaptation of the...

In this paper, we try to show that, apart from the negative impact of the Champions League, the growing gap between the Big 5 football countries in Europe and the smaller countries is caused by the deregulation of the European player labour market without deregulating the European football...

Split-plot and other multi-stratum structures are widely used in factorial and response surface experiments and residual maximum likelihood (REML) and generalized least squares (GLS) estimation is seen as the state-of-the-art method of data analysis for nonorthogonal designs. We analyze data...

This paper considers the effects of central bank independence, labor market institutions and the political partisanship on economic performance. In particular, we test if the partisanship of the government and the degree of central bank independence affect the relationship between labor market...

This paper describes the adaptation and learning process of writers who have started using speech recognition systems for writing business texts. To gather the process data for this study we have chosen complementary research methods. First the participants were asked to fill in a questionnaire,...

Holding companies, which play an important role in corporate finance in Belgium and in other Continental European countries, often trade at a discount to their estimated net asset value (NAV). First, we discuss possible explanations for this discount: holding company destroys value, NAV...

This paper examines the impact of store format on the benefits that retailers can obtain from micromarketing strategies. Retail chains adopting a micromarketing strategy, tailor their marketing mix to the characteristics of the local market in which each store outlet operates. The present...

For more than three decades, microeconomists have been studying the conditions under which product bundling is a remunerative sales strategy. Only recently, bundling aroused the interest of marketing academics. Until now, no serious attempts have been made to integrate the existing research...

OBJECTIVES: New drugs with extended release formulations are being developed to treat patients with ADHD. While currently available drugs need to be administered two or three times daily, the new medication offers the prospect of a once-daily administration with a more consistent working profile...

Ford et al. (1998) argue that strategy development in one company cannot be undertaken in today’s highly competitive business markets in isolation of others. Given the characteristics of business markets such as heterogeneity, co-evolution and interdependencies, (marketing)strategies will...