This paper analyses the widespread difference in COVID-19 vaccination and Non-Pharmaceutical interventions (NPI) acceptance by the European population and finds that this difference can be clustered in nine archetype clusters. Calibrating a SIR model with control acceptance on COVID-19...

We estimate a reduced form of employment at the COVID time through a simple labor market equilibrium that accounts for workers possibly fearing work on-site (FOG) and for firms’ strategies such as work from home (WFH). Employment estimates on the French market demonstrate that work allocation...

This paper aims to assess the effect of competition on firm-level innovation. The sample comprises the world's top corporate R&D spenders over the period 2007 to 2016. We use an industry-year indicator, the inverse of the Lerner Index, to measure the competition level. R&D expenditures are used...

Despite promising announcements on an effective vaccine, the control of the COVID-19 pandemic is critically dependent on the maximal compliance of citizens to a set of non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPI for short). We use statistical clustering to partition European citizens with regards to...

This paper aims at assessing the relationship between the possible existence of financial constraints and the decisions of Belgian private firms as regards their investments in both capital and R&D investments over the last decade. The main system GMM estimates from the error-correction...