Compte tenu du risque d’affaiblissement de la croissance potentielle et de la mobilisation déjà très forte des politiques conjoncturelles après la crise financière, les politiques structurelles susceptibles de dynamiser la croissance sont au centre des débats de politique économique.

This Working Paper gives an overall picture of the horeca industry in Belgium. The study focuses in particular on aspects of business demography, the importance of the sector for the Belgian economy, its development since the mid‐nineties and the financial health of horeca companies. Since the...

This paper takes stock of the forces that lie behind the recent rise of preferential agreements in services trade. Its initial focus is with a number of distinguishing features of services trade that sets it apart from trade in goods and shapes trade liberalization and rule-making approaches in...

In view of the risk of a slowdown in potential growth and the already extensive implementation of monetary and fiscal stabilisation policies following the financial crisis, the structural policies that are likely to boost growth are at the heart of economic policy debates.

Changes in exchange rates have become a prominent issue in Germany and Japan - due to the enormous appreciation of the Deutschmark and the Yen. Conventional wisdom suggests that economic activity will be negatively affected if a currency is going through a phase of appreciation. The paper...

In the new policy regime, the regionalization of economic activities has taken place at a pace ever than before. The new regime is characterized by an interesting dichotomy, i.e., free global mobility of capital coupled with restricted mobility of labour. This dichotomous behaviour, with...

The crucial importance of mountain regions for the cohesion policies is underlined by key Romanian and European Union documents. However, the lack of a unique definition or criteria used to delineate and analyze them constitutes a barrier to the elaboration of development strategies. This study...

This paper provides an overview over a way of integrating R with PHP scripting language in order to analyze statistical data (time series).We analyze the relationship between the foreign direct investments and GDP of the Republic of Moldova over 1992-2012 time period.

Analyzing and working with big data could be very difficult using classical means like relational database management systems or desktop software packages for statistics and visualization. Instead, big data requires large clusters with hundreds or even thousands of computing nodes. Official...