Bedrijfs­wetenschappen en Economie

Working Papers

1999-current

Working Papers 2024

2024/001
MENTENS, Lander, Adriaan HERREMANS, Johan BRAET & Johan SPRINGAEL: "Navigating uncertainties for ensuring energy security"
JEL Classifications: -
Keywords: -

Working Papers 2023

2023/009
BRAITEH, Dima K. & Ans DE VOS: "Impact of career shocks on employee well-being. The roles of individual adaptability and self-monitoring among Lebanese banking employees"
JEL Classifications: -
Keywords: Career shocks, Self-monitoring, Individual adaptability, Employee well-being

2023/008
AYOUB, Maysam: "Audit firms’ network structure and audit quality"
JEL Classifications: -
Keywords: Audit offices, Audit quality, Spatial distribution, Geographic distance

2023/007
AYOUB, Maysam: "European evidence on the effects of audit office changes on clients' financial reporting quality"
JEL Classifications: -
Keywords: -

​2023/006
BENIGNO, Pierpaolo, Paolo CANOFARI, Giovanni DI BARTOLOMEO & Marcello MESSORI: "The ECB’s new inflation target from a short- and long-term perspective"
JEL Classifications: -
Keywords: European Central Bank, Inflation expectations, Stagflation, Policy mix

2023/005
BENIGNO, Pierpaolo, Paolo CANOFARI, Giovanni DI BARTOLOMEO & Marcello MESSORI: "The spectre of financial dominance in the eurozone"
JEL Classifications: E31, E51, E58
Keywords: Fiscal dominance, Financial dominance, ECB, Monetary policy

2023/004
DI BARTOLOMEO, Giovanni & Carolina SERPIERI: "Optimal monetary policy and the vintage-dependent price and wage Phillips curves: An international comparison"
JEL Classifications: E31, E32, C11
Keywords: Duration-dependent adjustments, Intrinsic inflation persistence, DSGE models, Hybrid Phillips curves, Optimal policy

2023/003
CADENOVIC, Jovana, Ine PAELEMAN & Marc DELOOF: "Dividend policy of SMEs: A variance decomposition approach"
JEL Classifications: -
Keywords: Dividend policy, SMEs, Variance decomposition


2023/002
GÜNDÜZ, Gül, Kenneth SÖRENSEN & Muhammed KOTAN: "Conflict-free routing of workstation-capacitated tow trains for assembly line feeding optimization in just-in-time"
JEL Classifications: -
Keywords: Conflict-free tow train routing, Simulated Annealing, A* algorithm, Optimization, Just-in-time

2023/001
GALARZA MONTENEGRO, Bryan David, Kenneth SÖRENSEN & Pieter VANSTEENWEGEN: "A demand-responsive feeder service with a maximum headway at mandatory stops"
JEL Classifications: -
Keywords: Meta-heuristics, Public bus transport, Feeder service, Demand-responsive transportation

Working Papers 2022

2022/008
CARR, Joel: "BLM protests and racial hate crime in the United States"
JEL Classifications: J15, K14, D74
Keywords: Racism, Hate crime, Crime

2022/007
AERTS, Babiche, Trijntje CORNELISSENS & Kenneth SÖRENSEN: "The internal warehouse replenishment problem: the importance of storage and replenishment policies"
JEL Classifications: -
Keywords: Inventory, Warehousing, Forward reserve, Replenishment

2022/006
VAN MEIR, Amy, Trijntje CORNELISSENS & Johan SPRINGAEL: "Analysis of the impact of responsiveness on the capital cost of a make-to-order multiproduct batch plant"
JEL Classifications: -
Keywords: Batch Plant Design, Make To Order, Non-dedicated Storage, Supply Chain Responsiveness, Delivery Lead Time, MILP, Heuristics

2022/005
LIAN, Ying, Flavien LUCAS & Kenneth SÖRENSEN: "The electric on-demand bus routing problem with partial charging and nonlinear functions"
JEL Classifications: -
Keywords: On-demand bus routing problem, Electric vehicle, Non-linear charging function, Partial charging

2022/004
LIAN, Ying, Flavien LUCAS & Kenneth SÖRENSEN: "On-demand bus routing problem with dynamic stochastic requests and prepositioning"
JEL Classifications: -
Keywords: Routing, Stochastic requests, Dynamic requests, Multiple scenarios, Prepositioning

2022/003
LIAN, Ying, Flavien LUCAS & Kenneth SÖRENSEN: "The on-demand bus routing problem with real-time traffic information"
JEL Classifications: -
Keywords: On-demand bus, Real-time traffic information, Dynamic travel speed, Real-time control

2022/002
BOUCKAERT, Jan & Johan STENNEK: "Conflicts of interest, ethical standards, and competition in legal services"
JEL Classifications: K40, L13, L22, L44, L84
Keywords: Law firms, Professional services, Dual representation, Representational conflicts of interest, Ethical standards, Chinese walls, Recusals, Negative network externalities, Competition, Self-regulation

2022/001
BOUCKAERT, Jan & Geert VAN MOER: "When rivals team up in procurement: does it distort competition?"
JEL Classifications: -
Keywords: -

Working papers 2021

2021/007
MILIS, Kevin, Magdalena STÜBER, Johan BRAET & Johan SPRINGAEL: "A dispatching model based exploration of the post-nuclear phase-out Belgian energy mix"
JEL Classifications: -
Keywords: -

​2021/006
DI BARTOLOMEO, Giovanni, Paolo D'IMPERIO & Francesco FELICI: "The fiscal response to the Italian COVID-19 crisis: A counterfactual analysis"
JEL Classifications: -
Keywords: COVID-19, Coronavirus, Macroeconomic impact, Fiscal policies, Lockdowns, Fiscal-policy-study case

​​2021/005
DI BARTOLOMEO, Giovanni, Martin DUFWENBERG & Stefano PAPA: "Promises and Partner-Switch"
JEL Classifications: A13, C91, D01, D64
Keywords: Promises, Partner-switching, Expectations, Commitment, Guilt, Informal agreements

2021/004
MELIS, Lissa, Michell QUEIROZ & Kenneth SÖRENSEN: "The integrated on-demand bus routing problem"
JEL Classifications: -
Keywords: -

2021/003
MELIS, Lissa & Kenneth SÖRENSEN: "The real-time on-demand bus routing problem:what is the cost of dynamic requests?"
JEL Classifications: -
Keywords: Public transport, Transportation, Metaheuristic, Mobility on demand

2021/002
VERBIEST, Floor, Trijntje CORNELISSENS & Johan SPRINGAEL: "Multiperiod chemical batch plant design for a single product or mixed product campaign mode of operation"
JEL Classifications: -
Keywords: -

2021/001
BOUCKAERT, Jan & Geert VAN MOER: "Joint bidding and horizontal subcontracting"
JEL Classifications: D43, L13, L14, L41
Keywords: Joint bidding, Horizontal subcontracting, Buyer power

Working papers 2020

2020/009
PARYS, Wilfried: "David Ricardo, the Stock Exchange, and the Battle of Waterloo: Samuelsonian legends lack historical evidence"
JEL Classifications: B12, B31, N23
Keywords: David Ricardo, Paul Samuelson, Piero Sraffa, London Stock Exchange, British Loans

2020/008
GÁMEZ ALBÁN, Harol Mauricio, Trijntje CORNELISSENS & Kenneth SÖRENSEN: "Scattered storage assignment: Mathematical model and valid inequalities to optimize the intra-order item distances"
JEL Classifications: -
Keywords: Logistics, Scattered storage, E-commerce, Mathematical optimization, Valid inequalities

2020/007
KLEIN, Mathias, Hamza POLATTIMUR & Roland WINKLER: "Fiscal spending multipliers over the household leverage cycle"
JEL Classifications: E32, E44, E62, H31
Keywords: Occasionally Binding Constraints, Government Spending Multiplier, Household Leverage Cycle, State-Dependence

2020/006
MONTENEGRO, Bryan David Galarza, Kenneth SÖRENSEN & Pieter VANSTEENWEGEN: "A demand-responsive feeder service with mandatory and optional, clustered bus-stops"
JEL Classifications: -
Keywords: Flexible bus services, On-demand transportation, Feeder service, Demandresponsive transportation, Combinatorial optimization, Column generation

2020/005
MELIS, Lissa & Kenneth SÖRENSEN: "The on-demand bus routing problem: A large neighborhood search heuristic for a dial-a-ride problem with bus station assignment"
JEL Classifications: -
Keywords: Transportation, Routing, Public transport, Metaheuristic

2020/004
MARTENS, David: "FAT Flow: A data science ethics framework"
JEL Classifications: -
Keywords: -

2020/003
AERTS, Babiche, Trijntje CORNELISSENS & Kenneth SÖRENSEN: "Solving the joint order batching and picker routing problem, as a clustered vehicle routing problem"
JEL Classifications: -
Keywords: -

2020/002
TURKEŠ, Renata, Kenneth SÖRENSEN & Daniel PALHAZI CUERVO: "Deriving rules of thumb for facility decision making in humanitarian operations"
JEL Classifications: -
Keywords: -

2020/001
BILLEN, Pieter, Ben MAES, Macarena LARRAÍN & Johan BRAET: "Replacing SF6 in electrical gas-insulated switchgear: Technological alternatives and potential life cycle greenhouse gas savings in an EU-28 perspective"
JEL Classifications: -
Keywords: -

Working papers 2019

2019/002
TURKEŠ, Renata, Kenneth SÖRENSEN, Lars Magnus HVATTUM, Eva BARRENA, Hayet CHENTLI, Leandro COELHO, Iman DAYARIAN, Axel GRIMAULT, Anders GULLHAVE, Çağatay IRIS, Merve KESKIN, Alexander KIEFER, Richard LUSBY, Geraldo MAURI, Marcela MONROY-LICHT, Sophie PARRAGH, Juan-Pablo RIQUELME-RODRÍGUEZ, Alberto SANTINI, Vinicius Gandra MARTINS SANTOS & Charles THOMAS: "Meta-analysis of metaheuristics: Quantifying the effect of adaptiveness in adaptive large neighborhood search"
JEL Classifications: -
Keywords: -

2019/001
SENGA, Christian: "Portfolio optimization at the frontier: Assessing the diversification benefits of African securities"
JEL Classifications: G11, G15, C46
Keywords: International diversification, Mean-Variance Spanning, Frontier markets, Africa

Working papers 2018

2018/014
PRAET, Stiene, Peter VAN AELST & David MARTENS: "I like, therefore I am. Predictive modeling to gain insights in political preference in a multi-party system"
JEL Classifications: -
Keywords: -

2018/013
AERTS, Babiche, Trijntje CORNELISSENS & Kenneth SÖRENSEN: "The influence of e-commerce on the design of warehouses - a literature review"
JEL Classifications: -
Keywords: Storage and retrieval systems, Warehouse design, Automation, AGV

2018/012
VANHOEYVELD, Jellis & David MARTENS: "Towards a scalable anomaly detection with pseudo-optimal hyperparameters"
JEL Classifications: -
Keywords: Anomaly detection, Unsupervised hyperparameter tuning, Fixed-width clustering, Data compression

2018/011
CLARKE, Philip & Guido ERREYGERS: "Defining and measuring health poverty"
JEL Classifications: -
Keywords: -

2018/010
ARNOLD, Florian & Kenneth SÖRENSEN: "A progressive filtering heuristic for the location-routing problem and variants"
JEL CLassifications: -
Keywords: Vehicle routing problem, Heuristics, Location routing problem, Large scale problem, Local search

2018/009
TURKEŠ, Renata, Kenneth SÖRENSEN & Daniel PALHAZI CUERVO: "A matheuristic for the pre-positioning of emergency supplies"
JEL Classifications: -
Keywords: -

2018/008
BALLIAUW, Matteo, Thomas VERLINDEN, Lisa DE CROOCQ, Aline FOBE & Tomas VAN DEN SPIEGEL: "A managerial approach to corporate sports hospitality: The case of Belgian football"
JEL Classifications: -
Keywords: Luxury seating, Venue revenues, Management process, Sports marketing

2018/007
VÁZQUEZ-ALCOCER, Alan, Eric D. SCHOEN & Peter GOOS: "A mixed integer optimization approach for model selection in screening experiments"
JEL Classifications: -
Keywords: Dantzig selector, Definitive screening design, LASSO, Sparsity, Two-factor interaction

2018/006
PARYS, Wilfried: "Labour values and energy values"
JEL Classifications: B51, C67, D57, Q40
Keywords: Marx, Sraffa, Leontief, Costanza, Energy values, Labour values, Input-output analysis

2018/005
VERGEYLEN, Nicholas, Kenneth SÖRENSEN & Daniel PALHAZI CUERVO: "Solution space analysis for the bike request scheduling problem"
JEL Classifications: -
Keywords: Combinatorial optimization, Combinatorial complexity, Bike request scheduling problem, Bicycle repositioning, Multi dimensional scaling

2018/004
TURKEŠ, Renata & Kenneth SÖRENSEN: "Case studies and random instances for the problem of pre-positioning emergency supplies"
JEL Classifications: -
Keywords: -

2018/003
VÁZQUEZ-ALCOCER, Alan & Hongquan XU: "Construction of two-level nonregular designs of strength three with large run sizes"
JEL Classifications: -
Keywords: Drug combination experiment, Generalized minimum aberration, Orthogonal array, Two-factor interaction, Variable neighborhood search

2018/002
DE CNUDDE, Sofie, David MARTENS & Foster PROVOST: "An exploratory study towards applying and demystifying deep learning classification on behavioral big data"
JEL Classifications: -
Keywords: -

2018/001
KLEIN, Mathias & Roland WINKLER: "The government spending multiplier at the zero lower bound: International evidence from historical data"
JEL Classifications: E32, E62, E65
Keywords: Government spending multiplier, Zero lower bound, Local projections

Working Papers 2017

2017/012
ARNOLD, Florian & Kenneth SÖRENSEN: "A simple, deterministic, and efficient knowledge-driven heuristic for vehicle routing problem"
JEL Classifications: -
Keywords: Vehicle routing problems, Heuristics, Metaheuristics

2017/011
TOBBACK, Ellen & David MARTENS: "Retail credit scoring using fine-grained payment data"
JEL Classifiactions: -
Keywords: -

2017/010
VÁZQUEZ-ALCOCER, Alan, Peter GOOS & Eric D. SCHOEN: "Projections of definitive screening designs by dropping columns: Selection and evaluation"
JEL Classifications: -
Keywords: Conference matrix, D-efficiency, Isomorphism, Projection, Second-order model, Two-factor interaction

2017/009
MOEYERSOMS, Julie, Brian D'ALESSANDRO, Foster PROVOST & David MARTENS: "Attributing value in a data pooling setting for predictive modeling"
JEL Classifications: -
Keywords: -

2017/008
CLIFTON-SPRIGG, Joanna, Jonathan JAMES & Sunčica VUJIC: "FOI as a data collection tool for economists"
JEL Classifications: C80, C81
Keywords: Data collection, Data access

2017/007
MILLRINE, Mark & Sunčica VUJIC: "Revisiting Easterly and Levine (1997): Replication and extension"
JEL Classifications: J15, J18, Z13
Keywords: Economic development, Public policy, Ethnic diversity

2017/006
BALLIAUW, Matteo, Thomas VERLINDEN, Tomas VAN DEN SPIEGEL & Jani VAN HECKE: "Towards a sustainable financial model for professional tennis players"
JEL Classifications: -
Keywords: Tennis, Income inequality, Financial model, Organisational policy, Sports economics

2017/005
DE CNUDDE, Sofie, David MARTENS, Theodoros EVGENIOU & Foster PROVOST: "A benchmarking study of classification techniques for behavioral data"
JEL Classifications: -
Keywords: -

2017/004
SYS, Christa, Eddy VAN DE VOORDE, Thierry VANELSLANDER & Edwin VAN HASSEL: "De binnenvaart: Traditionele modus, innovatieve toekomst?"
JEL Classifications: -
Keywords: -

2017/003
ARNOLD, Florian & Kenneth SÖRENSEN: "What makes a solution good? The generation of problem-specific knowledge for heuristics"
JEL Classifications: -
Keywords: Multi-depot vehicle routing problem, Multi-product, Inventory management, Inventory allocation, Metaheuristics

2017/002
ARNOLD, Florian & Kenneth SÖRENSEN: "From storage to shipment: The effect of ignoring inventory when planning routes"
JEL Classifications: -
Keywords: Multi-depot vehicle routing problem, Multi-product, Inventory management, Inventory allocation, Metaheuristics

2017/001
PRAET, Stiene & David MARTENS: "Efficient parcel delivery by deriving customers' key locations"
JEL Classifications: -
Keywords: -

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Working Papers 2016

2016/013
ARES, José Núňez & Peter GOOS: "An integer linear programming approach to find trend-robust run orders of experimental designs"
JEL Classifications: -
Keywords: Factorial designs, Mixed integer program, Orthogonality, Response surface designs, Sequential approach, Trend robustness

2016/012
TURKEŠ, Renata, Daniel PALHAZI CUERVO & Kenneth SÖRENSEN: "Pre-positioning of emergency supplies: Does putting a price on human life help to save lives?"
JEL Classifications: -
Keywords: Humanitarian logistics, Community operational research, Stochastic programming

2016/011
VÁZQUEZ-ALCOCER, Alan, Peter GOOS & Eric D. SCHOEN: "Two-level designs constructed by concatenating orthogonal arrays of strenght three"
JEL Classifications: -
Keywords: Even-odd design, Generalized aberration, Local search, Second-order saturated, Two-factor interaction, Variable neighborhood search

2016/010
VO-THANH, Nha, Peter GOOS & Eric D. SCHOEN: "Integer programming approaches to find row-column arrangements of two-level orthogonal experimental designs"
JEL Classifications: -
Keywords: Aliasing, Confounding, Generalized word-length pattern, Integer linear programming, Crossed blocking factors, Row-column design

2016/009
SELLAMI, Sana, Dieter VERHAEST & Walter VAN TRIER: "How to measure field-of-study mismatch? A comparative analysis of the different methods"
JEL Classifications: -
Keywords: Mismatch, Horizontal mismatch, Measurement, Field of study

2016/008
VERBIEST, Floor, Trijntje CORNELISSENS & Johan SPRINGAEL: "Design of a chemical batch plant with parallel production lines: Plant configuration and cost effectiveness"
JEL Classifications: -
Keywords: Chemical batch plant, Plant design, Parallel production lines

2016/007
JANSSENS, Jochen, Annelies DE CORTE & Kenneth SÖRENSEN: "Water distribution network design optimisation with respect to reliability"
JEL Classifications: -
Keywords: Network design, Network security, Metaheuristics, Adaptive large neighbourhood search (ALNS)

2016/006
JANSSENS, Jochen, Kenneth SÖRENSEN & Gerrit K. JANSSENS: "A parameter tuning method to analyse the influence of algorithmic parameters in combination with instance characteristics on the quality of a Pareto front"
JEL Classifications: -
Keywords: Multi-criteria decision making, Promethee method, GDSS

2016/005
JAMES, Jonathan & Sunčica VUJIC: "From high school to the high chair: Education and fertility timing"
JEL Classifications: I26, J13
Keywords: Education, Fertility timing

2016/004
TOBBACK, Ellen, Julie MOEYERSOMS, Marija STANKOVA & David MARTENS: "Bankruptcy prediction for SMEs using relational data"
JEL Classifications: -
Keywords: -

2016/003
CUERVO, Daniel Palhazi, Peter GOOS & Kenneth SÖRENSEN: "An algorithmic framework for generating optimal two-stratum experimental designs"
JEL Classifications: -
Keywords: Blocked experiments, Split-plot experiments, Two-stratum experiments, D-optimality criterion, Ds-optimality criterion, I-optimality criterion, Id-optimality criterion, Coordinate-exchange algorithm, Variable neighborhood search

2016/002
SCHOEN, Eric D., Nha VO-THANH & Peter GOOS: "Orthogonal blocking arrangements for 24-run and 28-run two-level designs"
JEL Classifications: -
Keywords: Confounding frequency vector, G-aberration, G2-aberration, Generalized word-length, Pattern, Orthogonal array, Orthogonal blocking

2016/001
GIULIANO, Genevieve, Geraldine KNATZ, Nathan HUDSON, Christa SYS, Thierry VANELSLANDER & Valentin CARLAN: "Decison-making for maritime innovation investments: The significance of cost benefit and cost effectiveness analysis"
JEL Classifications: -
Keywords: -

Working Papers 2015

2015/021
SELLAMI, Sana, Dieter VERHAEST, Walter NONNEMAN & Walter VAN TRIER: "The impact of educational mismatches on wages: The influence of measurement error and unobserved heterogeneity"
JEL Classifications: I24, J24, J31
Keywords: Returns to education, Field of study mismatch, Overeducation, Underemployment, Earnings inequality, Ability bias

2015/020
DE CORTE, Annelies & Kenneth SÖRENSEN: "A lean optimization algorithm for water distribution network design optimization"
JEL Classifications: -
Keywords: Water distribution network design, Iterated local search, Metaheuristic, Mixed-integer non-linear programming, Pipe sizing

2015/019
EENDEBAK, Pieter T. & Eric D. SCHOEN: "Two-level designs to estimate all main effects and two-factor interactions"
JEL Classifications: -
Keywords: Coordinate exchange, D-efficiency, Optimal design, Orthogonal array, Partial enumeration

2015/018
DE CNUDDE, Sofie, Julie MOEYERSOMS, Marija STANKOVA, Ellen TOBBACK, Vinayak JAVALY & David MARTENS: "Who cares about your Facebook friends? Credit scoring for microfinance"
JEL Classifications: -
Keywords: Networks, Data mining, Default prediction, Microcredit

2015/017
ERREYGERS, Guido & Roselinde KESSELS: "Socioeconomic status and health: A new approach to the measurement of bivariate inequality"
JEL Classifications: D63, I00
Keywords: Inequality measurement, Socioeconomic inequality of health, Bivariate inequality

2015/016
SCHOEN, Eric D., Nha VO-THANH & Peter GOOS: "Two-level orthogonal designs in 24 and 28 runs"
JEL Classifications: -
Keywords: G-Aberration, G2-Aberration, Hadamard matrix, Orthogonal array, Plackett-Burman design

2015/015
LUYTEN, Jeroen, Pieter DESMET, Roselinde KESSELS, Peter GOOS & Philippe BEUTELS: "The future’s so bright, I gotta wear sunscreen: Dispositional optimism and preferences for prioritizing health care"
JEL Classifications: C25, C99, I18, I19, H4
Keywords: Equity, Prevention, Allocation, Personality, Discrete choice experiment

2015/014
SELLAMI, Sana, Dieter VERHAEST, Walter NONNEMAN & Walter VAN TRIER: "Education as investment, consumption or adapting to social norm: Implications for educational mismatch among graduates"
JEL Classifications: -
Keywords: Educational motives, Higher education, Graduates, Wages, Job satisfaction, Underemployment, Over-qualification

2015/013
BALLIAUW, Matteo: "An analysis of entry and exit decisions in shipping markets under uncertainty"
JEL Classifications: -
Keywords: Cyclical markets, Real options, Shipping markets, Container, Entry and exit decisions

2015/012
DE BORGER, Bruno & Antonio RUSSO: "Lobbying and the political economy of pricing car access to downtown commercial districts"
JEL Classifications: D72, H23, D43, R41
Keywords: Parking, Road pricing, Lobbying, Retailers, Superstores

2015/011
DE BORGER, Bruno & Amihai GLAZER: "Inducing political action by workers"
JEL Classifications: D21, J31, J51, L51
Keywords: Political actions, Union behavior, Wage and employment policies

2015/010
DE BORGER, Bruno & Stef PROOST: "The political economy of public transport pricing and supply decisions"
JEL Classifications: H23, D62, R41, R48
Keywords: Public transport pricing, Tax competition, Federalism

2015/009
DE BORGER, Bruno & Stef PROOST: "Tax and regulatory policies for European transport - getting there, but in the slow lane"
JEL Classifications: R41, R48, Q58
Keywords: Transport taxes, Fuel taxes, Road pricing, Distance charging, Transport policy in the EU, External costs

2015/008
GERARD, Ghillain, Els STRUYF, Christa SYS, Eddy VAN DE VOORDE & Thierry VANELSLANDER: "Congestiekost voor wegvervoer: Ontwikkeling generiek model en toepassing voor Vlaanderen"
JEL Classifications: -
Keywords: Congestie, Wegvervoer, Transportkosten, Maatschappelijke kosten

2015/007
SPRINGAEL, Johan & Trijntje CORNELISSENS: "On the counterintuitive behaviour of the economic order quantity in the presence of backorders"
JEL Classifications: -
Keywords: -

2015/006
DEFRYN, Christof, Kenneth SÖRENSEN & Trijntje CORNELISSENS: "The selective vehicle routing problem in a collaborative environment"
JEL Classifications: -
Keywords: Horizontal collaboration, Selective vehicle routing problem, Collaborative vehicle routing, Cost allocation

2015/005
VAN HASSEL, Edwin: "(Over)capaciteitsontwikkeling in de binnenvaarttankermarkt en mogelijke toekomstscenario's"
JEL Classifications: -
Keywords: -

2015/004
CUERVO, Daniel Palhazi, Roselinde KESSELS, Peter GOOS & Kenneth SÖRENSEN: "An integrated algorithm for the optimal design of stated choice experiments with partial profiles"
JEL Classifications: -
Keywords: Stated choice experiments, Multinomial logit model, Partial profiles, (Bayesian) D-optimality, Utility-neutral designs, Coordinate-exchange algorithm

2015/003
SYAFITRI, Utami, Bagus SARTONO & Peter GOOS: "D- and I-optimal design of mixture experiments in the presence of ingredient availability constraints"
JEL Classifications: -
Keywords: Mixture experiment, Nonlinear multidimensional knapsack problem, D-optimality, I-optimality, Update formulas, Variable neighborhood descent algorithm, V-optimality

2015/002
DEFRYN, Christof & Kenneth SÖRENSEN: "A two-level variable neighbourhood search for the Euclidean clustered vehicle routing problem"
JEL Classifications: -
Keywords: Clustered Vehicle Routing Problem (CVRP), Variable neighbourhood search, Metaheuristics

2015/001
STANKOVA, Marija, David MARTENS & Foster PROVOST: "Classification over bipartite graphs through projection"
JEL Classifications: -
Keywords: Bipartite graphs, Two-mode networks, Affiliation networks, Node classification, Big data

Working Papers 2014

2014/032
HILL, Alessandro, Trijntje CORNELISSENS & Kenneth SÖRENSEN: "Efficient multi-product multi-BOM batch scheduling for a petrochemical blending plant with a shared pipeline network"
JEL Classifications: -
Keywords: Batch scheduling, Chemical blending plant, Heuristic

2014/031
BOUCKAERT, Jan & Geert VAN MOER: "Horizontal subcontracting and intermittent power generation"
JEL Classifications: D43, L13, L14
Keywords: Subcontracting, Intermittency, Security of supply, Dispatchable units

2014/030
CASTRO, Marco, Kenneth SÖRENSEN, Peter GOOS & Pieter VANSTEENWEGEN: "The multiple travelling salesperson problem with hotel selection"
JEL Classifications: -
Keywords: -

2014/029
HLASNY, Vladimir: "Four pillars of job applicant screening in China"
JEL Classifications: J7, J24, D83
Keywords: Recruitment, Job applicant screening, Profiling, Statistical & taste-based discrimination, Hukou, China, Poisson regression, Simultaneous equations model

2014/028
JANSSENS, Jochen, Luca TALARICO & Kenneth SÖRENSEN: "A metaheuristic approach for security budget allocation in utility networks"
JEL Classifications: -
Keywords: Network security, Metaheuristics, Knapsack problem

2014/027
ESTRIN, Saul, Ute STEPHAN & Sunčica VUJIĆ: "Do women earn less even as social entrepreneurs?"
JEL Classifications: J28, J31, J71, L32
Keywords: Social entrepreneur, Gender pay gap, Social enterprise, Earnings, Job satisfaction

2014/026
TALARICO, Luca, Kenneth SÖRENSEN & Johan SPRINGAEL: "A bi-objective model to increase security and reduce travel costs in the cash-in-transit sector"
JEL Classifications: -
Keywords: Metaheuristic, Multi-objective optimization, Combinatorial optimization, Cash-in-transit, Security

2014/025
REYNAERT, Mathias: "Abatement strategies and the cost of environmental regulation: Emission standards on the European car market"
JEL Classifications: -
Keywords: -

2014/024
TALARICO, Luca, Kenneth SÖRENSEN & Johan SPRINGAEL: "A large neighbourhood metaheuristic for the risk-constrained cash-in-transit vehicle routing problem"
JEL Classifications: -
Keywords: Vehicle routing, Risk, Security, Cash-in-transit, Metaheuristic

2014/023
JANSSENS, Jochen, Luca TALARICO & Kenneth SÖRENSEN: "A hybridised tabu search heuristic to increase security in a utility network"
JEL Classifications: -
Keywords: Network security, Metaheuristics, Knapsack problem

2014/022
KESSELS, Roselinde, Pieter VAN HERCK, Eline DANCET, Lieven ANNEMANS & Walter SERMEUS: "How to reform western care payment systems according to physicians, policy makers, healthcare executives and researchers: A discrete choice experiment"
JEL CLassifications: C90, C99, E61, I11, I18, O57
Keywords: Healthcare payment systems, Healthcare performance objectives, Physician incentive structures, Health policy reform, Discrete choice experiment

2014/021
VERMEULEN, Glen & Peter KORT: "Real options and bank bailouts: How uncertainty affects optimal bank bailout policy"
JEL Classifications: -
Keywords: -

2014/020
HILL, Alessandro & Stefan VOß: "Generalized local branching heuristics and the capacitated ring tree problem"
JEL Classifications: -
Keywords: Capacitated ring tree problem, Local branching, Mathematical programming, Local search, Network design, Matheuristic

2014/019
HERREMANS, Dorien, Stéphanie WEISSER, Kenneth SÖRENSEN & Darrell CONKLIN: "Generating structured music using quality metrics based on Markov models"
JEL Classifications: C60, C61, C63, C65, C8
Keywords: Markov models, Markov processes, Metaheuristics, Music, Bagana, Computer Aided Composition (CAC), Variable Neighborhood Search (VNS), Combinatorial optimization 

2014/018
DE CORTE, Annelies & Kenneth SÖRENSEN: "An iterated local search algorithm for water distribution network design optimisation"
JEL Classifications: -
Keywords: Water distribution network design, Iterated local search, Mixed-integer non-linear optimisation, Pipe sizing

2014/017
VAN DE VOORDE, Eddy & Patrick VERHOEVEN: "The economics of port authority reform. A framework for ex-post evaluation"
JEL Classifications: -
Keywords: Port reform, Port authorities, Port governance, Port competitiveness, Welfare economics, Generalised cost

2014/016
JUNQUÉ DE FORTUNY, Enric & David MARTENS: "Active learning-based pedagogical rule extraction"
JEL Classifications: -
Keywords: Rule extraction, Active learning, Comprehensibility, Pedagogical

2014/015
HILL, Alessandro & Stefan VOß: "An equi-model matheuristic for the multi-depot ring star problem"
JEL Classifications: -
Keywords: Multi-depot ring star problem, Hybrid heuristic, Branch & cut, Local refinement, Network design, Matheuristic

2014/014
YAN, Beibei & Walter AERTS: "Rhetorical impression management in corporate narratives and institutional environment"
JEL Classifications: -
Keywords: Letter to shareholder, Linguistic property, Rhetorical style, Institutional scrutiny, Credibility, Litigation risk

2014/013
KESSELS, Roselinde & Guido ERREYGERS: "A unified structural equation modeling approach for the decomposition of rank-dependent indicators of socioeconomic inequality of health"
JEL Classifications: C36, D63, I00
Keywords: Inequality measurement, Concentration index, Decomposition methods, Structural Equation Modeling (SEM)

2014/012
HILL, Alessandro & Stefan VOß: "Optimal capacitated ring trees"
JEL Classifications: -
Keywords: Capacitated ring tree problem, Steiner tree, Ring tree, Vehicle routing, Survivable network design, Integer programming

2014/011
HILL, Alessandro: "Multi-exchange neighborhoods for the capacitated ring tree problem"
JEL Classifications: -
Keywords: Capacitated ring tree problem, Network design, Local search

2014/010
SAHOO, Pravakar & Ranjan KUMAR DASH: "India's surge in Modern Services Exports: Empirics for policy"
JEL Classifications: -
Keywords: India, Modern Services Exports, Human capital, Finance, infrastructure

2014/009
MEERSMAN, Hilde & Eddy VAN DE VOORDE: "Port capacity extension. A trade-off between public investment and shipping companies' time losses"
JEL Classifications: -
Keywords: -

2014/008
LIN, Ko Min, Joseph PLASMANS & Song-ken HSU: "A consistent measure of aggregate import substitution"
JEL Classifications: -
Keywords: -

2014/007
EENDEBAK, Pieter T., "A canonical form for non-regular arrays based on generalized wordlength pattern values of delete-one-factor projections"
JEL Classifications: -
Keywords: Experimental design, Orthogonal array, Delete-one-factor, Canonical form, Generalized wordlength pattern

2014/006
MEERSMAN, Hilde, Siri Pettersen STRANDENES & Eddy VAN DE VOORDE: "Port pricing: Principles, structure and models"
JEL Classifications: -
Keywords: Infrastructure pricing, Pricing models, Seaports

2014/005
TALARICO, Luca, Frank MEISEL & Kenneth SÖRENSEN: "Ambulance routing for disaster response with patient groups"
JEL Classifications: -
Keywords: Ambulance routing, Disaster response, Service time, Local search, Large neighborhood search, Metaheuristic

2014/004
DEFRYN, Christof, Christine VANOVERMEIRE, Kenneth SÖRENSEN, Alex VAN BREEDAM, Bart VANNIEUWENHUYSE & Sven VERSTREPEN: "Gain sharing in horizontal logistic collaboration. A case study in the fresh fruit and vegetables sector"
JEL Classifications: -
Keywords: -

2014/003
HERREMANS, Dorien, David MARTENS & Kenneth SÖRENSEN: "Dance hit song prediction"
JEL Classifications: C6, C8
Keywords: Data mining, Classification, Prediction, Music Information Retrieval (MIR)

2014/002
JANSSENS, Jochen, Joos VAN DEN BERGH, Kenneth SÖRENSEN & Dirk CATTRYSSE: "Multi-objective microzone-based vehicle routing for courier companies: From tactical to operational planning"
JEL Classifications: -
Keywords: Variable neighborhood tabu search, Workload balancing, Metaheuristics, Multi-objective optimization, Vehicle routing, Courier companies

2014/001
HERREMANS, Dorien, David MARTENS & Kenneth SÖRENSEN: "Looking into the minds of Bach, Haydn and Beethoven: Classification and generation of composer-specific music"
JEL Classifications: C6, C8
Keywords: Variable Neighborhood Search (VNS), Metaheuristics, Classification, Computer Aided Composition, Music Information Retrieval (MIR)

Working Papers 2013

2013/033
GOOS, Peter, Bradley JONES & Utami SYAFITRI: "I-optimal mixture designs"
JEL Classifications: -
Keywords: D-optimality, IV-optimality, Moments matrix, Q-optimality, Simplex-lattice designs, Simplex-centroid designs, V-optimality

2013/032
LUYTEN, Jeroen, Roselinde KESSELS, Peter GOOS & Philippe BEUTELS: "Public preferences for prioritizing preventive and curative health care interventions: A discrete choice experiment"
JEL Classifications: C25, D61, D63, H42, H51, I10
Keywords: Efficiency, Equity, Distribution, QALY, Treatment, Prevention

2013/031
VANOVERMEIRE, Christine, Daniel Palhazi CUERVO & Kenneth SÖRENSEN: "Estimating collaborative profits under varying partner characteristics and strategies"
JEL Classifications: -
Keywords: Horizontal collaboration, Cost allocation, Profit estimation, Vehicle routing

2013/030
PARYS, Wilfried: "All but one: How pioneers of linear economics overlooked Perron-Frobenius mathematics"
JEL Classifications: -
Keywords: Perron-Frobenius, Charasoff, Potron, Bray, Remak, Leontief, Sraffa, Nonnegative matrices, Input-output analysis

2013/029
TALARICO, Luca, Kenneth SÖRENSEN & Johan SPRINGAEL: "The k-dissimilar vehicle routing problem"
JEL Classifications: -
Keywords: Vehicle Routing Problem (VRP), Metaheuristic, Security, Similarity

2013/028
KUPFER, Franziska, Roselinde KESSELS, Peter GOOS, Eddy VAN DE VOORDE & Ann VERHETSEL: "A discrete choice approach for analysing the airport choice for freighter operations in Europe"
JEL Classifications: -
Keywords: Air cargo, Discrete choice analysis, Airport choice, Multinomial logit

2013/027
ARNOUTS, Heidi & Peter GOOS: "Staggered-level designs for response surface modeling"
JEL Classifications: -
Keywords: D- and I-optimality criterion, Cost, Response surface model, Split-plot design, Split-split-plot design, Staggered-level design

2013/026
MARTENS, David, Enric JUNQUÉ DE FORTUNY & Marija STANKOVA: "Data mining for fraud detection using invoicing data. A case study in fiscal residence fraud"
JEL Classifications: -
Keywords: -

2013/025
VAN HASSEL, Edwin: "Structuurverandering in het segment van de grote drogeladingbinnenvaartschepen"
JEL Classifications: -
Keywords: Binnenvaart, Drogeladingvloot, Samenwerking, Poolvorming, Overcapaciteit

2013/024
VERHETSEL, Ann, Roselinde KESSELS, Nele BLOMME, Jeroen CANT & Peter GOOS: "Location of logistics companies: A stated preference study to disentangle the impact of accessibility"
JEL Classifications: -
Keywords: Logistics, Accessibility, Transport geography, Discrete choice modeling, Belgium

2013/023
SENBETA, Sisay Regassa: "Foreign exchange constraints and macroeconomic dynamics in a small open economy"
JEL Classifications: E32, F31, F41, O55
Keywords: New Keynesian DSGE, Foreign exchange constraint, Low income countries, Ethiopia

2013/022
RASHED, Yasmine, Hilde MEERSMAN, Eddy VAN DE VOORDE & Thierry VANELSLANDER: "A univariate analysis: Short-term forecasts of container throughput in the port of Antwerp"
JEL Classifications: -
Keywords: Container throughput, Univariate analysis, ARIMA, Forecasting, Seasonality

2013/021
PEETERS, Thomas & Stefan SZYMANSKI: "Financial fair play in European football"
JEL Classifications: -
Keywords: -

2013/020
DE BORGER, Bruno & Stef PROOST: "The political economy of pricing and capacity decisions for congestible local public goods in a federal state"
JEL Classifications: D62, H23, R41, R48
Keywords: Congestible local public goods, Pricing, Capacity decisions, Fiscal federalism

2013/019
VANOVERMEIRE, Christine & Kenneth SÖRENSEN: "Integration of the cost allocation in the optimization of collaborative bundling"
JEL Classifications: -
Keywords: -

2013/018
VANOVERMEIRE, Christine, Lukas CARLIER & Kenneth SÖRENSEN: "Improving horizontal logistic co-operation through different concessions"
JEL Classifications: -
Keywords: -

2013/017
VANOVERMEIRE, Christine & Kenneth SÖRENSEN: "Measuring and rewarding flexibility in collaborative distribution, including two-partner coalitions"
JEL Classifications: -
Keywords: Logistics, Game theory, Shapley value, Nucleolus, Collaboration

2013/016
DE LANGHE, Katrien, Els STRUYF, Christa SYS, Eddy VAN DE VOORDE & Thierry VANELSLANDER: "Economic effects of a temporary shutdown of an airport - Review and case study"
JEL Classifications: -
Keywords: Airports, Shutdown, Economic effects, Case study

2013/015
PIROVANO, Mara: "International financial integration, credit frictions and exchange rate regimes"
JEL Classifications: E44, E52, F41, F42
Keywords: Monetary policy rules, Credit frictions, Open economy, International transmission

2013/014
PIROVANO, Mara: "Household and firm leverage, capital flows and monetary policy in a small open economy"
JEL Classifications: -
Keywords: Optimal monetary policy, Financial frictions, Liability dollarization, Financial stability

2013/013
KESSELS, Roselinde, Bradley JONES & Peter GOOS: "An argument for preferring Firth bias-adjusted estimates in aggregate and individual-level discrete choice modeling"
JEL Classifications: -
Keywords: Discrete choice modeling, Firth's bias adjustment, Penalized maximum likelihood, Individual-level estimates, Data separation

2013/012
TALARICO, Luca, Kenneth SÖRENSEN & Johan SPRINGAEL: "The risk constrained cash-in-transit vehicle routing problem with time windows"
JEL Classifications: -
Keywords: Vehicle routing, Risk, Security, Cash-in-transit, Metaheuristic

2013/011
LAMBERT, Bruno, Carolyn H. DECLERCK & Christophe BOONE: "Oxytocin does not make a face appear more trustworthy but improves the accuracy of trustworthiness judgments"
JEL Classifications: -
Keywords: Oxytocin, Perceived trustworthiness, Social perception, Face evaluation

2013/010
CUERVO, Daniel Palhazi, Peter GOOS, Kenneth SÖRENSEN & Emely ARRAIZ: "An iterated local search algorithm for the vehicle routing problem with backhauls"
JEL Classifications: -
Keywords: -

2013/009
VANOVERMEIRE, Christine, Dries VERCRUYSSE & Kenneth SÖRENSEN: "Analysis of different cost allocation methods in a collaborative transport setting"
JEL Classifications: -
Keywords: -

2013/008 (ACED 16)
VAN DEN BERG, Annette, Yolanda GRIFT, Arjen VAN WITTELOOSTUIJN, Christophe BOONE & Olivier VAN DER BREMPT: "The effect of employee workplace representation on firm performance. A cross-country comparison within Europe"
JEL Classifications: -
Keywords: -

2013/007
ERREYGERS, Guido & Roselinde KESSELS: "Regression-based decompositions of rank-dependent indicators of socioeconomic inequality of health"
JEL Classifications: D63, I00
Keywords: Inequality measurement, Concentration index, Decomposition methods

2013/006
CUERVO, Daniel Palhazi, Peter GOOS & Kenneth SÖRENSEN: "An iterated local search algorithm for the construction of large scale D-optimal experimental designs"
JEL Classifications: -
Keywords: Optimal design of experiments, D-optimality criterion, Metaheuristic, Iterated local search, Coordinate-exchange algorithm

2013/005
TALARICO, Luca, Kenneth SÖRENSEN & Johan SPRINGAEL: "Metaheuristics for the risk-constrained cash-in-transit vehicle routing problem"
JEL Classifications: -
Keywords: Metaheuristics, Vehicle routing, Risk constraint, Security, Cash-in-transit, Combinatorial optimization

2013/004
VAN CAMP, Jelle & Johan BRAET: "Proposing a taxonomy for performance measurement systems' failures"
JEL Classifications: -
Keywords: Performance measurement, PMS, Nomenclature, Failures, Taxonomy

2013/003
HERREMANS, Dorien & Kenneth SÖRENSEN: "FuX, an android app that generates counterpoint"
JEL Classifications: C6, C8, C61
Keywords: Variable Neighborhood Search (VNS), Metaheuristics, Local search, Music, Computer Aided Composition (CAC), Android

2013/002
SENBETA, Sisay Regassa: "Informality and macroeconomic fluctuations: A small open economy New Keynesian DSGE model with dual labour markets"
JEL Classifications: E24, E26, E32, E41, O55
Keywords: Dual labor markets, Informal sector, Open economy, New Keynesian DSGE, Low-income countries, Sub-Saharan Africa

2013/001
VALKIERS, Vincent & Hans VERBOVEN: "Het verband tussen CEO-remuneratie en bedrijfsperformance bij BEL20-genoteerde ondernemingen"
JEL Classifications: -
Keywords: CEO-remuneratie, Verloningsbeleid, Transparantie, Return On Asset (ROA), Corporate governance

Working Papers 2012

2012/029
VANNESTE, Jacques & Ying ZHANG: "The impact of government expenditure on prepayment for health services: Evidence from cointegration analysis in heterogeneous panel data"
JEL Classifications: H51, I13, I18
Keywords: Health financing system, Government expenditure, Public financing, Private prepaid plans, Panel cointegration analysis, OECD members

2012/028
PEETERS, Thomas & Stefan SZYMANSKI: "Vertical restraints in soccer: Financial fair play and the English Premier League"
JEL Classifications: L42, L51, L83
Keywords: Vertical restraints, Soccer, Financial Fair Play

2012/027
DE CEUSTER, Marc J. K., Jie LI & Hairui ZHANG: "Did federal funds target rate changes affect the market value of insurance compagnies?"
JEL Classifications: E42, E43, E52, G22
Keywords: Interest rate shocks, Insurance companies, Federal funds target rate changes

2012/026
SARTONO, Bagus, Peter GOOS & Eric D. SCHOEN: "Orthogonal blocking of regular and nonregular strength-3 designs"
JEL Classifications: -
Keywords: Aliasing, Confounding, Mixed integer linear programming, Mixed-level orthogonal array, Multi-level orthogonal array, Orthogonal blocking, Pure-level orthogonal array, Two-level orthogonal array

2012/025
SCHOEN, Eric D., Bagus SARTONO & Peter GOOS: "Optimal blocking for general resolution-3 designs"
JEL Classifications: -
Keywords: Aliasing, Confounding, Generalized word-length pattern, Orthogonal array, Strength 2

2012/024
CASTRO, Marco, Kenneth SÖRENSEN, Pieter VANSTEENWEGEN & Peter GOOS: "A simple GRASP+VND for the travelling salesperson problem with hotel selection"
JEL Classifications: -
Keywords: -

2012/023
HERMANS, Julie, Johanna VANDERSTRAETEN, Marcus DEJARDIN, Dendi RAMDANI, Erik STAM & Arjen VAN WITTELOOSTUIJN: "Ambitious entrepreneurship: Antecedents and consequences"
JEL Classifications: D84, L25, L26, M13
Keywords: Ambition, Motivations, Growth, Entrepreneurship

2012/022 (ACED 15)
DIVARCI, Anil, Christophe BOONE & Arjen VAN WITTELOOSTUIJN: "When does globalization lead to local adaptation? The emergence of hybrid Islamic schools in Turkey, 1985-2007"
JEL Classifications: -
Keywords: -

2012/021 (ACED 14)
Niet beschikbaar/Not available 

2012/020
HERREMANS, Dorien & Kenneth SÖRENSEN: "Composing fifth species counterpoint music with variable neighborhood search"
JEL Classifications: C6, C8, C61
Keywords: Variable Neighborhood Search (VNS), Metaheuristics, Local search, Music, Computer Aided Composition (CAC)

2012/019
TOBBACK, Ellen, David MARTENS, Tony VAN GESTEL & Bart BAESENS: "Forecasting loss given default models: Impact of account characteristics and the macroeconomic state"
JEL Classifications: -
Keywords: Loss Given Default, Data mining, Prediction, Basel III

2012/018
ANNAERT, Jan, Marc DE CEUSTER & Kurt VERSTEGEN: "Are extreme returns priced in the stock market? European evidence"
JEL Classifications: G12, G15, G17
Keywords: Extreme returns, Cross-section of expected returns, Lottery-like payoffs, Skewness, Idiosyncratic volatility puzzle

2012/017
JUNQUÉ DE FORTUNY, Enric, Tom DE SMEDT, David MARTENS & Walter DAELEMANS: "Design and evaluation of empirical models for stock price prediction"
JEL Classifications: -
Keywords: Stock prediction, Support Vector Machine, Text mining, Opinion mining

2012/016
DE CORTE, Annelies & Kenneth SÖRENSEN: "Optimisation of water distribution network design: A critical review"
JEL Classifications: -
Keywords: -

2012/015
MATHESON, Victor, Thomas PEETERS & Stefan SZYMANSKI: "If you host it, where will they come from? Mega-events and tourism in South Africa"
JEL Classifications: F14, J61, L83
Keywords: World Cup, Sports, Tourism, South Africa

2012/014
DE BORGER, Bruno & Stef PROOST: "Transport policy competition between governments: A selective survey of the literature"
JEL Classifications: H21, H71, R48
Keywords: -

2012/013
DE BORGER, Bruno & Stef PROOST: "Policies to reduce traffic externalities in cities"
JEL Classifications: H77, Q58, R48
Keywords: Externalities, Urban policy, Urban transport investment, Environment

2012/012
VANDERSTRAETEN, Johanna, Paul MATTYSSENS & Arjen VAN WITTELOOSTUIJN: "Measuring the performance of business incubators"
JEL Classifications: -
Keywords: Business incubator, Performance measurement system, Performance measure, Balanced scorecard, Strategy map

2012/011
REYNAERT, Mathias & Frank VERBOVEN: "Improving the performance of random coefficients demand models: The role of optimal instruments"
JEL Classifications: -
Keywords: -

2012/010
SENBETA, Sisay Regassa: "How important are external shocks in explaining growth in Sub-Saharan Africa? Evidence from a Bayesian VAR"
JEL Classifications: C11, E32, F40, O11, O55
Keywords: Bayesian VAR, Economic fl‡uctuations, External shocks, Low-income countries, Sub-Saharan Africa

2012/009
DUQUE, Pablo A. Maya, Sofie COENE, Peter GOOS, Kenneth SÖRENSEN & Frits SPIEKSMA: "The accessibility arc upgrading problem"
JEL Classifications: -
Keywords: Network upgrading problem, Knapsack problem, Variable neighbourhood search

2012/008
NONNEMAN, Walter: "School achievement and failure of immigrant children in Flanders"
JEL Classifications: I21, I28
Keywords: School performance, Immigrant children, Flanders

2012/007
VANOVERMEIRE, Christine, Kenneth SÖRENSEN, Alex VAN BREEDAM, Bart VANNIEUWENHUYSE & Sven VERSTREPEN: "Efficient supply chains through flexible horizontal collaboration"
JEL Classifications: -
Keywords: -

2012/006
BOUCKAERT, Jan, Hans DEGRYSE & Theon VAN DIJK: "Bertrand competition with an asymmetric no-discrimination constraint"
JEL Classifications: D11
Keywords: -

2012/005
SCHOEN, Eric D. & Robert W. MEE: "Two-level designs of strength 3 and up to 48 runs"
JEL Classifications: -
Keywords: Orthogonal array, Resolution IV, Nonregular designs

2012/004
KESSELS, Roselinde, Bradley JONES & Peter GOOS: "A comparison of partial profile designs for discrete choice experiments with an application in software development"
JEL Classifications: -
Keywords: Discrete choice experiments, Bayesian D-optimal design, Partial profiles, Lexicographic choice behavior, Balanced incomplete block design, Coordinate-exchange algorithm

2012/003
JUNQUÉ DE FORTUNY, Enric, Tom DE SMEDT, David MARTENS & Walter DAELEMANS: "Media coverage in times of political crisis: a text mining approach"
JEL Classifications: -
Keywords: -

2012/002
JONES, Bradley & Peter GOOS: "I-optimal versus D-optimal split-plot response surface designs"
JEL Classifications: -
Keywords: Coordinate-exchange algorithm, D-optimality, Hard-to-change factors, I-optimality, IV-optimality, Multi-stratum design, Split-plot design, V-optimality

2012/001
SÖRENSEN, Kenneth, Christine VANOVERMEIRE & Sylvie BYSSCHAERT: "Efficient metaheuristics to solve the intermodal terminal location problem"
JEL Classifications: -
Keywords: Intermodal transportation, Terminal location, Metaheuristics

Working Papers 2011

2011/022
STANOVA, Nadja: "Output and price behaviour in a system dynamics model"
JEL Classifications: E31, E32
Keywords: System dynamics, Stock variables, Disequilibrium model, Bounded rationality, Backward looking solution


2011/021
DELOOF, Marc & Veronique VERMOESEN: "The value of bank relationships: Evidence from Belgium at the start of the Great Depression"
JEL Classifications: G21, G24, G30
Keywords: Bank relationships, Interlocking directorships, Busy directors, Firm value, Great Depression, Belgium


2011/020
BEUSELINCK, Christof, Marc DELOOF & Ann VANSTRAELEN: "Corporate governance and cash policies of multinational corporations"
JEL Classifications: F23, G32, G38
Keywords: Cash holdings, Multinational corporations, Parent-subsidiary relationship, Shareholder protection, Law enforcement, Europe


2011/019 (ACED 13)
VAN DEN BERG, Annette, Arjen VAN WITTELOOSTUIJN, Christophe BOONE & Olivier VAN DER BREMPT: "The impact of representative employee participation on organisational performance"
JEL Classifications: -
Keywords: -


2011/018
DECLERCK, Carolyn H., Christophe BOONE & Toko KIYONARI: "No place to hide: When shame causes proselfs to cooperate"
JEL Classifications: -
Keywords: Shame, Cooperation, Moral emotions, Prisoner’s dilemma, Affect as information, Social value orientation


2011/017
HERREMANS, Dorien & Kenneth SÖRENSEN: "A variable neighbourhood search algorithm to generate first species counterpoint musical scores"
JEL Classifications: C6, C8, C61
Keywords: Variable Neighborhood Search (VNS), Genetic Algorithm (GA), Metaheuristics, Local search, Music, Computer Aided Composition (CAC)


2011/016
SENBETA, Sisay Regassa: "How applicable are the new Keynesian DSGE models to a typical low-income economy?"
JEL Classifications: E32, F41, O55
Keywords: New Keynesian DSGE, Open economy macroeconomics, Fluctuations, Sub-Saharan Africa


2011/015
PEETERS, Thomas: "Optimal gate revenue sharing in sports leagues"
JEL Classifications: L41, L83
Keywords: Cartel behavior, Revenue sharing, Sports leagues


2011/014
PIROVANO, Mara & André VAN POECK: "Eurozone inflation differentials and the ECB"
JEL Classifications: E52, E58
Keywords: European Monetary Union, Inflation differentials, ECB


2011/013
STANOVA, Nadja: "Discretion versus rule-based fiscal policy in new EU economies"
JEL Classifications: E32, E61, H3, H6
Keywords: Fiscal policy, NMS, VAR model, Fiscal policy aggressiveness


2011/012
DE BORGER, Bruno & Mogens FOSGERAU: "Information provision by regulated public transport companies"
JEL Classifications: L15, L32, L92, L98
Keywords: Optimal information provision, Price regulation, Scheduled services


2011/011
MARKIANIDOU, Paresa & Arie WEEREN: "Linear and non linear growth models using mixed modeling: An application on European import volumes"
JEL Classifications: -
Keywords: Mixed modeling, Growth expectations, Policy implications


2011/010
MYLONA, Kalliopi, Harrison MACHARIA & Peter GOOS: "Three-level equivalent-estimation split-plot designs based on subset and supplementary difference set designs"
JEL Classifications: -
Keywords: Generalized least squares, OLS-GLS equivalence, Ordinary least squares, Response surface design, Split-plot design, Subset design, Supplementary difference set


2011/009
DECLERCK, Carolyn H., Christophe BOONE & Griet EMONDS: "When do people cooperate? The neuroeconomics of prosocial decision making"
JEL Classifications: -
Keywords: Neuroeconomics, Social dilemmas, Social preferences, Cooperation, Altruistic punishment


2011/008
H'MADOUN, Maryam: "Afraid of God or afraid of man: How religion shapes attitudes toward free riding and fraud"
JEL Classifications: -
Keywords: Religion, Free riding, Public goods


2011/007 (ACED 12)
PELI, Gábor: "Ethnic party fragmentation versus unity: A niche-based explanation research note"
JEL Classifications: -
Keywords: Ethnic parties, Political niche, Hungarian minorities


2011/006 (ACED 11)
PELI, Gábor & Hans SCHENK: "Organizational decision-maker bias supports market wave formation: Evidence with logical formalization"
JEL Classifications: -
Keywords: Mergers, Perception bias, Adaptation, Logical formalization


2011/005 (ACED 10)
BRUGGEMAN, Jeroen & Gábor PELI: "Cultural niche dimensionality and small firm subsistence"
JEL Classifications: -
Keywords: -


2011/004
SENBETA, Sisay Regassa: "A small open economy new Keynesian DSGE model for a foreign exchange constrained economy"
JEL Classifications: E32, F31, F41, O55
Keywords: New Keynesian DSGE, Foreign exchange constraint, Low income countries, Sub-Saharan Africa


2011/003
KESENNE, Stefan: "Broadcasting sports, pay-TV or free-TV?"
JEL Classifications: -
Keywords: -


2011/002 (ACED 9)
MUEHLFELD, Katrin, Jenny VAN DOORN & Arjen VAN WITTELOOSTUIJN: "The effects of personality composition and decision-making processes on change preferences of self-managing teams"
JEL Classifications: -
Keywords: Change preferences, self-managing teams, Team personality composition, Team decision-making processes, Business simulation


2011/001
DE KETELAERE, Bart, Peter GOOS & Kristof BRIJS: "Prespecified factor-level combinations in the optimal design of mixture-process variable experiments"
JEL Classifications: -
Keywords: Coordinate-exchange algorithm, D-optimality, Design augmentation, Follow-up design, Mixture-process variable experiment, Point-exchange algorithm

Working Papers 2010

2010/027
ROCHER, Stijn: "Occupational choice of young graduates: Do job tasks matter?"
JEL Classifications: I21, J24, J31
Keywords: Occupational choice, Task content, Mismatch

2010/026
SARTONO, Bagus, Peter GOOS & Eric D. SCHOEN: "Classification of strength-three multi-level orthogonal arrays"
JEL Classifications: -
Keywords: Experimental design, Resolution IV, Non-regular design, Regular design

2010/025
VALDIVIA, Fernando Zarzosa: "Determinants of the structural real exchange rates and economic structures in Argentina, Chile and Mexico"
JEL Classifications: C22, F11, F31, F35, F37, F41, F43
Keywords: Structural real exchange rate, Factor productivity, Endowments, Sectoral income distribution, Dutch disease, Cointegration

2010/024
PIROVANO, Mara: "Financial integration, monetary policy and stock prices: Empirical evidence for the new EU member states"
JEL Classifications: E440, E520, F360, G100
Keywords: Monetary policy shocks, New EU members, Stock prices, Financial integration

2010/023
SÖRENSEN, Kenneth, Johan SPRINGAEL & Sylvie BUSSCHAERT: "Sequential versus simultaneous application of multi-objective optimization and multicriteria decision making: An empirical investigation"
JEL Classifications: -
Keywords: -

2010/022
PEETERS, Thomas: "The shape of success: Estimating contest success functions in sports"
JEL Classifications: C35, C72, L83
Keywords: Contests, Contest success functions, Sports

2010/021
GOOS, Peter & Steven G. GILMOUR: "Analyzing categorical data from split-plot and other multi-stratum experiments"
JEL Classifications: -
Keywords: Binary data, Cumulative logit regression, Generalized linear mixed model, Hasse diagram, Ordered categorical data, Split-plot analysis

2010/020
BOUCKAERT, Jan, Theon VAN DIJK & Frank VERBOVEN: "Access regulation, competition, and broadband penetration: An international study"
JEL Classifications: -
Keywords: Broadband penetration, Access regulation, OECD-countries

2010/019
BOUCKAERT, Jan & Bruno DE BORGER: "Price competition between subsidized organizations"
JEL Classifications: D43, H52, I28, L13
Keywords: Subsidy allocation rules, Bertrand competition, Incentives to collude

2010/018
FEREDE, Tadele: "The interface between policy reforms, household livelihoods and farm-nonfarm linkages: Insights from a village economy in rural Ethiopia"
JEL Classifications: -
Keywords: Ethiopia, Farm, Nonfarm, Linkages, CGE, Village economy, Household livelihoods

2010/017
DE BORGER, Bruno & Bart WUYTS: "The tax treatment of company cars, commuting and optimal congestion taxes"
JEL Classifications: -
Keywords: -

2010/016
DE BORGER, Bruno & Amihai GLAZER: "Subsidizing consumption to signal quality of workers"
JEL Classifications: -
Keywords: -

2010/015
ERREYGERS, Guido, Philip CLARKE & Tom VAN OURTI: "Mirror, mirror, on the wall, who in this land is fairest of all? Revisiting the extended concentration index"
JEL Classifications: D63, I19, I32
Keywords: Health inequality, Socioeconomic inequality, Extended concentration index, Inequality aversion, Small-sample bias

2010/014
DE BORGER, Bruno & Stef PROOST: "A political economy model of road pricing"
JEL Classifications: D72, H23, R48
Keywords: Road pricing, Acceptability of tolls, Policy reform, Earmarking of toll revenues, Pigouvian taxes

2010/013
DE BORGER, Bruno & Bart WUYTS: "The structure of the labour market, telecommuting, and optimal peak period congestion tolls: A numerical optimisation model"
JEL Classifications: D62, H21, R41
Keywords: Congestion taxes, Competitive labour markets, Wage bargaining, Telecommuting

2010/012
DE BORGER, Bruno & Denis DE BRUYNE: "Port activities, hinterland congestion, and optimal government policies: The role of vertical integration in logistic operations"
JEL Classifications: -
Keywords: -

2010/011
MACHARIA, Harrison & Peter GOOS: "D-optimal and D-efficient equivalent-estimation second-order split-plot designs"
JEL Classifications: -
Keywords: Coordinate-exchange algorithm, D-optimality, Equivalent estimation, Generalized least squares, Ordinary least squares, Split-plot design

2010/010
LUYCKX, Bieke, Tijs DELBEKE, Luuk VAN WAES, Mariëlle LEIJTEN & Aline REMAEL: "Live subtitling with speech recognition causes and consequences of text reduction"
JEL Classifications: -
Keywords: Real-time subtitling, Live subtitling, Respeaking, Voice-writing, Speech recognition, Keystroke logging, Reduction

2010/009
LIMBOS, Sophie & Diana PHILLIPS: "The rise and decline of a Belgian banking giant – Communication and business ethics in the Fortis case"
JEL Classifications: -
Keywords: -

2010/008
BOUCKAERT, Jan, Hans DEGRYSE & Thomas PROVOOST: "Enhancing market power by reducing switching costs"
JEL Classifications: -
Keywords: -

2010/007
H'MADOUN, Maryam: "Religion and labor force participation of women"
JEL Classifications: -
Keywords: -

2010/006 (ACED 8) 
VAN DEN OORD, Ad, Arjen VAN WITTELOOSTUIJN, Geert DUYSTERS & Victor GILSING: "The ecology of technology: An empirical study of US biotechnology patents from 1976 to 2003"
JEL Classifications: -
Keywords: -

2010/005
PEETERS, Thomas: "TV revenue sharing as a coordination device in sports"
JEL Classifications: L41, L83
Keywords: Cartel behavior, Revenue sharing, Sports leagues, TV rights

2010/004
MICHIELS, Frederik & Ann DE SCHEPPER: "A new graphical tool for copula selection"
JEL Classifications: -
Keywords: Copulas, Copula selection, Kendall’s tau, Graphical tool, Multidimensional scaling, Dependence models

2010/003
PARYS, Wilfried: "Annotated Potron Bibliography"
JEL Classifications: B3
Keywords: Potron, Bibliography, Mathematical economics, Linear economic models, Input-output analysis

2010/002
DE BORGER, Bruno: "Optimal congestion taxes in a time allocation model"
JEL Classifications: D62, H21, R41
Keywords: Optimal taxation, Congestion, Time-commodity substitution, Derived demand

2010/001
SCHOEN, Eric D., Bradley JONES & Peter GOOS: "Split-plot experiments with factor-dependent whole-plot sizes"
JEL Classifications: -
Keywords: Coordinate-exchange algorithm, D-optimum designs, Point-exchange algorithm, Restricted randomization

Working Papers 2009

2009/018
PIROVANO, Mara, Jacques VANNESTE & André VAN POECK: "Portfolio and short-term capital inflows to the new and potential EU countries: Patterns, determinants and policy responses"
JEL Classifications: E44, F32, F41, P34
Keywords: Capital inflows, EU enlargement, Policy responses, Portfolio investment, Dynamic panel estimation

2009/017 (ACED 7)
KAUFMANN, Wesley, Arjen VAN WITTELOOSTUIJN & Christophe BOONE: "Colorful economics: Seeing red in a prisoner's dilemma game"
JEL Classifications: C72, C73, C91
Keywords: Color, Cooperation, Prisoners dilemma game

2009/016 (ACED 6)
BOONE, Christophe, Carolyn H. DECLERCK, Hayagreeva RAO & Kristin VAN DEN BUYS: "Dissonance and harmony: A study of the recognition of artists in modernistic music in Brussels; 1919-1939"
JEL Classifications: -
Keywords: -

2009/015 (ACED 5)
BOGAERT, Sandy, Christophe BOONE & Arjen VAN WITTELOOSTUIJN: "The impact of work group cooperative climate on affective commitment and turnover intention of professional employees"
JEL Classifications: -
Keywords: Cooperative climate, Climate strength, Commitment, Turnover intention, Social value orientation

2009/014 (ACED 4)
BOGAERT, Sandy, Christophe BOONE & Arjen VAN WITTELOOSTUIJN: "The impact of demographic distance and network ties on individual turnover of professional employees"
JEL Classifications: -
Keywords: Demography, Networks, Embeddedness, Turnover

2009/013
STANOVA, Nadja: "Are there political fiscal cycles in NMS?"
JEL Classifications: E32, E62, H62
Keywords: Fiscal policy, Opportunistic cycle, Business cycle, Government expenditures, NMS, CEE countries

2009/012
MICHIELS, Frederik & Ann DE SCHEPPER: "Understanding copula transforms: A review of dependence properties"
JEL Classifications: -
Keywords: -

2009/011
MAYA, Pablo, Kenneth SÖRENSEN & Peter GOOS: "A metaheuristic for a teaching assistant assignment-routing problem"
JEL Classifications: -
Keywords: -

2009/010
SCHITTEKAT, Patrick, Kenneth SÖRENSEN, Marc SEVAUX & Johan SPRINGAEL: "A matheuristic for the school bus routing problem"
JEL Classifications: -
Keywords: -

2009/009
PEETERS, Thomas: "Broadcasting rights and competitive balance in European soccer"
JEL Classifications: L41, L43, L83
Keywords: Competitive balance, Broadcast rights, Antitrust policy, Soccer

2009/008
ERREYGERS, Guido & Tadele FEREDE: "The end of subsistence farming: Growth dynamics and investments in human and environmental capital in rural Ethiopia"
JEL Classifications: -
Keywords: Ethiopian, Growth, Human capital, Natural capital, Land degradation, Sustainable development

2009/007
ARNOUTS, Heidi & Peter GOOS: "Design and analysis of industrial strip-plot experiments"
JEL Classifications: -
Keywords: D-optimal strip-plot design, Experimental cost reduction, Post-fractionated strip-plot design, Robust product design, Row-column design, Split-lot design, Split-plot design, Two-stage processes

2009/006
QUINLAN, Thomas, Maaike LONCKE, Mariëlle LEIJTEN & Luuk VAN WAES: "Writers’ shift between error correction and sentence composing: Competing processes and the executive function"
JEL Classifications: -
Keywords: Working memory, Central executive, Executive function, Writing processes, Proofreading

2009/005
WOUTERS, Geert & Ann DE SCHEPPER: "Optimal moment bounds under multiple shape constraints"
JEL Classifications: -
Keywords: Probability bounds, Shape constraints, Convex optimization

2009/004 (ACED 3)
RAMDANI, Dendi & Arjen VAN WITTELOOSTUIJN: "Board independence, CEO duality and firm performance: A quantile regression analysis for Indonesia, Malaysia, South Korea and Thailand"
JEL Classifications: -
Keywords: -

2009/003 (ACED 2)
BOONE, Christophe, Aleid BROUWER, Jan JACOBS & Arjen VAN WITTELOOSTUIJN: "Religious pluralism and organizational diversity: An empirical test for the city of Zwolle, the Netherlands, 1851-1914"
JEL Classifications: -
Keywords: -

2009/002 (ACED 1)
ZHOU, Chaohong & Arjen VAN WITTELOOSTUIJN: "Evolutionary game theory and organizational ecology: The case of resource-partitioning theory"
JEL Classifications: -
Keywords: Evolutionary game theory, Organizational ecology, Resource partitioning, Competitive dynamics

2009/001
VAN POECK, André: "One money and fifteen needs inflation and output convergence in the European Monetary Union"
JEL Classifications: -
Keywords: -

Working Papers 2008

2008/022
ARNOUTS, Heidi & Peter GOOS: "Update formulas for split-plot and block designs"
JEL Classifications: -
Keywords: D-, A- and V-optimality, Point-exchange, Coordinate-exchange, Information matrix, Compound symmetry

2008/021
MICHIELS, Frederik, Inge KOCH & Ann DE SCHEPPER: "Exploring the λ copula construction method for Archimedean copulas: Discussion of three λ types"
JEL Classifications: -
Keywords: Copula, Kendall’s ᴛ, Multiparametric Archimedean copula family, Tail dependence

2008/020
GOOS, Peter, Bart VERMEULEN & Martina VANDEBROEK: "D-optimal conjoint choice designs with no-choice options for a nested logit model"
JEL Classifications: -
Keywords: Choice-based conjoint, Information loss, Multinomial logit model, Nested logit model, No-choice option

2008/019
SLUYTS, Kim, Rudy MARTENS & Paul MATTHYSSENS: "Towards a dynamic concept of alliance capability"
JEL Classifications: -
Keywords: -

2008/018
ARNOUTS, Heidi & Peter GOOS: "Staggered designs for experiments with more than one hard-to-change factor"
JEL Classifications: -
Keywords: A- and D-optimality criterion, Cost, Hard-to-change factors, Split-plot design, Split-split-plot design, Staggered design

2008/017
KÉSENNE, Stefan: "The optimal size of a sports league"
JEL Classifications: -
Keywords: -

2008/016
EMONDS, Griet, Carolyn H. DECLERCK, Christophe BOONE, Everhard J.M. VANDERVLIET & Paul M. PARIZEL: "Comparing the neural basis of mixed-motive versus coordination games in people with different social preferences, an fMRI study"
JEL Classifications: -
Keywords: -

2008/015
DEBLONDE, Marian, Johan EVERS, Michiel VAN OUDHEUSDEN & Lieve GOORDEN: "Co-creating nano-imaginaries"
JEL Classifications: -
Keywords: -

2008/014
DECLERCK, Carolyn H., Christophe BOONE & Toko KIYONARI: "Oxytocin and cooperative behavior in social dilemmas: The moderating role of explicit incentives, social cues and individual differences"
JEL Classifications: -
Keywords: -

2008/013
DE BORGER, Bruno & Vincenzo VERARDI: "Estimating the direct costs of social conflicts: Road blockings in Bolivia"
JEL Classifications: -
Keywords: Social conflicts, Road blockings, Impulse-response functions

2008/012
DE BORGER, Bruno, Kristiaan KERSTENS & Matthias STAAT: "Transit costs and cost efficiency: Bootstrapping non-parametric frontiers"
JEL Classifications: -
Keywords: -

2008/011
CALTHROP, Edward, Bruno DE BORGER & Stef PROOST: "Cost-benefit analysis of transport investments in distorted economies"
JEL Classifications: H23, H43, H54, R13, R42
Keywords: Cost-benefit analysis, Transport investments, Marginal cost of funds

2008/010
AERTS, Walter & Ann TARCA: "The effect of institutional setting on attributional content in management commentary reports"
JEL Classifications: -
Keywords: Management Discussion and Analysis (MD&A), Operating and Financial Review (OFR), Cross-country effects, Enforcement, Analyst forecast dispersion

2008/009
KÉSENNE, Stefan: "The impact of pooling and sharing broadcast rights in professional team sports"
JEL Classifications: -
Keywords: -

2008/008
SALEHIPOUR,Amir, Kenneth SÖRENSEN, Peter GOOS & Olli BRÄYSY: "An efficient GRASP+VND metaheuristic for the traveling repairman problem"
JEL Classifications: -
Keywords: Traveling repairman problem, Minimum latency problem, Variable neighborhood descent, GRASP

2008/007
FEREDE AGAJE, Tadele: "Growth linkages and policy effects in a village economy in Ethiopia: An analysis of interactions using a social accounting matrix (SAM) framework"
JEL Classifications: -
Keywords: Village economy, Ethiopia, Growth linkages, Human capital, Multipliers, Social accounting matrix, Environmental capital

2008/006
KIYGI CALLI, Meltem & Marcel WEVERBERGH: "Forecasting newspaper demand with censored regression"
JEL Classifications: -
Keywords: Censored regression, Decision analysis, Forecasting, Distribution

2008/005
KIYGI CALLI, Meltem, Marcel WEVERBERGH & Philip Hans FRANSES: "Modeling the effectiveness of hourly direct-response radio commercials"
JEL Classifications: -
Keywords: Advertising effectiveness, Two-level model, Advertising response, Long-run elasticity, Short-run effects

2008/004
CUYVERS, Ludo, Reth SOENG, Joseph PLASMANS & Daniël VAN DEN BULCKE: "Productivity spillovers from foreign direct investment in the Cambodian manufacturing sector: Evidence from establishment-level data"
JEL Classifications: -
Keywords: -

2008/003
CUYVERS, Ludo, Joseph PLASMANS, Reth SOENG & Daniël VAN DEN BULCKE: "Determinants of foreign direct investment in Cambodia: Country-specific factor differentials"
JEL Classifications: -
Keywords: -

2008/002
VAN BINH, Tu & Michel DUMONT: "A fishing expedition in the Mekong Delta: Market volatility and price substitutes for Vietnamese fresh water fish"
JEL Classifications: -
Keywords: -

2008/001
DE BORGER, Bruno, Fay DUNKERLEY & Stef PROOST: "Capacity cost structure, welfare and cost recovery: Are transport infrastructures with high fixed costs a handicap?"
JEL Classifications: R41, R48
Keywords: Capacity cost structure, Cost recovery, Transport investment

Working Papers 2007

2007/028
KÉSENNE, Stefan: "Comparing management performances of Belgian football clubs"
JEL Classifications: -
Keywords: -

2007/027
MICHIEL, Frederik & Ann DE SCHEPPER: "A copula test space model: How to avoid the wrong copula choice"
JEL Classifications: -
Keywords: Copula, Kendall’s ᴛ, Goodness-of-fit

2007/026
DHAENE, Geert & Jan BOUCKAERT: "Sequential reciprocity in two-player, two-stage games: An experimental analysis"
JEL Classifications: A13, C70, C92, D63
Keywords: Sequential reciprocity, Sequential prisoner’s dilemma, Mini-ultimatum game

2007/025
BOUCKAERT, Jan & Hans DEGRYSE: "Opt in versus opt out: A free-entry analysis of privacy policies"
JEL Classifications: D11
Keywords: Privacy, Price discrimination, Monopolistic competition, Welfare

2007/024
DELOOF, Marc & Wouter VAN OVERFELT: "Were modern capital structure theories valid before World War I?"
JEL Classifications: G21, G32
Keywords: Capital structure, Corporate income tax, Investor protection, Bank relationships, Universal banks

2007/023
ROMMENS, An, Ludo CUYVERS & Marc DELOOF: "Interlocking directorates and business groups: Belgian evidence"
JEL Classifications: -
Keywords: Interlocking directorates, Business groups, Holding companies, Company performance

2007/022
RENIERS, Genserik, V. POOT-BAUDIER & S. THOMAS: "EHS management, sustainability reporting, marketing and corporate governance: Inspiring the metals recycling industry"
JEL Classifications: -
Keywords: -

2007/021
SCHOEN, Eric D. & Man V. M. NGUYEN: "Enumeration and classification of orthogonal arrays"
JEL Classifications: -
Keywords: Experimental design, Non-isomorphic designs, Estimation capacity, Minimum forbidden subconfiguration, Mixed array

2007/020
DE BORGER, Bruno & Bart WUYTS: "Commuting, transport tax reform and the labour market: Employer-paid parking and the relative efficiency of revenue recycling instruments"
JEL Classifications: -
Keywords: -

2007/019
DE BORGER, Bruno, Stef PROOST & Kurt VAN DENDER: "Private port pricing and public investment in port and hinterland capacity"
JEL Classifications: H71, L92, R4
Keywords: Port pricing, Congestion, Investment, Cost benefit rules

2007/018
LECLUYSE, C., Tom VAN WOENSEL & Herbert PEREMANS: "Vehicle routing with stochastic time-dependent travel times"
JEL Classifications: -
Keywords: Vehicle routing, Stochastic time-dependent travel times, Travel time reliability

2007/017
JONES, Bradley & Peter GOOS: "D-optimal design of split-split-plot experiments"
JEL Classifications: -
Keywords: D-optimality, Exchange algorithm, Hard-to-change factors, Multi-stratum design, Split-plot design, Tailor-made design

2007/016
VAN POECK, André & Maret VEINER: "Wage flexibility in the new European Union members: How different from the old?"
JEL Classifications: -
Keywords: -

2007/015
VAN AARLE, Bas, Harry GARRETSEN & Cindy MOONS: "Accession to the Euro-area: A stylized analysis using a NK model"
JEL Classifications: F31, F41, G15
Keywords: Euro-area, Fiscal policy, Monetary policy

2007/014
MOONS, Cindy, Harry GARRETSEN, Bas VAN AARLE & Jorge FORNERO: "Monetary policy in the new-Keynesian model: An application to the Euro-Area"
JEL Classifications: F31, F41, G15
Keywords: Fiscal policy, Monetary policy

2007/013
PLASMANS, Joseph, Jorge FORNERO & Tomasz MICHALAK: "A microfounded sectoral model for open economies"
JEL Classifications: D21, E31, F41, P24
Keywords: New Keynesian open economy model, Tradable and non-tradable sectors, Final and intermediate goods, Log-linearization

2007/012
DE RIDDER, Annemieke & Diana DE GRAEVE: "Comparing the cost-effectiveness of Haloperidol, Risperidone and Olanzapine in the treatment of schizophrenia using the net-benefit regression approach"
JEL Classifications: -
Keywords: -

2007/011
SCHOEN, Eric D.: "Classification of all orthogonal arrays with run-size 18"
JEL Classifications: -
Keywords: -

2007/010
ANNAERT, Jan, Crispiniano Garcia Joao BATISTA, Jeroen LAMOOT & Gleb LANINE: "Don’t fall from the saddle: The importance of higher moments of credit loss distributions"
JEL Classifications: -
Keywords: CreditRisk+, Saddlepoint approximations, Lugannani-Rice formula, Barndorff-Nielsen formula, Credit VaR

2007/009
LEIJTEN, Mariëlle, Isabelle DE RIDDER, Sarah RANSDELL & Luuk VAN WAES: "The effect of errors in the text produced so far. Strategy decisions based on error span, input mode, and lexicality"
JEL Classifications: -
Keywords: Cognitive effort, Dictation, Dual task technique, Error analysis, Speech recognition, Text Produced So Far (TPSF), Text production, Technology of writing, Working memory

2007/008
DE CLEYN, Sven & Johan BRAET: "Research valorisation through spin-off ventures: Integration of existing concepts and typologies"
JEL Classifications: -
Keywords: Spin-off, Spin-out, Taxonomy, Integrated typology, Entrepreneurship, Technology transfer

2007/007
BIDARD, Christian, Guido ERREYGERS & Wilfried PARYS: "“Our daily bread”: Maurice Potron, from Catholicism to mathematical economics"
JEL Classifications: B3
Keywords: Potron, Just prices, Just wages, Catholic doctrine, Perron-Frobenius, Hawkins-Simon, Duality, Linear model of production, Social question

2007/006
WAAS, Tom, Aviel VERBRUGGEN & Lieve GOORDEN: "De verduurzaming van het universitair onderzoek: Een impressie van kenmerken voor onderzoeksprojecten"
JEL Classifications: -
Keywords: -

2007/005
KIEDERICH, Andreas: "Investigating New Technology Based Firm (NTBF) internationalization: The impact on performance, the process and the antecedents"
JEL Classifications: -
Keywords: New Technology Based Firm (NTBF), Internationalization, Founders, Financing

2007/004
VAN TENDELOO, Brenda: "Audit quality and tax-induced earnings management in UK private firms"
JEL Classifications: -
Keywords: -

2007/003
BOONE, Christophe, Filippo Carlo WEZEL & Arjen VAN WITTELOOSTUIJN: "An ecological theory of population-level organizational diversity"
JEL Classifications: -
Keywords: -

2007/002
KÉSENNE, Stefan: "Does a win bonus help to increase profit or wins in professional team sports?"
JEL Classifications: -
Keywords: -

2007/001
VAN OVERFELT, Wouter, Jan ANNAERT, Marc DE CEUSTER & Marc DELOOF: "Do universal banks create value? Universal bank affiliation and company performance in Belgium, 1905-1909"
JEL Classifications: -
Keywords: -

Working Papers 2006

2006/035
CAEYERS, Bet & Wilfried PAUWELS: "Corporatism and macroeconomic stabilization policies"
JEL Classifications: -
Keywords: -

2006/034
DE BORGER, Bruno & Mogens FOSGERAU: "Discrete choices and the trade off between money and time: Another test of the theory of reference-dependent preferences"
JEL Classifications: C25, D01
Keywords: Reference-dependence, Loss aversion, WTP-WTA gap, Value of time

2006/033
ZARZOSA VALDIVIA, Fernando Enrique: "Income distribution, Dutch disease and real exchange rate movements"
JEL Classifications: C22, F11, F31, F35, F37, F41, F43
Keywords: Structural and PPP real exchange rate, Total and biased factor productivity, Factor endowments, Income distribution, Dutch disease, De-industrialization

2006/032
AERTS, Walter & Tom VAN CANEGHEM: "Intra-industry benchmarking of SG&A expenses: A neo-institutional perspective"
JEL Classifications: -
Keywords: SG&A reporting, Overhead costs, Neo-institutional theory, Cost allocation, Imitation behavior

2006/031
DE CLEYN, Sven & Johan BRAET: "The evolution and performance of spin-off ventures: Integration and elaboration of existing models"
JEL Classifications: -
Keywords: Innovation management, Spin-off ventures, Integrated model, Evolution model, Performance model

2006/030
KOCH, Inge & Ann DE SCHEPPER: "The comonotonicity coefficient: A new measure of positive dependence in a multivariate setting"
JEL Classifications: -
Keywords: Measure of association, Copula, Dependence, Comonotonicity

2006/029
ERREYGERS, Guido: “Beyond the Health Concentration Index: An Atkinson alternative for the measurement of the socioeconomic inequality of health"
JEL Classifications: D63, I10
Keywords: Health inequality, Socioeconomic inequality, Concentration Index, Atkinson Index

2006/028
GOOSSENS, Kelly: “National dominance in European football leagues”
JEL Classifications: -
Keywords: -

2006/027
ERREYGERS, Guido: “Correcting the Concentration Index”
JEL Classifications: D63, I10
Keywords: Health inequality, Socioeconomic inequality, Concentration Index

2006/026
GARROI, Jean-Jacques, Peter GOOS & Kenneth SÖRENSEN: “A variable-neighbourhood search algorithm for finding optimal run orders in the presence of serial correlation and time trends"
JEL Classifications: -
Keywords: AR(1), Autocorrelation, Central composite design, D-optimality criterion, Local search

2006/025
DUMONT, Michel: “The social consequences of economic globalization”
JEL Classifications: -
Keywords: -

2006/024
DUMONT, Michel: “Technological performance of Belgium: Is it really so bad?”
JEL Classifications: -
Keywords: EU-US technology gap, R&D investment, Productivity, High-tech exports

2006/023
CUYVERS, Ludo, Michel DUMONT, W. VIVERS, Patrick DE PELSMACKER, M.-L. MULLER, Marc JEGERS & A. SAAYMAN: “Export intensity and the competitive intelligence of exporting companies: Evidence from Belgium and South Africa"
JEL Classifications: -
Keywords: -

2006/022
JORISSEN, Ann, Anne-Mie REHEUL, Eddy LAVEREN & Rudy MARTENS: “Short-term planning Sophistication in SMEs: The relationship with strategy and perceived environmental uncertainty"
JEL Classifications: -
Keywords: Planning sophistication, Strategy, Environmental uncertainty, Contingency

2006/021
DE BORGER, Bruno, Fay DUNKERLEY & Stef PROOST: “Strategic investment and pricing decisions in a congested transport corridor"
JEL Classifications: H23, H71, R41, R48
Keywords: Congestion pricing, Transport investment, Transit traffic

2006/020
DE SCHEPPER, Ann & Bart HEIJNEN: “Risk management under incomplete information: Exact upper and lower bounds for the Value at Risk"
JEL Classifications: G14, G22, C13, E40, C65
Keywords: Risk management, Incomplete information, Value at Risk

2006/019
DE SCHEPPER, Ann & Bart HEIJNEN: “Risk management under incomplete information: Exact upper and lower bounds for the probability to reach extreme values"
JEL Classifications: G14, G22, C13, E40, C65
Keywords: Risk management, Incomplete information, Tail probability, Extreme values

2006/018
DEBLONDE, Marian: “An ethical toolkit for food companies: Reflections on its use”
JEL Classifications: -
Keywords: Food sector, Moral communication, Ethical toolkit, CSR (Developed form), Empowerment, Equal dialogue

2006/017
CALTHROP, Edward, Bruno DE BORGER & Stef PROOST: “Externalities and partial tax reform: Does it make sense to tax road freight (but not passenger) transport?"
JEL Classifications:  H21, H23, R41, R48
Keywords:  Tax reform, Congestion, Transport pricing

2006/016
DE CLEYN, Sven & Johan BRAET: “The due diligence process – Guiding principles for early stage innovative products"
JEL Classifications: -
Keywords: Due diligence, Innovation, Early stage, New technology-based firm
 

2006/015
BEUSELINCK, Christof & Marc DELOOF: “Bussiness groups, taxes and accruals management”
JEL Classifications:  G32, H21, M41
Keywords:  Business groups, Effective tax rate, Marginal tax rate, Accruals – Cash Flow Association

2006/014
DE BORGER, Bruno: “Commuting, congestion tolls and noncompetitive labour markets: Optimal congestion pricing in a wage bargaining model"
JEL Classifications: -
Keywords: -

2006/013
RENIERS, Genserik L.L., Wout DULLAERT, B.J.M. ALE, F. VERSCHUEREN & Karel SOUDAN: “Evaluating safety critical staffing arrangements in the CPI”
JEL Classifications: -
Keywords: -

2006/012
MAHIEU, Joris, Annemieke DE RIDDER, Diana DE GRAEVE, Chris VRINTS & Johan BOSMANS: “Economic analysis of the use of drug-eluting stents in the perspective of the Belgian health care sector”
JEL Classifications: -
Keywords: Drug-eluting, Stents, Economic analysis, Belgium, Restenosis

2006/011
SPRINGAEL, Johan & Inneke VAN NIEUWENHUYSE: “On the sum of independent zero-truncated Poisson random variables"
JEL Classifications: -
Keywords: Poisson distribution, Zero-truncated, Probability function

2006/010
AERTS, Walter, Denis CORMIER & Michel MAGNAN: “The intertwining of financial analyst behaviour and web-based performance transparency"
JEL Classifications: -
Keywords: -

2006/009
DE CLEYN, Sven & Johan BRAET: “IP protection in Belgian universities - Best practices and analysis in the European academic and business context"
JEL Classifications: -
Keywords: Intellectual property, University, Technology transfer office

2006/008
BORGHERS, Eddy: “French regional wheat prices: 1756-1872. Correlation length"
JEL Classifications: -
Keywords: Multivariate statistics, Correlation length, Wheat prices, France

2006/007
Niet beschikbaar/Not available

2006/006
JONES, Bradley & Peter GOOS: “A candidate-set-free algorithm for generating D-optimal split-plot designs”
JEL Classifications: -
Keywords: D-optimality, Exchange algorithm, Hard-to-change factors, Multi-stratum design, Split-plot design, Tailor-made design

2006/005
GILMOUR, Steven G. & Peter GOOS: “Analysis of data from nonorthogonal multi-stratum designs”
JEL Classifications: -
Keywords: Bayesian methods, Coffee, Effective degrees of freedom, Freeze drying, Generalized least squares, Likelihood, MCMC, REML, Split-plot experiment

2006/004
BORGHERS, Eddy: “French regional wheat prices: 1756-1872. Généralités versus départements”
JEL Classifications: -
Keywords: Multivariate statistics, Wheat prices, France

2006/003
BORGHERS, Eddy: “French regional wheat prices: 1756-1870. An illustrated statistical analysis"
JEL Classifications: -
Keywords: Multivariate statistics, Wheat prices, France

2006/002
Niet beschikbaar/Not available

2006/001
Niet beschikbaar/Not available

Working Papers 2005

2005/037
SUETENS, Sigrid & Jan POTTERS: “Bertrand colludes more than Cournot”
JEL Classifications: -
Keywords: Collusion, Quantity-choice and price-choice experiments

2005/036
OKKERSE, Liesbet: “Simulating the impact of immigration on wages and unemployment”
JEL Classifications: -
Keywords: -

2005/035
PAUWELS, Wilfried & Peter M. KORT: “Renegotiating government procurement contracts”
JEL Classifications: -
Keywords: -

2005/034
GOOSSENS, Kelly: “Competitive balance in European football: Comparison by adapting measures: National measure of seasonal imbalance and top 3”
JEL Classifications: -
Keywords: -

2005/033
GOOS, Peter: “The usefulness of optimal design for generating blocked and split-plot response surface experiments”
JEL Classifications: -
Keywords: Equivalence of OLS and GLS, Ordinary least squares, Generalized least squares, Orthogonal blocking, D-optimal design

2005/032
GARRETSEN, Harry, Cindy MOONS & Bas VAN AARLE: “Monetary policy in the Euro-Area: An analysis using a stylized new-Keynesian model”
JEL Classifications:  F31, F41, G15
Keywords:  EMU, Fiscal policy, Monetary policy

2005/031
PAUWELS, Wilfried & Marcel WEVERBERGH: “The golden rule in transfer pricing regulation”
JEL Classifications: F13, K2, C72
Keywords: Transfer pricing, Welfare analysis

2005/030
SPRINGAEL, Johan & Wim DE KEYSER: “A branch and bound algorithm to construct a consensus ranking based on Kendall’s ᴛ”
JEL Classifications: -
Keywords: Group decision support, Rankcorrelation, Kendall’s ᴛ, Branch and bound algorithm

2005/029
MATTHYSSENS, Paul & Tine BUYL: “From product to total solution: An enriched channel perspective”
JEL Classifications: -
Keywords: Total solutions, Channel management, Channel relationships, Relationship management

2005/028
KÉSENNE, Stefan: “Revenue sharing and owner profits in professional team sports”
JEL Classifications: -
Keywords: -

2005/027
CUYVERS, Ludo & Michel DUMONT: “Export opportunities and export promotion activities in Belgium: Is there any connection?”
JEL Classifications: -
Keywords: -

2005/026
MOONS, Cindy & André VAN POECK: “Does one size fit all? A Taylor-rule based analysis of monetary policy for current and future EMU members”
JEL Classifications: -
Keywords: -

2005/025
CHUSSEAU, Nathalie, Michel DUMONT, Joël HELLIER, Glenn RAYP & Peter WILLEMÉ: “Wage inequality and immigration in Europe during the first stage of the international division of labour (1960-1975)"
JEL Classifications: F22, J31
Keywords: Immigration, International division of labour, Wage inequality

2005/024
CUYVERS, Ludo & Stijn VERHERSTRAETEN: “The network of interlocking directorates between international economic organizations (2004)”
JEL Classifications: -
Keywords: International economic organizations, Interlocking directorates, Interlocking directorships, Organizational networks

2005/023
BORGHERS, Eddy & Patrick WESSA: “The Xycoon project”
JEL Classifications: -
Keywords: Web traffic, Search rank, Impact factor, Citations, Statistics

2005/022
VAN DE VOOREN, Floris W.C.J. & Tom PAUWELS: “The impact on transport and economy of a levy on mobility: Consequences of spending the revenues of the levy”
JEL Classifications: -
Keywords: Revenue recycling, Spending options, MOBILEC model, Scenario analysis, Preferences

2005/021
VANHAECHT, Eve & Wilfried PAUWELS: “University competition: Symmetric or asymmetric quality choices?”
JEL Classifications: -
Keywords: (Higher) Education, Research, Competition, Horizontal and vertical dominance, Asymmetric equilibria

2005/020
PEDRAIRA DO COUTO FERRAZ, Lucas, Joseph PLASMANS & André VAN POECK: “On the relative stickiness of wages and prices in Western Europe and the United States: A structural VAR approach”
JEL Classifications: -
Keywords: -

2005/019
KÉSENNE, Stefan: “Competitive balance in team sports and the impact of revenue sharing. A survey of the economic theory”
JEL Classifications: -
Keywords: -

2005/018
KÉSENNE, Stefan: “Do we need an economic impact study or a cost-benefit analysis of a sports event?”
JEL Classifications: -
Keywords: -

2005/017
SPRINGAEL, Johan & Inneke VAN NIEUWENHUYSE: “A lost sales inventory model with a compound poisson demand pattern”
JEL Classifications: -
Keywords: Discrete inventory models, Compound Poisson process, Lost sales, Jonquière’s function

2005/016
GABRIËLS, Xavier & Patricia VAN DE WIELE: “Creative accounting: Ethical perceptions among accounting and non-accounting students”
JEL Classifications: M14, M49
Keywords: Creative accounting, Earnings management, Ethics, Enron, Education

2005/015
VAN POECK, André, Jacques VANNESTE & Maret VEINER: “Exchange rate regimes and exchange market pressure in the new EU member countries”
JEL Classifications: -
Keywords: -

2005/014
BUYSSCHAERT, An, Marc DELOOF & Marc JEGERS: “Is group affiliation profitable in developed countries? Not in Belgium”
JEL Classifications: -
Keywords: Business groups, Company performance, Developed countries, Internal capital markets

2005/013
RENIERS, Genserik, Wout DULLAERT & Karel SOUDAN: “A framework for optimizing cross-company prevention in case of adding equipment to a chemical cluster”
JEL Classifications: -
Keywords: -

2005/012
VAN TENDELOO, Brenda & Ann VANSTRAELEN: “Earnings management and audit quality in Europe: Evidence from the private client segment market”
JEL Classifications: -
Keywords: -

2005/011
LEIJTEN, Mariëlle & Luuk VAN WAES: “Inputlog: A logging tool for the research of writing processes”
JEL Classifications: -
Keywords: Keystroke logging, Registration tool, Writing processes, Pauses, Writing modes, Text analysis, Pause analysis, Writing observation, Cognitive processes

2005/010
CUYVERS, Ludo, Philippe DE LOMBAERDE & Stijn VERHERSTRAETEN: “Current status of East Asian economic integration”
JEL Classifications: -
Keywords: -

2005/009
VAN NIEUWENHUYSE, Inneke & Nico VANDAELE: “Estimating process batch flow times in a two-stage stochastic lowshop with overlapping operations”
JEL Classifications: -
Keywords: -

2005/008
GOOSSENS, Nico & Nico VANDAELE: “Modelling blocking systems with zero buffer in semi-process industries”
JEL Classifications: -
Keywords: -

2005/007
VANDAELE, Nico, Diederik CLAERHOUT, Inneke VAN NIEUWENHUYSE & Rony CREMMERY: “E-POLCA to control multi-product, multi-machine job shops”
JEL Classifications: -
Keywords: -

2005/006
KOCH, Inge & Ann DE SCHEPPER: “Discrete annuities using truncate stochastic interest rates: The case of a Vasicek and Ho-Lee model”
JEL Classifications: -
Keywords: -

2005/005
BREUGELMANS, Els, Katia CAMPO & Els GIJSBRECHTS: “Opportunities for active stock-out management in online stores: The impact of the stock-out policy on online stock-out reactions”
JEL Classifications: -
Keywords: -

2005/004
VAN NIEUWENHUYSE Inneke & Nico VANDAELE: “Analysis of gap times in a two-stage stochastic flowshop with overlapping operations”
JEL Classifications: -
Keywords: -

2005/003
AERTS, Walter, Denis CORMIER & Michel MAGNAN: “Financial analysts' concerns, media exposure and corporate environmental communication. Accounting for simultaneous relationships in an international perspective”
JEL Classifications: -
Keywords: Analysts' forecasts, Corporate disclosure, Stakeholder theory, Media exposure, Environmental disclosure, Environmental performance, Web reporting

2005/002
CHERCHYE, Laurens, Bruno DE BORGER & Tom VAN PUYENBROECK: “Nonparametric tests of optimizing behavior in public service provision: Methodology and an application to local safety”
JEL Classifications: C14, C61, D21, D24
Keywords: Public agencies, Optimizing behavior, Nonparametric production, Local police departments

2005/001
KÉSENNE, Stefan: “The organization of European football and the competitive balance within and between nations”
JEL Classifications: J6, L52, L83
Keywords: Labour mobility, Industrial policy, Regulation, Sports economics

Working Papers 2004

2004/030
MEERSMAN, Hilde, Eddy VAN DE VOORDE & Thierry VANELSLANDER: “Transport objectives, instruments and indicators”
JEL Classifications: -
Keywords: -

2004/029
RENIERS, Genserik, Wout DULLAERT & Karel SOUDAN: “A domino effect evaluation model”
JEL Classifications: -
Keywords: -

2004/028
VAN NIEUWENHUYSE, Inneke: "An adapted queueing model for estimating replenishment lead times in make-to-stock batch process industries”
JEL Classifications: -
Keywords: -

2004/027
LIMÈRE, Arthur, Eddy LAVEREN & Koen VAN HOOF: “A classification model for firm growth on the basis of ambitions, external potential and resources by means of decision tree induction”
JEL Classifications: -
Keywords: Company growth, Growth enablers, Growth disablers, Decision tree induction, Pecking order theorem

2004/026
LAVEREN, Eddy, Arthur LIMÈRE & Ellen VANBILSEN: “CEO experience and firm growth in small family firms”
JEL Classifications: -
Keywords: Firm performance, Firm growth, Management experience

2004/025
BEUSELINCK, Christophe, Marc DELOOF & Sophie MANIGART: “Private equity investments and disclosure policy”
JEL Classifications: G30, M10, M41
Keywords: Disclosure, Private equity, Unlisted firms, Monitoring, Corporate governance

2004/024
SUETENS, Sigrid: “Literature review: R&D cooperation in oligopoly with spillovers: An experimental economics approach”
JEL Classifications: -
Keywords: -

2004/023
CRUIJSSEN, Frans, Martine COOLS, Wout DULLAERT & Hein FLEUREN: “Horizontal cooperation in logistics: Opportunities and impediments”
JEL Classifications: C40
Keywords: Horizontal cooperation, Logistics networks, Freight transportation, Empirical research

2004/022
DE BORGER, Bruno & Stef PROOST: “Vertical and horizontal tax competition in the transport sector”
JEL Classifications: R48, H71, H21
Keywords: -

2004/021
DE BORGER, Bruno & Inge MAYERES: “Taxation of car-ownership, car use and public transport: Insight derived from a discrete choice numerical optimisation model”
JEL Classifications: H21, H23, R41
Keywords: Transport externalities, Optimal taxation, Two-part tariffs

2004/020
CALTHROP, Edward & Bruno DE BORGER: “Tax-overshifting in wage bargaining models”
JEL Classifications: H20, J51
Keywords: Bargaining models, Tax over-shifting


2004/019
Niet beschikbaar/Not available

2004/018
BRYS, Guy, Mia HUBERT & Anja STRUYF: “Goodness-of-fit tests based on a robust measure of skewness”
JEL Classifications: -
Keywords: -

2004/017
VAN DE MIEROOP, Dorien: “Quantitative and qualitative analysis of institutional and professional identity”
JEL Classifications: -
Keywords: Institutional and professional identity, Quantitative analysis, Discourse analysis, Agentive and epistemic self-references

2004/016
KOCH, Inge & Ann DE SCHEPPER: “General annuities under truncate stochastic interest rates”
JEL Classifications: -
Keywords: -

2004/015
THOMASSEN, Liesbeth & Martine VAN WOUWE: “A closed-form formula for unprotected American call options on assets paying discrete known dividends”
JEL Classifications: -
Keywords: -

2004/014
VAN CANEGHEM, Tom: “Audit quality, materiality & threshold-induced earnings management”
JEL Classifications: -
Keywords: -

2004/013
KÉSENNE, Stefan: “The win maximization model reconsidered. Flexible talent supply and efficiency wages”
JEL Classifications: -
Keywords: -

2004/012
VANNESTE, Jacques, André VAN POECK & Maret VEINER: “Exchange rate regimes and exchange market pressure in accession countries”
JEL Classifications: -
Keywords: -

2004/011
SPRINGAEL, Johan, Yves DE SMET & Pierre KUNSCH: “An new framework for describing the decision behaviour of large groups”
JEL Classifications: 90B50, 91B06
Keywords: Multicriteria decision aid, Statistical modelling, Markov chains, Pairwise preference modelling

2004/010
VAN VOLSEM, Sofie, Wout DULLAERT & Rik VAN LANDEGHEM: “An evolutionary algorithm and discrete event simulation for optimizing inspection strategies for multi-stage processes”
JEL Classifications: -
Keywords: Inspection allocation, Quality economics, Evolutionary algorithm, Discrete event simulation

2004/009
VAN WAES, Luuk, Liesbet OPDENACKER & Geert JACOBS: “Press releases online: The effectiveness of Calliope as an online writing center for business communication”
JEL Classifications: -
Keywords: Online writing centers, Press releases, Writing processes, Learning styles, Self-efficacy, Peer feedback

2004/008
DEWEIRDT, Edward, Wendy GOEMINNE & Geert VAN CAMPENHOUT: “Bedrijfseconomische redenen voor inkoop van eigen aandelen”
JEL Classifications: -
Keywords: Inkoop van eigen aandelen, Enquête

2004/007
ROMMENS, An, Marc DELOOF & Marc JEGERS: “Why do holding companies in pyramidal groups trade at a discount?”
JEL Classifications: -
Keywords: Holding companies, Closed-end fund discount, Pyramidal groups, Private benefits, Clinical study

2004/006
VERHETSEL, Ann & Dries VAN HOFSTRAETEN: “De introductie van de ruimtelijke dimensie in de analyse van het verplaatsingsgedrag van personen: Een gevalstudie voor het Antwerpse stadsgewest”
JEL Classifications: -
Keywords: -

2004/005
BOSCHMANS, Kris & Jan BOUCKAERT: “Job raiding raises human capital investments”
JEL Classifications: L13, J63
Keywords: Job raiding, Human capital, Labor markets

2004/004
DE SCHEPPER, Ann & Bart HEIJNEN: “On the pricing of options under limited information”
JEL Classifications: G130, C190, C650, E400
Keywords: Black-Scholes, Option pricing, Limited information

2004/003
DE BORGER, Bruno, Stef PROOST & K. VAN DENDER: “Congestion and tax competition in a parallel network”
JEL Classifications: H23, H71, R41, R48
Keywords: Congestion pricing, Transit traffic

2004/002
BEUSELINCK, Christof, Marc DELOOF & Sophie MANIGART: “Venture capital, private equity and earnings quality”
JEL Classifications: G32, M13, M49
Keywords: -

2004/001
WUYTS, Bart, Tom VAN WOENSEL & Nico VANDAELE: “Validating state-dependent queueing models for uninterrupted trafic flows using simulation”
JEL Classifications: -
Keywords: -

Working Papers 2003

2003/029
SUETENS, Sigrid: “Voluntary R&D cooperation in experimental duopoly markets”
JEL Classifications: C90, L13, O31
Keywords: R&D, Duopoly, Experiment

2003/028
AERTS, Walter, Denis CORMIER & Michel MAGNAN: “Intra-industry imitation in corporate environmental disclosure: A neo-institutional perspective”
JEL Classifications: -
Keywords:
-

2003/027
DECAMPS, Marc, Ann DE SCHEPPER & Marc GOOVAERTS: “Path integrals as a tool for pricing interest rate contingent claims: The case of reflecting and absorbing boundaries”
JEL Classifications: -
Keywords: -

2003/026
BOSTYN, Frank, P. DEBAL, R. VANDINGENEN, Peter WILLEMÉ & M.M. YEO: “An empirical study of the variance of Belgium firm profitability”
JEL Classifications: -
Keywords: -

2003/025
BOSTYN, Frank, P. DEBAL & R. VANDINGENEN: “Euclidian distance measurement methodology for determining the reliability of financial statements”
JEL Classifications: -
Keywords: -

2003/024
BOSTYN, Frank & R. VANDINGENEN: “Sources of persistent firm performance differences”
JEL Classifications: -
Keywords: -

2003/023
BOSTYN, Frank & R. VANDINGENEN: “Conceptualization and measurement of firm performance”
JEL Classifications: -
Keywords: -

2003/022
LEIJTEN, Mariëlle & Luuk VAN WAES: “The writing processes and learning strategies of initial users of speech recognition. A case study on the adaptation process of two professional writers”
JEL Classifications: -
Keywords: Writing processes, Learning strategies, Speech recognition, Research method, Writing modes

2003/021
KÉSENNE, Stefan: “Revenue sharing and competitive balance. Does it invariance proposition hold?”
JEL Classifications: -
Keywords: -

2003/020
ANNAERT, Jan, Anouk G.P. CLAES & Marc J.K. DE CEUSTER: “Does the Compass Rose pattern matter for testing normality?”
JEL Classifications: -
Keywords: -

2003/019
DI BARTOLOMEO, Giovanni, Jacob ENGWERDA, Joseph PLASMANS & Bas VAN AARLE: “Macroeconomic stabilisation policies in the EMU: Spillovers, asymmetries and institutions”
JEL Classifications: C70, E17, E58, E61, E63
Keywords: Macroeconomic stabilisation, EMU, Coalition formation, Linear quadratic differential games

2003/018
KÉSENNE, Stefan: “The salary cap proposal of the G-14 in European football”
JEL Classifications: -
Keywords: -

2003/017
KÉSENNE, Stefan: “Competitive balance and revenue sharing when rich clubs have poor teams”
JEL Classifications: -
Keywords: -

2003/016
VAN DE VOOREN, Floris W.C.J. & Tom PAUWELS: “Improvement of infrastructure: Spatial effects and how to finance”
JEL Classifications: -
Keywords: -

2003/015
OKKERSE, Liesbet: “Effects of migration: An applied general equilibrium analysis for Belgium”
JEL Classifications: D58, F22, J61
Keywords: Migration, Labour markets, Applied general equilibrium

2003/014
DELOOF, Marc & Véronique WEETS: “External financing, information disclosure and the timeliness of annual shareholder meetings and financial statement filings in Belgium”
JEL Classifications: -
Keywords: -

2003/013
MERLEVEDE, Bruno: “Reform reversals and output growth in transition economies”
JEL Classifications: O57, P21, P26, P27
Keywords: Transition, Structural reform, Reversal, Stabilization, Initial conditions

2003/012
BUYSSCHAERT, An, Marc DELOOF & Marc JEGERS: “Ondernemingsgroepen en interne kapitaalmarkten: Een literatuuroverzicht”
JEL Classifications: -
Keywords: -

2003/011
DE MAEYER, Jan & Tom PAUWELS: “Mode choice modelling. A literature review on the role of quality of service attributes and their monetary valuation in freight demand models"
JEL Classifications: -
Keywords: -

2003/010
THOMASSEN, Liesbeth & Martine VAN WOUWE: “The influence of a stochastic interest rate on the n-fold compound option”
JEL Classifications: -
Keywords: Financial, N-fold compound options, Log-normal interest rates

2003/009
GOOVAERTS, Marc, Ann DE SCHEPPER & Yong HUA: “Copulas and the distribution of cash flows with mixed signs”
JEL Classifications: -
Keywords: -

2003/008
SEVAUX, Marc & Kenneth SÖRENSEN: “A genetic algorithm for robust schedules in a just-in-time environment”
JEL Classifications: -
Keywords: Quality robustness, Solution robustness, Single machine scheduling problem, Weighted number of late jobs, Genetic algorithm

2003/007
BOUCKAERT, Jan & Frank VERBOVEN: “Price squeezes in a regulatory environment”
JEL Classifications: -
Keywords: -

2003/006
VAN NIEUWENHUYSE, Inneke & Nico VANDAELE: “The impact of lot splitting on lead times in a deterministic production line”
JEL Classifications: -
Keywords: Transfer batching, Overlapping operations, Lead time management

2003/005
VAN UYTBERGEN, Steve: “Empirical research on market efficiency with respect to accounting information: A critical survey of the literature”
JEL Classifications: -
Keywords: -

2003/004
DE BORGER, Bruno & Kurt VAN DENDER: “Transport tax reform, commuting and endogenous values of time”
JEL Classifications: R41, H21, H23
Keywords: Transport, Congestion, Value of time

2003/003
SZYMANSKI, Stefan & Stefan KÉSENNE: “Competitive balance and gate revenue sharing in team sports”
JEL Classifications: L83, D72
Keywords: Team sports, Contest (tournament) theory, Competitive balance

2003/002
VAN DE VOOREN, Floris W.C.J.: “Koppeling van transportmodellen”
JEL Classifications: -
Keywords: -

2003/001
BORGHIJS, Alain, Giovanni DI BARTOLOMEO & Bruno MERLEVEDE: “Inflation and unemployment in OECD countries: The role of political ideologies, central bank independance and industrial relations”
JEL Classifications: E00, E58, E61, J50
Keywords: Partisanship, Labor market institutions, Central bank independence, Economic performance

Working Papers 2002

2002/044
CAMPO, Katia, Odette DE STAEBEL, Els GIJSBRECHTS & Walter VAN WATERSCHOOT: "Therapeutic drug prescription behavior: Decision process and marketing mix effects"
JEL Classifications: -
Keywords: -

2002/043
VAN WATERSCHOOT, Walter, Joeri DE HAES & Annouk LIEVENS: "Some critical observations on the classic concept and classification of distribution service outputs"
JEL Classifications: -
Keywords: -

2002/042
VAN DE WIELE, Patricia: "Corporate disclosure strategies before business failure: The case of voluntary disclosure of sales by small and medium sized enterprises"
JEL Classifications: -
Keywords: -

2002/041
DE RIDDER, A. & Diana DE GRAEVE: "Order bias in estimates of willingness to pay for drugs to treat Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder. A contingent valuation study among students"
JEL Classifications: -
Keywords: -

2002/040
THOMASSEN, Liesbeth, Jan VAN CASTEREN & Martine VAN WOUWE: "Decomposition of the n-fold compound option"
JEL Classifications: -
Keywords: Financial, N-fold compound options

2002/039
JORISSEN, Ann, Ann VANSTRAELEN & Eddy LAVEREN: "The use of planning and control practices in SME's and the relationship with company performance"
JEL Classifications: -
Keywords: -

2002/038
JORISSEN, Ann, Eddy LAVEREN, Rudy MARTENS & Anne-Mie REHEUL: "The relationship between management accounting systems, firm strategy, perceived environmental uncertainty, networking, CEO characteristics and performance in SME's"
JEL Classifications: -
Keywords: -

2002/037
JORISSEN, Ann, Eddy LAVEREN, Rudy MARTENS & Anne-Mie REHEUL: "Differences between family and non-family firms. The impact of different research samples with increasing elimination of demographic sample differences"
JEL Classifications: -
Keywords: -

2002/036
CAMPO, Katia & Els GIJSBRECHTS: "On store format, category space allocation, and opportunities for micromarketing"
JEL Classifications: -
Keywords: Store format, Micromarketing, Category space allocation

2002/035
VAN UYTBERGEN, Steve: "Empirical research on the efficient stock markets hypothesis: The state of affairs"
JEL Classifications: -
Keywords: -

2002/034
VAN OURTI, Tom: "Measuring horizontal inequity in health care using Belgian panel data"
JEL Classifications: -
Keywords: Equity in health care, Count data, Two-part model, Panel data

2002/033
DE RIDDER, Isabelle, Gert RIJLAARSDAM & Luuk VAN WAES: "Readers and writers: How the analysis of reading behaviour provides a sound basis for designing L2-hypertexts"
JEL Classifications: -
Keywords: -

2002/032
VAN CANEGHEM, Tom: "The impact of audit quality on earnings rounding-up behaviour"
JEL Classifications: -
Keywords: -

2002/031
VAN DE VOOREN, Floris W.C.J. & Tom PAUWELS: "MOBILEC: De wisselwerking tussen mobiliteit en economie gemodelleerd. Beleidseffecten in Vlaanderen"
JEL Classifications: -
Keywords: -

2002/030
BLAUWENS, Gust, S. JANSSENS, Bert VERNIMMEN & Frank WITLOX: "The importance of frequency for combined transport of containers"
JEL Classifications: -
Keywords: -

2002/029
GABRIËLS, Xavier: "The impact of Enterprise Resource Planning Systems (ERPS) on the management accounting (information) systems of an organization"
JEL Classifications: -
Keywords: -

2002/028
VAN KERCKHOVEN, Tony: "The influence of cultural differences on corporate internet reporting in three Western European countries: A preliminary study"
JEL Classifications: -
Keywords: -

2002/027
SÖRENSEN, Kenneth: "Tabu searching for robust solutions. Theoretical framework"
JEL Classifications: -
Keywords: -

2002/026
GOOVAERTS, Marc, Ann DE SCHEPPER & Marc DECAMPS: "Transition probabilities for diffusion equations by means of path integrals"
JEL Classifications: -
Keywords: Diffusion processes, Transition probability, Path integral, Comonotonicity

2002/025
AERTS, Walter: "Self-serving tendencies in retrospective reasoning in accounting narratives: Does a capital market environment matter?"
JEL Classifications: -
Keywords: -

2002/024
ALOFS, Margo: "Migration probability as an incentive for human capital accumulation when information is asymmetric"
JEL Classifications: O15, J24, F22
Keywords: International migration, Human capital formation, Economic growth, Brain drain, Brain gain

2002/023
MOSSELMANS, Bert: "Adolphe Quetelet, the average man and the development of economic methodology"
JEL Classifications: -
Keywords: -

2002/022
BOUCKAERT, Jan & Geert DHAENE: "Inter-ethnic trust and reciprocity: Results of an experiment with small business entrepreneurs"
JEL Classifications: C91, J71
Keywords: Ethnic discrimination, Experimental economics, Trust game

2002/021
GIJSBRECHTS, Els & Wilfried PAUWELS: "Optimal prices, package sizes and package compositions in a market with variety seeking and loyal consumers"
JEL Classifications: -
Keywords: Variety seeking behavior, Price discrimination, Product policy, Game theory

2002/020
PLASMANS, Joseph, Hilde MEERSMAN, André VAN POECK & Bruno MERLEVEDE: "The unemployment benefit system and wage flexibility in EMU: Time-varying evidence in five countries"
JEL Classifications: -
Keywords: -

2002/019
ANNAERT, Jan & Geert VAN CAMPENHOUT: "Style breaks in return-based style analysis"
JEL Classifications: -
Keywords: -

2002/018
KÉSENNE, Stefan: "Club objectives and ticket pricing in professional team sports"
JEL Classifications: -
Keywords: -

2002/017
SLEURS, Kim, Geert JACOBS & Luuk VAN WAES: "Constructing press releases: Quotations as preformulation"
JEL Classifications: -
Keywords: Press releases, Ethnography, Writing process analysis, Preformulation, Pseudo-quotations

2002/016
VAN DE MIEROOP, Dorien: "Building a corporate image. An analysis of identity markers in business speeches"
JEL Classifications: -
Keywords: -

2002/015
DE KEYSER, Wim & Johan SPRINGAEL: "Another way of looking at group decision making opens new perspectives"
JEL Classifications: -
Keywords: GDSS, Group decision making, Multicriteria analysis

2002/014
THOMASSEN, Liesbeth & Martine VAN WOUWE: "A sensivity analysis for the n-fold compound option"
JEL Classifications: -
Keywords: Financial, N-fold compound options, Multivariate, Greeks

2002/013
VAN AARLE, Bas, Giovanni DI BARTOLOMEO, Jacob ENGWERDA & Joseph PLASMANS: "Staying together or breaking apart: Policy-makers' endogenous coalitions formation in the European Economic and Monetary Union"
JEL Classifications: C70, E17, E58, E61, E63
Keywords: Macroeconomic stabilization, EMU, Coalition formation

2002/012
LUKATCH, Ruslan & Joseph PLASMANS: "Knowledge spillovers in Belgium: Evidence from the firm's patent citation behavior"
JEL Classifications: -
Keywords: -

2002/011
CLAES, Anouk, Marc J.K. DE CEUSTER & Istvan LAGAERT: "Optimale schatting van beta's in de minder liquide Belgische markt", Bank- en Financiewezen, 5, 2002, 298-303.
Niet beschikbaar/Not available

2002/010
VAN DE WIELE, Patricia: "Voluntary disclosure of sales by small and medium sized enterprises: An extended analytical model"
JEL Classifications: -
Keywords: -

2002/009
DI BARTOLOMEO, Giovanni & Wilfried PAUWELS: "The issue of instability in a simple policy game between the central bank and the representative union"
JEL Classifications: E52, E55, E61, J51, C62, C70
Keywords: Central bank independence, Inflation bias, Inlfation spiral, Stability

2002/008
ANNAERT, Jan, Anouk G.P. CLAES & Marc J.K. DE CEUSTER: "Inter-temporal stability of the European credit spread co-movement structure"
JEL Classifications: G110, G150
Keywords: Credit spreads, Diversification, Correlations, Corporate bonds

2002/007
VAN CAMPENHOUT, Geert: "Fund misclassification and the limitations and applications of return-based style analysis"
JEL Classifications: -
Keywords: -

2002/006
CUNLIFFE, John & Guido ERREYGERS: "Inheritance and equal shares: Early American views"
JEL Classifications: -
Keywords: -

2002/005
DE RIDDER, Isabelle, Licia CALVI & Walter GEERTS: "Non-linear learning the "open" way: Language acquisition on the Web"
JEL Classifications: -
Keywords: -

2002/004
DELOOF, Marc, Wouter DE MAESENEIRE & Koen INGHELBRECHT: "The valuation of IPOs by investment banks and the stock market: Empirical evidence"
JEL Classifications: -
Keywords: -

2002/003
VAN CANEGHEM, Tom: "Earnings management induced by cognitive reference points"
JEL Classifications: -
Keywords: -

2002/002
VAN DE WIELE, Patricia: "An empirical analysis of voluntary disclosure of sales by small and medium sized enterprises"
JEL Classifications: -
Keywords: -

2002/001
CUYVERS, Ludo: "Thailand's export opportunities today with special attention to Asia-Pacific and the European Union"
JEL Classifications: -
Keywords: -

Working Papers 2001

2001/041
THOMASSEN, Liesbeth & Martine VAN WOUWE: "The n-fold compound option"
JEL Classifications: -
Keywords: Financial, N-fold compound options, Multivariate normal CDF

2001/040
VANDAELE, Nico, Inneke VAN NIEUWENHUYSE & Sascha CUPERS: "Optimal grouping for a nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) scanner"
JEL Classifications: -
Keywords: Queueing, Health services, Performance analysis, Lot sizing

2001/039
BOIANOVSKY, Mauro: "Patinkin, the Cowles Commission, and the theory of unemployment and aggregate supply"
JEL Classifications: -
Keywords: -

2001/038
DE WEVER, Sigrid, Rudy MARTENS & Koen VANDENBEMPT: "Trust in interorganisational networks: Towards a conceptual model"
JEL Classifications: -
Keywords: -

2001/037
DE SCHEPPER, Ann, Marc GOOVAERTS, Jan DHAENE, Rob KAAS & David VYNCKE: "Bounds for present value functions with stochastic interest rates and stochastic volatility"
JEL Classifications: -
Keywords: -

2001/036
DE BOECK, Liesje & Nico VANDAELE: "Modeling a generic assembly system II"
JEL Classifications: -
Keywords: -

2001/035
DE CEUSTER, Marc J.K. & Nancy MASSCHELEIN: "Regulating banks through market discipline. A survey of the issues", Journal of Economic Surveys, 17/5, 2003, 749-766.
Niet beschikbaar/Not available

2001/034
BUYSSCHAERT, An, Marc DELOOF & Marc JEGERS: "Equity sales in Belgian corporate groups: Expropriation of minority shareholders?"
JEL Classifications: G14, G32, G34
Keywords: -

2001/033
JORISSEN, Ann, Eddy LAVEREN, Rudy MARTENS & Anne-Mie REHEUL: "Planning and control practices in family firms versus non-family firms: Empirical evidence from SMEs in the wholesale sector"
JEL Classifications: -
Keywords: -

2001/032
JACOBS, Geert & Chris BRAECKE: "Contrastive perspectives on the reliability of grammar testing: The case of the verb phrase in L2 English"
JEL Classifications: -
Keywords: Grammar testing, Contrastive analysis, L2 English, The English verb phrase

2001/031
KEUNE, Hans, Mieke VERCAEREN & Daniël VLOEBERGHS: "An original and data based approach to the work-life balance"
JEL Classifications: -
Keywords: -

2001/030
VERNIMMEN, Bert & Frank WITLOX: "Using an inventory theoric approach for modal choice: A case study"
JEL Classifications: -
Keywords: Transport, Logistics, Modal choice, Inventory theory, Case study

2001/029
DULLAERT, Wout & Geert VAN DE WEYER: "Scheduling flexibility and insertion zones in vehicle routing"
JEL Classifications: -
Keywords: -

2001/028
KÉSENNE, Stefan: "The player labour market in a win maximizing sports league"
Niet beschikbaar/Not available

2001/027
DELOOF, Marc: "Does working capital management affect profitability of Belgian firms?"
JEL Classifications: -
Keywords: -

2001/026
VAN DE VOOREN, Floris W.C.J.: "Regionale effectanalyse van infrastructuurprojecten"
JEL Classifications: -
Keywords: -

2001/025
DULLAERT, Wout, Gerrit K. JANSSENS, Kenneth SÖRENSEN & Bert VERNIMMEN: "New heuristics for the fleet size and mix vehicle routing problem with time windows"
JEL Classifications: -
Keywords: -

2001/024
DULLAERT, Wout: "Scheduling flexibility and the contribution maximizing vehicle routing problem with time windows"
JEL Classifications: -
Keywords: -

2001/023
FAUCOMPRET, Erik & Jozef KONINGS: "The integration of Poland into the European Union"
JEL Classifications: -
Keywords: -

2001/022
VAN POECK, André & Alain BORGHIJS: "EMU and labour market reform: Needs, incentives and realisations"
JEL Classifications: -
Keywords: Unemployment, Europeon Monetary Union, Labour market reform

2001/021
VAN DE VOOREN, Floris W.C.J. & J.T. JETTEN: "De betekenis van transport en transportbeleid voor de economische groei"
JEL Classifications: -
Keywords: -

2001/020
CUYVERS, Ludo, M. DUMONT, G. RAYP & K. STEVENS: "The impact of international trade with East and South-East Asian NICS, on wages in Europe"
JEL Classifications: -
Keywords: -

2001/019
COOLS, Martine: "International transfer pricing. Do regulatory changes drive management accounting changes? Preliminary insights from the tax director's point of view"
JEL Classifications: -
Keywords: -

2001/018
ADRIAENSSEN, Ines & Diana DE GRAEVE: "Wie valt er door de mazen van het net? Verkennend profiel van de patiënt met betalingsproblemen in het ziekenhuis"
JEL Classifications: -
Keywords: -

2001/017
FAUCOMPRET, Erik: "European political integration: A historical perspective"
JEL Classifications: -
Keywords: -

2001/016
BLAUWENS, Gust, S. JANSSENS, Bert VERNIMMEN & Frank WITLOX: "Modale keuze in het goederenvervoer op basis van een vergelijking van de totale logistieke kostprijs: Twee concrete gevalstudies"
JEL Classifications: -
Keywords: -

2001/015
VANELSLANDER, Thierry & Ann VERHETSEL: "Integrale evaluatie van de band tussen ruimtelijk-economische structuur en infrastructuur voor goederenvervoer"
JEL Classifications: -
Keywords: -

2001/014
ADRIAENSSEN, Ines & Diana DE GRAEVE: "Socio-economische determinanten van medische consumptie: Analyse gezondheidsenquête 1997"
JEL Classifications: -
Keywords: -

2001/013
ACOCELLA, Nicola & Giovanni DI BARTOLOMEO: "Partisanship and fiscal policy co-ordination in a monetary union"
JEL Classifications: E62, E64, F15, F42
Keywords: Partisanship, Monetary union, International co-operation, Policy games

2001/012
FAUCOMPRET, Erik: "The dismemberment of Yugoslavia and the European Union"
JEL Classifications: -
Keywords: -

2001/011
BETHUYNE, Gerrit: "A procedure for timing technology adoptions using a generalized form of technological progress"
JEL Classifications: -
Keywords: -

2001/010
DE CEUSTER, Marc, Jan ANNAERT & Allan HODGSON: "Moment condition failure Australian evidence"
JEL Classifications: C14, C22, G12
Keywords: Sum stable distributions, Hill-estimator, Moments

2001/009
DE BOECK, Liesje & Nico VANDAELE: "Modeling a generic assembly system"
JEL Classifications: -
Keywords: -

2001/008
CLAES, Anouk, Marc J.K. DE CEUSTER & Ruud POLFLIET: "Anatomy of the Eurobond market 1980-2000", European Financial Management, 3, 2002, 373-385.
Niet beschikbaar/Not available

2001/007
PLASMANS, Joseph & Ruslan LUKACH: "Measuring knowledge spillovers using Belgian EPO and USPTO patent data"
JEL Classifications: O30, O34, C50
Keywords: -

2001/006
GOLDBERG, Lawrence G. & Rezaul KABIR: "The stock market performance of the central banks of Belgium and Japan", Journal of Economics and Business, 54, 2002, 137-152.
JEL Classifications: E58, G20, N20
Keywords: Central bank, Stock market, Valuation, Performance

2001/005
VAN AARLE, Bas, Jacob ENGWERDA & Joseph PLASMANS: "Monetary and fiscal policy interaction in the EMU: A dynamic game approach", Annals of Operations Research, 109, 2002, 229-264.
JEL Classifications: C70, E17, E58, E61, E63
Keywords: EMU, Stabilisation policies, Full and partial cooperation, LQ dynamic game

2001/004
DI BARTOLOMEO, Giovanni: "Partisanship, corporatism and economic performance"
JEL Classifications: E00, E58, E61, J50
Keywords: Labor market institutions, Policy game, Hump-shaped relationships, Inflation and unemployment

2001/003
VAN OURTI, Tom: "Measuring socio-economic inequality in ill-health using permanent income"
JEL Classifications: I19, D31
Keywords: Inequality, Ill-health, Permanent income

2001/002
HEAVER, Trevor, Hilde MEERSMAN & Eddy VAN DE VOORDE: "Co-operation and competition in international container transport: Strategies for ports"
JEL Classifications: -
Keywords: -

2001/001
BORGHIJS, Alain: "Does product market integration lead to European wage-setting?"
JEL Classifications: -
Keywords: -

Working Papers 2000

2000/025
CALFAT, Germán, Renato G. FLÔRES Jr. & Maria Cecilia GANAME: "Endogenous protection in Mercosul: An empirical analysis"
JEL Classifications: -
Keywords: -

 
2000/024
CAMPO, Katia, Els GIJSBRECHTS & Patricia NISOL: "Dynamics in consumer response to product unavailability: Do stock-out reactions signal response to permanent assortment reductions?"
JEL Classifications: -
Keywords: -

2000/023
Niet beschikbaar/Not available

2000/022
VAN WOENSEL, Tom, Ruth CRETEN & Nico J. VANDAELE: "Managing the environmental externalities of traffic logistics: The issue of emissions"
JEL Classifications: -
Keywords: Traffic logistics, Environmental impact, Road traffic, Queueing theory, Life cycle management impact

2000/021
DE BORGER, Bruno: "Discrete choice models and optimal two-part tariffs in the presence of externalities: Optimal taxation of cars"
JEL Classifications: H21, H23, R48
Keywords: Optimal taxation, Two-part tariff, Externalities, Discrete choice

 
2000/020
DE BORGER, Bruno & Kristiaan KERSTENS: "The Malmquist productivity index and plant capacity utilisation"
JEL Classifications: C61, D24
Keywords: Productivity, Capacity utilisation

 
2000/019
DE BORGER, Bruno, Kristiaan KERSTENS & Álvaro COSTA: "Public transit performance: What do we learn from frontier studies?"
JEL Classifications: -
Keywords: -

 
2000/018
VAESSEN, Jos: "Accessibility of rural credit in Northern Nicaragua: The importance of networks of information and recommendation"
JEL Classifications: -
Keywords: -

 
2000/017
VANELSLANDER, Thierry: "Haveneconomisch onderzoek: Waar schuilen de onderzoeksmogelijkheden?"
JEL Classifications: -
Keywords: -

 
2000/016
VAN DE WIELLE, Bart: "Network competition with consumer switching costs: A model for the telecommunications sector"
JEL Classifications: D43, L11, L13
Keywords: Switching costs, Entry, Mobile telecommunications, Market growth

2000/015
DE KEYSER, Peter: "Normative versus positive analysis of government expenditures: An application to three decades of defence spending"
JEL Classifications: -
Keywords: -

 
2000/014
DULLAERT, Wout: "A sequential insertion heuristic for the vehicle routing problem with time windows with relatively few customers per route"
JEL Classifications: -
Keywords: -

 
2000/013
VAN WAES, Luuk: "Task variation in usability testing of web sites. An analysis of three experimental studies"
JEL Classifications: -
Keywords: -

 
2000/012
BERLAGE, Lode, Danny CASSIMON, Jacques DRÈZE & Paul REDING: "Prospective aid and indebtedness relief: A proposal"
JEL Classifications: -
Keywords: -

 
2000/011
VAN LOON, Jozef & Grazia BERGER: "Deutsch als Fremdsprache: Geringer Goodwill, großer Bedarf"
JEL Classifications: -
Keywords: -

 
2000/010
VAN DE VOOREN, Floris W. C. J.: "Naar een welvaartsoptimale infrastructuurplanning"
JEL Classifications: -
Keywords: -

 
2000/009
ADRIAENSSEN, Ines & Diana DE GRAEVE: "Toegankelijkheid verzekerd? Doorlichting van de regelgeving van de verzekering voor geneeskundige verzorging in België"
JEL Classifications: -
Keywords: -

 
2000/008
CALFAT, Germán, Renato G. FLÔRES Jr. & Maria Florencia GRANATO: "Dynamic effects of MERCOSUR: An assessment for Argentina"
JEL Classifications: -
Keywords: -

 
2000/007
VAN ACKER, Frank: "Of clubs and conflict: The dissolvant power of social capital in Kivu (D.R. Congo)"
JEL Classifications: -
Keywords: -

 
2000/006
VAN DE VOOREN, Floris W. C. J.: "Transport en ruimte in een dubbele dubbelslag"
JEL Classifications: -
Keywords: -

 
2000/005
LUKATCH, Ruslan & Joseph PLASMANS: "R&D and production behavior of asymmetric duopoly subject to knowledge spillover"
JEL Classifications: C72, D21, O31
Keywords: Innovation, R&D, Spillovers, Cooperation

 
2000/004
PAUWELS, Tom: "Het goederenvervoer in België: Een kritische analyse van de transportstatistieken, met specifieke aandacht voor herkomst-bestemmingsdata"
JEL Classifications: -
Keywords: -

 
2000/003
VANDAELE, Nico J., Marc R. LAMBRECHT, Nicolas DE SCHUYTER & Rony CREMMERY: "Spicer Off-Highway Products Division - Brugge - improves its lead time and scheduling performance"
JEL Classifications: -
Keywords: -

 
2000/002
VAN BREEDAM, Alex: "Comparing descent heuristics and metaheuristics for the vehicle routing problem"
JEL Classifications: -
Keywords: -

 
2000/001
HEAVER, T., Hilde MEERSMAN, F. MOGLIA & Eddy VAN DE VOORDE: "Do mergers and alliances influence European shipping and port competition?"
JEL Classifications: -
Keywords: -

Working Papers 1999

1999/043
PLASMANS, Joseph, Hilde MEERSMAN, André VAN POECK & Bruno MERLEVEDE: “Generosity of the unemployment benefit systern and wage flexibility in EMU: Time-varying evidence in five countries”
JEL Classifications: -
Keywords: -

1999/042
PLASMANS, Joseph, Wilfried PAUWELS & Theo THEWYS: “Strategic R&D and patent behaviour in some EU-countries”
JEL Classifications: 030
Keywords: Game theory, Innovation, Patents, R&D spillovers

1999/041
VAN AARLE, Bas, Jacob C. ENGWERDA, Joseph E.J. PLASMANS & Arie WEEREN: “Monetary and fiscal pollcy design under EMU: A dynamic game approach”
JEL Classifications: -
Keywords: -

1999/040
REYNS, Carl, Eddy VAN DE VOORDE, Ann VERHETSEL, Frank WITLOX, P. ROOTHAER & Thierry VANELSLANDER: “Toekomstmogelijkheden voor duurzame werkgelegenheid in het stedelijk gebied Turnhout. Paper enquête”
JEL Classifications: -
Keywords: -

1999/039
VANDENBEMPT, Koen & Paul MATTHYSSENS: “Barriers to strategic innovation: A network perspective”
JEL Classifications: -
Keywords: Strategic innovation, Business networks, Value creation for customers, Organizational and cognitive barriers to innovation, Case study research

1999/038
GRUBER, Harald & Frank VERBOVEN: “The evolution of markets under entry and standards regulation - The case of a global mobile telecommunications”
JEL Classifications: L1, L86, O3
Keywords: Technology diffusion, Entry regulation, Standards and competing systems, Capacity constraints, Consumer switching costs, Network externalities, Pre-emption, Mobile telecommunications

1999/037
ENGELEN, Peter-Jan & Els DEGROOTE: “Underpricing van Belgische beursintroducties”
JEL Classifications: -
Keywords: -

1999/036
VAESSEN, Jos & Johan BASTIAENSEN: “Social capital and institutions: In search of a conceptual framework for the analysis of local rural development”
JEL Classifications: -
Keywords: -

1999/035
CLAESSENS, Evrard & Ysabel NAUWELAERTS: “Substitution versus complementarity between trade and foreign direct investments: A cover-ratio analysis of OECD countries”
JEL Classifications: -
Keywords: -

1999/034
BETHUYNE, Gerrit: “The timing of technology adoption by a cost-minimizing firm”
JEL Classifications: D81, D92, 033
Keywords: Technology adoption, Investment timing, Waiting option value

1999/033
LYBAERT, Nadine & Eddy LAVEREN: “Financierbare versus werkelijke groei en de investeringskeuze van Belgische industriële KMO's”
JEL Classifications: -
Keywords: -

1999/032
NAUWELAERTS, Ysabel: “Explaining shifts in country-specialization patterns between European and Asian countries: An application to the textile and clothing industry”
JEL Classifications: -
Keywords: -

1999/031
DE HERDT, Tom: “Fairness concerns about poverty relief. The case of Médecins Sans Frontières in Kinshasa”
JEL Classifications: -
Keywords: Food aid, Norms of fairness, Congo, Zaire

1999/030
GIJSBRECHTS, Els, Myriam SCHAMPS & Walter VAN WATERSCHOOT: “Teaching note - Case study Leffe: Developing a marketing strategy for the Belgian and French market”
Niet beschikbaar/Not available

1999/029
GIJSBRECHTS, Els, Myriam SCHAMPS & Walter VAN WATERSCHOOT: “Case study Leffe: Developing a marketing strategy for the Belgian and French market”
Niet beschikbaar/Not available

1999/028
DE HERDT, Tom: “Human nature as we know it. Inter- and intrapersonal perspectives on opportunism and commitment”
JEL Classifications: -
Keywords: -

1999/027
FOUBERT, Bram: “Product bundling: Theory and application”
JEL Classifications: -
Keywords: Product bundling, Optimal bundle composition, Pricing, Linear programming, Reservation prices, Conjoint analysis, Logit analysis, Latent class estimation

1999/026
KÉSENNE, Stefan: “The impact of salary caps in professional team sports”
JEL Classifications: -
Keywords: -

1999/025
VANDAELE, Nico & Inneke VAN NIEUWENHUYSE: “The impact of lot sizing on queuing delays. An educational software tool”
JEL Classifications: -
Keywords: -

1999/024
BIDARD, Christian & Guido ERREYGERS: “The concept of sector”
JEL Classifications: D51
Keywords: Linear models of production, Joint production, Fixed capital, Non-substitution

1999/023
CAMPO, Katia, Els GIJSBRECHTS & Patricia NISOL: “Towards a conceptual framework of out-of-stock behaviour: The impact of product, consumer, and situation characteristics on out-of-stock reactions”
JEL Classifications: -
Keywords: -

1999/022
CUNLIFFE, John & Guido ERREYGERS: “The enigmatic legacy of Fourier: Joseph Charlier and basic income”
JEL Classifications: -
Keywords: -

1999/021
BOIANOVSKY, Mauro & Guido ERREYGERS: “Social comptabilism and pure credit systems: Solvay and Wicksell on monetary reform”
JEL Classifications: -
Keywords: -

1999/020
VAN AARLE, Bas, Jacob ENGWERDA & Joseph PLASMANS: “Monetary and fiscal policy interaction in the EMU: A dynamic game approach”, Annals of Operations Research, 109, 2002, 229-264.
JEL Classifications: C70, E17, E58, E61, E63
Keywords: EMU, Stabilisation policies, Full and partial cooperation, LQ dynamic game

1999/019
KÉSENNE, Stefan: “Revenue sharing and competitive balance in professional team sports”
JEL Classifications: -
Keywords: -

1999/018
FRIDOLFSSON, Sven-Olof & Johan STENNEK: “Why mergers reduce profits, and raise share prices - A theory of preemptive mergers”
JEL Classifications: L13, L41, G34, C78
Keywords: Mergers, Acquisitions, Defensive mergers, Coalition formation, Antitrust

1999/017
VANDAELE, Nico, Liesje DE BOECK & Dominiek CALLEWIER: “An open queueing network for lead time analysis”, IIE Transactions, 34, 2002, 1-9.
JEL Classifications: -
Keywords: -

1999/016
VANDAELE, Nico, Liesje DE BOECK & Dominiek CALLEWIER: “A queueing based analysis of a packing line”
JEL Classifications: -
Keywords: -

1999/015
VANDAELE, Nico, Tom VAN WOENSEL & Aviel VERBRUGGEN: “A queueing based traffic flow model”, Transportation Research-D: Transport and Environment, 5/2, 2000, 121-135.
JEL Classifications: -
Keywords: Queueing theory, Traffic flow modelling, Congestion management

1999/014
MARYSSE, Stefaan: “Social capital in the context of crisis-ridden Africa”
JEL Classifications: -
Keywords: -

1999/013
BORGHIJS, Alain & Philip DU CAJU: “EMU and European trade union cooperation”
JEL Classifications: F15, J31, J51, L12
Keywords: Economic integration, Wage determination, Union bargaining

1999/012
CAMPO, Katia, Els GIJSBRECHTS, T. GOOSSENS & Ann VERHETSEL: “The impact of location-specific factors on attractiveness and performance of product categories”
JEL Classifications: -
Keywords: -

1999/011
WITLOX, Frank & Harry TIMMERMANS: “Representing locational requirements using conventional decision tables: Theory and illustration”
JEL Classifications: -
Keywords: Location theory, Decision tables, Site selection, Petrochemical industry

1999/010
WITLOX, Frank: “Towards a relational view on industrial location theory”
JEL Classifications: -
Keywords: -

1999/009
SCHELLEKENS, Philip: “Optimal monetary policy delegation to conservative central banks”
JEL Classifications: E50
Keywords: -

1999/008
SCHATTEMAN, Tom: “The measurement of mythical models. Questions, theory and data in the cases of the adverse employment effects of the minimum wage and the wage curve”
JEL Classifications: -
Keywords: -

1999/007
VANDENBUSSCHE, Hylke & Xavier WAUTHY: “European antidumping policy and firms' strategic cholce of quality”
JEL Classifications: F13, L13
Keywords: Bertrand competition, Injury, Quality, Welfare, European antidumping policy

1999/006
DE BORGER, Bruno & Didier SWYSEN: “Public transport subsidies versus road pricing: An empirical analysis for interregional transport in Belgium”
JEL Classifications: -
Keywords: -

1999/005
DE BORGER, Bruno: “Optimal two-part tariffs in a model of discrete choice”
JEL Classifications: H21, H23
Keywords: Discrete choice, Optimal taxation, Two-part tariff

1999/004
DE BORGER, Bruno, Christophe COURCELLE & Didier SWYSEN: “Optimal pricing of transport externalities in a federation”
JEL Classifications: -
Keywords: -

1999/003
VERBOVEN, Frank: “Price discrimination and tax incidence: Evidence from gasoline and diesel cars”
JEL Classifications: -
Keywords: -

1999/002
CHADHA, Jagjit & Philip SCHELLEKENS: “Monetary policy loss functions: Two cheers for the quadratic”
JEL Classifications: E42, E52, E61
Keywords: Loss functions, Uncertainty, Optimal monetary policy rules

1999/001
BOGAERT, Ilse, Ann JORISSEN, Eddy LAVEREN & Rudy MARTENS: “Sales growth in wholesale-SMEs: Drivers, enablers and consequences”
JEL Classifications: -
Keywords: SME, Company growth, Sales growth, Growth motives, Growth enablers, Growth impact