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- Macroeconomics and stabilisation policies: monetary and fiscal policies, interactions and coordination issues. Relationship between economic performance, institutional settings and exchange market pressure in transition countries. Corporatism and macroeconomic policy.
- Labour markets : the functioning of the labour market in Belgium and Europe: real and nominal wage rigidities, the wage gap. Impact of the EMU on European labour markets. Transition from schools to the labour market. Shadow economy and the labour market.
- Industrial economics: research on specific sectors such as transport markets, telecommunications industry and banking sector. Economics of the sports sector (professional team sports; impact of sports events). Competition between universities.
- Economics of innovation: innovation and growth in 2-country models with labour market imperfections. Measurement of intangible invest¬ments. Input and output criteria for innovation. Strategic R&D decisions under oligopoly.
- Health economics: analysis of equity in health, in the consumption of medical care and in the financing of health in Belgium in an international comparative perspective. Financing of health care in developing countries: establishment of social health insurance, community finance or other prepayment schemes. Economic evaluation of drugs and medical technology.
- History of economic thought: history of proposals on basic income and basic capital. History of economic thought in Belgium. Orthodox and heterodox price theories. Pioneers of input-output analysis.
- Measuring efficiency using the frontier approach: Frontier approach to measure the efficiency of local public authorities, banks and transport companies. Bayesian stochastic frontier approach applied to the determinants of mutual fund performance, and to the explanation of the differences in container terminal efficiency.
- Public economics: economics of exhaustible resources. Local public finance. Public contracts. Regulation and pricing in the transport sector.
- Economics of migration: Labour market effects of immigration. Migration and economic growth.
- Economics of crime: detecting money-laundering and data-mining. Illegal migration and organised crime. Economic analysis of terrorism.
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Projects
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Show the projects of this research team - Electricity production with intermittent technologies. 01/02/2013 - 31/12/2013
| Abstract | The purpose of this project is twofold. First, we study the relation between production capacities for intermittent and flexible energy sources under different market structures. Second, we analyze the efficiency implications of various government policies for the functioning of the energy market. | | Duration | 01/02/2013 - 31/12/2013 | | Researcher(s) | | | Research Team(s) | |
- Applications of competition policy in the sports industry. 01/10/2012 - 30/09/2014
| Abstract | The professional sports industry in Europe and the USA conducts several practices which appear to be textbook cases of anti-competitive behavior. Famous examples include sharing gate revenues, geographically splitting up markets and collective sales of TV rights, advertising and merchandise. Still, in many instances antitrust authorities have neglected to outlaw these practices. This research project bundles four contributions that look into some major competition policy issues in the sports industry. First, it examines how a league may use revenue sharing as a device to coordinate talent investments when sports fans are diversified. Second, the project evaluates how the choice of different contest success functions influences the results of previous contributions in the literature. In a third contribution it introduces a model of platform competition among clubs to investigate the effects of jointly selling advertising on sports consumers and advertisers. A final empirical contribution looks into the importance of factors that may impact on the distribution of playing strengths between teams in a league. This has great relevance to antitrust policy, as it is a crucial issue in the discussion around allowing collective sales of TV rights in Europe. | | Duration | 01/10/2012 - 30/09/2014 | | Researcher(s) | | | Research Team(s) | |
- Implications of real options analysis for industrial organization and competition policy. 01/01/2012 - 31/12/2015
| Abstract | Until now, policy recommendations and decisions have been based on the Net Present Value (NPV) rule. However, the NPV rule disregards the lost value of flexibility when making decisions with irreversible consequences. Real options theory naturally incorporates these elements. Policy recommendations based on real options theory will, therefore, improve NPV-based policy recommendations. The real options approach will, as a result, have consequences for policymakers'' decisions, firms'' interests, and consumer welfare. In this project, we will take a real-options approach with respect to the clearing or blocking of mergers, state aid, licensed entry fees, and regulation of vertically integrated firms. | | Duration | 01/01/2012 - 31/12/2015 | | Researcher(s) | | | Research Team(s) | |
- Economic analysis of environmental policy in the European car market. 01/10/2011 - 30/09/2013
| Abstract | In this research project, we will analyze the economic effects of different environmental policies in the EU market. We will build a structural model, which starts from a rich demand system for differentiated products, adds an oligopoly model and introduces dynamics, using insights and techniques from the fields of empirical industrial organization and environmental economics. Based on this structural approach, the project intends to produce at least three papers on the effects of environmental policies in the European car market. In addition, the project aims to exploit the data set further in order to evaluate the effects of various specific policies as natural experiments using treatment effect approaches. | | Duration | 01/10/2011 - 30/09/2013 | | Researcher(s) | | | Research Team(s) | |
- Applications of competition policy to the sports industry. 01/10/2010 - 30/09/2012
| Abstract | The professional sports industry in Europe and the USA conducts several practices which appear to be textbook cases of anti-competitive behavior. Famous examples include sharing gate revenues, geographically splitting up markets and collective sales of TV rights, advertising and merchandise. Still, in many instances antitrust authorities have neglected to outlaw these practices. This research project bundles four contributions that look into some major competition policy issues in the sports industry. First, it examines how a league may use revenue sharing as a device to coordinate talent investments when sports fans are diversified. Second, the project evaluates how the choice of different contest success functions influences the results of previous contributions in the literature. In a third contribution it introduces a model of platform competition among clubs to investigate the effects of jointly selling advertising on sports consumers and advertisers. A final empirical contribution looks into the importance of factors that may impact on the distribution of playing strengths between teams in a league. This has great relevance to antitrust policy, as it is a crucial issue in the discussion around allowing collective sales of TV rights in Europe. | | Duration | 01/10/2010 - 30/09/2012 | | Researcher(s) | | | Research Team(s) | |
- Er Terug-zijn³ - Re-integration of sub-acute incapacitated workers as an offer within the services of an external service for prevention and protection at work. 01/09/2010 - 31/12/2012
| Abstract | This project represents a formal service agreement between UA and on the other hand IDEWE vzw. UA provides IDEWE vzw research results mentioned in the title of the project under the conditions as stipulated in this contract. | | Duration | 01/09/2010 - 31/12/2012 | | Researcher(s) | | | Research Team(s) | |
- Can new-Keynesian DSGE modeling be saved? 01/08/2010 - 31/05/2011
| Abstract | The Credit Crunch and the economic crisis that followed has cast doubt on the validity of the ubiquitous new-Keynesian DSGE model favoured by many macroeconomists. The basic assumptions made in these models are too unworldly to be able to yield a realistic picture of an essentially unstable globalised environment. A drastic overhaul imposes itself. A differentiation of types of agents, the introduction of a commercial banking system, the replacement of the rational expectations assumption by a more realistic one, movements in employment also along the extensive margin, the embedding in a 2- or multicountry setting, and the return to the more traditional nonlinear estimation of the structural model are only the most obvious candidates for change. What is needed now is a thorough feasibility study w.r.t. the estimability and solution of these revamped new-Keynesian macroeconomic models. | | Duration | 01/08/2010 - 31/05/2011 | | Researcher(s) | | | Research Team(s) | |
- Short term capital flows and portfolio investment in the BRIC countries: how to cope with their potential risks? 01/06/2010 - 31/03/2011
| Abstract | The majority of the existing studies concerning the determinants of capital flows focus on foreign direct investment, which is considered the most stable component of total capital flows and is generally associated with positive spillovers such as transmission of managerial skills and technology transfer to the recipient countries. On the other side, portfolio and short-term capital flows, while generating positive effects on consumption and investments, are also an important source of vulnerability and instability for the recipient economy. The associated overheating of the economy, large current account deficits, an overvalued currency and the decrease in the domestic interest rate make investments in the host economy less attractive in the eyes of international investors. Therefore, sudden stops and reversals (i.e. outflows) of short term capital inflows are likely to take place because (as opposed to FDI) they do not involve "disinvestment" costs and they can be easily reversed. | | Duration | 01/06/2010 - 31/03/2011 | | Researcher(s) | | | Research Team(s) | |
- The Effect of Global Financial and Trade Shocks on Growth of Sub Saharan Africa. 01/10/2009 - 30/09/2013
| Abstract | This project aims at investigating the impact of global financial and trade shocks on growth and inequality in Sub Sahara Africa (SSA). We assess the ability of Dynamic Stochastic General Equilibrium (DSGE) models to explain the impact of shocks on a typical SSA economy, and examine which modifications are required to make the conventional models applicable to SSA. The modified models will be estimated using data from a sample of SSA countries. | | Duration | 01/10/2009 - 30/09/2013 | | Researcher(s) | | | Research Team(s) | |
- Scientific research in the field of transport economics. 01/10/2009 - 30/09/2010
| Abstract | No abstract found | | Duration | 01/10/2009 - 30/09/2010 | | Researcher(s) | | | Research Team(s) | |
- On the Crossroads of Catholicism, Mathematics and Economics: The Life and Work of the French Jesuit Maurice Potron (1872-1942). 01/11/2008 - 31/01/2009
| Abstract | The main purpose is to make a synthesis of documents from family and public archives concerning the French Jesuit mathematician Maurice Potron (1872-1942). The synthesis will serve both for the English edition of Potron''s economic papers, currently under preparation by Christian Bidard and Guido Erreygers (Routledge), and for a more deatailed book in French, by Christian Bidard, on the familial, social historical and religious roots of this remarkable work. | | Duration | 01/11/2008 - 31/01/2009 | | Researcher(s) | | | Research Team(s) | |
- The analysis of the impact of tax measures on investments in research and development in Flanders. 15/02/2008 - 31/03/2009
| Abstract | Gelieve aan te vullen a.u.b. | | Duration | 15/02/2008 - 31/03/2009 | | Researcher(s) | | | Research Team(s) | |
- Political economy of transport pricing and investment. 01/01/2008 - 31/12/2011
| Abstract | Most of the recent transport economics research has been dealing with normative issues (see, among many others, Small and Verhoef (handbook urban economics forthcoming), Arnott, Rave and Schöb (IFOmonograph,2005), De Borger and Proost EE book (2001)). The central question in this literature was: what are the most efficient pricing and investment policies taking into account different market imperfections? These imperfections are not only situated in the transport sector (e.g., the absence of time-differentiated pricing, the case where not all alternatives can be priced correctly, imperfect competition for some transport modes) but also in the rest of the economy (distortive labour taxes, imperfect redistribution instruments, etc.). This normative research has shown that new forms of pricing (road pricing) may generate important efficiency gains if the revenues of these new pricing instruments are used efficiently. In practice, however, one observes rather inefficient pricing and investment policies in many countries. Moreover, new forms of pricing (road pricing, cordon tolls, kilometer charges, ect.) that may clearly be beneficial for society face serious opposition and are only very slowly implemented.
In this proposal, we take a positive approach to transport policy, extensively building upon political economy models. The main research question is how we can explain current transport pricing and investment policies that countries and federations implement. This is an area that received relatively little attention. The research question opens a wide field.. We therefore suggest concentrating the attention on a few specific topics in order to progressively build and test theories for their practical relevance. | | Duration | 01/01/2008 - 31/12/2011 | | Researcher(s) | | | Research Team(s) | |
- Explaining defferences in job retention between native and non-native workers after an individual on the job in company training. 01/01/2008 - 31/12/2009
| Abstract | The project aims to explain economic and sociologid differences in job retention between native and non-native workers following an individual in company on the job training. It consists of a statistical analysis of a database of characteristics and a two year job history of 9978 unemployed workers after an in company on the job training, complemented with a qualitative pilot study based on interviews. | | Duration | 01/01/2008 - 31/12/2009 | | Researcher(s) | | | Research Team(s) | |
- The impact of religiosity on intertemporal, social and work preferences. 01/10/2007 - 30/09/2011
| Abstract | This project studies the influence of religiosity on specific preferences of key importance in economic behaviour. The hypothesis that religiosity has a significant influence on time preference, social preferences and the preferences for work are tested using survey data and experimental data. More specifically, the focus is on possible differences in effects of religiosity in societies with a Christian and Islamic background. | | Duration | 01/10/2007 - 30/09/2011 | | Researcher(s) | | | Research Team(s) | |
- The impact of ethnic neighbourhoods on labour market integration of foreigners. 01/10/2007 - 31/07/2009
| Abstract | No abstract found | | Duration | 01/10/2007 - 31/07/2009 | | Researcher(s) | | | Research Team(s) | |
- Regulation and competition policy. Decision making in merger control: the role of communication. 01/10/2007 - 04/05/2008
| Abstract | This research project offers an economic analysis of decision processes regarding mergers. The role of communication between competition authorities and firms is a central part of the study.
The following themes will be investigated:
1) the role of communication and information exchange between firms and authorities;
2) the effect of communication on the choice of the welfare standard;
3) the effect of third parties on communication and descision processes. | | Duration | 01/10/2007 - 04/05/2008 | | Researcher(s) | | | Research Team(s) | |
- Higher Education and Research: Organization, Market Interaction and Overall Impact in the Knowledge-Based Era. 01/01/2007 - 31/12/2011
| Abstract | We continue our current work on university personnel management. This work package consists of two themes. The first theme is in the field of labor and personnel economics and considers the relationship between promotions, job assignments and incentives to perform in universities. The second theme is in the field of human resource management and relates to work experience, work stress, and management of professionals in a university context. | | Duration | 01/01/2007 - 31/12/2011 | | Researcher(s) | | | Research Team(s) | |
- Policy Study Centre Study and Educational carreer (2007-2011). 01/01/2007 - 31/12/2011
| Abstract | This project represents a formal research agreement between UA and on the other hand the Flemish Public Service. UA provides the Flemish Public Service research results mentioned in the title of the project under the conditions as stipulated in this contract. | | Duration | 01/01/2007 - 31/12/2011 | | Researcher(s) | | | Research Team(s) | |
- Strategic investment under uncertainty: entry and mergers. 01/01/2007 - 31/12/2009
| Abstract | The aim is to extend the real options framework with the large body of work in game theory. In this way a much richer description of optimal investment behavior can be obtained. We want to investigate decisions of firms about whether to enter a market or when being an incumbent, how to deter, blockade or accommodate entry. Moreover we focus on merger incentives induced by the desirability to enter new emerging markets. We are interested in effects of uncertainty. | | Duration | 01/01/2007 - 31/12/2009 | | Researcher(s) | | | Research Team(s) | |
- Congestion and the tax treatment of company cars. 01/01/2007 - 31/12/2008
| Abstract | The overall prupose of this project is to study the fiscal treatment of company cars within an integrated optimal tax policy towards both the labour and the transport market. The model takes into account the implications of the tax structure for the prevalence of company cars, and it captures the role of company cars for external transport costs (mainly congestion). The project studies both the optimal tax structure and several revenue neutral tax reforms. The obtained theoretical insights are illustrated by means of numerical models applied to the Belgian situation. | | Duration | 01/01/2007 - 31/12/2008 | | Researcher(s) | | | Research Team(s) | |
- Reciprocity and strategic cooperation in social dilemmas. 01/01/2007 - 31/12/2008
| Abstract | A large body of literature has gathered evidence demonstrating that agents often cooperate in social dilemmas. The typical pattern in repeated-game experiments is that cooperation starts well above the standard theoretical prediction and either stays at high levels or slowly declines up until the final rounds when it breaks down. We use laboratory experiments to examine the weight of the two most prominent forces behind this pattern, i.e. reciprocity and reputation formation (''strategic'' cooperation). | | Duration | 01/01/2007 - 31/12/2008 | | Researcher(s) | | | Research Team(s) | |
- Evaluation of the convention locomotoric revalidation financed by the RIZIV. 01/01/2007 - 31/12/2007
| Abstract | No abstract found | | Duration | 01/01/2007 - 31/12/2007 | | Researcher(s) | | | Research Team(s) | |
- Comparison between technical and occupational secondary education concerning the correlation of similar training programs to the labor market. 15/12/2006 - 15/11/2007
| Abstract | No abstract found | | Duration | 15/12/2006 - 15/11/2007 | | Researcher(s) | | | Research Team(s) | |
- Industry-Science Interaction in the Framework of Standardization and Normalization. 15/12/2006 - 15/07/2007
| Abstract | No abstract found | | Duration | 15/12/2006 - 15/07/2007 | | Researcher(s) | | | Research Team(s) | |
- Evaluation of the effects of the maximum bill on the consumption of health care. 15/10/2006 - 30/06/2008
| Abstract | No abstract found | | Duration | 15/10/2006 - 30/06/2008 | | Researcher(s) | | | Research Team(s) | |
- Developing a publication on "educational economy" and "economy of migration" and the development of a theoretical contribution on theocracy. 01/10/2006 - 30/09/2007
| Abstract | No abstract found | | Duration | 01/10/2006 - 30/09/2007 | | Researcher(s) | | | Research Team(s) | |
- High Technology Assessment of drug eluting stents. 01/10/2006 - 31/08/2007
| Abstract | No abstract found | | Duration | 01/10/2006 - 31/08/2007 | | Researcher(s) | | | Research Team(s) | |
- Social dilemma games of strategic substitutes and complements: experiments and agent-based simulations. 01/10/2006 - 28/02/2007
| Abstract | No abstract found | | Duration | 01/10/2006 - 28/02/2007 | | Researcher(s) | | | Research Team(s) | |
- Economic Growth, Poverty and Environmental Degradation in Ethiopia.
An Analysis of the Effects of Economic Policy by Means of a Village Computable General Equilibrium (VCGE) Model. 01/07/2006 - 31/12/2010 | Abstract | This project investigates the relationships between economic growth, poverty and environmental degradation in a village economy of northern Ethiopia. A village social accounting matrix (VSAM) and a village computable general equilibrium (VCGE) will be constructed to perform micro-simulations. The analysis will help to identify which strategies are appropriate to move in the direction of sustainable development. | | Duration | 01/07/2006 - 31/12/2010 | | Researcher(s) | | | Research Team(s) | |
- Port competition and hinterland congestion. 15/06/2006 - 31/12/2008
| Abstract | The project focuses on the interaction between port competition and hinterland congestion. We first theoretically study the impact of hinterland congestion and local congestion policies on price and quality competition of ports. Next we analyze the effects of congestion and port pricing policies on optimal congestion taxes in the hinterland network. We finally derive results on optimal investment policies that take account of the relation between port competition and hinterland congestion. We illustrate all theoretical results using numerical simulation techniques. | | Duration | 15/06/2006 - 31/12/2008 | | Researcher(s) | | | Research Team(s) | |
- The choice of out of hours medical care by young adults with children. A case study among residents in Deurne-Borgerhout. 01/03/2006 - 31/12/2007
| Abstract | Little is known about preferences of consumers of out of office hours medical care.
Discrete choice analysis allows quantification of these preferences.
In Deurne Borgerhout (large city, large proportion of immigrants) we collect data from 300 respondents at consultations of child welfare centres. Data can be used to improve services to the community. | | Duration | 01/03/2006 - 31/12/2007 | | Researcher(s) | | | Research Team(s) | |
- Competition policy in Europe: theory and applications to transport and sports broadcasting. 01/01/2006 - 31/12/2009
| Abstract | In this project we use recent insights from the theory of industrial organization to study pricing and regulatory proposals in a number of specific economic sectors, including transport, sports and broadcasting. The emphasis lies on studying the positive effects of various policy proposals (access pricing of infrastructure, capacity competition on transport networks, allocation of television rights of sports games, etc.). Moreover, we also illustrate their welfare or normative properties. The choice of sectors is inspired by their increasing importance and the recent expertise of the promoters of the project. | | Duration | 01/01/2006 - 31/12/2009 | | Researcher(s) | | | Research Team(s) | |
- Endogenous coalition creation in research and development : standardization and new market creation. 01/01/2006 - 31/12/2007
| Abstract | We intend to answer the following research questions:
i) What are the tirm''s optimal R&D investment strategies if there is a future possibility of setting up a standard?
ii) Does the standardization encourage or discourage R&D and under which conditions?
iii) Are the multi-standard market structures possible and stable?
iv) Is a large alliance with an inferior technology more efficient than several smaller alliances, some of which possess a superior technology?
v) What are the welfare and policy implications of a standardcreation by the innovating firms?
The research will proceed in the following way. First, we develop a theory after the process of standardcreation-driven coalition formation in R&D. Secondly, we move to the issue of new market creation with the focus on competition between standards, i.e. competition between different coalitions supporting those standards. | | Duration | 01/01/2006 - 31/12/2007 | | Researcher(s) | | | Research Team(s) | |
- Prize Research Council 2005. 07/12/2005 - 31/12/2005
| Abstract | No abstract found | | Duration | 07/12/2005 - 31/12/2005 | | Researcher(s) | | | Research Team(s) | |
- Corporatism in macroeconomic policy making. 01/10/2005 - 31/12/2007
| Abstract | The existing literature on the working of the corporatist modelof macroeconomic policy making is extended in two ways. First, the importance of asymmetric information is analyzed for the bargaining between the parties involved. Secondly, the fiscal policy of the government is also incorporated into the analysis. These improvements of the theory should ultimately lead to a better empirical specification of the examined empirical relations. | | Duration | 01/10/2005 - 31/12/2007 | | Researcher(s) | | | Research Team(s) | |
- Regulation and competition policy. Decision making in merger control: the role of communication. 01/10/2005 - 30/09/2007
| Abstract | No abstract found | | Duration | 01/10/2005 - 30/09/2007 | | Researcher(s) | | | Research Team(s) | |
- Drug policy in figures: follow-up study into the actors, public expenditure and target groups. 01/10/2005 - 30/06/2007
| Abstract | In Belgium, the importance of research into public expenditure is emphasised in the federal policy document on drugs of 2001. To this end, the research "Drug policy in Figures, A study into the actors involved, public expenditure and target groups reached" (hereafter called Drugs in Figures I) was carried out between 2001 and 2003 by order of the then Belgian Federal Services for Scientific, Technical and Cultural Affairs, now the Belgian federal science policy office, under the promotorship of Prof. dr. B. De Ruyver.
The present proposal will refine and update the methodology for measuring public expenditures as it was developed in the research Drugs in Figures I, taking into account the recent developments in the field, as well as the recommendations and bottle-necks identified in Drugs in Figures I and the studies recently carried out by (order of) the EMCDDA. The proposal pays more attention to the methodology itself and to the reporting on the methodology. Next to that, the research will perform a new measurement using the refined and updated methodology. In doing so, insight is gained into the evolutions in public expenditure concerning the approach to the drug problem in Belgium, highlighting the influence of the policy options and action points of the 2001 federal policy document on drugs.
More specific, the present research intents to trace the existence of a relation between the priorities of the Belgian drug policy and the public expenditure for these priorities. Next to that, it will also be examined if a relation exists between the prioritized target groups of the Belgian drug policy and public expenditure for these target groups | | Duration | 01/10/2005 - 30/06/2007 | | Researcher(s) | | | Research Team(s) | |
- Sabbatical: writing a textbook on sports economics. 01/10/2005 - 30/09/2006
| Abstract | No abstract found | | Duration | 01/10/2005 - 30/09/2006 | | Researcher(s) | | | Research Team(s) | |
- Inequalities in the health care sector: the role of income and the importance of a conceptual framework. 01/10/2005 - 31/12/2005
| Abstract | The project consists on three parts:
1) A longitudinal analysis of the correlation between socio-economic status and health: dynamics and causality.
2) Econometric modelling of the determinants of the number of visits to various health care types.
3) A conceptual framework for the measurement of socio-economic inequalities in the health care sector: alternatives and decompositions. | | Duration | 01/10/2005 - 31/12/2005 | | Researcher(s) | | | Research Team(s) | |
- Medicine consumption in Belgian homes for the elderly. 01/09/2005 - 31/08/2006
| Abstract | No abstract found | | Duration | 01/09/2005 - 31/08/2006 | | Researcher(s) | | | Research Team(s) | |
- Price and wage rigidities in an open economy. 17/05/2005 - 31/12/2006
| Abstract | No abstract found | | Duration | 17/05/2005 - 31/12/2006 | | Researcher(s) | | | Research Team(s) | |
- Impact of supplements on access to medical care. 01/03/2005 - 31/07/2006
| Abstract | Access to medical care is of primary concern to the government and the public in general. In this study, we will analyze whether the evolution in direct out-of-pocket payments (especially supplements) and private insurance has a negative impact on access. More specifically we will:
-do a literature review on the effects of out-of-pocket payments and complementary private insurance;
-calculate the amount and type of supplements in Belgium over the period 1996-2003 as well as determine the socio-economic characteristics of the patients generating or paying these supplements(on the basis of the IMA-data);
-on the basis of appropriate econometric techniques
*estimate the determinants to take out private health insurance
*estimate the impact of supplementary private insurance on the probability and duration of hospitalization after correction for behavioral effect of supplements. | | Duration | 01/03/2005 - 31/07/2006 | | Researcher(s) | | | Research Team(s) | |
- Endogenous entry barriers and competition in banking markets. 01/01/2005 - 31/12/2008
| Abstract | Removal of legal entry barriers is often considered as an important step to make markets more competitive. Incumbents, however, may have incentives to create institutions that limit entry possibilities in order to create market power. This project will study several institutions that considerably determine the degree of competition in banking markets. In particular, this project contributes to the analysis of information asymmetries between banks (both between entrants and incumbents), switching costs (both informational and transactional), and contracts (short-term vs. long-term). | | Duration | 01/01/2005 - 31/12/2008 | | Researcher(s) | | | Research Team(s) | |
- Oligopoly models of cooperation in research and development with technological spillovers : a laboratory test of the multimarket hypothesis. 01/01/2005 - 31/12/2007
| Abstract | We perform laboratory tests of the assumption often made in traditional theoretical R&D models that R&D cooperation does not translate in collusion in the output market. | | Duration | 01/01/2005 - 31/12/2007 | | Researcher(s) | | | Research Team(s) | |
- Structural underemployment and job shortage : the paradox of Rhineland labour markets. 01/10/2004 - 31/12/2005
| Abstract | The aim of the project is to document, explain and simulate the Rhineland labour market paradox. A key feature of the Rhineland model is the existence of a dual labour market. On the one hand there is an official labour market dominated by collective bargaining between social partners and with ''good'' but rationed jobs. On the other hand a sizeable shadow economy flourishes. The paradox lies in the coexistence of structural underemployment in the official economy with job shortage in the underground economy. | | Duration | 01/10/2004 - 31/12/2005 | | Researcher(s) | | | Research Team(s) | |
- No title found 01/10/2004 - 15/11/2004
| Abstract | No abstract found | | Duration | 01/10/2004 - 15/11/2004 | | Researcher(s) | | | Research Team(s) | |
- Entry, accomodation and mergers under uncertainty. 01/01/2004 - 31/12/2007
| Abstract |
As becomes apparent from the standard textbooks in industrial organization (cf. Tirole (1988)), the analysis of the effects of uncertainty within this field is yet underdeveloped. The aim of this project is to fill this ''empty hole''. To do so use will be made of the theory of real options. This is a relatively new concept meant to evaluate capital investment decisions of firms stressing the irreversibility of most investment decisions and the ongoing uncertainty of the economic environment in which these decisions are made. Until now real option theory mainly considers single decision maker problems of firms operating in monopoly or perfect competition markets. | | Duration | 01/01/2004 - 31/12/2007 | | Researcher(s) | | | Research Team(s) | |
- Wage flexibility in Europe: a comparative international study of its determinants 01/01/2004 - 30/12/2007
| Abstract | The principal objective of this project is to further understanding of the changing structure of
Euro-area labour markets, through an empirical investigation of the country specific wage
curves, using a consistent cross-country microeconomic data set from 1985 to 1998. This is
an important policy issue since the success of EMU will depend critically upon the structure
and conduits of the constituent national labour markets. | | Duration | 01/01/2004 - 30/12/2007 | | Researcher(s) | | | Research Team(s) | |
- Congestion pricing, time allocation and the labour market. 01/01/2004 - 31/12/2006
| Abstract | The purpose of this project is to study various different policies to cope with congestion externalities within the framework of formal time allocation models (Becker (1966), DeSerpa (1971), Jara-Diaz (2000)). We first consider optimal congestion pricing in a standard Becker-type time allocation model under two hypotheses: (i) assuming only the commodity input in transport production can be taxed (e.g., via fuel taxes); (ii) assuming the activity ''transport'' can directly be taxed (e.g. via road pricing schemers or kilometre taxes). Second, we extend this basic model to reconsider the optimal differential treatment of non-commuting and commuting transport derived in earlier models in the literature. Third, we look at the role of the time dimension in designing appropriate economic policies towards carpooling. | | Duration | 01/01/2004 - 31/12/2006 | | Researcher(s) | | | Research Team(s) | |
- Measuring trust. 01/10/2003 - 31/12/2005
| Abstract | A new game-theoretic approach to the study of interpersonal trust is proposed. The proposal is a variant of the well known Berg et al. (1995) trust game, in which the money multiplier is applied to the stage 2 transfer instead of the stage 1 transfer. As a result, altruism is largely eliminated as a driving force of player 1''s decision to transfer money to player 2, and so this transfer is a more natural measure of trust. | | Duration | 01/10/2003 - 31/12/2005 | | Researcher(s) | | | Research Team(s) | |
- Capital mobility, financial vulnerability and the Central and East European Countries' transition to the EMU. 01/10/2003 - 31/12/2004
| Abstract | This research proposal focuses into the monetary and financial risks for the Central and Eastern European Countries (CEEC) after accession to the EU. Indeed it is to be expected that soon after their accession the 8 CEECs will posit their candidature for EMU-membership. In this phase they will be especially vulnerable to capital inflow reversals and to currency crises. Thsis project will study: 1. The vulnerability of CEECs to currency crises. In this section wel stress the potential role of combined current account and government deficits (twin deficits) in increasing the vulnerability of CEECs to currency crises. 2. Capital movements and fiscal consolidation in accession countries. Our research objective is to estimate the sensitivity of fiscal consolidation to capital movements in accession countries. | | Duration | 01/10/2003 - 31/12/2004 | | Researcher(s) | | | Research Team(s) | |
- History of Economic Thought in Belgium, 1830-1945. 01/10/2003 - 31/08/2004
| Abstract | The proposed project is preceded by an exploratory research project funded by the University of Antwerp. The proposed research project will analyse the collected material in order to focus on two main issues : (1) the history of higher education in economics in Belgium, and (2) scientific research in economics with international relevance and will analyse this material in order to clarify the national and international role of Belgian economists and their research. Impact will be measured using citation analysis, recorded interventions at national and interantional meetings and membership (active of otherwise) of scientific organisations. | | Duration | 01/10/2003 - 31/08/2004 | | Researcher(s) | | | Research Team(s) | |
- The financial problems of the Belgian sports federations. 01/10/2003 - 31/05/2004
| Abstract | No abstract found | | Duration | 01/10/2003 - 31/05/2004 | | Researcher(s) | | | Research Team(s) | |
- The dynamics of income, health and inequality. 01/10/2003 - 31/12/2006
| Abstract | The policy background to the present proposal concern over equity in the fields of health and health care. This project aims to address the pertinent questions regarding the causal mechanisms underlying the systematic associations between health and income. It will mainly rely on theoretical advances in the health economics literature to guide the empirical analysis and take advantage of the availability panel date to test and estimate these relationships. | | Duration | 01/10/2003 - 31/12/2006 | | Researcher(s) | | | Research Team(s) | |
- Bernard Chait and the early development of econometrics in Belgium (1930-1960) 01/10/2003 - 31/12/2005
| Abstract | Since December 2001 research is started, in collaboration with a Dutch colleague Albert Jolink (Erasmus University Rotterdam), on the almost completely forgotten Antwerp engineer-economist Bernard Chait. The proposed project aims at deepening and rounding off this research, and at publicizing its results to a wider audience. | | Duration | 01/10/2003 - 31/12/2005 | | Researcher(s) | | | Research Team(s) | |
- Endogenous coalition formation in en European stabilisation policy setting: feasibility and effects. 01/10/2003 - 31/12/2006
| Abstract | The research focuses on the derivation of macroeconomic stabilisation policies in the European Monetary Union (EMU) area. The overall objective is to model (in a dynamic context):
a) the design of national and common stabilisation macroeconomic policies and
b) the effects of the interactions among policymakers (national governments of ''blocs'' of governments and the European Central Bank (ECB) in setting these policies.
Our project aims to consider the EMU by stressing the role played by: i) asymmetries (in both structural and preference parameters) and ii) the existence of a multi-country context in a dynamic set-up. Asymmetries allow to consider the bargaining power distribution among EMU members in setting a common policy, different asymmetric transmission mechanisms of economic policy among countries, and different economic structures (e.g. small vs. large economies). | | Duration | 01/10/2003 - 31/12/2006 | | Researcher(s) | | | Research Team(s) | |
- Competition and regulation: the role for government. 01/10/2003 - 31/12/2004
| Abstract | The main objective of this project is to study the position of the government with respect to an optimal industrial organization of an economy. More specifically, we pay attention to the recent international trend of many Western governments moving from an active market player and market distorting regulator towards a more market oriented regulator and watchdog. In particular, the research project investigates the theoretical relationship between ex ante regulation an ex post intervention. Specific sectors will be the subject of this research project. The research methodology follows the New Industrial Economics approach where the analysis happens at the level of the industry with its specific characteristics. The research will in particular have applications for Belgium where the role of government in the organization of the Belgian industry is growing but only slowly compared to a country like The Netherlands of the UK. | | Duration | 01/10/2003 - 31/12/2004 | | Researcher(s) | | | Research Team(s) | |
- No title found 01/10/2003 - 30/05/2004
| Abstract | No abstract found | | Duration | 01/10/2003 - 30/05/2004 | | Researcher(s) | | | Research Team(s) | |
- No title found 01/10/2003 - 30/11/2004
| Abstract | No abstract found | | Duration | 01/10/2003 - 30/11/2004 | | Researcher(s) | | | Research Team(s) | |
- The dynamics of income, health and inequality over the life cycle. (EQUITY III) 01/10/2003 - 31/10/2005
| Abstract | No abstract found | | Duration | 01/10/2003 - 31/10/2005 | | Researcher(s) | | | Research Team(s) | |
- No title found 01/10/2003 - 30/09/2004
| Abstract | No abstract found | | Duration | 01/10/2003 - 30/09/2004 | | Researcher(s) | | | Research Team(s) | |
- No title found 01/10/2003 - 31/12/2003
| Abstract | No abstract found | | Duration | 01/10/2003 - 31/12/2003 | | Researcher(s) | | | Research Team(s) | |
- Universities and firms: a comparative analysis of the interaction between market processes, organizational strategies and governance. Satellite UA: regulation and management of universities. 01/10/2003 - 31/12/2006
| Abstract | The goal of the project is to explore new developments in the theory of organizations and of regulation, and to apply them to the specific case of universities.While the project has a strong microeconomic theory component, it also relies on general management, human resource management and organizational sociology perspectives. The focus is twofold: (1) the government is primarily interested in the use, the design and the effects of various funding formulas and regulatory mechanisms; (2) the university itself has also to design its own policy. | | Duration | 01/10/2003 - 31/12/2006 | | Researcher(s) | | | Research Team(s) | |
- Essays on coordination failures. 01/10/2003 - 30/09/2006
| Abstract | The aim of this project is to examine situations which are characterised by uncertainty, complementarities in actions, and scattered information among agents. Potential applications include initial public offering of stock, currency crises and industrial investment under imperfect competition. In these analyses use will be made of the work of Cooper (1999). Cooper considers key macroeconomic problems (on growth theory, trading costs, synchronisation of activity ...) explicitly as co-ordination games. Doing so he forces economists to rethink classic papers and the role of government. Morris and Shin (2000) present a research path for the future. Specific analyses for the topics from Cooper (1999) could offer very interesting policy descriptions. | | Duration | 01/10/2003 - 30/09/2006 | | Researcher(s) | | | Research Team(s) | |
- Optimal dynamic R&D investment strategies of competitive enterprises facing technological and market uncertainties. 01/10/2003 - 31/12/2005
| Abstract | The objective of this research is to extend the study about the firms'' strategic competitive R&D investment subject to technological and market uncertainties. It will contribute to strengthening both the theoretical and empirical knowledge base in this subject. This implies that optimal R&D behavior is determined while taking into account the rivals'' behavior, the possibility of coalition creation, and the difference in size among firms, i.e. The dynamic oligopolistic R&D behavior model must be considered. In the empirical part of the research we aim at the following targets: i) analyze firms'' individual R&D investment and innovative production strategies using cross-section and panel data for Belgian enterprises | | Duration | 01/10/2003 - 31/12/2005 | | Researcher(s) | | | Research Team(s) | |
- Research in the field of "New industrial economy and the role of the government". 01/10/2003 - 30/09/2008
| Abstract | No abstract found | | Duration | 01/10/2003 - 30/09/2008 | | Researcher(s) | | | Research Team(s) | |
- Policy Research Centre: careers of pupils and students in education and transition from education to labour market. Part university of Antwerp in Unit B. 01/10/2003 - 31/12/2006
| Abstract | The main objective of this unit is the construction of longitudinal data-sets with regard to the transition from school to work as well as the analysis of and reporting on the results obtained. To this order the unit will design and operate surveys, specifically set up to collect flow data for several birth cohorts at different ages, most notably the special module on the transition from school to work included in the Labour Force Survey. | | Duration | 01/10/2003 - 31/12/2006 | | Researcher(s) | | | Research Team(s) | |
- Determinants and consequences of migration with special attention or the relation betwaaen illegal migration and organised crime 01/10/2003 - 31/12/2004
| Abstract | Migration raises several important social issues. Does worldwide liberalisation of international trade lead to decreasing migratry pressure? What effects has the economic integration of Central and Eastern Europe into the EU on East-West migration? Does migration lead to diminishing employment opportunities or wages for locals? What are the benefits of migration and for whom? How can the social choice for a stop in the migration be explained? What are the costs and benefits of such a policy? How can integration of immigrants be encouraged in a cost-effective way? In this research project a number of questions will be adressed. The goal of the project is to deepen the knowledge of the determinants and the consequences of migration and to strenghen policy making views. The cetral theme of the project is the study of the causes and cosequences of migration in general, but more specifically thedevelopment of a paradigm on the relation betwaan illegal migration and organised crime | | Duration | 01/10/2003 - 31/12/2004 | | Researcher(s) | | | Research Team(s) | |
- Innovation behaviour, patenting and trademarks subject to knowledge spillovers in 'core' countries of the European Union 01/10/2003 - 31/12/2003
| Abstract | The objective is to extend Plasmans et al. (1998) and Lukatch en Plasmans (2000) both theoretically ands empirically. Theoretically, by introducing assymetry of firms and by deriving optimal static and dynamic innovation strategies and R&D related policy measures of national governments. Empirically, by performing five types of analyses: (I) present an overview over time of alle EU firms'' patent (trademark) applications and patents (trademakks) granted by major patent and trademark offices (European, Japanese and American); (ii) study ''patent-to-patent citations'' and ''patent-to-publication citations'' as a possible efficient measure for knowledge spillovers; (iii) & (iv) estimation and testing of dynamic panel data models patent (trademark) appications, patents (trademarks) granted and the corresponding patent (trademark) intensities for 22 sectors in core EU countries (sample period 1989-2000); (v) if there are significant knowledge spillovers, the creation of e.g. a Research Joint Venture (RJV) may actually improve social welfare and be at the same time beneficial to the firms involved; we want to perfor a profound comparativeanalysis on the motives for starting RJV''s, Joint Research and Development Agreements, Joint Research Pacts, and Research Corporations on the basis of an updated version of the MERIT-CATI database. | | Duration | 01/10/2003 - 31/12/2003 | | Researcher(s) | | | Research Team(s) | |
- No title found 01/10/2003 - 28/02/2004
| Abstract | No abstract found | | Duration | 01/10/2003 - 28/02/2004 | | Researcher(s) | | | Research Team(s) | |
- No title found 01/10/2003 - 30/11/2003
| Abstract | No abstract found | | Duration | 01/10/2003 - 30/11/2003 | | Researcher(s) | | | Research Team(s) | |
- Equity of the different payment sources for health care 01/10/2003 - 31/10/2003
| Abstract | The project will provide further evidence on the sociale characteristics of the Belgian health care system and contribute to the existing international evidence on three different aspects. 1) Provide factual information about the link between an individual''s income and its liability for user charges over time. To which degree has the increase in copayments led to an increased share of medical care in household income over time and what is the impact on poverty? 2) Analyse the current impact of health care payments on households. What individuals are most vulnerable with respect to medical payments? What are the demographic and clinical characteristics of patients having payment problems? 3) Analysis of the (actual) degree of vertical and horizontal equity of the different payment sources for health care in Belgium and international comparison. | | Duration | 01/10/2003 - 31/10/2003 | | Researcher(s) | | | Research Team(s) | |
- No title found 01/10/2003 - 31/12/2003
| Abstract | No abstract found | | Duration | 01/10/2003 - 31/12/2003 | | Researcher(s) | | | Research Team(s) | |
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