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Public policy influence on renewable energy investments-A panel data study across OECD countries

Polzin, Friedemann F.; Migendt, Michael M.; von Flotow, … - Solvay Brussels School of Economics and Management, … - 2015

This paper examines the impact of public policy measures on renewable energy (RE) investments in electricity-generating capacity made by institutional investors. Using a novel combination of datasets and a longitudinal research design, we investigate the influence of different policy measures in...

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Tigers and Dragons at the World Intellectual Property Organization

Morin, Jean-Frédéric; Bannerman, Sara - Solvay Brussels School of Economics and Management, … - 2015

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The Politics of Transatlantic Trade Negotiations: TTIP in a Globalized World

Morin, Jean-Frédéric; Novotna, Tereza; Ponjaert, Frederik - Solvay Brussels School of Economics and Management, … - 2015

Union and argue that TTIP promises to have vast implications not just for economics but global governance and international …

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L’opérateur de transport public à Bruxelles (STIB) et la Région de Bruxelles-Capitale :25 ans de vie commune

Goethals, Christophe - Solvay Brussels School of Economics and Management, … - 2015

Since 1989 and the regionalization of public transports in Belgium, the Société des transports intercommunaux de Bruxelles (STIB), i.e. the public operator of urban transport in Brussels, has undergone many changes, both structural and organizational. Meanwhile, the company has managed to...

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The smallest stocks are not just smaller: global evidence

de Moor, Lieven L.; Sercu, Piet - Solvay Brussels School of Economics and Management, … - 2015

Using an international Thomson Reuters Datastream database, where size coverage is unusually wide and data errors have been reduced to a low level, we show that some specification decisions, and especially those related to size, may have a significant impact on asset-pricing test results. We...

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Is utility transferable? A revealed preference analysis

De Rock, Bram; Cherchye, Laurens; Demuynck, Thomas - Solvay Brussels School of Economics and Management, … - 2015

The transferable utility hypothesis underlies important theoretical results in household economics. We provide a …

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Arts and love: The time Italian couples spend on cultural activities

Lazzaro, Elisabetta; Frateschi, Carlofilippo - Solvay Brussels School of Economics and Management, … - 2015

We exploit time-use data to investigate Italian couples’ arts participation at joint vs. individual level of partners. By using the most recent available diary data on individual time use in Italian households (ISTAT, 2002-03), we distinguish between arts attendance (going to theater, visiting...

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The belief that market transactions are mutually beneficial: A comparison of the views of students in economics and other disciplines

Méon, Pierre-Guillaume; Goossens, Amélie - Solvay Brussels School of Economics and Management, … - 2015

existence of mutual benefits of market transactions, we observe significant differences between economics and business students … to economics students increasingly supporting the belief and partly to other students, in particular psychology students …, increasingly disagreeing with it. The beliefs of economics students are more homogeneous at the end of their studies. We, therefore …

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Informational Efficiency of the Clandestine and Official Gold Markets in Paris

OOSTERLINCK, Kim; Gallais-Hamonno, Georges; Hoang, … - Solvay Brussels School of Economics and Management, … - 2015

For gold, moving from clandestine to official trading does not significantly change informational efficiency. Both markets are inefficient suggesting that efficiency is linked more to the type of asset than to the legal status of the market.

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The formal and informal institutional framework of capital accumulation

Sekkat, Khalid; Méon, Pierre-Guillaume - Solvay Brussels School of Economics and Management, … - 2015

This paper studies the impact of social trust and formal legal institutions on capital accumulation in a panel of countries. The results not only confirm that both social trust and the quality of formal legal institutions have a positive impact on capital accumulation, but also show that they...

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