This paper investigates the importance and scope of legal and administrative barriers In Belgium as compared to its main trade partners within the framework of the recent Bolkestein directive proposal. After a short review of the literature on the impacts of economic deregulation on...

This paper aims at contributing to the literature on the impact of a company on Its country's economy. It first puts forward an analysis of the ICT sector worldwide and the importance of the IT sector In Belgium. Second, It aims at validating a method used to calculate the impact of a company...

Strategic environmental assessment (SEA) is now adopted as a formal procedure in various organisations. Nevertheless, the question of how to choose the most suitable SEA participatory approach for a given situation is far from being resolved. To shed light on this question, we briefly describe...

One of the fastest growing European catchwords at the present time - the 'European Social Model' (ESM) - is used to describe the European experience of simultaneously promoting sustainable economic growth and social cohesion. The use of the concept of ESM in academic and political debate is...

We discuss computational issues in the sequential probit model that have limited its use in applied research. We estimate parameters of the model by the method of simulated maximum likelihood (SML) and by Bayesian MCMC algorithms. We provide Monte Carlo evidence on the relative performance of...

Pyramids, cross-ownership, rings and other complex features inducing control tunnelling are frequent in the European and Asian industrial world. Based on the matrix methodology, this paper offers a model for measuring integrated ownership and threshold-based control, applicable to any group of...

The goal of this paper is to determine if electoral systems and inequality are linked. Using high-quality data (LIS database) and simple panel methods, we show that when the degree of proportionality of a system increases, inequality decreases. © 2004 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.