This Working Paper provides an extensive overview of the economic importance and development of the Flemish maritime ports, the Liège port complex and the port of Brussels for the period 2013 - 2018 in terms of value added, employment and investment. Each of these ports play a major role in...

In the VAT system, formal traders report their purchases to the administration for a deduction in their tax bill. I model this third-party reporting feature of the VAT in an input-output economy and quantify it among different activities using a forward linkages index. The administration can...

We analyse the propagation of carbon taxation through input-output production networks. To do so, we use a static multi-sector general equilibrium model including France, the rest of the European Union and the rest of the world to simulate the impact of carbon tax scenarios on economic activity....