BANK ADVISER is currently used within a major Belgian bank in order to assess the financial position of industrial clients. The system is based on the multicriteria methodology developed with the PROMETHEE and GAIA methods. BANK ADVISER est utilisé couramment par une grande banque belge pour...

This paper deals with the financial evaluation of the Belgian insurance sector. The different characteristics (including structure, solvency, efficiency, global, technical and financial profitabilities) of 75 insurance companies are analysed using appropriate ratios. Cet article est consacré à...

On February 2011, the European Commission adopted a new strategy to improve measures and access to raw materials, considering that EU is high dependence of imports of them. The new strategy considers three pillars to improving raw materials access. One of them is boosting resource efficiency and...

Politics must address multiple problems simultaneously. In an ideal world, political competition would force parties to adopt priorities that reflect the voters' true concerns. In reality, parties can run their campaigns in such a way as to manipulate voters' priorities. This phenomenon, known...

Monetary valuation techniques are often used for evaluating the effect of a change in ecosystem services on components of human wellbeing, even though they face several drawbacks. This paper seeks to reconcile monetary valuation techniques with methods that address ecosystem-economy interactions...

Why do some countries adopt exogenous rules into their domestic law when those laws do not align with the country’s specific interests? This article draws on the policy diffusion literature to identify four causal mechanisms that are hypothesized to give rise to those transplants in the case...

The paper tries to convey the idea that choosing a winner among a group of nominees or short-listed candidates may hurt those who bestow prizes, those who are selected, as well as those who base their own choices on the ranking. We base our observations on examples of contests (movies,...