Up to now, there has been some controversy about green certificates (a form of subsidy) that are granted for the installation of photovoltaic (PV) panels in the Flemish residential sector. The Flemish government has already reduced the value of future green certificates, because they appeared to...

The purpose of this paper is to illustrate the use of statistical techniques to evaluate the effectiveness of voluntary policy instruments for waste management. The voluntary character of these instruments implies that latent characteristics, unobserved by the analyst, might influence the...

This paper presents a review of the literature on personnel scheduling problems. Firstly, we discuss the classification methods in former review papers. Secondly, we evaluate the literature in the many fields that are related to either the problem setting or the technical features. Each...

Empirical research on the characteristics of environmentally responsive companies has focussed on US and Japanese companies. For Europe, which is commonly considered as the greenest of the three major markets, similar research is lacking. This paper seeks to fill this gap by empirically...

This paper empirically investigates the determinants of growth through mergers and acquisitions (M&As) in a typical Continental European country, Belgium. By analyzing firm characteristics, industry and aggregate market variables, we are able to determine what motives are important in the...

We provide a contingent valuation of a major cycling event, namely the Tour of Flanders. Starting from survey data, we estimate several models with different assumptions about (1) the latent willingness to pay (WTP) distribution and (2) the change in WTP when responding to the follow-up question...

In this paper an economic evaluation of photovoltaic grid connected systems (PVGCS) for companies situated in Flanders (Belgium) is conducted by using a generic Excel model. The model is unique in that it includes the dimension of taxation. This inclusion is required, otherwise the fiscal...