The paper investigates the potential effects of the exchange rate regime on the conditional volatilities and international correlations on bond and stock markets. The analysis is essentially empirical. It focuses on the recent experience of the EMS, and examines the behavior of domestic daily...

Commodity price booms, as those recorded in the last decade, may have a significant economic impact in small, commodity exporting, developing countries. Whether the impact on output is positive or negative is still unclear. It depends on various factors, notably on the impact that commodity...

Dans notre étude conjoncturelle d’octobre 2007, nous évoquions une détérioration des perspectives économiques pour 2008 en raison de l’apparition de plusieurs facteurs de freinage au niveau belge et international. Depuis octobre, les conditions économiques se sont encore un peu...

While most of the literature on the determination of real exchange rates is focused on the role of standard macroeconomic variables, there exists how- ever a few papers that are more concerned by the impact of factors which are usually considered to play a key role in the process of economic...

This paper provides new empirical evidence about the relationship that may exist between real exchange rates and commodity prices in developing countries that are specialized in the export of a main primary commodity. It investigates how structural factors like the exchange rate regime, the...

Bien que la situation économique belge se soit quelque peu améliorée depuis notre analyse conjoncturelle d’il y a 3 mois, elle demeure fragile. La confiance des ménages et des entreprises reste faible, les créations d’emplois sont limitées et le chômage est toujours élevé. La...

This paper provides new empirical evidence about the relationship that may exist between real exchange rates and commodity prices in developing countries that are specialized in the export of a main primary commodity. It investigates how structural factors like the exchange rate regime, the...

Family businesses are an important part of the world economy (Anderson and Reeb, 2003) and show significant differences in their corporate governance compared to non-family firms. Although displaying evident unique features, family firms have received relatively little attention as distinct from...