We analyze the effect of government policies on the evolution of global mobile telecommunications markets during 1981-1997. We obtain the following findings. (i) Countries that issue first licenses at later dates converge relatively slowly to early moving countries. (ii) The introduction of...

This paper presents the results of a large-scale survey on the potential benefits of and impediments for horizontal collaboration in Flanders. When appropriate, a distinction is made between different types of Logistics Service Providers (LSPs) and between respondents that are currently...

This paper analyzes corporatism in a two-player game which integrates macroeconomic stabilization policy and a policy of social transfers. The government decides on the level of nominal social transfers, and the trade union decides on the nominal wage level. A central finding is that if one...

Social conflicts are a serious obstacle to economic growth in many Latin American societies, affecting economic activity both in the short- and the long-run. The purpose of this paper is twofold. First, we develop a methodology to estimate the direct, short-run impact of frequently occurring...

Spicer Off-Highway Products Division (a division of Dana Corporation) asked us to develop OR tools to improve the due date performance and to shorten the manufacturing lead time of its powershift transmission plant in Brugge, Belgium. We modelled the manufacturing system as a queueing model, and...

Ondernemingsgroepen komen overal ter wereld voor maar de opvatting, het doel en de werking ervan kunnen heel uiteenlopend zijn. Met deze paper willen we een overzicht geven van de bestaande literatuur over ondernemingsgroepen, met specifieke aandacht voor Europese en voor Belgische...

Deze paper geeft een overzicht van het bestaande statistisch materiaal betreffende het goederenvervoer over het Belgische infrastructuurnetwerk. Hierbij wordt rekening gehouden met de modi weg, binnenvaart en spoor. De aandacht gaat voornamelijk uit naar die gegevens die bruikbaar zijn voor de...

For the algorithmic construction of optimal experimental designs, it is important to be able to evaluate small modi_cations of given designs in terms of the optimality criteria at a low computational cost. In this article, we propose update formulas for evaluating the impact of changes to the...