Research

Publications

• • Evaluation of Outward Foreign Direct Investment Environment in China, 2023 (with R. Xue, H. Liu, K. Hynes and Y. Shi), Transnational Corporations Review

  • South Africa’s Titanium Industrial Policy: A Product Space Perspective, 2022 (with W. Bam and D. Engelbrecht), South African Journal of Economics, 91 (1), 3-27.

  • The Forest Industry and Development Within South Africa and Other Southern African Development Community Countries, 2022 (with K. Schmidt, W. Bam and P.N. Zincume), IEEE Conference Proceedings - IAMOT best paper award

  • The Product Space, Sustainability, and GVC Oriented Industrial Policies: The Case of Iron and Steel in the SACU, 2022 (with W. Bam), Africa Journal of Management 

  • The IO-PS in the Context of GVC-related Policymaking: the Case of the South African Automotive Industry, 2021 (with W. Bam and M. Laing),  Journal of International Business Policy, 4 (3), 410-432.

  • Factors affecting the Location of Economic Activities: a Multi-Disciplinary Review and Conceptual Framework, 2020 (with W. Bam and C. Schutte), South African Journal of Industrial Engineering, 31 (4): 115-135. 

  • Overmatig Pendelverkeer en Fricties op de Belgische Arbeidsmarkt, 2020 (with N. Deschacht), Over.Werk, 2, Steunpunt Werk

  • Excess Commuting and Frictions in the Labour Market, 2020 (with N. Deschacht), Journal of Applied Economics, 23 (1): 600-617. 

  • Pecking Order and Core-Periphery in International Trade, 2020 (with G. Magerman and J. Van Hove), Review of International Economics, 28(4): 933-1141. 

  • Can China reduce the carbon emissions of its manufacturing exports by moving up the global value chain?, 2020 (with H. Liu, Z. Zhong and K. Hynes), Research in International Business and Finance, 51 (101101): 1-13. 

  • Improving Industrial Policy Intervention: The Case of Steel in South Africa, 2019 (with W. Bam), Journal of Development Studies, 55 (11): 2460-2475. 

  • Location Policy and Downstream Mineral Processing: A Research Agenda, 2017 (with W. Bam), The Extractive Industries and Society, 4 (3): 443-447

  • Taxes, Agglomeration Rents and Location Decisions of Firms, 2013, (with K. Crabbé), De Economist, 161 (4): 441-44

  • The Impact of European Enlargement on the Direction and Prospects of Brussels Exports, 2013, (with J. Van Hove), International Journal of Public Policy, 9 (3):188-214.

  •  Explaining Spatial Variation in Housing Prices: an Economic Geography Approach, 2013, (with J. Van Hove), Applied Economics, 45: 1673-1689.

  •  More than 'Mutual Information': Educational and Sectoral Gender Segregation and their Interaction on the Flemish Labour Market, 2012, (with T. Van Puyenbroeck and L. Sels), Labour Economics, 19 (1):1-8.

  • Taxes, Agglomeration Rents and Location Decisions of Firms, 2011, (with K. Crabbé), in Glokaal beleid in Europa: lokaal beleid voor een globale markt: concurrentie of coördinatie binnen de EU?, De Clercq, M., Albrecht, J., Verbeke, T., (eds), ACCO, Leuven.

  • Explaining the Location of Economic Activity. Is there a Spatial Employment Structure in Belgium?, 2010, International Journal of Economic Issues, Vol. 3, No. 2 (July-December, 2010): 199-222.

  • The Location of Economic Activity: First versus Second Nature Core-Periphery Theories, 2006, Review of Business and Economics, vol LI, pp 75-104

  •  Essays in the Location of Economic Activity, 2004, FETEW Catholic University Leuven, PhD Dissertation, 159

  • Will Wage Policy Succeed in Europe? The Case of Belgium, 2000 (with F. Abraham and I. Van Der Auwera), Cahiers Economiques de Bruxelles, 168

  • Challenges for Successful Wage Setting in Europe, 2000, (with F. Abraham and I. Van Der Auwera) in The Economic and Business Consequences of the EMU. A Challenge for Governments, Financial Institutions and Firms, Ooghe, H., Heylen, F., Vander Vennet, R., Vermaut, J. (eds)

  • Reflecties over loonvorming in Euroland. Wordt het macro-economisch loonbeleid een succes?’, 2000, (with F. Abraham and I. Van Der Auwera) in EMU, dé uitdaging. 24ste Vlaams Wetenschappelijk Economisch Congres, Ooghe, H., Heylen, F., Vander Vennet, R. (eds)

Work in progress 

• • Evaluating the Developmental Potential of the Automotive Industry in South Africa (with W. Bam and M. Lang)

  • Tailoring industrial policy: a national or a regional perspective? (with W. Bam and D. Hartmann)

  • The (un)certain future of clothing and textiles industry in South Africa (with W. Bam and M. Swanepoel)

  • Taxable Agglomeration Rents and Infrastructure as Location Determinants of Firms in Europe (with B. Merlevede and K. Hynes)

Projects and in the press

• VLIR-UOS South Initiative 2020: Improving industrial policy intervention in South Africa - in cooperation with Stellenbosch University and Cape Peninsula University of Technology

• In the press: Beneficiation is Touted as a Silver Bullet. Why it might not be. , 2019, The Conversation  

Working papers and policy reports

• Heterogeneous Firms and the Micro Origins of Aggregate Fluctuations (with G. Magerman, J. Van Hove and E. Dhyne), NBB Working paper version (Oct 2016)

• The Impact of European Enlargement on the Direction and Prospects of Brussels Exports, 2012, (with J. Van Hove), HUB Working paper 2012/39 and INFER Working paper 2012.10

• Specialisation and Sectoral Performance of the Brussels Economy, 2012, (with J. Van Hove, G. Magerman and A. Van Assche), Research Report for UNIZO - Flemish and Brussels Union of Independent Entrepreneurs

• Future Perspectives of the Brussels Export: an Analysis Based on Bilateral Trade Flows, 2010, (with J. Van Hove), Research Report for the Ministry of the Brussels Capital Region