Content: 

1) Papers by topic: Trade/MNC's  -  Labor - Innovation/Technological Change - Management - Agricultural Economics 

2) Publications Statistics Netherlands (mainly in Dutch)

Unpublished

• Offshoring and the mental health of onshore employees, with B. Leten, C. Grimpe and R. Clerckx. R&R

• The impact of female executives on employee mental distress amidst import competition, with B. Leten, C. Post and E. Wijns. Paper and presentation at Academy of Management Conference (AOM), 2025, Copenhagen.

• Is It Really Contagious? A Multi-Study Replication of “The Epidemic of Mental Disorders in Business”, with B. Leten, R. Clerckx and K. Laursen. Paper and presentation at Academy of Management Conference (AOM), 2025, Copenhagen.

• Catering to next-generation family owners: Drivers of dividends on the post-succession era, with E. Janssen, S. Vandemaele and W. Voordeckers. R&R

• Digitalization and international competitiveness: a cross-country exploration of the relation between firm-level ICT use, productivity and export, Vancauteren, Chemo Dzukou, Polder, Mohnen, NBB Working paper 462. Paper prepared for the NBB colloqium on Deglobalisation, decarbonisation and digitalisation : How the three Ds affect firm pricing, markups and productivity 2025, Brussels. 

• Using webpage texts to identify firm-level innovation in the Netherlands: An application on size and the effect of R&D subsidies on productivity, with D. Creemers, P. Daas, M. Polder, R. van Roekel and  C. Vissers.  Paper and presentation at the Economic Statistics Centre of Excellence (ESCoE) conference on Economic Measurement 2023, May 18, Londen, UK.  

• Innovation and productivity of Dutch firms, Vancauteren, Melenberg, Plasmans, Bongard (2017).

• Firm level productivity, price and wage markups: an empirical analysis of the Dutch manufacturing industry,  Amoroso, Melenberg, Plasmans, Vancauteren (2015), CESifo Working Paper Series No. 5273. 

• Market imperfections, skills and TFP: Firm-level evidence on Belgium and the Netherlands,  Dobbelaere, Vancauteren (2014), NBB Working Paper 268, Research Series, October 2014. Paper prepared for the NBB colloquium on Total Factor Productivity: measurement, determinants and effects. 

• Firm level productivity under imperfect competition in output and labor markets, with S. Amoroso, B. Melenberg, J. Plasmans, CESifo Working Paper Series No. 3082, June 2010.

Trade/MNC's

1. Multinational firms and the quest for global talent: Hiring (skilled) foreign workers at home and abroad, Belderbos, Leten, Nguyen, Vancauteren (2025), Journal of International Business Studies, 56, pp. 151-173.

2. Decoding specialization patterns in global value chains: the role of multinationals and domestic firms, Kordalska, Lemmers, Olczyk, Vancauteren (2025), International Journal of Emerging Markets, 20(13), pp. 313-336.  

3. Import competition, destinations and firms’ patents strategies: Evidence for the Netherlands, Vancauteren, Bouhrat, Lemmers (2024), Journal of the Knowledge Economy, 15, pp. 4248-4314. 

4. The relationship between tax incentives and MNE’s patent behavior and implications for the real economic activity: Evidence from the Netherlands, with M. Polder and M. van den Berg, in N. Ahmad, B. Moulton, J. D. Richardson, P. van de Ven (eds.), Challenges of Globalization in the Measurement of National Accounts, NBER Book Series Studies in Income and Wealth Volume 81, University of Chicago Press, 2023.

5. The relationship between R&D and exporting goods and services of firms in the Netherlands: An empirical analysis, Rud, Vancauteren, van Roekel, Polder (2023), Journal of Industry, Competition and Trade, 23, pp. 283-308.

6. The degree of international trade and exchange rate exposure – Firm-level evidence from two small open economies, Van Cauwenberge, Vancauteren, Braekers, Vandemaele (2022), International Journal of Finance & Economics, 27(4), pp. 3832-3850.

7. Measuring and explaining firm-level exchange rate exposure: The role of imports and exports, Van Cauwenberge, Vancauteren, Braekers, Vandemaele (2021), Economic Modelling, 105 (December), article 105667.

8. International Trade, Foreign Direct Investments, and Firms’ Systemic Risk: Evidence from the Netherlands, Van Cauwenberge, Vancauteren, Braekers, Vandemaele (2019), Economic Modelling, 81(September), pp. 361-386. (Special Issue: Recent Developments in Financial and Macroeconomic Dynamics)

9. Embassies matter for trade, but diplomats matter most: Evaluation of Dutch economic diplomacy in Latin America, with P. Compernolle, in P. van Bergeijk and S. Moons (eds.), Research Handbook on Economic Diplomacy, Edward Elgar Cheltenham, 2018.

10. The role of EU harmonization in explaining the export-productivity premium of food processing firms, in: J. Beghin (ed.), Non-Tariff Measures with Market Imperfections: Trade and Welfare Implications, Frontiers of Economics and Globalization Series, Vol. 12, Emerald, 2013.

11. E-Commerce, in: P. Bull (ed.), Impact of Globalization on National Accounts, United Nations Publication, January 2012.

12. Trade policy, competition and productivity: The impact of EU harmonization in the Dutch food processing industry, Henry de Frahan, Vancauteren (2011), De Economist, 159(4), pp. 483-509. (Special Issue: Productivity and Internationalization: A Micro-Data Approach)

13. Intra-European trade of manufacturing goods: An extension of the gravity model, Vancauteren, Weiserbs (2011), International Econometric Review, 3(1), pp.1-24, 2011.

14. Offshoring and global standards: Some issues, in: A. Tavidze (ed.) Progress in Economics Research, Vol.18, New York: Nova Science, 2011.

15. Regulations, standards and international sourcing: Firm evidence from a Dutch survey, in: A.P. Faria and H. Guimarães (eds.), Product Market Integration: A Multifaceted Approach, International Business and Management Series, Vol. 26, Emerald, 2010.

16. Trade effects of approaches intended to facilitate acceptance of results of conformity assessment: What is the evidence?, Background paper prepared for the 2009 OECD Workshop and policy dialogue on technical barriers to trade: Promoting good practices in support of open markets, OECD, Paris, 2009.

17. Adjustment to globalization: A study of the footwear industry in Europe, with P. Brenton and A.M. Pinna, in: R. Anderton, P. Brenton and J. Whalley (eds.), Globalization and the Labour Market: Trade, Technology and Unskilled Workers, London: Routledge Studies in the Modern World Economy, 2006.

18. Economic effects of harmonization of regulations and trade in the Single Market, Annales d’Études Européennes de l'Université catholique de Louvain, vol.8, pp. 285-304, 2006.

19. The extent of economic integration in Europe: Border effects, technical barriers to trade & home bias in consumption, with P. Brenton, Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS), Brussels, working document 171, 2001

20. Technical barriers to trade in the EU: Data, trends and implications for accession countries, Brenton, Sheehy, Vancauteren (2001), Journal of Common Market Studies, 39(2), pp. 241-260.

Labor

1. Does offshoring shape labor market imperfections: A comparative analysis of Belgian and Dutch firms, Dobbelaere, Fuss, Vancauteren (2025), Industrial Relations, to appear.  

See also the SUERF Policy Brief 538 - The European Money and Finance Forum

2. Fixed-term contracts and firm productivity: Do workers’ skills and firm conversion rates from fixed-term to permanent contracts matter?, Nguyen, Smits, Vancauteren (2024), International Journal of Manpower, 45(10), pp. 144-161.

Innovation/Technological Change

1. Mounting corporate innovation performance: The effects of high-skilled migrant hires and integration capacity, Laursen, Leten, Nguyen, Vancauteren (2020), Research Policy, 49(9), article 104034. (Special Issue on STEM Migration and Innovation).

2. The effects of human capital, R&D and firm’s innovation on patents: A panel study on Dutch food firms (2018), Journal of Technology Transfer, 43(4), pp. 901-922.

3. Measures of productivity change: Which outcome do you want?, with B.M. Balk and E. Veldhuizen (2012). The first version was an invited paper for the 57th Session of the International Statistical Institute, Durban, South-Africa, 16-22 August 2009. The second version was prepared for the 32nd General Conference of the International Association for Research in Income and Wealth, Boston MA, 5-11 August 2012. 

4. Multifactor Productivity Growth, Imperfect Competition and Economies of Scale, with S. Amoroso, B. Melenberg and J. Plasmans, in: G. Erreygers and M. Vermeire (eds.), Macroeconomics and Beyond. Essays in Honour of Wim Meeusen, Garant Publisher, 2011.

Management

1. Investigating Performance Implications of Intra-family Ownership Successions: Equity Transfers with versus without Debt Creation, Janssen, Vandemaele, Voordeckers, Vancauteren (2024), Accounting & Finance, 64(1), pp. 635-656. 

2. Family firms and the labor productivity controversy: A distributional analysis of varying labor productivity gaps, Creemers, Peeters,  Quiroz Castillo, Vancauteren, Voordeckers (2023), Journal of Family Business Strategy, 14(2), article 100515. 

3. Nonfinancial Goals, Governance, and Dividend Payout in Private Family Firms, Vandemaele, Vancauteren (2015), Jourrnal of Small Business Management, 53(1), pp. 166-182.

4. From Armani to Zara: Impression formation based on fashion store patronage, Willems,  Janssens, Swinnen, Brengman, Streukens, Vancauteren (2012), Journal of Business Research, 65(10), pp. 1487-1494.

Agricultural Economics 

1. Does innovation help to explain the effect of export on productivity? Evidence from the French dairy industry, Chemo Dzukou, Vancauteren (2024), European Review of Agricultural Economics, 51(2), pp. 436-481.

2. How do Western European farms behave and respond to climate change? A simultaneous irrigation-crop decision model, Vanschoenwinkel, Vancauteren, Van Passel (2022), Climate Change Economics, 13(4), article 2250009.

3. Investigating market power in the Belgian pork production chain, Maes, Vancauteren, Van Passel (2019), Review of Agricultural, Food and Environmental Studies, 100(1-4): pp. 93-117.

4. Farm household risk balancing: Empirical evidence from Switzerland, de Mey, Wauters, Schmid, Lips, Vancauteren, Van Passel (2016), European Review of Agricultural Economics, 43(4), pp. 637-662.

5. Determinants of risk behavior: Effects of perceived risks and risk attitude on farmer’s adoption of risk management strategies, van Winsen, de Mey, Lauwers, Van Passel, Vancauteren, Wauters (2016), Journal of Risk Research, 19(1), pp. 56-78.

6. Farm household risk balancing: implication for policy from an EU perspective, Wauters, de Mey, van Winsen, Van Passel, Vancauteren, Lauwers (2015), Agricultural Finance Review, 75(4), pp. 450-468.

7. Farm-level evidence on risk balancing behavior in the EU-15, with de mey, van Winsen, Wauters, Vancauteren, Van Passel, Lauwers (2014), Agricultural Finance Review, 71(1), pp. 17-37.

8. The effect of EU harmonization of regulations on markups: Evidence from the Dutch food processing industry (2013), European Review of Agricultural Economics, 40(1), pp. 163-189.

9. Cognitive mapping of farmers' perception of risk in context: An emerging tool from a grounded theory approach, van Winsen, de Mey, Lauwers, van Passel, Vancauteren, Wauters (2013), Agricultural Systems, 22(1), pp. 42-52.

10. Input-output concepts, profits and productivity growth: An application using Flemish farm level data, with L. Lauwers, Y. de Mey, S. Van Passel, F. van Winsen and E. Wauters. Appeared as Working paper No 152365, Proceedings Issues, 2013: Productivity and Its Impacts on Global Trade, June 2-4, 2013. Seville, Spain from International Agricultural Trade Research Consortium .

11. Harmonization of food regulations and trade in the Single Market: Evidence from disaggregated data,  Henry de Frahan, Vancauteren (2006), European Review of Agricultural Economics, 33(3), pp. 337-360.

Papers Statistics Netherlands 

1. Women in top management and sustainable firm performance, (in Dutch) R. Konietzny, T. Peeters and C. Vissers, Internationaliseringsmonitor 2024-II: Inclusiviteit, pp. 41-63, Statistics Netherlands, The Hague/Heerlen, The Netherlands. 

2. Digitalization by firms and the relationship between export, productivity and employment (in Dutch), with M. Polder, C. Visser and D. Limpes, Internationaliseringsmonitor 2023-III: Digitalization, pp. 68-106 Statistics Netherlands, The Hague/Heerlen, The Netherlands.

3. Innovation by small firms (in Dutch), with D. Creemers, R. van Roekel and C. Visser, Internationaliseringsmonitor 2022-IV: Productiviteit, pp. 104-123, Statistics Netherlands, The Hague/Heerlen, The Netherlands, 2022.

4. What is the effect of the EMU on international trade with the Netherlands? (in Dutch), with T. van Gemert and J. Rooyakkers, Internationaliseringsmonitor 2022-I: EMU, pp.111-132, Statistics Netherlands, The Hague/Heerlen, The Netherlands, 2022.

5. Macrotrends and trade during the Corona crisis and Brexit: A time series analysis (in Dutch), with D. Creemers and T. van Gemert, Internationaliseringsmonitor 2021-IV: Exogene schokken, pp.79-95, Statistics Netherlands, The Hague/Heerlen, The Netherlands, 2021.

6. Complementarity between exports and innovation in goods and services (in Dutch), with R. van Roekel, I. Rud and M. Polder, Internationaliseringsmonitor 2020-III: Internationale handel en diensten, pp. 97-110, Statistics Netherlands, The Hague/Heerlen, The Netherlands, 2020.

7. Characterizing firms with R&D and export activities: A data approach (in Dutch), with R. van Roekel, I. Rud and M. Polder, Internationaliseringsmonitor 2020-III: Internationale handel en diensten, pp. 84-96, Statistics Netherlands, The Hague/Heerlen, The Netherlands, 2020.

8. An analysis on the internationalization of technology using patent data: The case of the Dutch food processing industry (in Dutch), with D. Creemers. De Nederlandse landbouwexport in 2018 in breder perspectief. Wageningen, Wageningen Economic Research, Rapport 2019-001, pp. 90-96.  

9. International trade and exchange rate risk: the case of the Low countries (in Dutch), with A. Van Cauwenberge, Internationaliseringsmonitor 2018-IV: Financiële globalisering, pp. 125-134, Statistics Netherlands, The Hague/Heerlen, The Netherlands, 2018.

10. The relation between innovation, tax structure and economic activity in the Netherlands (in Dutch), with M. van den Berg and M. Polder, Internationaliseringsmonitor 2018-IV: Financiële globalisering, pp. 99-124, Statistics Netherlands, The Hague/Heerlen, The Netherlands, 2018.  

11. Import competition and the demand for non-routine-based skills (in Dutch), with I Weyns and W. Smits, Internationaliseringsmonitor 2018-II: Werkgelegenheid, pp. 93-104, Statistics Netherlands, The Hague/Heerlen, The Netherlands, 2018.

12. Trade-Innovation complementarity and firm-level productivity: a system approach (in Dutch), with M. Jaarsma, Internationaliseringsmonitor 2017-II: Innovatie, pp. 115-134, Statistics Netherlands, The Hague/ Heerlen, The Netherlands, 2017.

13. Innovation, trade and productivity of the Dutch food industry (in Dutch/English), with M. Walthouwer, in: Internationaliseringsmonitor 2016-II: Agribusiness, pp. 85-109, Statistics Netherlands, The Hague/ Heerlen, The Netherlands, 2016.

14. Innovation before and after the financial crisis and the role of internationalisation (in Dutch), with S. Schoonbrood, in: Internationaliseringsmonitor 2015-II, pp. 51-68, Statistics Netherlands, The Hague/ Heerlen, The Netherlands, 2015.

15. Do exporters benefit from innovation as the engine of productivity? (in Dutch) in: Internationaliseringsmonitor 2015, pp. 36-50, Statistics Netherlands, The Hague/ Heerlen, The Netherlands, 2015.

16. The euro-dollar exchange rate and Dutch imports and exports, with O. Lemmers, Discussion paper 09028 , Statistics Netherlands, The Hague/ Heerlen, 2009.

17. Offshoring and productivity (growth) in Dutch manufacturing and service industries: An empirical assessment, with Marjolijn Jaarsma, Paper prepared (and presented) for the 31st General Conference of the International Association for Research in Income and Wealth, Zurich, 2010. Also available as discussion paper No. 09045, Statistics Netherlands, The Hague/ Heerlen, The Netherlands,  2009.

18. The internationalization of production and trade (in Dutch) in: Internationaliseringsmonitor 2008, pp. 44-58, Statistics Netherlands, The Hague/ Heerlen, The Netherlands, 2008.

19. Trends in globalization (in Dutch), with six co-authors (in Dutch) in: Internationaliseringsmonitor 2008, pp. 1-15, Statistics Netherlands, The Hague/ Heerlen, The Netherlands, 2008.Environmental processed regulations, harmonized product regulations and trade in an enlarged Europe,  Mantovani, Vancauteren (2008), Emerging Markets Finance and Trade, 44(3), pp. 37-50.