Research
Working Papers
Sourcing of Services and Total Factor Productivity with Cedric Duprez, October 2022
Endogenous Production Networks with Fixed Costs with Ayumu Ken Kikkawa, Xianglong Kong, Magne Mogstad, and Felix Tintelnot, August 2022
Export Entry and Network Interactions: Evidence from the Belgian production network with Philipp Ludwig and Hylke Vandenbussche, August 2022
Theory for Extending Single-Product Production Function Estimation to Multi-Product Settings with Amil Petrin, Valerie Smeets, and Frederic Warzynski, January 2021
Multi Product Firms, Import Competition, and the Evolution of Firm-product Technical Efficiencies with Amil Petrin, Valerie Smeets, and Frederic Warzynski, July 2017 (also available as NBER WP 23637)
Heterogeneous Firms and the Micro Origins of Aggregate Fluctuations with Glenn Magerman, Karolien De Bruyne, and Jan Van Hove, October 2016
Publications
Imperfect Competition in Firm-to-Firm Trade with Ayumu Ken Kikkawa and Glenn Magerman, Journal of the European Economic Association, 2022
The Origins of Firm Heterogeneity: A Production Network Approach with Andrew B. Bernard, Glenn Magerman, Kalina Manova, and Andreas Moxnes, Journal of Political Economy, 2022
Trade and Domestic Production Networks with Ayumu Ken Kikkawa, Magne Mogstad, and Felix Tintelnot, Review of Economic Studies, 2021
The Return on Information Technology: Who Benefits Most? with Jozef Konings, Jeroen Van den bosch, and Stijn Vanormelingen, Information Systems Research, 2021
Les chaines de valeur mondiales: introduction (in French) with Benoît Mahy and François Rycx, Reflets et Perspectives de la Vie Économique, 2020
It’s a Small, Small World… A Guided Tour of the Belgian Production Network with Cedric Duprez, International Productivity Monitor, 2017
(Not So) Easy Come, (Still) Easy Go? Footloose Multinationals Revisited with Catherine Fuss, and Claude Mathieu, The World Economy, 2016
Labour Demand Adjustment: Does Foreign Ownership Matter? with Pierre Blanchard, Catherine Fuss, and Claude Mathieu, Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 2015
Aggregation and the Staggering of Price Changes with Jerzy Konieczny, Economic Inquiry, 2014
Firm Dynamics and Employment Adjustment: Multinational vs domestic firms with Pierre Blanchard, Catherine Fuss, and Claude Mathieu, Louvain Economic Review, 2013
Work organization, labour contracts and employment with Benoît Mahy, International Journal of Manpower, 2012
Lumpy Price Adjustments: A Microeconometric Analysis with Catherine Fuss, M. Hashem Pesaran, and Patrick Sevestre, Journal of Business & Economic Statistics, 2011
A global assessment of the degree of price stickiness - results from the NBB business survey, Brussels Economic Review, 2010
Sticky Prices in the Euro Area: A Summary of New Micro-Evidence with Luis J. Álvarez, Marco Hoeberichts, Claudia Kwapil, Hervé Le Bihan, Patrick Lünnemann, Fernando Martins, Roberto Sabbatini, Harald Stahl, Philip Vermeulen, and Jouko Vilmunen, Journal of the European Economic Association, 2006
Price Changes in the Euro Area and the United States: Some Facts from Individual Consumer Price Data with Luis J. Alvarez, Herve Le Bihan, Giovanni Veronese, Daniel Dias, Johannes Hoffmann, Nicole Jonker, Patrick Lunnemann, Fabio Rumler, and Jouko Vilmunen, Journal of Economic Perspectives, 2006
Salaire, demande de travail et coûts d’ajustement en Belgique : enseignements microéconométriques (in French), Reflets et perspectives de la vie économique, 2001
Private Telecommunications Demand in Belgium: an Empirical Analysis of the Telecommunications Network Access and Use, Cahiers Economiques de Bruxelles, 1996
NBB Economic Review
Belgian firms and the COVID-19 crisis with Cedric Duprez, NBB Economic Review, September 2021
The world is a village… The integration of Belgian firms into the world economy with Cedric Duprez, NBB Economic Review, September 2017
Three regions, three economies? with Cedric Duprez, NBB Economic Review, December 2016
Main CompNet research results with Cedric Duprez and Catherine Fuss, NBB Economic Review, December 2015
Has the crisis altered the Belgian economy’s DNA? with Cedric Duprez, NBB Economic Review, September 2015
Main lessons of the NBB's 2014 conference on "Total factor productivity : measurement, determinants and effects" with Catherine Fuss, NBB Economic Review, December 2014
Structural dynamics of Belgium’s foreign trade with Cedric Duprez, NBB Economic Review, June 2013
Behaviour of Belgian firms in the context of globalisation : lessons from the conference on "International Trade : Threats and Opportunities in a Globalised World" with Luc Dresse, Catherine Fuss, and Christophe Piette, NBB Economic Review, June 2011
Regulation and competition in the distribution sector in Belgium with Vanessa Baugnet, David Cornille, and Benoit Robert, NBB Economic Review, September 2009
Analysis of price adjustments of processed food at the micro level (in French or Dutch), special issue of NBB Economic Review, April 2008
Inflation persistence and price-setting in the euro area : results of the Eurosystem Inflation Persistence Network, NBB Economic Review, December 2005
Book Chapters
What quantitative micro data reveal about price setting behavior with Roberto Sabbatini, Luis J. Álvarez, Marco Hoeberichts, Hervé Le Bihan, Patrick Lünnemann, Fernando Martins, Fabio Rumler, Harald Stahl, Philip Vermeulen, Giovanni Veronese, Jouko Vilmunen, in "Pricing Decisions in the Euro Area How eurozone firms set prices and why" by S. Fabiani, C. Loupias, F. Martins R. Sabbatini (Eds), Oxford University Press, 2007
Dualisme et transitions individuelles sur le marché belge du travail. Estimation de processus markoviens (in French) with Benoît Mahy, in "Capital humain et dualisme sur le marché du travail" by De La Croix, Docquier, Mainguet, Perelman, Wasmer (Eds), De Boeck Université, 2002
Research Report
Price Rigidity in the Euro Area. An Assessment with Jerzy Konieczny, Fabio Rumler, and Patrick Sevestre, European Commission, 2009
NBB Working Papers
Foreign Demand Shocks to Production Networks: Firm Responses and Worker Impacts with Ayumu Ken Kikkawa, Toshiaki Komatsu, Magne Mogstad, and Felix Tintelnot, NBB Working Paper No 377, 2022 (also available as NBER WP 30447)
The return on human (STEM) capital in Belgium with Gert Bijnens, NBB Working Paper No 401, 2021
Learning about demand abroad from wholesalers: a B2B analysis with William Connell and Hylke Vandenbussche, NBB Working Paper No 377, 2019
Exchange rate movements, firm-level exports and heterogeneity with Antoine Berthou, NBB Working Paper No 334, 2018
The supplier network of exporters: Connecting the dots with Stela Rubínová, NBB Working Paper No 296, 2016
The Belgian production network 2002‑2012 with Glenn Magerman and Stela Rubínová, NBB Working Paper No 288, 2015
Assessing European firms’ exports and productivity distributions: The CompNet trade module with Antoine Berthou, Matteo Bugamelli, Ana- Maria Cazacu, Calin-Vlad Demian, Peter Harasztosi, Tibor Lalinsky, Jaanika Merikül, Filippo Oropallo, and Ana Cristina Soares, NBB Working Paper No 282, 2015
Assessing European competitiveness: The new CompNet micro-based database with Paloma Lopez-Garcia, Filippo di Mauro, and the CompNet Task Force, NBB Working Paper No 279, 2015
Outward Foreign Direct Investment and domestic performance: In search of a causal link with Selen Sarisoy Guerin, NBB Working Paper No 272, 2014
Micro-based evidence of EU competitiveness: The CompNet database with CompNet Task Force, NBB Working Paper No 253, 2014
Wages, labor or prices: How do firms react to shocks? with Martine Druant, NBB Working Paper No 193, 2020
The use of fixed-term contracts and the labour adjustment in Belgium with Benoit Mahy, NBB Working Paper No 169, 2009
Temporal Distribution of Price Changes: Staggering in the Large and Synchronization in the Small with Jerzy Konieczny, NBB Working Paper No 116, 2007
Time-dependent versus State-dependent Pricing: A Panel Data Approach to the Determinants of Belgian Consumer Price Changes with Luc Aucremanne, NBB Working Paper No 66, 2005
How frequently do prices change? Evidence based on the micro data underlying the Belgian CPI with Luc Aucremanne, NBB Working Paper No 44, 2004