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Flemish Woollens and German Commerce during the Later Middle Ages: Changing Trends in Cloth Prices and Markets, 1290 - 1550 [PDF]
This paper analyses the major changes in textile products, production costs, prices, and market orientations during the era when the 'draperies' or cloth industries of the late-medieval Low Countries had become increasingly dependent upon northern ...
John H. Munro
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Increasing societal discomfort about a dominant restrictive planning discourse on open space in Flanders/Belgium [PDF]
, 2010 The specific spatial context in the densely urbanised northern part of Belgium, Flanders, offers a sort of laboratory conditions to study, design and plan fragments of open space in an urbanising context.
Allaert, Georges, Leinfelder, Hans
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Market Shares as a Collusive Marker: Evidence From the European Truck Industry
Journal of Economics &Management Strategy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Collusion theory robustly predicts non‐cartel rivals will raise their prices and increase their output. As a typical cartel cuts back production, its competitors are expected to gain market share during the collusive period and to lose market share in the period following the cartel's demise. We provide empirical support for this prediction by
Andreas Bovin, Iwan Bos
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Journal of Regional Science, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The Flemish government launched its Spearhead Cluster (SHC) policy in 2017. The aim is to boost strategic sectors by setting up cluster initiatives which coordinate collaborative R&D initiatives. In this paper, we analyze whether becoming a member of such a cluster initiative has an impact on the Total Factor Productivity (TFP) of the firm. We
Pierluigi Angelino +2 more
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Assessment of governance strategies for climate adaptation in Flanders / Belgium [PDF]
, 2010 Climate discourse in recent decades has mainly focused on the issue of mitigation. Through a better understanding and assessment of climate challenges, adaptation arises as a complementary strategy to mitigation.
Allaert, Georges +2 more
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Unilateral Action on Climate Change and the Moral Obligation to Take Leadership
Journal of Social Philosophy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT We claim that a moral obligation to take climate leadership by means of unilateral mitigation depends on the existence of a plausible follow‐the‐leader mechanism whereby unilateral mitigation by some increases the probability of sufficient mitigation by others to avert catastrophic climate impacts.
Daniel Steel +4 more
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Language Learning, EarlyView.Abstract This study examined second language vocabulary processing and learning in reading only (RO) versus reading while listening (RWL). 119 English learners read or read‐while‐listening to a story embedded with 25 pseudowords, 10 times each, and had their eye movements tracked.
Jonathan Malone +3 more
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What Belgium Can Teach Bosnia: The Uses of Autonomy in 'Divided House' States [PDF]
, 2003 Belgium and Bosnia can be understood as “divided house” states, which contain proportionally similar groups with opposing views regarding whether the state should be more unitary or more decentralised.
Stroschein, S
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Democratic Equality in a Populist Anti‐Multicultural Era
Nations and Nationalism, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article explores what the future role of multiculturalism is, or may be, in Europe by looking at the case of the Netherlands. It focuses on how to respond to the tensions between, on the one hand, prevalent discourses on the dangers, demise and reckoning of multiculturalism and, on the other hand, the promotion of equal citizenship and ...
Tamar de Waal
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From Landscape Atlas to Flemish Heritage Landscapes: using landscape inventories to formulate landscape quality objectives in a participative process [PDF]
, 2011 The European Landscape Convention recommends the realisation of landscape policy, meaning “an expression by the competent public authorities of general principles, strategies and guidelines that permit the taking of specific measures aimed at the ...
Antrop, Marc, Van Eetvelde, Veerle
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