Browsing by Author "20844840 - Cuyvers, Ludo"
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Are blue chip stock market indices good proxies for all-shares market indices? The case of the Brussels Stock Exchange 1833-2005
Annaert, Jan; Buelens, Frans; Cuyvers, Ludo; Deloof, Marc; De Ceuster, Marc; De Schepper, Ann (Cambridge University Press, 2011)In this article, we calculate a market-weighted return index for the 20 largest stocks listed on the Brussels Stock Exchange over the period 1833–2005, based on a new, unique and high-quality database. We find that this ... -
An Asean-Eu FTA, regional production sharing, and regional cohesion: focus on Cambodia, Laos and Myanmar
Chen, Lurong; Cuyvers, Ludo; Kusumaningtias, Wahyu Mukti; De Lombaerde, Philippe (Wiley-Blackwell, 2011)This article focuses on the potential effects of an Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN)–European Union (EU) Free Trade Agreement (FTA) for Cambodia, Laos and Myanmar (C-L-M), the least developed economies of ... -
Combining the export promotion of products and services: the case of South Africa
Grater, S.; Steenkamp, E.; Viviers, W.; Cuyvers, L. (UNISA, 2014)With the trade in services playing an increasingly important role in boosting economic growth and development in many countries, governments and business entities - particularly in developing countries - should be devoting ... -
Competitive intelligence: construct exploration, validation and equivalence
Wilhelmina, Vivier; Saayman, Andrea; Pienaar, Jacobus; De Pelsmacker, Patrick; Cuyvers, Ludo; Muller, Marié-Luce; Jegers, Marc (Emerald Group Publishing Ltd, 2008)Purpose: – Little empirical research has been conducted on competitive intelligence (CI). This paper aims to contribute to the quantitative strand of the CI literature by exploring and validating the theoretical constructs ... -
Dividend policies of privately held companies: stand-alone and group companies in Belgiumm
Cuyvers, Ludo; Deloof, Marc; Rommens, An (Wiley-Blackwell, 2012)This study examines the dividend policies of privately held Belgian companies, differentiating between stand-alone companies and those affiliated with a business group. We find that privately held companies typically do ... -
The effects of Belgian outward direct investment in European high-wage and low-wage countries on employment in Belgium
Cuyvers, Ludo; Soeng, Reth (Emerald Group Publishing, 2011)Purpose : The paper aims at providing evidence on the impact on employment of outward foreign direct investment, particularly from developed countries into low-wage countries, which is a major concern in many developed ... -
Export intensity and the competitive intelligence of exporting companies: evidence from South Africa
Cuyvers, Ludo; Dumont, Michel; Viviers, Wilhelmina; Muller, Marié-Luce; De Pelsmacker, Patrick; Jegers, Marc; Saayman, Andrea (University of Pretoria, 2008)The present paper investigates the relationship between Competitive Intelligence (CI) factors, characteristics, information sources, needs, requirements and the export intensity of exporting companies in South Africa. We ... -
Export market selection methods and the identification of realistic export opportunities for South Africa using a decision support model
Steenkamp, Ermie; Rossouw, Riaan; Viviers, Wilma; Cuyvers, Ludo (2009)Market selection methods, of which a vast number exist, are a critical tool in firms’ and government’s policy, planning and budgeting processes. To this end, the primary aim of this paper is to determine the international ... -
Export promotion: a decision support model approach
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Identifying export opportunities for South Africa in the southern engines: A DSM approach
Cuyvers, Ludo; Naude, Willem Adriaan; Pearson, Joseph John Acton; Viviers, Wilhelmina (Elsevier, 2010)Brazil, China and India have been described as 'southern engines of growth' in the world economy. By 2050, these three countries could count under the top 5 largest economies in the world. This implies many opportunities ... -
Identifying new product and service export opportunities for South Africa using a decision support model
Viviers, Wilma; Cuyvers, Ludo; Steenkamp, Ermie; Grater, Sonja; Matthee, Marianne; Krugell, Waldo (Clute Institute, 2014-11)In the face of slow economic growth and development, and the perennial problems of unemployment, poverty and inequality, the South African government and business community have long recognised the importance of growing ... -
Identifying Thailand’s high-potential export opportunities in ASEAN+3 countries
Cuyvers, Ludo; Steenkamp, Ermie; Viviers, Wilma; Rossouw, Riaan; Cameron, Martin (Emerald, 2017)This paper aims to identify Thailand’s realistic export opportunities (REOs) in the ASEAN+3 countries (i.e. ASEAN, Greater China, Japan and South Korea), which together constitute an economically dynamic region and a ... -
The labour market consequences of globalisation and regionalisation
Cuyvers, Ludo; Rayp, Glenn; De Lombaerde, Philippe (Emerald Group Publishing, 2011)Purpose : This paper aims to introduce the subject of the impact of globalization and regionalization on the labour markets. The papers of the special issue are placed within this subject. Design/methodology/approach : ... -
Linking export opportunities of products and services: the case of South Africa
Grater, Sonja; Steenkamp, Ermie; Viviers, Wilma; Cuyvers, Ludo (2012)Trade in services has been playing an increasingly important role in the economic growth and development of many countries. In addition it has been found that services trade is more crisis-resilient than goods trade, leading ... -
Linking international trade and labour standards: the effectiveness of sanctions under the European Union's GSP
Cuyvers, Ludo; Zhou, Weifeng (Kluwer Law International, 2011)Linking international trade and labour standards is one of the ways to make countries comply with their international obligations to respect core labour standards. Under the European Union's Generalized System of Preferences ... -
De politieke economie van het exportpromotiebeleid
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The sustainable development clauses in Free Trade Agreements of the EU with Asian countries: perspectives for ASEAN?
Cuyvers, Ludo (Taylor & Francis, 2014)The paper shows that the present EU GSP Plus arrangement is to be considered as showing the level of aspiration of the EU for future FTA partners regarding international rules of sustainability and good governance. Following ... -
The utilization of export opportunities in the world market: a comparison of Belgium, South Africa and Thailand
Cuyvers, Ludo; Viviers, Wilma; Steenkamp, Ermie A. (International Academy of Business and Economics, 2011)A decision support model (DSM) was developed in 1995 by one of the authors with the main aim to identify realistic export opportunities (REOs) for a particular exporting country. The DSM results can assist export promotion ... -
Was Henri de Man an early Post-Keynesian Neo-Marxist?
Cuyvers, Ludo (Sage Publications, 2015)Henri de Man is the author of the dissenting “Au-delà du Marxisme” (1926) and of the Belgian Plan du Travail (Labor Plan) of 1933. Later he became a Belgian social-democratic leader. He published between 1931 and 1935 ... -
World inequality, globalisation, technology and labour market institutions
Cuyvers, Ludo; Dumont, Michel; Stojanovska, Nikolina (Emerald Group Publishing, 2011)Purpose – The paper aims to assess to what extent the general trends with regard to world inequality can be explained by rising international economic integration, technological change and (labour market) institutions. ...