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Working Papers

2024

1. Artificial Intelligence: Economic Impact, Opportunities, Challenges, Implications for Policy
   European Economy - Discussion Papers, Directorate General Economic and Financial Affairs (DG ECFIN), European Commission
2. Mid-Tech Europe? A Sectoral Account on Total Factor Productivity Growth from the Latest Vintage of the EU-KLEMs Database
   European Economy - Discussion Papers, Directorate General Economic and Financial Affairs (DG ECFIN), European Commission
3. Navigating Shocks: The Performance of the EU Corporate Sector from the Pandemic to the Energy Crisis
   European Economy - Discussion Papers, Directorate General Economic and Financial Affairs (DG ECFIN), European Commission View citations (3)
   Also in LIDAM Discussion Papers IRES, Université catholique de Louvain, Institut de Recherches Economiques et Sociales (IRES) (2024) View citations (3)

2022

4. The Sectoral Nature of the COVID-19 Shock A Novel Approach to Quantifying its Economic Impact
   European Economy - Discussion Papers, Directorate General Economic and Financial Affairs (DG ECFIN), European Commission

2021

5. The Sectoral Impact of the COVID-19 Crisis. An Unprecedented and Atypical Crisis
   European Economy - Economic Briefs, Directorate General Economic and Financial Affairs (DG ECFIN), European Commission View citations (1)

2020

6. Analysing Automobile Industry Supply Chains
   European Economy - Discussion Papers, Directorate General Economic and Financial Affairs (DG ECFIN), European Commission View citations (3)
7. Global value chains, trade shocks and jobs: An application to Brexit
   Discussion Papers, University of Nottingham, GEP
   Also in Working Papers of Department of Economics, Leuven, KU Leuven, Faculty of Economics and Business (FEB), Department of Economics, Leuven (2019)
   CESifo Working Paper Series, CESifo (2019) View citations (24)
   CEPR Discussion Papers, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers (2017) View citations (45)
   Working Papers of Department of Economics, Leuven, KU Leuven, Faculty of Economics and Business (FEB), Department of Economics, Leuven (2017)
   Working Papers of Department of Economics, Leuven, KU Leuven, Faculty of Economics and Business (FEB), Department of Economics, Leuven (2017)
   Working Papers of Department of Economics, Leuven, KU Leuven, Faculty of Economics and Business (FEB), Department of Economics, Leuven (2019)
   See also Journal Article Global value chains, trade shocks and jobs: An application to Brexit, The World Economy, Wiley Blackwell (2022) View citations (5) (2022)
8. The Economic Benefits of Improving Efficiency in Public Spending on Education in the European Union
   European Economy - Economic Briefs, Directorate General Economic and Financial Affairs (DG ECFIN), European Commission View citations (1)

2018

9. The cost of non-TTIP: A Global Value Chain Approach
   CEPR Discussion Papers, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers View citations (2)
   Also in Working Papers of Department of Economics, Leuven, KU Leuven, Faculty of Economics and Business (FEB), Department of Economics, Leuven (2018)
   Working Papers of Department of Economics, Leuven, KU Leuven, Faculty of Economics and Business (FEB), Department of Economics, Leuven (2018)

2017

10. America first! Wat is het banenverlies voor België en Europa
    Working Papers of Department of Economics, Leuven, KU Leuven, Faculty of Economics and Business (FEB), Department of Economics, Leuven
    Also in Working Papers of VIVES - Research Centre for Regional Economics, KU Leuven, Faculty of Economics and Business (FEB), VIVES - Research Centre for Regional Economics (2017)
11. America first! What are the job losses for Belgium and Europe?
    Working Papers of VIVES - Research Centre for Regional Economics, KU Leuven, Faculty of Economics and Business (FEB), VIVES - Research Centre for Regional Economics
    Also in Working Papers of Department of Economics, Leuven, KU Leuven, Faculty of Economics and Business (FEB), Department of Economics, Leuven (2017)
12. Globale waardeketens, handelsschokken en jobs. Een toepassing op Brexit
    Working Papers of Department of Economics, Leuven, KU Leuven, Faculty of Economics and Business (FEB), Department of Economics, Leuven

Journal Articles

2025

1. MID-TECH EUROPE? SECTORAL PATTERNS OF TOTAL FACTOR PRODUCTIVITY GROWTH: EU VS. USY
   Quarterly Report on the Euro Area (QREA), 2025, 24, (2), 23-36

2023

2. Corporate vulnerability and the energy crisis
   Quarterly Report on the Euro Area (QREA), 2023, 22, (2), 35-47
3. The asymmetric impact of COVID-19: A novel approach to quantifying financial distress across industries
   European Economic Review, 2023, 158, (C) View citations (5)

2022

4. Estimates of corporate cleansing during COVID-19 – using firm-level data to measure its productivity impact
   Quarterly Report on the Euro Area (QREA), 2022, 21, (2), 7-18
5. Global value chains, trade shocks and jobs: An application to Brexit
   The World Economy, 2022, 45, (8), 2338-2369 View citations (5)
   See also Working Paper Global value chains, trade shocks and jobs: An application to Brexit, Discussion Papers (2020) (2020)

2021

6. The macroeconomic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic in the euro area
   Quarterly Report on the Euro Area (QREA), 2021, 20, (2), 7-16 View citations (1)
7. The uneven impact of the COVID-19 pandemic across the euro area
   Quarterly Report on the Euro Area (QREA), 2021, 20, (2), 17-30