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November 2015, Volume 22, Issue 17
- 1395-1398 Equities as long-term inflation hedges: small versus large company stocks
by Cetin Ciner - 1399-1403 Does energy use cause economic growth in Latin America?
by Roberto Past�n & Rodrigo Saens & Roberto Contreras Mar�n - 1404-1408 The prediction for London gold price: improved empirical mode decomposition
by Qiuling Hua & Tingfeng Jiang - 1409-1414 Linking environmental management to health outcomes: a case study of the emerald ash borer
by Jones & McDermott - 1415-1418 Country of origin and employment prospects among immigrants: an analysis of south-south and north-south migrants to South Africa
by Peters & Asha Sundaram - 1419-1423 The process of brain drain in peripheral regions
by Miki Malul - 1424-1429 Party affiliation rather than former occupation: the background of central bank governors and its effect on monetary policy
by Matthias Neuenkirch & Florian Neumeier - 1430-1434 The long-run and short-run effects of health aid on life expectancy
by Dierk Herzer & Korbinian Nagel
November 2015, Volume 22, Issue 16
- 1273-1280 Long-memories and mean breaks in realized volatilities
by Hyejin Song & Shin - 1281-1286 Structural change and long-run reversion in the ex ante real interest rate
by Lai - 1287-1292 A note on the determinants of long-run aggregate state productivity growth
by Bebonchu Atems - 1293-1297 Critical thresholds for budget consolidations: a semi-parametric approach
by Arin & Torben Kuhlenkasper & Nandialath - 1298-1302 Fiscal policy over the cycle: the role of automatic stabilizers
by Alexander Klemm - 1303-1308 Comparing data sources of real GDP in purchasing power parities
by Jan Bentzen - 1309-1314 R&D, export and productivity in business services firms: testing the Bustos model
by Mogens Dilling-Hansen & Valdemar Smith - 1315-1319 Stockholding in France: the role of financial literacy and information
by Luc Arrondel & Majdi Debbich & Fr�d�rique Savignac - 1320-1324 Introducing financial stability considerations into Taylor rules in emerging market economies
by Blaise Gadanecz & Ken Miyajima & J�rg Urban - 1325-1328 Is there ownership for money?
by Mosi Rosenboim & Tal Shavit - 1329-1334 An anatomy of Chinese stock and futures markets' dynamic features
by Chaoyou Wang & Yuanyuan Guo & Qiang Ye - 1335-1339 The not so distant effect of distance within a time zone
by Rishav Bista & Rebecca Tomasik - 1340-1344 Level and quality of openness and corruption in the ECA countries
by Omer Gokcekus & Eva Muchova & Zuzana Brincikova - 1345-1348 Relative age at school entry, school performance and long-term labour market outcomes
by J. Pehkonen & J. Viinikainen & P. B�ckerman & L. Pulkki-R�back & L. Keltikangas-J�rvinen & O. Raitakari - 1349-1354 Do ratings matter? An examination of nonrated firms
by Kemper
October 2015, Volume 22, Issue 15
- 1184-1187 Children and maternal migration: evidence from exogenous variations in family size
by Sarma & Parinduri - 1188-1192 The distributional effects of the multi-track year-round calendar: a quantile regression approach
by McMullen & Rouse & Justin Haan - 1193-1198 Explaining determinants of national UNESCO Tentative Lists: an empirical study
by B. Parenti & E. De Simone - 1199-1203 Regulations on direct investment in ASEAN: do they reduce currency instability?
by Abbas Mohammadzadeh - 1204-1208 Trading volume around announcements of mergers and acquisitions
by Ivo Ph. Jansen - 1209-1223 The effects of conference realignment on NCAA athletic departments
by Adam J. Hoffer & Jared A. Pincin - 1224-1229 The determinants of sexual freedom from 1990 to 2010
by Feler Bose - 1230-1235 Entrepreneurship and unemployment in Spain: a regional analysis
by Bego�a Cueto & Mat�as Mayor & Patricia Su�rez - 1236-1239 Leadership favouritism in Africa
by Souleymane Soumahoro - 1240-1245 Do political connections matter to bondholders? Evidence from China
by Po-Hsin Ho & Yu-Chun Wang & Chih-Yung Lin - 1246-1251 Extreme value analysis of electricity demand in the UK
by Stephen Chan & Saralees Nadarajah - 1252-1256 Why do Chinese local governments transfer their rights of control over SOEs to the central government?
by Weixing Cai & Fangming Xu & Cheng (Colin) Zeng - 1257-1261 Income, democracy and European colonization
by Alberto Posso & Simon Feeny - 1262-1266 The impact of sales tax on economic growth in the United States: an ARDL bounds testing approach
by J. F. Li & Z. X. Lin - 1267-1272 The short-run impacts of Connecticut's paid sick leave legislation
by Thomas Ahn & Aaron Yelowitz
September 2015, Volume 22, Issue 14
- 1094-1099 Empirical evidence of joint nonlinearity in economic area and US economic variables using two modified multivariate nonlinearity tests
by Mari�n V�vra - 1100-1107 On the evaluation of soccer players: a comparison of a new game-theoretical approach to classic performance measures
by Benjamin R. Auer & Tobias Hiller - 1108-1115 Self-employment: does parental cultural diversity matter?
by Marianna Marino & Pierpaolo Parrotta - 1116-1121 Salary commensurate with social capital
by Yoshiho Matsunaga - 1122-1126 GDP estimation errors: bias or white noise
by Richard Parsons & David Reavis - 1127-1132 Do immigrants reduce bilateral trade costs? An empirical test
by B. Tadesse & R. White - 1133-1137 Empirical evidence on SMEs' tax management
by Issam Laguir & Jamal Elbaz & Lamia Laguir - 1138-1143 Approximate aggregation revisited: higher moments do matter
by Andrea Giusto - 1144-1149 The impact of pricing mechanism reform on underpricing of initial public offerings in China
by Danlin Pu & Shanping Wang - 1150-1153 Do expert reviews really drive demand? Evidence from a German car magazine
by Ralf Dewenter & Ulrich Heimeshoff - 1154-1157 The impact of Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) events on firm value
by Steven Crawford & Bryan Johnson & John R. Wingender - 1158-1169 World energy intensity revisited: a cluster analysis
by Yihua Yu & Yonghui Zhang & Feng Song - 1170-1174 Publication bias in FDI spillovers in developing countries: a meta-regression analysis
by Binyam Afewerk Demena - 1175-1178 Gift exchange anomaly: evidence from incentives vis-�-vis performance of Islamic insurance operators
by H. Khan - 1179-1183 The race that stops the equity market
by Paul Docherty & Adrian Melia
September 2015, Volume 22, Issue 13
- 1011-1019 Detecting jumps and regime switches in international stock markets returns
by Julien Chevallier & St�phane Goutte - 1020-1024 Disaggregation of sectors in social accounting matrices using a customized Wolsky method
by Margarita Barrera-Lozano & Alfredo J. Mainar & Jos� Vall�s - 1025-1029 New evidence of quarterly return patterns in the Spanish stock market
by Cristina Ortiz & Jos� Mar�a Ortiz de Z�rate & Luis Vicente - 1030-1036 Characteristics of Bitcoin users: an analysis of Google search data
by Aaron Yelowitz & Matthew Wilson - 1037-1040 Does ownership duration really matter? - Experimental study
by Tal Shavit & Mosi Rosenboim - 1041-1045 Gender and generosity in charitable giving: empirical evidence for the German Red Cross
by Eike Emrich & Christian Pierdzioch - 1046-1050 Euro area banking fragmentation in the aftermath of the crisis: a cluster analysis
by Yannick Lucotte - 1051-1054 Expected quality in European football attendance: market value and uncertainty reconsidered
by Raúl Serrano & Javier Garc�a-Bernal & Marta Fern�ndez-Olmos & Manuel A. Espitia-Escuer - 1055-1058 The influence of the US market on herding behaviour in China
by Ziyao Luo & Christophe Schinckus - 1059-1063 The instantaneous return and volatility of a covered call position
by Craig Edwards - 1064-1072 Credit expansion and the economy
by Luis Angeles - 1073-1077 A note on the directional accuracy of interest-rate forecasts
by Christian Pierdzioch - 1078-1082 An empirical analysis of interest rates and exports under imperfect credit markets
by Pu Chen & Nan Xu & Chunyang Wang - 1083-1088 Does an active fiscal policy work under a high level of government debt?
by J. H. Ko - 1089-1093 The militarization of local law enforcement: is race a factor?
by Olugbenga Ajilore
August 2015, Volume 22, Issue 12
- 930-933 Exporter productivity premium for European SMEs
by Martin Falk & Eva Hagsten - 934-937 Information transparency and idiosyncratic risk
by Jen-Sin Lee & Kuan-Ling Lai & Yu-Ko Huang - 938-944 Big box stores and obesity
by Michael L. Marlow - 945-950 Are there long-run diversification gains from the Dow Jones Islamic finance index?
by Mehmet Balcilar & Charl Jooste & Shawkat Hammoudeh & Rangan Gupta & Vassilios Babalos - 951-954 Asymmetric real exchange rate pass-through and poverty in China: evidence from a nonlinear model
by Nicholas Apergis - 955-959 The international impact of US unconventional monetary policy
by Chandler Lutz - 960-966 Long-term effects of global oil price changes on the macroeconomy and financial markets: a comparative panel co-integration approach
by M. Ali Sotoudeh & Andrew C. Worthington - 967-971 Do mutual fund managers manipulate?
by Meifen Qian & Bin Yu - 972-977 Do producers respond to every input price change? A note on nonlinearities in factor demand systems
by G�lcan Önel - 978-981 Determinants of C2C e-commerce: an empirical analysis of the use of online auction websites among Europeans
by M. R. Vicente - 982-986 The nexus between top managers' human capital and firm productivity
by Christian Pfeifer - 987-992 Weather and stock market volatility: the case of a leading emerging market
by Hyein Shim & Hyeyoen Kim & Junyeup Kim & Doojin Ryu - 993-998 Trade credit, international trade costs and exports: cross-country firm-level evidence
by Xiao Wang - 999-1004 Characteristics of pricing errors in stocks implied by autocovariance and 'drag'
by Lieven De Moor & Piet Sercu - 1005-1009 A comparison of corporate social responsibility engagement in the OECD countries with categorical data
by Mar�a L. Gall�n & Carlos Peraita
July 2015, Volume 22, Issue 11
- 848-853 'Leverage Effect' in country betas and volatilities?
by Alina Synyavska & Numan Ülkü - 854-859 Temporary ban on short positions and financial market volatility: evidence from the Madrid Stock Market
by Amalia Morales-Zumaquero & Sim�n Sosvilla-Rivero - 860-864 Does early-life health enhance growth? Evidence from Spain
by C. Bl�zquez-Fern�ndez & D. Cantarero-Prieto & P. Perez-Gonzalez & J. Llorca-D�az - 865-868 Does renewables production affect income inequality? Evidence from an international panel of countries
by Nicholas Apergis - 869-873 Herding behaviour in asymmetric and extreme situations: the case of China
by Ziyao Luo & Christophe Schinckus - 874-885 Volunteering and life satisfaction: a closer look at the hypothesis that volunteering more strongly benefits the unhappy
by Martin Binder - 886-890 Culture and current account balances
by Mika Nieminen & Kari Heimonen & Esa Mangeloja - 891-894 Substitution of liquor sales across states
by Jason A. Winfree & Philip Watson - 895-899 Experimental evidence of the effects of an early intervention programme on economics student achievement
by Douglas Campbell & Andrew Hussey - 900-903 Is regulatory capital more value relevant than book value of equity? A cross-country analysis
by Alessandro Mechelli & Riccardo Cimini & Francesca Mazzocchetti - 904-910 Size of government and economic growth in the largest Latin American country
by Helder Ferreira de Mendon �a & Thiago Cacicedo - 911-915 Social consumption and price rigidity of quality-tier differentiated private labels
by Sven Anders & Milena Beye - 916-919 Is ageing deflationary? Some evidence from OECD countries
by P. Gajewski - 920-924 The relevance of fiscal rules for fiscal and sovereign yield developments
by Ant�nio Afonso & Ana Sofia Guimarães - 925-929 Fiscal sustainability: a panel assessment for advanced economies
by Ant�nio Afonso & João Tovar Jalles
July 2015, Volume 22, Issue 10
- 759-766 Private sector bribery and effectiveness of anti-corruption policies
by Rajeev K. Goel & Jelena Budak & Edo Rajh - 767-771 Growth dynamics, financial crises and exchange rate regimes
by Amalia Morales-Zumaquero & Sim�n Sosvilla-Rivero - 772-776 On understanding inconsistent disciplinary behaviour in schools
by Anton Bekkerman & Gregory Gilpin - 777-782 Preliminary evidence on relationships between agricultural commodities futures prices, spot prices and oil prices using reverse regressions
by Phillip A. Cartwright & Natalija Riabko - 783-787 On the correct model specification for estimating the structure of a currency basket
by Jyh-Dean Hwang - 788-795 An empirical test for Okun's law using a smooth time-varying parameter approach: evidence from East Asian countries
by Myeong Jun Kim & Sung Y. Park & Sang Young Jei - 796-800 The life cycle of social media
by Philip Hans Franses - 801-807 Google search-based metrics, policy-related uncertainty and macroeconomic conditions
by Michael Donadelli - 808-814 Measuring the bid-ask spreads: a note on the potential downward bias of the Thompson-Waller estimator
by Yoichi Otsubo - 815-819 The nature of export spillovers on trade: an analysis at NUTS 3 level in Italy
by M. Bannò & D. Giuliani & E. Zaninotto - 820-824 Modelling impact of monetary policy on stock market liquidity: a dynamic copula approach
by Xiaojun Chu - 825-829 Interest group activity and economic growth: some new evidence from the US states
by Ismail M. Cole - 830-834 Loss distribution of interbank contagion risk
by Shouwei Li & Xin Sui & Tao Xu - 835-842 Economic integration agreements and production fragmentation: evidence on the extensive margin
by Juan Blyde & Alejandro Graziano & Christian Volpe Martincus - 843-847 Information ambiguity and firm value
by Katrin Hussinger & Sebastian Pacher
June 2015, Volume 22, Issue 9
- 673-678 Does the presence of a formal business plan increase formal financial support? Empirical evidence from the PSED II on the signalling and mimetic nature of formal business planning
by Christian Hopp - 679-682 A note on firm age and the margins of imports: first evidence from Germany
by Joachim Wagner - 683-687 Happiness, economic freedom and culture
by Ayse Y. Evrensel - 688-692 Optimized Taylor rules with domestic bond yields in emerging market economies
by Blaise Gadanecz & Ken Miyajima & J�rg Urban - 693-699 Nonlinear interest rate effects of global oil price changes: the comparison of net oil-consuming and net oil-producing countries
by M. Ali Sotoudeh & Andrew C. Worthington - 700-703 European Union expansion and seaport efficiency in the North Adriatic
by Kenneth Button & Tomaž Kramberger - 704-709 Destroying collateral: asset security and the financing of firms
by Janet Rubin & Rodrigo Wagner - 710-716 Examining the impact of macroeconomic announcements on gold futures in a VAR-GARCH framework
by Lee A. Smales & Barry O'Grady & Yi Yang - 717-724 Further evidence on Orcutt's hypothesis using Korean-US commodity data
by Mohsen Bahmani-Oskooee & Jungho Baek - 725-729 Health-care expenditure, GDP and share of the elderly in Japan: a panel cointegration analysis
by Tomoko Tamakoshi & Shigeyuki Hamori - 730-733 Predictive validity of stated preference data: evidence from mountain bike park visits before and after trail system expansion
by Kevin Atkinson & John C. Whitehead - 734-738 Pay-performance sensitivity of compensation contracts for nonexecutive employees: the case of the financial crisis
by Patrick Kampk�tter - 739-744 Explaining transactions in time banks in economic crisis
by M. Angeles Carnero & Blanca Martinez & Roc�o S�nchez-Mangas - 745-750 A spectral perspective on excess volatility
by Giacomo Livan & Simone Alfarano & Mishael Milaković & Enrico Scalas - 751-758 Does central bank communication affect bank risk-taking?
by G. C. Montes & A. Scarpari
May 2015, Volume 22, Issue 8
- 593-596 Income differences in services trade partners
by Charles Braymen & Kristie Briggs - 597-602 Revisiting CEO power and firm value
by J. Lee & J. Park & S. Park - 603-612 Employment industry and occupational continuity in Germany: from the Nazi regime to the post-war economic miracle
by Patrick A. Puhani - 613-618 Quasi-experimental analysis of the impact of exchange rate regime selection on crisis recovery: evidence from the Asian Financial Crisis
by Ross J. Hallren - 619-627 Unemployment impacts differently on the extremes of the distribution of a comprehensive well-being measure
by Martin Binder & Alex Coad - 628-631 Revisiting unit roots in divorce rates
by Marko Korhonen & Mikko Puhakka - 632-636 An exploratory empirical note on the impact of labour market freedom on the female labour force participation rate in the US
by Richard J. Cebula & Gigi Alexander - 637-640 The Seventeenth Amendment, Senate ideology and the growth of government
by Danko Tarabar & Joshua C. Hall - 641-645 Economies of scale in the demand for money by firms in China
by Yujun Lian & Terence Tai-Leung Chong & Fangping Peng & Richard J. Cebula - 646-650 The use of payment systems data as early indicators of economic activity
by Carlos Conesa & Leonardo Gambacorta & Sergio Gorjon & Marco J. Lombardi - 651-653 The determinants of digital terrestrial radio aftermarket coverage
by Gary Madden & Paitoon Kraipornsak & Inayat Hussain - 654-657 Sitting on the fence: does having a 'dual-director' add to bank profitability?
by Maria Semenova & Polina Savchenko - 658-663 Majority voting and Gini-based social welfare: testing the hypothesis of symmetry
by Juan Gabriel Rodr�guez & Rafael Salas - 664-667 A tale of two duopolies: collusion and exit in a local airline industry
by Akihiko Kawaura - 668-672 Do government spending multipliers depend on the level of government debt? US historical data evidence
by Wongi Kim
May 2015, Volume 22, Issue 7
- 511-514 Indirect and feedback effects as measure of knowledge spillovers in French regions
by In�s Moussa & Thibault Laurent - 515-520 Portuguese stock market returns and oil price variations
by Sebastião Messias Marques & Margarida Catalão-Lopes - 521-524 A time-series analysis of US entrepreneurship: evidence from fractional integration
by Luis A. Gil-Alana & James E. Payne - 525-528 The impact of commodity finance on resource availability
by Peter N. Posch & Joachim Erhardt & Tarek Hard - 529-538 Human capital in personal consumption and labour force productivity: evidence from an OECD panel
by Steven D. Silver - 539-543 Economic growth and obesity: findings of an Obesity Kuznets curve
by Anca M. Grecu & Kurt W. Rotthoff - 544-548 Endogenous and costly institutional deterrence
by David C. Kingsley & Thomas C. Brown - 549-557 Heterogeneity, monetary policy and banks' balance sheets: evidence from Euro area countries
by Roberto A. De Santis - 558-562 Executive compensation and product market behaviour
by Jaideep Chowdhury & Gokhan Sonaer - 563-566 Fan substitution between North American professional sports leagues
by Brian M. Mills & Jason A. Winfree & Mark S. Rosentraub & Ekaterina Sorokina - 567-571 Transitions in exchange rate regimes in the aftermath of the global economic crisis
by Graham Bird & Alex Mandilaras - 572-575 FDI inflows; how do they interact with non-FDI inflows during crises? Some evidence from Asia
by Tony Cavoli - 576-580 Distributed access to linked microdata: the example of ICT and exports
by Eva Hagsten - 581-586 'Bribing' regulators
by Dennis L. Weisman - 587-592 A simple solution to the distance puzzle: balanced data and Poisson estimation
by David Buehler & Roger White
April 2015, Volume 22, Issue 6
- 425-429 Regional heterogeneity in growth and inequality elasticities of poverty in transition countries
by Ivica Rubil - 430-435 Input aggregation bias in technical efficiency with multiple criteria analysis
by A. M. Aldanondo & V. L. Casasnovas - 436-440 Boosting new venture projects through incubator development programme
by Zouha�er M'Chirgui & Asma Guerfali & Wadid Lamine & Mohamed Safouane Ben A�ssa - 441-445 Effectiveness of monetary policy under different levels of capital flows for an emerging economy: Turkey
by Volkan �lke & Hakan Berument - 446-450 Causal relationships between the capital account and the current account: an empirical investigation from India
by Bhavesh Garg & K. P. Prabheesh - 451-454 Future of European funds in a regional economy: Andalusia 2014-2020
by M. Alejandro Cardenete & M. Carmen Delgado - 455-460 Mutual fund performance: dividends do matter
by Diego V�ctor de Mingo-L�pez & Juan Carlos Matall�n-S�ez - 461-465 On mergers, monetary policy and output durability
by Samer Adra - 466-473 Which precious metals spill over on which, when and why? Some evidence
by Jonathan A. Batten & Cetin Ciner & Brian M. Lucey - 474-482 Spillovers from health insurance to the US underground economy
by Rajeev K. Goel & James W. Saunoris - 483-487 Effects of ECB balance sheet policy announcements on inflation expectations
by Richhild Moessner - 488-492 Use of imported inputs and the cost of importing: evidence from developing countries
by Mohammad Amin & Asif Islam - 493-498 Are female politicians more responsive to international crises?
by Daniel L. Hicks & Joan Hamory Hicks & Beatriz Maldonado - 499-502 Gasoline price predictability in a border metropolitan economy
by Thomas M. Fullerton & Alan Jimenez & Yu Liu & Adam G. Walke - 503-509 Realized volatility forecasting in an international context
by Nicholas Taylor
March 2015, Volume 22, Issue 5
- 335-342 Examining the structural changes of European carbon futures price 2005-2012
by Bangzhu Zhu & Julien Chevallier & Shujiao Ma & Yiming Wei - 343-348 Revisiting Svensson's test of inflation target credibility
by Alexander Kupfer - 349-355 Which comes first - urbanization or economic growth? Evidence from heterogeneous panel causality tests
by Brantley Liddle & George Messinis - 356-360 Do debt crises boost financial reforms?
by Luca Agnello & Vitor Castro & João Tovar Jalles & Ricardo M. Sousa - 361-369 The immigrant-native earnings gap across the earnings distribution
by Sara Lemos - 370-377 Dynamics between crude oil and equity markets under the risk-neutral measure
by Marie-H�l�ne Gagnon & Gabriel J. Power & Dominique Toupin - 378-384 Are international fund flows pro- or counter-cyclical?
by Suxiao Li & Jakob de Haan & Bert Scholtens & Haizhen Yang - 385-390 Countercyclical capital buffers: credit-to-GDP ratio versus credit growth
by Francisco J. Ib��ez-Hern�ndez & Miguel �. Pe�a-Cerezo & Andr�s Araujo - 391-396 Establishing a hawkish reputation: interest rate setting by newly appointed central bank governors
by Matthias Neuenkirch - 397-401 Panel data analysis for renewable energy investment determinants in Europe
by G. S. Sisodia & I. Soares - 402-405 Idiosyncratic volatility and global equity markets
by Klaus Grobys - 406-410 Measuring task content and offshorability
by Julia P�schel - 411-415 Family member incarceration and delinquent behaviour in the classroom: evidence from Brazil
by Cristiano M. Costa & Luciana D. Costa & Renata C. Gomes - 416-420 The long-run effect of trade on life expectancy in the United States: an empirical note
by Dierk Herzer - 421-424 Modelling African inflation rates: nonlinear deterministic terms and long-range dependence
by Guglielmo Maria Caporale & Hector Carcel & Luis A. Gil-Alana
March 2015, Volume 22, Issue 4
- 247-250 M-Squared and ranking issues for risky assets
by G. Glenn Baigent - 251-254 Does attachment to money affect reciprocity behaviour?
by Merav Malcman & Mosi Rosenboim & Tal Shavit - 255-260 Revisiting a story of two countries in East Asia after Abenomics
by Danbee Park & Joocheol Kim - 261-265 Investor attention and advisor social media interaction
by Tao Guo & Michael Finke & Barry Mulholland - 266-271 Does unauthorized school absenteeism accelerates the dropout decision? - Evidence from a Bayesian duration model
by Sofie J. Cabus & Kristof De Witte - 272-280 Managed portfolio performance and transaction costs
by Nicholas Taylor - 281-284 The impact of state and federal assault weapons bans on public mass shootings
by Mark Gius - 285-290 The European periphery during the crisis: fix or float?
by Anne Oeking - 291-298 The effects of inflation and openness on inequality across alternative monetary regimes
by Yi-Heng Chen & Ho-Chuan Huang & Kuang-Ping Ku - 299-304 Antecedents of time to completion in mergers and acquisitions
by Mathieu Luypaert & Wouter De Maeseneire