This communication aims to present a part of my PhD research about the spatial dimension of firm productivity conducted under the supervision of Pr. Jean-Marie Halleux (ULiège) and Dr. Isabelle Reginster (IWEPS). To address the relations between firm productivity and territorial resources, we have developed a two-step model based on a panel of Wall...
The structure of the commercial bank industry in the United States changed considerably over the last four decades. The number of institutions insured by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) shrunk by almost two-thirds due to failures and mergers & acquisitions occurred during the Savings and Loan and the subprime mortgage crises. Since...
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The main goal of this paper is to validate a virtual reality environment for public speaking training. Following Slater’s terminology (2003), there are two important concepts in VR: “immersion which stands for what the technology delivers from an objective point of view” and presence which is “the human reaction to immersion”, i.e., the participant...
Nowadays public speaking is one of the most important skills a person should develop. Such a skill is vital in many circumstances and in very different fields: the sales representative who presents a product to customers, the tourist guide visiting a city with a group, the manager who defends his project in front of stakeholders, the candidate duri...
The current and expected growing number of people living and working in cities, as well as the limited space available inside city centres, implies an always greater exchange of inbound and outbound freight flows between city centres and their surrounding regions. Urban freight transports provide economic benefits to society but are also responsibl...
