Glenn Rayp
Biographic Data
| ID | 1091013 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Glenn Rayp |
| GIVEN NAMES | Glenn |
| FAMILY NAME | Rayp |
| SIGNATURE | RAYP G |
| AFFILIATIONS | Ghent University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3240-6844 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
With great power comes great dispersion. How policy-cycle competences drive power dispersion in regional organizations
Do member states concentrate or disperse competences when delegating authority to regional organisations (ROs)? Existing scholarship has examined how much independence organizations enjoy from their members, but has paid little attention to how competences are distributed across an organization’s internal organs. This article addresses that gap by introducing measures of concentration and policy capacity alongside the established measure of scope…
Selecting only the best and brightest? An assessment of migration policy selectivity and its effectiveness
This paper introduces a new set of comprehensive and cross-country-comparable indexes of migration policy selectivity. Crucially, these reflect the multidimensional nature of the differential treatment of migrants. We use these indexes to study the evolution of migration policy selectivity and estimate how they affect migration flows. Combining all publicly available and relevant data since WWII, we build three composite indexes that identify sel…
Gains from trade
Firm‐level sales are often used as a proxy for productivity to quantify welfare gains from trade (GFT) using firm‐level data. This approach ignores the fact that heterogeneity in firm‐level sales is driven by factors other than productivity. Our theoretical and empirical analysis reveals that using sales as a proxy conflates persistent productivity with transitory demand and supply shocks, resulting in an over‐dispersed productivity distribution.…
Regional Integration and Migration Governance in the Global South
Measuring and Explaining Cross-Country Immigration Policies
International shipping traffic as a determinant of the growing use of advertisements by local shopkeepers
In this article we examine the quantitative growth of growing number of advertisements (ads) placed by local shopkeepers in the three-daily chronicle of Ghent between 1706 and 1800. We test whether this evolution can be explained by international (shipping) commerce, a determinant to which the literature seems to have paid less attention. In this period, the number of commercial ads placed by local shopkeepers increased strongly. The nature of th…
What Determined the Location of Industry in Belgium, 1896-1961
Belgium was one of the first continental countries to undergo industrialization and develop an extensive transportation infrastructure during the nineteenth century, completing the integration of its internal market by the early twentieth century. As such, the country is an ideal case study of the driving forces behind the decisions that industries made about where to locate. An analysis of factors embedded in both the Heckscher-Ohlin model and t…
Determinants of Intraregional Migration in Sub-Saharan Africa 1980-2000
Despite great accomplishments in the migration literature, the determinants of South-South migration remain poorly understood. In an attempt to fill this gap, this paper formulates and tests an empirical model for intraregional migration in sub-Saharan Africa within an extended human capital framework, taking into account spatial interaction. Using bilateral panel data between 1980 and 2000, we find that intraregional migration on the subcontinen…
Measuring and explaining government efficiency in developing countries
Governments in developing countries play an important role in the growth process, most notably through their budgetary policies. This potentially beneficial role is, however, hindered by government expenditure inefficiency. This is illustrated in a basic model of public spending and economic growth. Government efficiency is estimated for 52 developing countries using data envelopment analysis and subsequently employed in a general to specific app…
Inequality and Growth
We show that the way individual income data should be aggregated into an index of inequality in order to explain countries' growth performance is theory specific. A simulation set‐up shows that the use of a wrong measure might obscure the inequality–growth relationship and that the relative performance of different measures of inequality can be informative about the channel through which inequality influences economic growth
Measuring and Explaining Cross-Country Immigration Policies
What Determined the Location of Industry in Belgium, 1896-1961
Belgium was one of the first continental countries to undergo industrialization and develop an extensive transportation infrastructure during the nineteenth century, completing the integration of its internal market by the early twentieth century. As such, the country is an ideal case study of the driving forces behind the decisions that industries made about where to locate. An analysis of factors embedded in both the Heckscher-Ohlin model and t…
Inequality and Growth
We show that the way individual income data should be aggregated into an index of inequality in order to explain countries' growth performance is theory specific. A simulation set‐up shows that the use of a wrong measure might obscure the inequality–growth relationship and that the relative performance of different measures of inequality can be informative about the channel through which inequality influences economic growth
Measuring and explaining government efficiency in developing countries
Governments in developing countries play an important role in the growth process, most notably through their budgetary policies. This potentially beneficial role is, however, hindered by government expenditure inefficiency. This is illustrated in a basic model of public spending and economic growth. Government efficiency is estimated for 52 developing countries using data envelopment analysis and subsequently employed in a general to specific app…
Inequality and Growth
We show that the way individual income data should be aggregated into an index of inequality in order to explain countries' growth performance is theory specific. A simulation set‐up shows that the use of a wrong measure might obscure the inequality–growth relationship and that the relative performance of different measures of inequality can be informative about the channel through which inequality influences economic growth
Determinants of Intraregional Migration in Sub-Saharan Africa 1980-2000
Despite great accomplishments in the migration literature, the determinants of South-South migration remain poorly understood. In an attempt to fill this gap, this paper formulates and tests an empirical model for intraregional migration in sub-Saharan Africa within an extended human capital framework, taking into account spatial interaction. Using bilateral panel data between 1980 and 2000, we find that intraregional migration on the subcontinen…
What Determined the Location of Industry in Belgium, 1896-1961
Belgium was one of the first continental countries to undergo industrialization and develop an extensive transportation infrastructure during the nineteenth century, completing the integration of its internal market by the early twentieth century. As such, the country is an ideal case study of the driving forces behind the decisions that industries made about where to locate. An analysis of factors embedded in both the Heckscher-Ohlin model and t…
International shipping traffic as a determinant of the growing use of advertisements by local shopkeepers
In this article we examine the quantitative growth of growing number of advertisements (ads) placed by local shopkeepers in the three-daily chronicle of Ghent between 1706 and 1800. We test whether this evolution can be explained by international (shipping) commerce, a determinant to which the literature seems to have paid less attention. In this period, the number of commercial ads placed by local shopkeepers increased strongly. The nature of th…
Measuring and Explaining Cross-Country Immigration Policies
Regional Integration and Migration Governance in the Global South
Selecting only the best and brightest? An assessment of migration policy selectivity and its effectiveness
This paper introduces a new set of comprehensive and cross-country-comparable indexes of migration policy selectivity. Crucially, these reflect the multidimensional nature of the differential treatment of migrants. We use these indexes to study the evolution of migration policy selectivity and estimate how they affect migration flows. Combining all publicly available and relevant data since WWII, we build three composite indexes that identify sel…
Gains from trade
Firm‐level sales are often used as a proxy for productivity to quantify welfare gains from trade (GFT) using firm‐level data. This approach ignores the fact that heterogeneity in firm‐level sales is driven by factors other than productivity. Our theoretical and empirical analysis reveals that using sales as a proxy conflates persistent productivity with transitory demand and supply shocks, resulting in an over‐dispersed productivity distribution.…
With great power comes great dispersion. How policy-cycle competences drive power dispersion in regional organizations
Do member states concentrate or disperse competences when delegating authority to regional organisations (ROs)? Existing scholarship has examined how much independence organizations enjoy from their members, but has paid little attention to how competences are distributed across an organization’s internal organs. This article addresses that gap by introducing measures of concentration and policy capacity alongside the established measure of scope…
Economics (8 works) · Econometrics (4 works) · Fiscal Policy and Economic Growth (4 works) · Migration and Labor Dynamics (4 works) · Economic geography (3 works) · Geography (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Regional science (3 works) · Business (2 works) · Computer Science (2 works)