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Using Happiness Surveys to value Intangibles; the Case of Airport Noise

Praag, Bernard M.S. van; Baarsma, B.E. - Tinbergen Institute - 2004

We assess the monetary value of the noise damage, caused by aircraft noise nuisance around Amsterdam Airport, as the sum of hedonic house price differentials and a residual cost component. The residual costs are assessed from a survey, including an ordinal life satisfaction scale, on which...

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The Entrepreneurial Ladder and its Determinants

Zwan, Peter van der; Thurik, Roy; Grilo, Isabel - Tinbergen Institute - 2006

We test a new model where the entrepreneurial decision is described as a process of successive engagement levels, i.e., as an entrepreneurial ladder. Five levels are distinguished using nearly 12,000 observations from the 2004 “Flash Eurobarometer survey on Entrepreneurship” covering the 25...

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Entrepreneurial Progress: Climbing The Entrepreneurial Ladder in Europe and The US

Zwan, Peter van der; Verheul, Ingrid; Thurik, Roy; … - Tinbergen Institute - 2009

We investigate which countries have the highest potential to achieve entrepreneurial progress. This progress is defined using an entrepreneurial ladder with five successive steps: “never thought about starting a business”, “thinking about starting a business”, “taking steps to start a...

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Decision Making and Learning in a Globalizing World

Swank, Otto H.; Visser, Bauke - Tinbergen Institute - 2010

We study two aspects of globalization. It allows a decision-maker to go beyond his own local experience and to learn from other decision-makers in addressing common problems. This improves the identification and diffusion of best practices. It also provides extra information to `markets' that...

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Positional Power in Hierarchies

Brink, René van den; Steffen, Frank - Tinbergen Institute - 2007

Power is a core concept in the analysis and design of organisations. In this paper we consider positional power in hierarchies. One of the problems with the extant literature on positional power in hierarchies is that it is mainly restricted to the analysis of power in terms of the bare...

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On Socio-economic Roles and Specialization

Gilles, Robert P.; Lazarova, Emiliya; Ruys, Pieter H.M. - Tinbergen Institute - 2006

Xiaokai Yang's theory of economic specialization under increasing returns to scale is a formal development of the fundamental Smith-Young theorem on the extent of the market and the social division of labor. In this theory specialization and, thus, the social division of labor is firmly embedded...

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Axiomatizations of a Positional Power Score and Measure for Hierarchies

Brink, René van den; Steffen, Frank - Tinbergen Institute - 2008

Power is a core concept in the analysis and design of organizations. One of the problems with the extant literature on positional power in hierarchies is that it is mainly restricted to the analysis of power in terms of the bare positions of the actors. While such an analysis informs us about...

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Fair Agreements for Sharing International Rivers with Multiple Springs and Externalities

Brink, Rene van den; Laan, Gerard van der; Moes, Nigel - Tinbergen Institute - 2010

satiable agents, i.e., the benefit function is decreasing beyond some satiation point. In such situations externalities appear … has an increasing benefit function (no externalities) then every weighted hierarchical solution is core-stable. In case of … satiation points, it appears that every weighted hierarchical solution is independent of the externalities. …

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Why Congestion Tolling could be good for the Consumer: The Effects of Heterogeneity in the Values of Schedule Delay and Time on the Effects of Tolling

Berg, Vincent van den; Verhoef, Erik T. - Tinbergen Institute - 2010

In studying congestion tolling, it is important to account for heterogeneity in preferences of drivers, as ignoring it can bias the welfare gains. We analyse the effects of tolling, in the bottleneck model, with continuous heterogeneity in the value of time and schedule delay. The welfare gain...

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Tax Competition under Minimum Rates: The Case of European Diesel Excises

Evers, Michiel; Mooij, Ruud A. de; Vollebergh, Herman R.J. - Tinbergen Institute - 2004

This paper estimates Nash-type fiscal reaction functions for European governments competing for revenue from diesel excises. It appears that European governments strategically set their excise levels by responding to their neighbors’ tax rates. This provides evidence for the presence of tax...

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