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Measuring Externalities in Program Evaluation

Janssens, Wendy - Tinbergen Instituut - 2005

. However, if the programme generates externalities for non-participants such an approach will capture only part of the …

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General Geographical Economics Model with Congestion

Marrewijk, Charles van - Tinbergen Instituut - 2005

We derive and discuss a general, but simple geographical economics model with congestion, allowing us to explain the economic viability of small and large locations. The model generalizes some previous work and lends itself to analyzing the impact of public policy in terms of infrastructure...

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Competing Recombinant Technologies for Environmental Innovation

Zeppini, Paolo; Bergh, Jeroen C.J.M. van den - Tinbergen Instituut - 2010

This discussion paper resulted in a publication in 'Industry and Innovation', 2011, 18(3), 317-334.<P> This article presents a model of sequential decisions about investments in environmentally dirty and clean technologies, which extends the path-dependence framework of Arthur (1989). This allows...</p>

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Firm Formation and Agglomeration under Monopolistic Competition

Brunow, Stephan; Nijkamp, Peter - Tinbergen Instituut - 2013

Economic Geography and human capital externalities literature. The novelty of this paper is that it derives a measure of …

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Crowding Externalities from Tourist Use of Urban Space

Neuts, Bart; Nijkamp, Peter; Leeuwen, Eveline van - Tinbergen Instituut - 2013

Popular urban tourist destinations are attracting large numbers of both overnight visitors and excursionists. Since urban cities perform a multitude of functions, the space requirements of tourists can, at times, interfere with those of local users. This paper addresses the issue of disutilities...

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

Praag, Bernard M.S. van; Baarsma, B.E. - Tinbergen Instituut - 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 Role and Evolution of Central Authorities

Frijters, Paul; Tieman, Alexander F. - Tinbergen Instituut - 1999

In this paper we argue that authorities aid cooperation by means ofdirect coordination or the enforcement of re-commitment devices suchas contract laws.Credible threats of violence allow this role. In alocal interaction model, an authority forms if mutually connected individuals with sufficient...

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Production Externalities in the Wood Furniture Industry in Central Java

Andadari, Roos K.; Groot, Henri L.F. de; Rietveld, Piet - Tinbergen Instituut - 2012

This paper exploits micro firm level data to examine the impact of spatial clustering and links to foreign buyer networks on firm performance in the wood furniture industry in Central Java, Indonesia. The analysis is based on an annual manufacturing survey. We identify the impact of...

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The Macroeconomics of the Credit Crisis: In Search of Externalities for Macro-Prudential Supervision

Butter, Frank A.G. den - Tinbergen Instituut - 2010

should now focus on the externalities that caused the amplification of the shock and use that knowledge for adequate macro … crisis of 2007-2010 a clear distinction should be made between (i) the initial shock; (ii) the propagation and amplification … of the initial shock to the systemic crisis of the financial markets; and (iii) the transmission of the credit crisis to …

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When the Quality of a Nation triggers Emigration

Dalen, Hendrik P. van; Henkens, Kène - Tinbergen Instituut - 2006

Why do people leave high-income countries with extensive welfare states? This article will examine what underlies the emigration intentions of native-born inhabitants of one industrialized country in particular: the Netherlands. To understand emigration from high-income countries we focus not...

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