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Interlocking Boards and Firm Performance: Evidence from a New Panel Database

Non, Mariëlle C.; Franses, Philip Hans - Tinbergen Instituut - 2007

An interlock between two firms occurs if the firms share one or more directors in their boards of directors. We explore the effect of interlocks on firm performance for 101 large Dutch firms using a large and new panel database. We use five different performance measures, and for each...

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Unemployment, Growth and the Organisation of Work

Groot, Henri L.F. de; Schaik, Anton B.T.M. van - Tinbergen Instituut - 2002

-competitive wage differential between sectors and a monitoring intensity that is a source of fixed costs for the firm. Growth is driven … by investments in R&D performed in the high-wage sector. Unemployment is determined by the costs and benefits of waiting … for a high-paid job. The wage structure, growth, and unemployment are shown to depend on the way effort is extracted. …

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Pareto Efficiency in the Jungle

Houba, Harold; Luttens, Roland Iwan; Weikard, Hans-Peter - Tinbergen Instituut - 2014

We include initial holdings in the jungle economy of Piccione and Rubinstein (Economic Journal, 2007) in which the unique equilibrium satisfies lexicographic welfare maximization. When we relax assumptions on consumption sets and preferences slightly, equilibria other than lexicographic welfare...

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The Shadow Price of Aircraft Noise Nuisance

Praag, Bernard M.S. van; Baarsma, B.E. - Tinbergen Instituut - 2001

This paper has a twofold objective. First, we develop a new method to assess the monetary valuefor individuals of external effects. The method makes use of an ordinal index of life satisfaction asscored by individual respondents who are subjected in varying intensity to the external effect....

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Travel Time Variability and Airport Accessibility

Koster, Paul; Kroes, Eric; Verhoef, Erik T. - Tinbergen Instituut - 2010

This discussion paper resulted in a publication in Transportation Research Part B: Methodological (2011). Vol. 45(10), pages 1545-1559. This paper analyses the cost of access travel time variability for air travelers. Reliable access to airports is important since it is likely that the cost of...

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Welfare Effects of Distortionary Company Car Taxation

Gutiérrez-i-Puigarnau, Eva; Ommeren, Jos van - Tinbergen Instituut - 2007

In Europe, company cars are offered by employers as fringe benefits to their employees at a lower price than employees pay in the car market, mainly due to favourable taxation of company cars. We analyse the welfare effects of favourable taxation of company cars for the Netherlands. The...

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The Information Content of a Stated Choice Experiment

Rouwendal, Jan; Blaeij, Arianne de; Rietveld, Piet; … - Tinbergen Instituut - 2008

This paper presents a method to assess the distribution of values of time, and values of statistical life, over participants to a stated choice experiment, that does not require the researcher to make an a priori assumption on the type of distribution, as is required for example for mixed logit...

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Distortionary Company Car Taxation: Deadweight Losses through Increased Car Ownership

Ommeren, Jos N. van; Gutierrez-i-Puigarnau, Eva - Tinbergen Instituut - 2011

This discussion paper led to a publication in Empirical Economics 2013, 45(3), 1189-1204. We analyse the effects of distortionary company car taxation through increased household carownership for the Netherlands. We use several identification strategies and demonstrate thatfor about 20 percent...

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The Costs and Benefits of Providing Open Space in Cities

Rouwendal, Jan; Straaten, J. Willemijn van der - Tinbergen Instituut - 2008

Although many researchers have investigated the value of open space in cities, few of them have compared them to the costs of providing this amenity. In this paper, we use the monocentric model of a city to derive a simple cost-benefit rule for the optimal provision of open space. The rule is...

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Regional Efficiency Improvement by Means of Data Envelopment Analysis through Euclidean Distance Minimization including Fixed Input Factors - An Application to Tourist Regions in I...

Suzuki, Soushi; Nijkamp, Peter; Rietveld, Piet - Tinbergen Instituut - 2011

See also the article in Papers in Regional Science (2011). Volume 90, issue 1, pages 67-90. Standard Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) is characterized by uniform proportional input reduction or output augmentation in calculating improvement projections. This paper develops a new Euclidean...

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