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Governmental Competition in Road Charging and Capacity Choice

Ubbels, Barry; Verhoef, Erik - Tinbergen Instituut - 2006

In this study we have analysed policy interactions between an urban and a regional government which have different objectives (welfare of its own citizens) and two policy instruments (toll and capacity) available. Using a simulation model, we investigated the welfare consequences of the various...

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Space and Growth

Abreu, Maria; Groot, Henri L.F. de; Florax, Raymond J.G.M. - Tinbergen Instituut - 2004

This paper reviews the empirical literature on growth and convergence that has addressed the importance of spatial factors. An important distinction in this literature is the one between absolute and relative location. The literature on absolute location predominantly uses non-spatial...

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In Defense of Trusts: R&D Cooperation in Global Perspective

Hinloopen, Jeroen; Smrkolj, Grega; Wagener, Florian - Tinbergen Instituut - 2013

We present a continuous-time generalization of the seminal R&D model of d’Aspremont and Jacquemin (American Economic Review, Vol. 78, No. 5) to examine the trade-off between the benefits of allowing firms to cooperate in R&D and the corresponding increased potential for product market...

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Herding, Information Cascades and Volatility Spillovers in Futures Markets

McAleer, Michael; Radalj, Kim - Tinbergen Instituut - 2013

to analyse if volatility among small traders spills over into spot markets, it is found that spillovers occur only with …

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Skill Intensity in Foreign Trade and Economic Growth

Woerz, Julia - Tinbergen Instituut - 2004

This paper explores the link between trade structure, trade specialization and per capita incomegrowth. It is argued that industrial upgrading in export specialization patterns has a positive long-rungrowth effect, while the effect of structural change in industrial import patterns is in...

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Pensions, Debt and Inflation Risk in a Monetary Union

Adema, Yvonne - Tinbergen Instituut - 2010

This paper investigates the international spillovers of government debt and the associated risk of inflation within a …

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Contests with Rank-Order Spillovers

Baye, Michael R.; Kovenock, Dan; Vries, Casper G. de - Tinbergen Instituut - 2009

This paper presents a unified framework for characterizing symmetric equilibrium in simultaneous move, two-player, rank-order contests with complete information, in which each player's strategy generates direct or indirect affine "spillover" effects that depend on the rank-order of her decision...

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Trade Reform and Labor Market Dynamics

Botman, Dennis P.J.; Tieman, Alexander F. - Tinbergen Instituut - 1999

We present an equilibrium-search model with heterogenous workers whosearch for a job in one of two sectors and who lose part of theirskills during unemployment. We show that an import tariff increasethe wage and the employment prospects in the protected sector. Thisresults in a labor market...

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A Tourism Conditions Index

Chang, Chia-Lin; Hsu, Hui-Kuang; McAleer, Michael - Tinbergen Instituut - 2014

Index (MCI). The empirical findings show that TCI weighted by spillovers reveal greater significance in forecasting the …

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Research among Copycats: R&D, Spillovers, and Feedback Strategies

Smrkolj, Grega; Wagener, Florian - Tinbergen Instituut - 2014

production at different times. We discern the impact of knowledge spillovers on the investments in existing markets, as well as … between spillovers, R&D efforts, and surpluses is non-monotonic and dependent on both the relative and absolute efficiency of … firms. Larger spillovers increase the likelihood that a new technology is brought to production, but they do not necessarily …

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