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Transformations of industrial heritage : insights into external effects on house prices
Duijn, Mark van; Rouwendal, Jan; Boersema, Richard - 2014
Local policy makers seek ways to deal with abandoned industrial heritage in their jurisdictions. Much is demolished, but in some cases considerable investments are made to preserve the cultural aspects of industrial sites. The renewal plans are usually designed to stimulate urban renewal in the...
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Asymmetric information and list price reductions in the housing market
Wit, Erik R. de; Klaauw, Bas van der - 2010
In housing markets with asymmetric information list prices may signal unobserved properties of the house or the seller. Asymmetric information is the starting point of many models for the housing market. In this paper, we estimate the causal effect of list-price reductions to test for the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011380153
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Do services differ from manufacturing? : the post-entry performance of firms in Dutch services
Audretsch, David B.; Klomp, Luuk; Thurik, Adriaan R. - 1997
A large literature has emerged focusing on the post-entry performance of firms and, in particular, on thelinks between firm growth, survival, size and age. While these studies have resulted in findings that aresufficiently consistent as to constitute Stylized Facts, virtually all of these...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010372851
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A nonparametric method for predicting survival probabilities
Klaauw, Bas van der; Vriend, Sandra - 2015
the program. The literature uses linear probability models and (Cox) proportional hazard models to predict duration … outcomes. These either focus on one threshold duration or impose proportionality. In this paper we propose a nonparametric …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011391532
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Combining micro and macro unemployment duration data
Berg, Gerard J. van den; Klaauw, Bas van der - 1998
We combine micro and macro unemployment duration data to study the effects of the business cycle on the outflow from …. The distribution of the inflow composition is estimated along with the other parameters. The estimation method deals with … differences between the micro and macro unemployment definitions. The results also show to what extent the unemployment duration …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011299970
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Do stepping stone jobs exist? : early career paths in the medical profession
Berg, Gerard J. van den; Holm, Anders; Ours, Jan C. van - 1999
In the Netherlands, students who want to become a medical specialist have toenrol in a training program which is in limited supply. During the search for aposition as trainee (or "junior medical specialist"), they may accept atemporary job as a medical assistant. We use a micro data set to...
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Zero-inflated autoregressive conditional duration model for discrete trade durations with excessive zeros
Blasques, Francisco; Holý, Vladimír; Tomanová, Petra - 2019
In finance, durations between successive transactions are usually modelled by the autoregressive conditional duration …
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Homeownership, unemployment and commuting distances
Kantor, Yuval; Nijkamp, Peter; Rouwendal, Jan - 2013
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House prices, second mortgages and household savings : an empirical investigation for the Netherlands, 1987 - 1994
Rouwendal, Jan; Alessie, Rob - 2002
Since the beginnings of the eighties house prices in the Netherlands haveincreased steadily and considerably. In this paper we study the effect of this developmenton the demand for second mortgages and on the savings of Dutch households. We use the dataof the Dutch socio-economic panel for the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011327548
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Estimating firms' demand for agglomeration
Koster, Hans; Ommeren, Jos van; Rietveld, Piet - 2010
The market for commercial properties is characterised by extreme heterogeneity in demand. In this paper, we aim to gain more insight in the heterogeneity in demand for employment agglomeration and size of the rental property using a two-stage hedonic approach following Bajari and Benkard (2005)....
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