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The organization of Electronic Dance Music (EDM) events has become a major export product in the Netherlands. In order … the organization of exciting new events. A case study on how these EDM events are actually organised in the Netherlands …
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During the last decades, the growth of trade between China and the Netherlands has been larger than the increase in …
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Municipalities may have various motives for decisions on the mode of their task execution. Empirical studies – based on both public choice and transaction costs theory - have not yet provided a fully comprehensive explanation for municipal contracting out decisions. Therefore, we held...
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home country. This paper investigates the effects on productivity and trade from the perspective of transaction costs …, using a recent theory on trade in tasks. A production function is estimated for the Netherlands for the period 1972-2001. It … suggests that the effect of offshoring manufacturing and services on total factor productivity (TFP) is positive and larger …
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This paper contributes to the productivity literature by using results from firm-level productivity studies to improve … forecasts of macro-level productivity growth. The paper employs current research methods on estimating firm-level productivity … to build times-series components that capture the joint dynamics of the firm-level productivity and size distributions …
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is used as an exemplary case as the Netherlands are known as a nation of traders. This image was derived in the … history of immigrants in the Netherlands, the main immigrant groups of today do not fulfill a brokerage function in bringing …
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components, become increasingly important. In small open service orientedeconomies like the Netherlands, transaction costs may …
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During the last decades, the growth of trade between China and the Netherlands has been larger than the increase in …
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increasingly common practice in the social sciences. As illustrated by detailed Dutch data on firm-level productivity, employment …
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Transaction costs are a major reason why international trade flows are much smaller than traditional trade theory would suggest. Trust between trading partners lowers transaction costs and may therefore enhance trade. The empirical analysis of this paper shows that more trust leads to more trade...
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