Bureaucratie en bureaucratisering zijn verschijnselen waardoor zowel moderne overheidsorganisaties als moderne ondernemingen worden geplaagd. Aan de bureaucratische organisatievorm kleven zowel voordelen als nadelen. De nadelen ervan worden in de moderne samenleving echter steeds groter. In dit...

In dit rapport wordt een economische inschatting gepresenteerd van de ontwikkeling van de kosten van beroepsziekten en arbeidsongevallen in Nederland, voor zo ver deze tot uiting komen in de schadelast van verzekeraars uit hoofde van aansprakelijkheidsverzekeringen van werkgevers....

Paper Originally Presented at the 65th Annual Conference of the Southern Economic Association , Fairmont Hotel, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States of America, November 18-20, 1995. Bureaucratic service organisations in the public sector are increasingly loosing their previous comfortable...

Public management reform and public reorganisation are undertaken now for more than two decades in the Western world. These attempts to modernise the institutions in the public sector and their public policies have been inspired by criticisms on big and classical government and on notions of a...

In a single framework, I address the question of the informational basis for evaluating social states. I particularly focus on information about individual welfare, individual preferences and individual (moral) judgments, but the model is also open to any other informational input deemed...

Noting that a full characterization of Nash-implementation is given using a canonical-mechanism and Maskin''s theorem (Maskin, 1999) is shown using a mechanism with Saijo''s type of strategy space reduction (Saijo, 1988), this paper fully characterizes the class of Nash-implementable social...

In the theory of judgment aggregation, it is known for which agendas of propositions it is possible to aggregate individual judgments into collective ones in accordance with the Arrow-inspired requirements of universal domain, collective rationality, unanimity preservation, non-dictatorship and...

Robinson (1951) showed that the learning process of Discrete Fictitious Play converges from any initial condition to the set of Nash equilibria in two-player zero-sum games. In several earlier works, Brown (1949, 1951) makes some heuristic arguments for a similar convergence result for the case...

In this paper we investigate the validity of the univariate autoregressive sieve bootstrap appliedto time series panels characterized by general forms of cross-sectional dependence, including butnot restricted to cointegration. Using the final equations approach we show that while it ispossible...

We model a three-pillar pension system and analyse the impact of exogenous shocks on an open economy, using an overlapping generation model where individuals live for two periods. The three-pillar pension system consists of (1) a PAYG pension system, (2) a defined benefits pension fund, and (3)...