The broader goal of this paper is to provide social researchers with some analytical guidelines when investigating structural equation models (SEM) with predominantly a formative specification. This research is the first to investigate the robustness and precision of parameter estimates of a...

We experimentally study the influence of local information conditions on elite capture and social exclusion in community-based development schemes with heterogeneous groups. Not only information on the distribution of aid resources through community-based schemes, but also information on who...

The evaluation of scientific output has a key role in the allocation of research funds andacademic positions. Decisions are often based on quality indicators for academic journals and overthe years a handful of scoring methods have been proposed for this purpose. Discussing the mostprominent...

In this paper we assess cost and profit efficiency for a sample of banks operating on the Dutch banking market in the period 1992-1998, using stochastic frontier efficiency analysis. Over the entire period, the cost-efficient frontier deteriorates but mean cost efficiency and profit efficiency...

This paper shows that investment inhuman capital may be another reason for incentive wages in addition to "retain, recruit and motivate". It is shown under which circumstances firms pay wages in excess of the market clearing level in order to induce workers to invest. Investment in human capital...

In this paper we will address the conceptual schema design procedure (CSDP) in fact-basedmodeling. We will focus on the modeling procedure of ‘cook-book’ for deriving the set-comparisonand mandatory role constraints. We will give an algorithm that can be applied by an analyst in...

Our study extends on conventional measures of contagion by directly investigating changes in the existence and the directions of causality. In particular, we apply a Granger-causality methodology on sovereign bond spreads as a measure of perceived country risk. For the Asian crisis, we find...

This paper introduces a zero lower bound constraint on the nominal interest rate in a financial accelerator model with nominal and real rigidities. We .rst analyze the implicationsfor aggregate dynamics of binding the zero lower bound for shocks that depress the nominalinterest rate. We include...

The overwhelming majority of team or group composition studies are restricted to analyzing the link between team demographics and the content of specific strategic choices. We argue that in order to make progress in this domain it is now time to broaden the approach by focusing on psychological...

A sizeable portion of US research has tried to assess the ‘fairness’ of the corporate income tax system, that is: are companies treated in a non-discriminatory way under the corporate income tax system. Similar research has, however, never taken place in the Netherlands. The goal of this...