In Europe, company cars are offered by employers as fringe benefits to their employees at a lower price than employees pay in the car market, mainly due to favourable taxation of company cars. We analyse the welfare effects of favourable taxation of company cars for the Netherlands. The...

This discussion paper led to a publication in <A href="http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0965856411001443">'Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment'</A>, 2012, 46(1), 123-130.<P> The literature on car cruising is dominated by theory. This is the first article thatexamines cruising for parking using a nation-wide random sample of car trips. We...</p></a>

This discussion paper led to a publication in <A href="http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0377221711004498">'Regional Science and Urban Economics'</A>, 41(3), 207-13.<p>The application of hedonic price approaches to obtain estimates of the households' value of apartment characteristics is invalid for regulated housing markets such as public housing. We introduce...</p></a>

According to economic theory, there are no strong reasons to tax (or to subsidise) residential moves, although low levels of taxation may be potentially justified to deal with the presence of externalities and economic stability. This is in contrast to practise in most countries where...

This discussion paper led to a publication in <A href="http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs11067-010-9130-y">'Networks and Spatial Economics'</A>, 2011, 11(4), 197-199.<P> This paper investigates the welfare effect of adverse weather through changes in the speed of individuals’ car commuting trips in the entire Netherlands. Weather measurements are local and...</p></a>

This discussion paper led to a publication in <A href="http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs11116-012-9414-9"><I>Transportation</I></A>, 2012, 39(6), 1121-1132.<P> Using a dynamic approach, employing data on job mobility, we demonstrate that university workers' marginal willingness to pay for reducing commuting distance is about euro 0.25 per kilometre travelled. This...</p></i></a>

Why has job growth over the past decades been weaker in the Dutch Randstad area than in surrounding regions? In a simultaneous equations analysis, we find that employment adjusts to the regional supply of labour. Net internal migration is predominantly determined by regional housing supply and...

This discussion paper resulted in a publication in the <A href="http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1468-2354.2012.00707.x/abstract">'International Economic Review'</A>, 53(3), 965-978.<P> It has been argued that urban planning policies, through minimum parking requirements, and income tax policies induce free employer parking. We show that tax policies induce welfare losses in...</p></a>

This discussion paper les to a publication in the <A href="http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.0022-4146.2005.00389.x/abstract><I>Journal of Regional Sciences</I></A>, 2005, 681-702. Transaction costs have attracted considerably attention in the theoretical literature on residential mobility. In many European countries, these costs mainly consist of ad-valorem transaction costs. In...</i></a>

This discussion paper resulted in a publication in the <A href="http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1467-9787.2006.00448.x/abstract">'Journal of Regional Science'</A>, 2006, 46(3), 493-506.<P> Fringe benefits of various kinds have become an essential element of modern labour market mechanisms. Firms offer transport-related fringe benefits such as transport subsidies (company...</p></a>