120 Discussion Papers

• 08-120/1 - Maximal Cartel Pricing and Leniency Programs

  Authors: Harold Houba, VU University Amsterdam; Evgenia Motchenkova, VU University Amsterdam; Quan Wen, Vanderbilt University, Nashville (TN), USA

  Date: December 17, 2008

• 08-119/3 - The Impact of Regional Absorptive Capacity on Spatial Knowledge Spillovers

  Authors: Andrea Caragliu, Politecnico di Milano; Peter Nijkamp, VU University Amsterdam

  Date: December 15, 2008

• 08-118/2 - White Knights and the Corporate Governance of Hostile Takeovers

  Authors: Riccardo Calcagno, VU University Amsterdam; Sonia Falconieri, Brunel University

  Date: December 15, 2008

• 08-117/1 - Do Auctions and Forced Divestitures increase Competition?

  Authors: Adriaan R. Soetevent, Amsterdam School of Economics, University of Amsterdam; Marco A. Haan, University of Groningen; Pim Heijnen, Amsterdam School of Economics, University of Amsterdam

  Date: December 08, 2008

• 08-116/1 - On the Effects of Suggested Prices in Gasoline Markets

  Authors: Riemer P. Faber, Erasmus School of Economics, Erasmus University Rotterdam; Maarten C.W. Janssen, University of Vienna, and Erasmus School of Economics, Erasmus University Rotterdam

  Date: December 01, 2008

• 08-115/1 - Axiomatizations of a Positional Power Score and Measure for Hierarchies

  Authors: René van den Brink, VU University Amsterdam; Frank Steffen, The University of Liverpool and University of Hamburg

  Date: November 24, 2008

• 08-114/4 - Spline Smoothing over Difficult Regions

  Authors: Siem Jan Koopman, VU University Amsterdam; Soon Yip Wong, VU University Amsterdam

  Date: November 18, 2008

• 08-113/1 - Incentives and the Sorting of Altruistic Agents into Street-Level Bureaucracies

  Authors: Margaretha Buurman, Dept. of Economics, Erasmus University Rotterdam; Robert Dur, Dept. of Economics, Erasmus University Rotterdam

  Date: November 17, 2008

• 08-112/2 - A Dynamic Model of Investor Decision-Making: How Adaptation to Losses affects Future Selling Decisions

  Authors: Carmen Lee, Marketing Department, VU University Amsterdam; Roman Kraeussl, Finance Dept., VU University Amsterdam; André Lucas, Finance Dept., VU University Amsterdam; Leonard J. Paas, Marketing Dept., VU University Amsterdam

  Date: November 17, 2008

• 08-111/3 - An Empirical Analysis of the Time Allocation of Italian Couples: Are Italian Men Irresponsive?

  Authors: Hans G. Bloemen, VU University Amsterdam; Silvia Pasqua, University of Turin; Elena G.F. Stancanelli, University of Cergy Pontoise

  Date: November 13, 2008

• 08-110/3 - A Generalized Goals-achievement Model in Data Envelopment Analysis

  Authors: Soushi Suzuki, Hokkai-Gakuen University, Sapporo, Japan; Peter Nijkamp, VU University Amsterdam

  Date: November 13, 2008

• 08-109/3 - School Choice and Competition

  Authors: Elbert Dijkgraaf, Erasmus University Rotterdam, and SEOR; Stephanie van der Geest, Erasmus University Rotterdam, and SEOR; Raymond H.J.M Gradus, VU University Amsterdam, ECRi (Erasmus University), and Research Institute for the CDA; Matthijs de Jong, Erasmus University Rotterdam, and SEOR

  Date: November 10, 2009

• 08-108/4 - A General Framework for Observation Driven Time-Varying Parameter Models

  Authors: Drew Creal, VU University Amsterdam; Siem Jan Koopman, VU University Amsterdam; André Lucas, VU University Amsterdam

  Date: November 06, 2008

• 08-107/2 - An Analysis of the Effects of the Severance Payment Reform on Credit to Italian SMEs

  Authors: Riccardo Calcagno, VU University Amsterdam; Roman Kraeussl, VU University Amsterdam; Chiara Monticone, University of Torino

  Date: November 06, 2008

• 08-106/3 - Car ownership and the Labor Market of Ethnic Minorities

  Authors: Pieter A. Gautier, VU University Amsterdam, and CEPR; Yves Zenou, Stockholm University and Research Institute of Industrial Economics, Sweden

  Date: November 03, 2008

• 08-105/4 - Out-of-sample Comparison of Copula Specifications in Multivariate Density Forecasts

  Authors: Cees Diks, University of Amsterdam; Valentyn Panchenko, University of New South Wales; Dick van Dijk, Erasmus University Rotterdam

  Date: November 03, 2008

• 08-104/1 - An Algorithm for Computing the Nucleolus of Disjunctive Additive Games with An Acyclic Permission Structure

  Authors: René van den Brink, VU University Amsterdam; Ilya Katsev, St. Petersburg Institute for Economics and Mathematics, Russian Academy of Sciences; Gerard van der Laan, VU University Amsterdam

  Date: October 31, 2008

• 08-103/3 - High-Speed Rail & Air Transport Competition

  Authors: Nicole Adler, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel; Chris Nash, Institute for Transport Studies, Leeds, England; Eric Pels, VU University Amsterdam

  Date: October 31, 2008

• 08-102/3 - Beating the Random Walk: a Performance Assessment of Long-term Interest Rate Forecasts

  Authors: Frank A.G. den Butter, VU University Amsterdam; Pieter W. Jansen, Aegon Investment Management

  Date: October 28, 2008

• 08-101/2 - Washington meets Wall Street: A Closer Examination of the Presidential Cycle Puzzle

  Authors: R. Kraeussl, VU University Amsterdam; A. Lucas, VU University Amsterdam; D. Rijsbergen, VU University Amsterdam; P.J. van der Sluis, VU University Amsterdam; E. Vrugt, APG Investments

  Date: October 23, 2008