3398 Discussion Papers

• 06-105/4 - Extracting Business Cycles using Semi-parametric Time-varying Spectra with Applications to US Macroeconomic Time Series

  Authors: Siem Jan Koopman, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam; Soon Yip Wong, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

  Date: November 29, 2006

• 06-104/1 - Does Stake Size matter for Cooperation and Punishment?

  Authors: Martin G. Kocher, CREED, Universiteit van Amsterdam; Peter Martinsson, Göteborg University, Sweden; Martine Visser, Göteborg University, Sweden

  Date: November 22, 2006

• 06-103/3 - The Entrepreneurial Ladder and its Determinants

  Authors: Peter van der Zwan, CASBEC, Erasmus School of Economics, Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam, and EIM, Zoetermeer; Roy Thurik, CASBEC, Erasmus School of Economics, Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam, EIM Zoetermeer, Max Planck Institute of Economics, and Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam; Isabel Grilo, DG Enterprise, European Commission, GREMARS, Université de Lille 3, and CORE, Université Cath. de Louvain

  Date: November 22, 2006

• 06-102/3 - Marriage Markets and Single Motherhood in South Africa

  Authors: Siv Gustafsson, Universiteit van Amsterdam; Seble Y. Worku, Universiteit van Amsterdam

  Date: November 20, 2006

• 06-101/4 - Periodic Unobserved Cycles in Seasonal Time Series with an Application to US Unemployment

  Authors: Siem Jan Koopman, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam; Marius Ooms, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam; Irma Hindrayanto, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

  Date: November 20, 2006

• 06-100/1 - Comparative Advantage, the Rank-size Rule, and Zipf's Law

  Authors: Jeroen Hinloopen, Universiteit van Amsterdam; Charles van Marrewijk, Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam

  Date: November 06, 2006

• 06-099/1 - Group Polarization in the Team Dictator Game reconsidered

  Authors: Wolfgang J. Luhan, University of Innsbruck; Martin G. Kocher, Universiteit van Amsterdam; Matthias Sutter, University of Cologne

  Date: November 01, 2006

• 06-098/1 - Monitoring and Pay: An Experiment on Employee Performance under Endogenous Supervision

  Authors: Dennis Dittrich, University of Erfurt; Martin G. Kocher, Universiteit van Amsterdam

  Date: November 01, 2006

• 06-097/3 - Assessment of Tourist Competitiveness by analysing Destination Efficiency

  Authors: Francesca Cracolici, University of Palermo, Italy; Piet Rietveld, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam; Peter Nijkamp, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

  Date: October 30, 2006

• 06-096/3 - Efficiency and Productivity of Italian Tourist Destinations: A Quantitative Estimation based on Data Envelopment Analysis and the Malmquist Method

  Authors: Maria Francesca Cracolici, University of Palermo, Italy; Peter Nijkamp, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

  Date: October 30, 2006

• 06-095/1 - Computing Alternating Offers and Water Prices in Bilateral River Basin Management

  Author: Harold Houba, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

  Date: October 06, 2006

• 06-094/2 - Modeling Portfolio Defaults using Hidden Markov Models with Covariates

  Authors: Konrad Banachewicz, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam; Aad van der Vaart, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam; André Lucas, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

  Date: October 25, 2006

• 06-093/2 - The Formation of Financial Networks

  Author: Ana Babus, Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam

  Date: October 23, 2006

• 06-092/1 - The Self-Perception Theory vs. a Dynamic Learning Model

  Author: Otto H. Swank, Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam

  Date: October 11, 2006

• 06-091/1 - When Health Care Insurance does not make a Difference – The Case of Health Care ‘Made in China’

  Author: Hendrik P. van Dalen, Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam

  Date: October 11, 2006

• 06-089/3 - The Entrepreneur's Mode of Entry: Business Takeover or New Venture Start?

  Authors: Simon C. Parker, Durham University; C. Mirjam van Praag, Universiteit van Amsterdam

  Date: October 11, 2006

• 06-088/3 - Grow rich while you sleep: Selection in Experiments with Voluntary Participation

  Authors: Pieter Gautier, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam; Bas van der Klaauw, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

  Date: October 11, 2006

• 06-087/1 - Dynamic Choice, Independence and Emotions

  Authors: Astrid Hopfensitz, University of Geneva; Frans van Winden, Universiteit van Amsterdam

  Date: October 09, 2006

• 06-086/2 - Large Swings in Currencies driven by Fundamentals

  Authors: Phornchanok Cumperayot, Chulalongkorn University; Casper G. de Vries, Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam

  Date: October 06, 2006

• 06-085/2 - Tail Probabilities for Regression Estimators

  Authors: Thomas Mikosch, University of Copenhagen; Casper G. de Vries, Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam

  Date: October 06, 2006