3410 Discussion Papers

• 04-092/3 - The Optimal Choice of Commuting Speed: Consequences for Commuting Time, Distance and Costs

  Authors: Jos van Ommeren, Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam; Joyce Dargay, ESRC Transport Studies Unit, University College London

  Date: August 24, 2004

• 04-091/2 - The Political Economy of Dominant Investors

  Authors: Enrico C. Perotti, University of Amsterdam, and CEPR; Ernst-Ludwig von Thadden, University of Lausanne, and CEPR

  Date: August 23, 2004

• 04-090/2 - Optimal Confidence Intervals for the Tail Index and High Quantiles

  Authors: Ana Ferreira, ISA, Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal; Casper G. de Vries, Faculty of Economics, Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam

  Date: August 23, 2004

• 04-089/3 - The Effects of Railway Investments in a Polycentric City

  Authors: Ghebreegziabiher Debrezion, Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam; Eric Pels, Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam; Piet Rietveld, Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

  Date: August 19, 2004

• 04-088/2 - Lobbying on Entry

  Authors: Enrico Perotti, University of Amsterdam, and CEPR; Paolo Volpin, London Business School, and CEPR

  Date: August 19, 2004

• 04-087/3 - Estimating the Effect of Personality on Male-Female Earnings

  Authors: Gerrit Mueller, Faculty of Economics, Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam; Erik Plug, Faculty of Economics and Econometrics, Universiteit van Amsterdam

  Date: August 17, 2004

• 04-086/2 - Household Inequality, Welfare, and the Setting of Trade Policy

  Authors: Joseph Francois, Faculty of Economics, Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam; Hugo Rojas-Romagosa, Faculty of Economics, Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam

  Date: August 17, 2004

• 04-085/3 - An Indirect Utility Model of Multiple Car Ownership and Use

  Authors: Jan Rouwendal, Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam; John Pommer, Connekt, Delft

  Date: August 16, 2004

• 04-084/2 - Acquisitions as a Real Options Bidding Game

  Authors: Han T.J. Smit, Faculty of Economics, Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam; Ward A. van den Berg, Faculty of Economics, Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam; Wouter De Maeseneire, Ghent University, and Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam

  Date: June 16, 2004

• 04-083/3 - Interaction of Regional Population and Employment

  Authors: Wouter Vermeulen, Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, and CPB Netherlands Bureau for Economic Policy Analysis, The Hague; Jos van Ommeren, Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

  Date: July 16, 2004

• 04-082/1 - Information Overload in Monopsony Markets

  Author: Stefano Ficco, Faculty of Economics, Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam

  Date: July 16, 2004

• 04-081/3 - Ethnic Concentration and Human Capital Formation

  Authors: Thomas de Graaff, Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam; Henri L.F. de Groot, Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

  Date: July 15, 2004

• 04-080/3 - How Risky is Investment in Human Capital?

  Authors: Joop Hartog, Faculty of Economics and Econometrics, Universiteit van Amsterdam; Hans van Ophem, Faculty of Economics and Econometrics, Universiteit van Amsterdam; Simona Maria Bajdechi, Faculty of Economics and Econometrics, Universiteit van Amsterdam

  Date: July 13, 2004

• 04-079/3 - Spatial Patterns of Technology Diffusion: An Empirical Analysis using TFP

  Authors: Maria Abreu, Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam; Henri L.F. de Groot, Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam; Raymond J.G.M. Florax, Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

  Date: July 12, 2004

• 04-078/3 - Integrating Expenditure and Income Data: What to do with the Statistical Discrepancy?

  Authors: J. Joseph Beaulieu, Division of Research and Statistics, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, Washington; Eric J. Bartelsman, Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

  Date: July 12, 2004

• 04-077/1 - Information Overload in Multi-Stage Selection Procedures

  Authors: Stefano Ficco, Faculty of Economics, Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam; Vladimir A. Karamychev, Faculty of Economics, Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam

  Date: July 09, 2004

• 04-076/1 - Exploitation and Cooperation in Networks

  Authors: Andrea Galeotti, Faculty of Economics, Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam; Miguel Meléndez, University of Alicante, and University of Málaga

  Date: July 08, 2004

• 04-075/1 - Consumers Networks and Search Equilibria

  Author: Andrea Galeotti, Faculty of Economics, Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam

  Date: July 08, 2004

• 04-074/3 - The Entry of Low-Cost Airlines: Price Competition in the European Airline Market

  Authors: Marco Alderighi, CERTeT - Bocconi University, Milan; Alessandro Cento, KLM Royal Dutch Airlines, Revenue Management Dept, Milan; Peter Nijkamp, Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam; Piet Rietveld, Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

  Date: July 02, 2004

• 04-073/3 - On the Timing of Marriage, Cattle and Weather Shocks

  Authors: Hans Hoogeveen, The World Bank, Washington; Bas van der Klaauw, Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, and CEPR; Gijsbert van Lomwel, CentER Applied Research, Tilburg University

  Date: July 02, 2004