129 Discussion Papers

• 10-049/2 - The Stickiness of Aggregate Consumption Growth in OECD Countries: A Panel Data Analysis

  Authors: Gerdie Everaert, SHERPPA, Ghent University; Lorenzo Pozzi, Department of Economics, Erasmus University Rotterdam

  Date: May 12, 2010

• 10-048/3 - The (Hidden) Cost of Employer Parking Policies

  Authors: Jos van Ommeren, VU University Amsterdam; Derk Wentink, VU University Amsterdam

  Date: May 03, 2010

• 10-047/1 - Competitive Prices as Profit-Maximizing Cartel Prices

  Authors: Harold Houba, VU University Amsterdam; Evgenia Motchenkova, VU University Amsterdam; Quan Wen, Vanderbilt University

  Date: April 27, 2010

• 10-046/4 - Efficient Bayesian Estimation and Combination of GARCH-Type Models

  Authors: David Ardia, aeris CAPITAL AG, and University of Fribourg, Switzerland; Lennart F. Hoogerheide, Erasmus University Rotterdam

  Date: April 27, 2010

• 10-045/4 - Bayesian Estimation of the GARCH(1,1) Model with Student-t Innovations

  Authors: David Ardia, University of Fribourg, Switzerland; Lennart F. Hoogerheide, Erasmus University Rotterdam

  Date: April 27, 2010

• 10-044/4 - Some Exact Tests for Manifest Properties of Latent Trait Models

  Authors: Jan G. de Gooijer, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands; Ao Yuan, Howard University, Washington DC, USA

  Date: April 26, 2010

• 10-043/3 - The Impact of Monetary Policy on Economic Activity - Evidence from a Meta-Analysis

  Authors: Masagus M. Ridhwan, VU University Amsterdam, Bank Indonesia; Henri L.F. de Groot, VU University Amsterdam; Peter Nijkamp, VU University Amsterdam

  Date: April 21, 2010

• 10-042/3 - Employment Protection, Technology Choice, and Worker Allocation

  Authors: Eric J. Bartelsman, VU University Amsterdam, IZA; Pieter A. Gautier, VU University Amsterdam, CEPR, IZA; Joris de Wind, De Nederlandsche Bank, University of Amsterdam

  Date: April 19, 2010

• 10-041/2 - Selective Secondary Education and School Participation in Sub-Saharan Africa: Evidence from Malawi

  Author: Jacobus de Hoop, VU University Amsterdam

  Date: April 15, 2010

• 10-040/3 - Is Economic Recovery a Myth? Robust Estimation of Impulse Responses

  Authors: Coen N. Teulings, CPB, The Hague, and University of Amsterdam; Nick Zubanov, CPB, The Hague

  Date: April 13, 2010

• 10-039/2 - Price and Transaction Volume in the Dutch Housing Market

  Authors: Erik R. de Wit, University of Amsterdam; Peter Englund, Stockholm School of Economics, University of Amsterdam; Marc Francke, University of Amsterdam

  Date: April 13, 2010

• 10-038/3 - Asymmetric Information and List Price Reductions in the Housing Market

  Authors: Erik R. de Wit, University of Amsterdam; Bas van der Klaauw, VU University Amsterdam

  Date: April 10, 2010

• 10-037/1 - In and Out of Equilibrium: Evolution of Strategies in Repeated Games with Discounting

  Authors: Matthijs van Veelen, CREED, Universiteit van Amsterdam; Julian Garcia, Vrije Universiteit

  Date: April 08, 2010

• 10-036/4 - On the Optimality of Regularity in Mixing Markovian Decision Rules for MDP Control

  Author: Dinard van der Laan, VU University Amsterdam

  Date: March 23, 2010

• 10-035/1 - Balanced Consistency and Balanced Cost Reduction for Sequencing Problems

  Authors: Rene van den Brink, VU University Amsterdam; Youngsub Chun, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea

  Date: March 19, 2010

• 10-034/1 - Decision Making and Learning in a Globalizing World

  Authors: Otto H. Swank, Erasmus University Rotterdam; Bauke Visser, Erasmus University Rotterdam

  Date: March 19, 2010

• 10-033/1 - But Some Neutrally Stable Strategies are More Neutrally Stable than Others

  Author: Matthijs van Veelen, University of Amsterdam

  Date: March 19, 2010

• 10-032/2 - A Dynamic Multivariate Heavy-Tailed Model for Time-Varying Volatilities and Correlations

  Authors: Drew Creal, University of Chicago, Booth School of Business; Siem Jan Koopman, VU University Amsterdam; André Lucas, VU University Amsterdam

  Date: March 16, 2010

• 10-031/1 - A Note on Passepartout Problems

  Authors: Arantza Estevez-Fernandez, VU University Amsterdam, the Netherlands; Peter Borm, Tilburg University; Herbert Hamers, Tilburg University

  Date: March 12, 2010

• 10-030/4 - Finite-State Markov Chains obey Benford's Law

  Authors: Bahar Kaynar, VU University Amsterdam; Arno Berger, University of Alberta, Canada; Theodore P. Hill, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA; Ad Ridder, VU University Amsterdam

  Date: March 10, 2010