3399 Discussion Papers

• 11-068/2 - Fiscal Sustainability, Volatility and Oil Wealth: A Stochastic Analysis of Fiscal Spending Rules

  Authors: Sweder van Wijnbergen, University of Amsterdam; Nina Budina, IMF

  Date: April 15, 2011

• 11-067/3 - The More Business Owners the Merrier? The Role of Tertiary Education

  Authors: Mirjam van Praag, University of Amsterdam; Andre van Stel, EIM Business and Policy Research, Zoetermeer

  Date: April 15, 2011

• 11-066/3 - The Value of an Educated Population for an Individual's Entrepreneurship Success

  Authors: Jose Maria Millan, University of Huelva, Spain; Emilio Congregado, University of Huelva, Spain; Concepcion Roman, University of Huelva, Spain; Mirjam van Praag, University of Amsterdam and University of Copenhagen; Andre van Stel, EIM Business and Policy Research, Zoetermeer, the Netherlands

  Date: April 12, 2011

• 11-065/3 - Intra-Household Work Timing: The Effect on Joint Activities and the Demand for Child Care

  Authors: Chris van Klaveren, Maastricht University, the Netherlands; Henriette Maassen van den Brink, Maastricht University, and University of Amsterdam; Bernard M.S. van Praag, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands

  Date: April 12, 2011

• 11-064/2/ DSF20 - Sovereign Default and the Stability of Inflation Targeting Regimes

  Authors: Andreas Schabert, TU Dortmund University , University of Amsterdam; Sweder J.G. van Wijnbergen, University of Amsterdam

  Date: April 12, 2011

• 11-063/4 - Forecasting the U.S. Term Structure of Interest Rates using a Macroeconomic Smooth Dynamic Factor Model

  Authors: Siem Jan Koopman, VU University Amsterdam; Michel van der Wel, Erasmus University Rotterdam

  Date: April 07, 2011

• 11-062/4 - Counting with Combined Splitting and Capture-Recapture Methods

  Authors: Paul Dupuis, Brown University, Providence, USA; Bahar Kaynar, VU University Amsterdam; Ad Ridder, VU University Amsterdam; Reuven Rubinstein, Technion, Haifa, Israel; Radislav Vaisman, Technion, Haifa, Israel

  Date: April 07, 2011

• 11-061/3 - Entrepreneurship and Role Models

  Authors: Niels Bosma, Utrecht University; Jolanda Hessels, EIM Business School and Policy Research, Zoetermeer, and Erasmus School of Economics, Rotterdam; Veronique Schutjens, Utrecht University; Mirjam van Praag, University of Amsterdam; Ingrid Verheul, Rotterdam School of Economics (EUR)

  Date: April 01, 2011

• 11-060/3 - The Impact of Trade Liberalization on the Return to Education in Vietnam: Wage versus Employment Effect

  Authors: Remco H. Oostendorp, VU University Amsterdam, the Netherlands; Doan Hong Quang, World Bank Country Office, and Centre for Analysis and Forecasting (CAF), Vietnam

  Date: March 28, 2011

• 11-059/3 - Congesting Pricing in a Road and Rail Network with Heterogeneous Values of Time and Schedule Delay

  Authors: Vincent van den Berg, VU University Amsterdam; Erik T. Verhoef, VU University Amsterdam

  Date: March 24, 2011

• 11-058/1 - Measuring Power and Satisfaction in Societies with Opinion Leaders: An Axiomatization

  Authors: Rene van den Brink, VU University Amsterdam; Agnieszka Rusinowska, Universite Paris I Pantheon-Sorbonne; Frank Steffen, The University of Liverpool Management School (ULMS)

  Date: March 24, 2011

• 11-057/4 - Numerically Accelerated Importance Sampling for Nonlinear Non-Gaussian State Space Models

  Authors: Siem Jan Koopman, VU University Amsterdam; Andre Lucas, VU University Amsterdam; Marcel Scharth, VU University Amsterdam

  Date: March 22, 2011

• 11-056/2 - Voluntary Participation and Intergenerational Risk Sharing in a Funded Pension System

  Authors: Roel Beetsma, University of Amsterdam, Netspar, CEPR, and CESifo; Ward Romp, University of Amsterdam, and Mn Services; Siert J. Vos, University of Amsterdam, and Netspar

  Date: March 17, 2011

• 11-055/1 - Power and the Privilege of Clarity: An Analysis of Bargaining Power and Information Transmission

  Authors: Adrian de Groot Ruiz, University of Amsterdam; Theo Offerman, University of Amsterdam; Sander Onderstal, University of Amsterdam

  Date: March 17, 2011

• 11-054/2 - The Impact of Cross-Border Banking on Financial Stability

  Authors: Dirk Schoenmaker, Duisenberg School of Finance & VU University Amsterdam; Wolf Wagner, CentER, Tilburg University & European Banking Center, Tilburg

  Date: March 17, 2011

• 11-053/2 - Economic Costs and Benefits of Imposing Short-Horizon Value-at-Risk Type Regulation

  Authors: Zhen Shi, University of Melbourne, and Netspar; Bas J.M. Werker, CentER, Tilburg University, Duisenberg School of Finance, and Netspar

  Date: March 17, 2011

• 11-052/1 - An Efficient and Fair Solution for Communication Graph Games

  Authors: Rene van den Brink, VU University Amsterdam, the Netherlands; Anna Khmelnitskaya, Russian Academy of Sciences, St Petersburg, Russia; Gerard van der Laan, VU University Amsterdam, the Netherlands

  Date: March 14, 2011

• 11-051/2 - Gender Differences, HIV Risk Perception and Condom Use

  Authors: Judith Lammers, University of Amsterdam; Sweder van Wijnbergen, University of Amsterdam; Daan Willebrands, Amsterdam Institute for International Development (AIID)

  Date: March 11, 2011

• 11-050/3 - Regional Wage Differences in the Netherlands: Micro-Evidence on Agglomeration Externalities

  Authors: Stefan P.T. Groot, VU University Amsterdam; Henri L.F. de Groot, VU University Amsterdam; Martijn Smit, VU University Amsterdam

  Date: March 07, 2011

• 11-049/4 - Relating Stochastic Volatility Estimation Methods

  Author: Charles S. Bos, VU University Amsterdam

  Date: March 03, 2011