3501 Discussion Papers

• 11-110/3 - Regional Efficiency Improvement by Means of Data Envelopment Analysis through Euclidean Distance Minimization including Fixed Input Factors - An Application to Tourist Regions in Italy

  Authors: Soushi Suzuki, Sapporo University, Sapporo, Japan; Peter Nijkamp, VU University Amsterdam; Piet Rietveld, VU University Amsterdam

  Date: August 09, 2011

• 11-109/3 - Importance of E-services for Cultural Tourism

  Authors: Eveline van Leeuwen, VU University Amsterdam; Peter Nijkamp, VU University Amsterdam

  Date: August 09, 2011

• 11-108/3 - Free Medicines thanks to Retirement: Moral Hazard and Hospitalization Offsets in an NHS

  Authors: Jaume Puig-Junoy, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, and Research Centre for Economics and Health (CRES), Barcelona, Spain; Pilar Garcia-Gomez, Erasmus School of Economics, Erasmus University Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands; David Casado-Marin, Institut d'Avaluacio de Polítiques Publiques (IVALUA), Barcelona, Spain

  Date: July 29, 2011

• 11-107/3 - Institutional Capacity to dynamically innovate: An Application to the Portuguese Case

  Authors: Purificacion Vicente Galindo, University of Salamanca, Spain, and Centro de Investigacao sobre o Espaco e as Organizacoes; Teresa de Noronha Vaz, Centro de Investigacao sobre o Espaco e as Organizacoes, and University of the Algarve, Portugal; Peter Nijkamp, VU University Amsterdam, The Netherlands

  Date: July 28, 2011

• 11-106/3 - Analysis of Regional Innovation Performance in Portugal - Results from an External Logistic Biplot Method

  Authors: Purificacion Vicente Galindo, University of Salamanca, Spain, and CIEO, University of the Algarve, Faro, Portugal; Teresa de Noronha Vaz, CIEO, University of the Algarve, Faro, Portugal; Peter Nijkamp, VU University Amsterdam, The Netherlands; Eric de Noronha Vaz, Institute of Statistics and Information Management, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, and CIEO, University of the Algarve, Faro, Portugal

  Date: July 28, 2011

• 11-105/3 - Behaviour of Humans and Behaviour of Models in Dynamic Space

  Author: Peter Nijkamp, VU University Amsterdam

  Date: July 28, 2011

• 11-104/3 - Regional Labour Markets and Job Accessibility in City Network Systems in Germany

  Authors: Aura Reggiani, University of Bologna, Italy; Pietro Bucci, Significance, The Hague, The Netherlands; Giovanni Russo, VU University Amsterdam, The Netherlands; Anette Haas, Institute for Employment Research, Nuernberg, Germany; Peter Nijkamp, VU University Amsterdam

  Date: July 28, 2011

• 11-103/3 - The Economic Impact of Immigration on the Labor Market of Host Countries - Meta-Analytic Evidence

  Authors: Simonetta Longhi, Institute for Social and Economic Research, University of Essex, Colchester, United Kingdom; Peter Nijkamp, Department of Spatial Economics, VU University Amsterdam, The Netherlands; Jacques Poot, Population Studies Centre, University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand

  Date: July 28, 2011

• 11-102/3 - Trade-offs between Different Early Childhood Interventions: Evidence from Ecuador

  Authors: Jose Rosero, University of Amsterdam; Hessel Oosterbeek, University of Amsterdam

  Date: July 28, 2011

• 11-101/2 - Winning by Losing: Evidence on Overbidding in Mergers

  Authors: Ulrike Malmendier, UC Berkeley, and NBER; Enrico Moretti, UC Berkeley, and NBER; Florian Peters, Duisenberg school of finance, and University of Amsterdam

  Date: July 25, 2011

• 11-100/3 - Distortionary Company Car Taxation: Deadweight Losses through Increased Car Ownership

  Authors: Jos N. van Ommeren, VU University Amsterdam; Eva Gutierrez-i-Puigarnau, VU University Amsterdam

  Date: July 21, 2011

• 11-099/1 - Consumer Search Costs and the Incentives to merge under Bertrand Competition

  Authors: Jose Luis Moraga-Gonzalez, University of Groningen, ICREA, IESE; Vaiva Petrikaite, University of Groningen

  Date: July 11, 2011

• 11-098/4 - Childhood Intelligence and Adult Mortality in the Brabant Data Set: Technical Report

  Author: J.S. Cramer, University of Amsterdam

  Date: July 19, 2011

• 11-097/4 - Childhood Intelligence and Adult Mortality in the Brabant Data Set: First Report

  Author: J.S. Cramer, University of Amsterdam

  Date: July 19, 2011

• 11-096/3 - Teleworking and Congestion: A Dynamic Bottleneck Analysis

  Authors: Sergejs Gubins, VU University Amsterdam; Erik T. Verhoef, VU University Amsterdam

  Date: July 18, 2011

• 11-095/1 - The Deterrence Effects of U.S. Merger Policy Instruments

  Authors: Joseph A. Clougherty, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA, and CEPR-London; Jo Seldeslachts, University of Amsterdam

  Date: July 15, 2011

• 11-094/1 - Management Practices: Are Not For Profits Different?

  Authors: Josse Delfgaauw, Erasmus University Rotterdam; Robert Dur, Erasmus University Rotterdam; Carol Propper, University of Bristol and Imperial College, London; Sarah Smith, University of Bristol

  Date: July 15, 2011

• 11-093/4 - Bayesian Forecasting of Federal Funds Target Rate Decisions

  Authors: Sjoerd van den Hauwe, Erasmus University Rotterdam; Dick van Dijk, Erasmus University Rotterdam; Richard Paap, Erasmus University Rotterdam

  Date: July 15, 2011

• 11-092/3 - Simultaneous Search and Network Efficiency

  Authors: Pieter A. Gautier, VU University Amsterdam, CEPR, IZA; Christian L. Holzner, University of Munich, Ifo Institute for Economic Research, CESifo

  Date: July 12, 2011

• 11-091/2 - Capital Structure and the Redeployability of Tangible Assets

  Authors: Murillo Campello, University of Illinois and NBER; Erasmo Giambona, University of Amsterdam and Duisenberg school of finance

  Date: July 07, 2011