212 Discussion Papers

• 13-113/III - Predicting Covariance Matrices with Financial Conditions Indexes

  Authors: Anne Opschoor, Erasmus University Rotterdam; Dick van Dijk, Erasmus University Rotterdam; Michel van der Wel, Erasmus University Rotterdam

  Date: August 09, 2013

• 13-112/I - Superstars need Social Benefits: An Experiment on Network Formation

  Authors: Boris van Leeuwen, University of Amsterdam; Theo Offerman, University of Amsterdam; Arthur Schram, University of Amsterdam

  Date: August 08, 2013

• 13-111/III - Estimating Structural Parameters in Regression Models with Adaptive Learning

  Authors: Norbert Christopeit, University of Bonn, Germany; Michael Massmann, VU University Amsterdam

  Date: August 06, 2013

• 13-110/VIII - Socio-cultural Diversity and Urban Buzz

  Authors: Daniel Arribas-Bel, VU University Amsterdam; Karima Kourtit, VU University Amsterdam; Peter Nijkamp, VU University Amsterdam

  Date: August 06, 2013

• 13-109/VIII - Herding Behaviour, Bubbles and Log Periodic Power Laws in Illiquid Stock Markets. A Case Study on the Bucharest Stock Exchange

  Authors: Daniel Traian Pele, Bucharest University of Economic Studies, Bucharest, Romania; Miruna Mazurencu-Marinescu, Bucharest University of Economic Studies, Bucharest, Romania; Peter Nijkamp, VU University Amsterdam

  Date: August 05, 2013

• 13-108/VIII - A Multi-Actor Multi-Criteria Analysis of the Performance of Global Cities

  Authors: Karima Kourtit, VU University Amsterdam; Cathy Macharis, Vrije Universiteit Brussels, Belgium, and University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden; Peter Nijkamp, VU University Amsterdam

  Date: August 02, 2013

• 13-107/VIII - Modelling R&D and Innovation Support Systems – Analysis of Regional Cluster Structures in Innovation in Portugal

  Authors: Teresa de Noronha Vaz, University of the Algarve, Faro, Portugal; Purificación Vicente Galindo, University of the Algarve, Faro, Portugal; Peter Nijkamp, VU University Amsterdam

  Date: August 02, 2013

• 13-106/VIII - The Creative Urban Diaspora Economy: A Disparity Analysis among Migrant Entrepreneurs

  Authors: Karima Kourtit, VU University Amsterdam; Peter Nijkamp, VU University Amsterdam; Daniel Arribas-Bel, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, United States of America

  Date: August 01, 2013

• 13-105/VIII - A Stepwise Efficiency Improvement DEA Model for Airport Management with a Fixed Runway Capacity

  Authors: Soushi Suzuki, Hokkai-Gakuen University,Japan; Peter Nijkamp, VU University Amsterdam

  Date: August 01, 2013

• 13-104/VIII - The Rat Race between World Cities: In Search of Exceptional Places by Means of Super-Efficient Data Development Analysis

  Authors: Karima Kourtit, VU University Amsterdam; Peter Nijkamp, VU University Amsterdam; Soushi Suzuki, Hokkai-Gakuen University, Sapporo, Japan

  Date: August 01, 2013

• 13-103/VIII - Residents’ Appreciation of Cultural Heritage in Tourist Centres - A Micro-simulation Modelling Approach to Amsterdam

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

  Date: August 01, 2013

• 13-102/VIII - The Spatial-Institutional Architecture of Firms’ Innovative Behaviour

  Authors: Eric de Noronha Vaz, Ryerson University, Department of Geography, Toronto, Canada; Teresa de Noronha Vaz, CIEO – Research Centre for Spatial and Organizational Dynamics, Faro, Portugal; Peter Nijkamp, VU University Amsterdam

  Date: August 01, 2013

• 13-101/VII - Costly Location in Hotelling Duopoly

  Authors: Jeroen Hinloopen, University of Amsterdam; Stephen Martin, Krannert School of Management, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, United States of America

  Date: July 30, 2013

• 13-100/VIII - Adoption of Electric Vehicle in the Netherlands – A Stated Choice Experiment

  Authors: M. Bockarjova, VU University Amsterdam; P. Rietveld, VU University Amsterdam; J.S.A. Knockaert, VU University Amsterdam

  Date: July 30, 2013

• 13-099/II - Innovate or imitate? Behavioural Technological Change

  Authors: Cars Hommes, CeNDEF, University of Amsterdam; Paolo Zeppini, School of Innovation Sciences, Eindhoven University of Technology

  Date: July 26, 2013

• 13-098/III - International Technology Diffusion of Joint and Cross-border Patents

  Authors: Chia-Lin Chang, National Chung Hsing University, Taiwan; Michael McAleer, Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands, Complutense University of Madrid, Spain; Ju-Ting Tang, National Chung Hsing University, Taiwan

  Date: July 22, 2013

• 13-097/IV - Stationarity and Ergodicity Regions for Score Driven Dynamic Correlation Models

  Authors: Francisco Blasques, VU University Amsterdam; Andre Lucas, VU University Amsterdam; Erkki Silde, VU University Amsterdam, and Duisenberg school of finance

  Date: July 19, 2013

• 13-096/VII - The Economics of First-Contract Mediation

  Authors: Sabien Dobbelaere, VU University Amsterdam, the Netherlands, and IZA, Germany; Roland Iwan Luttens, VU University Amsterdam, and Amsterdam University College, the Netherlands

  Date: July 19, 2013

• 13-095/VII - Allocation of Human Capital and Innovation at the Frontier: Firm-level Evidence on Germany and the Netherlands

  Authors: Eric Bartelsman, VU University Amsterdam, the Netherlands; Sabien Dobbelaere, VU University Amsterdam, the Netherlands; Bettina Peters, University of Zuerich, Switzerland

  Date: July 19, 2013

• 13-094/VIII - Resource Extraction in a Political Economy Framework

  Author: Karolina Ryszka, VU University Amsterdam

  Date: July 18, 2013