Discussion Papers

14-117/IV - Reserve-Dependent Benefits and Costs in Life and Health Insurance Contracts

Authors: Marcus C. Christiansen, University of Ulm, Germany; Michel M. Denuit, Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium; Jan Dhaene, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium, University of the Free State, South Africa

Date: August 29, 2014

14-116/V - Does Relative Grading help Male Students? Evidence from a Field Experiment in the Classroom

Authors: Eszter Czibor, University of Chicago, United States; Sander Onderstal, University of Amsterdam; Randolph Sloof, University of Amsterdam; Mirjam van Praag, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark

Date: August 28, 2014

14-115/VII - Biased Supervision

Authors: Josse Delfgaauw, Erasmus University Rotterdam; Michiel Souverijn, Erasmus University Rotterdam, the Netherlands

Date: August 25, 2014

14-114/V - Do Organic Inputs in African Subsistence Agriculture Raise Productivity? Evidence from Plot Data of Malawi Household Surveys

Author: Wouter Zant, VU University Amsterdam

Date: August 25, 2014

14-113/III - Nowcasting and Forecasting Economic Growth in the Euro Area using Principal Components

Authors: Irma Hindrayanto, De Nederlandsche Bank; Siem Jan Koopman, VU University Amsterdam, the Netherlands; Jasper de Winter, De Nederlandsche Bank, the Netherlands

Date: August 22, 2014

14-112/II - Research among Copycats: R&D, Spillovers, and Feedback Strategies

Authors: Grega Smrkolj, Newcastle University, United Kingdom; Florian Wagener, University of Amsterdam and Tinbergen Institute, the Netherlands

Date: August 22, 2014

14-111/VII - Loss Modification Incentives for Insurers under Expected Utility and Loss Aversion

Authors: Adriaan R. Soetevent, University of Groningen, the Netherlands; Liting Zhou, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands

Date: August 21, 2014

14-110/VI - Cocos, Contagion and Systemic Risk

Authors: Stephanie Chan, University of Amsterdam; Sweder van Wijnbergen, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands

Date: August 21, 2014

14-109/VII - The Stature of the Self-employed and its Premium

Authors: Cornelius A. Rietveld, Erasmus University Rotterdam; Jolanda Hessels, Erasmus University Rotterdam; Peter van der Zwan, Erasmus University Rotterdam

Date: August 19, 2014

14-108/VIII - Technological Change during the Energy Transition

Authors: Gerard van der Meijden, VU University Amsterdam; Sjak Smulders, Tilburg University, the Netherlands

Date: August 18, 2014

14-107/III - Spillover Dynamics for Systemic Risk Measurement using Spatial Financial Time Series Models

Authors: Francisco Blasques; Siem Jan Koopman; Andre Lucas; Julia Schaumburg, VU University Amsterdam

Date: August 14, 2014

14-106/III - Volatility Spillovers from Australia's Major Trading Partners across the GFC

Authors: David E. Allen, The University of Sydney, Australia; Michael McAleer, Erasmus University Rotterdam, the Netherlands; National Tsing Hua University Hsinchu, National Chung Hsing University, Taiwan; Complutense University of Madrid, Spain; Robert J. Powell, Edith Cowan University, Australia; Abhay K. Singh, Edith Cowan University, Australia

Date: August 14, 2014

14-105/III - Low Frequency and Weighted Likelihood Solutions for Mixed Frequency Dynamic Factor Models

Authors: Francisco Blasques; Siem Jan Koopman; Max Mallee, VU University Amsterdam, the Netherlands

Date: August 11, 2014

14-104/IV/78 - The Minimal Entropy Martingale Measure in a Market of Traded Financial and Actuarial Risks

Authors: Jan Dhaene, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium; University of the Freestate, Bloemfontein, South Africa; and Duisenberg school of finance, Amsterdam, the Netherlands; Ben Stassen, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium; Pierre Devolder, UC de Louvain, Louvain-La-Neuve, Belgium; Michel Vellekoop, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, the Netherlands

Date: August 12, 2014

14-103/III - Optimal Formulations for Nonlinear Autoregressive Processes

Authors: Francisco Blasques; Siem Jan Koopman; André Lucas, VU University Amsterdam, the Netherlands

Date: August 11, 2014

14-102/V - Mortality Effects of Containing Moral Hazard: Evidence from Disability Insurance Reform

Authors: Pilar Garcia-Gomez; Anne C. Gielen, Erasmus University Rotterdam, the Netherlands

Date: August 07, 2014

14-101/VI - Welfare Benefits of Agglomeration and Worker Heterogeneity

Authors: Coen Teulings, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands; Ioulia Ossokina, CPB Netherlands Bureau for Economic Policy Analysis, the Netherlands; Henri L.F. de Groot, VU University Amsterdam, the Netherlands

Date: August 05, 2014

14-100/VIII - Carbon Lock-In: The Role of Expectations