154 Discussion Papers

• 26-001/VII - Mergers and R&D Investment: A Unified Approach

  Authors: José Luis Moraga-González, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam; Evgenia Motchenkova, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

  Date: January 06, 2026

• 25-072/VII - Personalized Pricing and Consumer Privacy

  Authors: Harold Houba, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam; Evgenia Motchenkova, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

  Date: December 11, 2025

• 25-064/VII - Equilibrium in the Jungle Edgeworth Box

  Authors: Harold Houba; Roland Iwan Luttens, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

  Date: November 14, 2025

• 25-062/VII - Trust and Policy Capacity - Strategic Bureaucrat Appointments under Electoral Incentives

  Authors: Dana Sisak, Erasmus University Rotterdam; Otto Swank

  Date: October 24, 2025

• 25-052/VII - The Ransomware Pricing Paradox: An Empirical Study of the Six Stages of Ransomware Negotiations

  Authors: Tom Meurs, Dutch Police; Anna Cartwright, Independent researcher; Edward Cartwright, De Montfort University; Harold Houba, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam; Daniel Woods, University of Edinburgh

  Date: September 19, 2025

• 25-046/VII - Vertical Integration in Auction Markets

  Authors: Sander Onderstal, University of Amsterdam; Ruben van Oosten, University of Amsterdam

  Date: August 22, 2025

• 25-012/VII - How the design of cartel fines affects prices: Evidence from the lab

  Authors: Sindri Engilbertsson, University of Amserdam; Sander Onderstal, University of Amserdam; Leonard Treuren, KU Leuven

  Date: February 21, 2025

• 24-078/VII - Spillovers from legal cooperation to non-competitive prices

  Authors: Jeroen Hinloopen, Netherlands Bureau for Economic Policy Analysis; Stephen Martin, Purdue University; Sander Onderstal, University of Amsterdam; Leonard Treuren, KU Leuven

  Date: December 20, 2024

• 24-048/VII - Bargaining Power and Quantity Discounts to Retailers: Evidence from India’s Pharmaceutical Industry

  Authors: Gianluca Antonecchia, KU Leuven; Ajay Bhaskarabhatla, Erasmus School of Economics; Enrico Pennings, Erasmus School of Economics

  Date: July 19, 2024

• 24-002/VII - Social desirability bias in attitudes towards sexism and DEI policies in the workplace

  Authors: Anne Boring, Erasmus University Rotterdam; Josse Delfgaauw, Erasmus University Rotterdam

  Date: January 11, 2024

• 23-083/IV - Floods and financial stability: Scenario-based evidence from below sea level

  Authors: Francesco G. Caloia, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam; Kees van Ginkel, Deltares Delft; David-Jan Jansen, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

  Date: December 29, 2023

• 23-081/VII - Aftermarket Welfare and Procurement Auctions

  Author: Vladimir A. Karamychev, Erasmus University Rotterdam

  Date: December 22, 2023

• 23-068/VII - Online Experimental Auctions

  Authors: Anouar El Haji, University of Amsterdam; Jayson L. Lusk, Oklahoma State University; Ayşe Gül Mermer, Tilburg University; Sander Onderstal, University of Amsterdam

  Date: October 27, 2023

• 23-060/VII - The Political Economy of Commitment to Policies

  Authors: Josse Delfgaauw, Erasmus University Rotterdam; Otto H. Swank, Erasmus University Rotterdam

  Date: September 25, 2023

• 23-047/VII - Start-up Acquisitions and the Entrant’s and Incumbent’s Innovation Portfolios

  Authors: Esmée Dijk, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam; José Luis Moraga-González, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam; Evgenia Motchenkova, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

  Date: August 03, 2023

• 23-046/VII - A Wind Tunnel Test of Wind Farm Auctions

  Authors: Xinyu Li, PBL Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency; Marco Haan, University of Groningen; Sander Onderstal, University of Amsterdam; Jasper Veldman, University of Groningen

  Date: August 03, 2023

• 23-045/VII - Corporate leniency programs for antitrust: Past, present, and future

  Authors: Jeroen Hinloopen, CPB Netherlands; Sander Onderstal, University of Amsterdam; Adriaan Soetevent, University of Groningen

  Date: July 29, 2023

• 23-026/VII - The Gasoline Climate Trap

  Authors: Josse Delfgaauw, Erasmus University Rotterdam; Otto Swank, Erasmus University Rotterdam

  Date: May 04, 2023

• 23-015/VII - A Framework for the Estimation of Demand for Differentiated Products with Simultaneous Consumer Search

  Authors: José L. Moraga Gonzalez, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam; Zsolt Sandor, Sapientia Hungarian University of Transylvania; Matthijs R. Wildenbeest, University of Arizona

  Date: March 20, 2023

• 22-074/VII - Political Regimes, Party Ideological Homogeneity and Polarization

  Authors: Micael Castanheira, Université Libre de Bruxelles; Benoit S Y Crutzen, Erasmus School of Economics Rotterdam

  Date: October 13, 2022