3420 Discussion Papers

• 14-011/VII - Skill Variety, Innovation and New Business Formation

  Authors: Jolanda Hessels, Erasmus University Rotterdam, Panteia/EIM, the Netherlands; Udo Brixy, Ludwig-Maximilians University, Munich, Germany; Wim Naudé, Maastricht School of Management, Maastricht University, the Netherlands; Thomas Gries, University of Paderborn, Germany

  Date: January 20, 2014

• 14-010/IV - Testing for Parameter Instability in Competing Modeling Frameworks

  Authors: Francesco Calvori, Department of Statistics 'G. Parenti', University of Florence, Italy; Drew Creal, Booth School of Business, University of Chicago; Siem Jan Koopman, VU University Amsterdam; Andre Lucas, VU University Amsterdam

  Date: January 14, 2014

• 14-009/VII - Social Relations, Incentives, and Gender in the Workplace

  Author: Okemena Onemu, Erasmus University Rotterdam

  Date: January 13, 2014

• 14-008/VI - Prospects for an EMU between Federalism and Nationalism

  Authors: Frank A.G. den Butter, VU University Amsterdam, The Netherlands; Mathieu L.L. Segers, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands

  Date: January 09, 2014

• 14-007/III - A Tourism Conditions Index

  Authors: Chia-Lin Chang, National Chung Hsing University, Taiwan; Hui-Kuang Hsu, National Pingtung Institute of Commerce, Taiwan; Michael McAleer, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan, Erasmus University Rotterdam, the Netherlands, Complutense University of Madrid, Spain

  Date: January 07, 2014

• 14-006/VI - Fiscal and Monetary Policy Coordination, Macroeconomic Stability, and Sovereign Risk

  Authors: Dennis Bonam, VU University Amsterdam, The Netherlands; Jasper Lukkezen, Utrecht University, Utrecht, CPB Netherlands Bureau for Economic Policy Analysis, The Hague, The Netherlands

  Date: January 07, 2014

• 14-005/II - Assessing the Economic and Political Impacts of Climate Change on International River Basins using Surface Wetness in the Zambezi and Mekong Basins

  Authors: Brian Blankespoor, Development Research Group, World Bank, Washington DC, United States of America; Alan Basist, Weather Predict Consulting, Asheville, North Carolina, United States of America; Ariel Dinar, University of California, Riverside, California, United States of America; Shlomi Dinar, Florida International University, Miami, Florida, United States of America; Harold Houba, VU University Amsterdam, The Netherlands; Neil Thomas, Resource Data Incorporated, Asheville, North Carolina, United States of America

  Date: January 06, 2014

• 14-004/VI - Financial Fragility and the Fiscal Multiplier

  Authors: Sweder van Wijnbergen, University of Amsterdam; Christiaan van der Kwaak, University of Amsterdam

  Date: January 14, 2014

• 14-003/VI - Efficiency Effects of Unit-based Pricing Systems and Institutional Choices of Waste Collection

  Authors: Elbert Dijkgraaf, Erasmus University Rotterdam; Raymond Gradus, VU University Amsterdam

  Date: January 03, 2014

• 14-002/VIII - Agriculture, Transportation and the Timing of Urbanization: Global Analysis at the Grid Cell Level

  Authors: Mesbah J. Motamed, United States Department of Agriculture, United States; Raymond J.G.M. Florax, Purdue University, United States; and VU University Amsterdam, the Netherlands; William A. Masters, Tufts University, United States

  Date: January 02, 2014

• 14-001/V - Making Work pay for the Indebted. The Effect of Debt Services on the Exit Rates of Unemployed Individuals

  Author: Pierre Koning, VU University Amsterdam, the Netherlands

  Date: January 02, 2014

• 13-212/VI - Government Spending Shocks, Sovereign Risk and the Exchange Rate Regime

  Authors: Dennis Bonam, VU University Amsterdam, the Netherlands; Jasper Lukkezen, Utrecht University, Utrecht, and CPB Netherlands Bureau for Economic Policy Analysis, the Netherlands

  Date: January 07, 2013

• 13-211/III - On Distributions of Ratios

  Authors: Simon A. Broda, University of Amsterdam; Raymond Kan, Joseph L. Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto, Canada

  Date: January 06, 2014

• 13-210/IV - Bank Deregulation, Competition and Economic Growth: The US Free Banking Experience

  Authors: Philipp Ager, University of Southern Denmark, Odense; Fabrizio Spargoli, Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

  Date: December 20, 2013

• 13-209/VIII - Stochastic User Equilibrium Traffic Assignment with Price-sensitive Demand: Do Methods matter (much)?

  Authors: Adriaan Hendrik van der Weijde, VU University Amsterdam; Vincent A.C. van den Berg, VU University Amsterdam

  Date: December 20, 2013

• 13-208/II - Diffusion of Behavior in Network Games Orchestrated by Social Learning

  Authors: Jia-Ping Huang, VU University Amsterdam; Maurice Koster, University of Amsterdam; Ines Lindner, VU University Amsterdam

  Date: December 20, 2013

• 13-207/II - Cooperative Games on Accessible Union Stable Systems

  Authors: Encarnación Algaba, Escuela Técnica Superior de Ingenierá, Sevilla, Spain; Rene van den Brink, VU University Amsterdam; Chris Dietz, VU University Amsterdam

  Date: December 19, 2013

• 13-206/II - Reflexivity, Expectations Feedback and almost Self-fulfilling Equilibria: Economic Theory, Empirical Evidence and Laboratory Experiments

  Author: Cars Hommes, University of Amsterdam

  Date: December 17, 2013

• 13-205/II - Animal Spirits, Heterogeneous Expectations and the Emergence of Booms and Busts

  Authors: Tiziana Assenza, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milano, and University of Amsterdam, CeNDEF, The Netherlands; William A. Brock, University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA, and University of Missouri, Columbia; Cars H. Hommes, University of Amsterdam, CeNDEF, and Tinbergen Institute, The Netherlands

  Date: December 17, 2013

• 13-204/II - Behaviorally Rational Expectations and Almost Self-Fulfilling Equilibria

  Author: Cars Hommes, University of Amsterdam

  Date: December 16, 2013