Publications

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1. Returns to Communication in Specialised and Diversified US Cities

   This CPB Discussion Paper documents and interprets the significance of communication for individual wages within cities with a diversified or specialised industrial structure.

   CPB Discussion Paper 236 | 8‑03‑2013 | Download (PDF document, 1.6 MB)

2. Market size, institutions, and the value of rights provided by patents

   This CPB Discussion Paper presents micro-evidence indicating that the value of patent rights for a given technology show substantial variation across countries.

   CPB Discussion Paper 226 | 16‑11‑2012 | Download (PDF document, 1.3 MB)

3. Economische invalshoek Staatsdeelnemingen

   This document is in Dutch, there is no English translation.

   CPB Communication  | 12‑11‑2012 | Download (PDF document, 877.6 KB)

4. Unleashing Competition in EU Business Services

   In most EU member states, the business services industry has booked no productivity growth during the last two decades.

   CPB Policy Brief 2012/04 | 24‑09‑2012 | Download (PDF document, 2.8 MB)

5. Dynamic market selection in EU business services

   European business services has witnessed about two decades of virtual productivity stagnation. The paper investigates whether this is caused by weak dynamic market selection.

   CPB Discussion Paper 210 | 28‑08‑2012 | Download (PDF document, 1.6 MB)

6. Optimal regulation of lumpy investments

   In this CPB Discussion Paper we study optimal timing of regulated investment in a real options setting, in which the regulated monopolist has private information on investment costs.

   CPB Discussion Paper 214 | 3‑07‑2012 | Download (PDF document, 879 KB)

7. Export decisions of services firms between agglomeration effects and market-entry costs

   The paper tests the role of agglomeration effects on the export decision of services firms.

   CPB Discussion Paper 211 | 1‑06‑2012 | Download (PDF document, 1.1 MB)

8. Kinderopvang in Kaart

   This document is in Dutch, there is no English translation.

   CPB Communication  | 27‑10‑2011 | Download (PDF document, 3.4 MB)

9. Fixed export costs and multi-product firms

   First, we uncover some salient components of fixed export costs. Second, we investigate whether the importance of these fixed export costs varies with the size of a firm’s export product portfolio.

   CPB Discussion Paper 188 | 29‑08‑2011 | Download (PDF document, 298.9 KB)

10. Wage inequality in the Netherlands: Evidence, trends and explanations

    Using detailed micro data on the entire wage distribution in the Netherlands, this paper examines trends in Dutch (real pre-tax) wage inequality between 2000 and 2008.

    CPB Discussion Paper 186 | 26‑07‑2011 | Download (PDF document, 808.6 KB)