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Published in 2010

Mar 9	Focusing on quality - Report from the CPB Review Committee 2010
Mar 8	Self-selection based on productivity drives export decision Dutch firms
Mar 8	Exports and productivity selection effects for Dutch firms
Mar 3	Recent developments in Dutch hospitals; How does competition impact on inpatient care?
Mar 3	A Labour Market Extension for WorldScan: Modelling Labour Supply, Wage Bargaining and Unemployment in a CGE framework
Feb 26	Hourglass models of world-wide problems such as climate change
Feb 24	Supply of Renewable Energy Sources and the Cost of EU Climate Policy
Feb 23	Child care subsidies revisited
Feb 22	Identifying options for regulating the coordination of network investments with investments in distributed electricity generation
Feb 18	Selective contracting and foreclosure in health care markets
Feb 10	Introducing home production in a life-cycle model
Feb 9	The Effect of Education on Smoking Behaviour: New evidence from smoking durations of a sample of twins
Feb 4	Systems of Innovation
Jan 14	Home, green home: A case study of inducing: energy-efficient innovations in the Dutch building sector
Jan 14	Improving the energy efficiency of buildings: The impact of environmental policy on technological innovation

Published in 2009

Dec 17	The impact of social capital on crime: Evidence from the Netherlands
Dec 16	AIECE General Report; Report submitted at the general meeting of 5-6 November 2009
Dec 15	CPB December Projection: The economy is reviving
Dec 15	CPB Newsletter December 2009
Nov 27	Contracting Welfare-to-Work Services: Use and Usefulness
Nov 27	Cream-skimming, Parking and other Intended and Unintended Effects of Performance-Based Contracting in Social Welfare Services
Nov 23	Corporate tax harmonization in the EU
Nov 23	Corporate Tax Consolidation and Enhanced Cooperation in the European Union
Nov 12	The contribution of trade policy to the openness of the Dutch economy
Nov 10	Is Economic Recovery a Myth? Robust Estimation of Impulse Responses
Oct 29	Welfare analysis in transport networks
Oct 6	Optimal Tax Progressivity in Unionised Labour Markets; What are the Driving Forces?
Oct 5	Lisbon post 2010: employment rate goals
Sep 18	Sustainability Monitor for the Netherlands 2009
Sep 15	Dutch economy: free fall has ended, recovery will be slow
Sep 1	Skill splits of labour input values in GTAP: An approach based on ILO and UBS data
Sep 1	The Great Recession. CPB about the credit crisis
Aug 23	Market performance and distributional effects on renewable energy markets
July 21	Varieties and the terms of trade
July 21	An applied analysis of ACE and CBIT reform in the EU
June 23	An analysis of individual accounts for the unemployment risk in the Netherlands
June 16	CPB June forecast: Historic contraction of Dutch economy
May 18	Discounting investments in mitigation and adaptation
May 11	Management economics in a large UK retailer
Apr 15	Why do macro wage elasticities diverge?
Apr 14	Arithmetic and geometric mean rates of return in discrete time
Apr 7	Agglomeration Economies in the Netherlands
April 2	CPB Newsletter 2009/1, March/April 2009
Apr 2	The credit crisis and the Dutch economy 2009-2010
Mar 26	A closed-form expression for the optimal capacity of CHP
Mar 26	Why do macro wage elasticities diverge? A meta analysis
Mar 25	Competition for Access: Spectrum Rights and Downstream Access in Wireless Telecommunications
Mar 17	CPB: The Netherlands is in a deep recession
Mar 5	The effect of early tracking on participation in higher education
Mar 4	Relation entry, exit and productivity; An overview of recent theoretical and empirical literature
Mar 3	Competition, innovation and intellectual property rights in software markets
Feb 25	The effects of competition on the quality of primary schools in the Netherlands
Feb 23	Analyzing labour supply of elderly people: a life-cycle approach
Feb 12	Modelling health care expenditures: Overview of the literature and evidence from a panel time series model
Feb 11	Accuracy of short-term forecasts 1971-2007 (only in Dutch)
Feb 9	Does employment affect productivity?
Feb 5	Taxation and Regulation of Smoking, Drinking and Gambling in the European Union
Jan 22	Pension Plans and the Retirement Replacement Rates in the Netherlands
Jan 22	Understanding the Technology of Computer Technology Diffusion

Published in 2008

Dec 18	Did the 2006 covenants reduce school dropout in the Netherlands?
Dec 17	CPB Newsletter December 2008
Dec 8	Dutch economy will shrink by ¾% in 2009, meagre recovery in 2010
Nov 13	Why are criminals less educated than non-criminals? Evidence from a cohort of young Australian twins
Nov 13	The effect of childhood conduct disorder on human capital
Oct 3	Evaluating CPB’s published GDP growth forecasts
Oct 3	Border tax adjustments and the EU-ETS, a quantitative assessment
Sep 25	Cross your border and look around
Sep 23	Investigating uncertainty in macroeconomic forecasts by stochastic simulation
Sep 17	Gravity with Gravitas: Comment
Sep 16	Macro Economic Outlook: Slowdown in Dutch economic growth in 2008 and 2009
Sep 9	The Internal Market and the Dutch Economy: Implications for trade and economic growth
Aug 28	Opportunistic competition law enforcement
Aug 13	Vertical relationships between health insurers and healthcare providers
July 28	Dealing with Uncertainty in Policymaking
July 23	Access Regulation and the Adoption of VoIP
July 23	Innovation, convergence and the role of regulation in the Netherlands and beyond
June 19	CPB Newsletter June 2008
June 18	Reassessing the relationship between inequality and development
June 6	Competition and access price regulation in the broadband market
May 13	International spillovers of domestic reforms: The joint application of the Lisbon Strategy in the EU
Apr 22	Economic Reforms: The Member States and Europe have to move
Apr 22	Houses are not overvalued in the Netherlands
Apr 17	Static efficiency in Dutch supermarket chain
Apr 16	Skill gaps in the EU: role for education and training policies
Apr 9	The impact of demographic uncertainty on public finances in the Netherlands
Apr 3	CPB Newsletter 2008/1
Apr 3	Impact of bank competition on the interest rate pass-through in the euro area
Apr 2	Does education reduce the probability of being overweight?
Apr 2	Prudence and Robustness as Explanations for Precautionary Savings; an Evaluation
Mar 19	Dutch economy: growth continues, but facing downward uncertainties
Mar 17	Raising teacher supply: An assessment of three options for increasing wages
Mar 12	Two Quantitative Scenarios for the Future of Manufacturing in Europe
Mar 12	Rhineland exit
Feb 22	Is part-time employment here to stay? Evidence from the Dutch Labour Force Survey 1992-2005
Feb 19	A smoking ban for the Dutch hotel and catering industry: a cost-benefit analysis (only in Dutch)
Feb 14	Economic perspectives for Central America after CAFTA: A GTAP-based analysis
Jan 29	The costs and benefits of providing open space in cities
Jan 17	Corporate tax policy and incorporation in the EU
Jan 17	Decomposition of GDP growth in European countries: Different methods tell different stories
Jan 10	Vertical foreclosure: a policy framework
Jan 9	Macroeconomic resilience in a DSGE model

Published in 2007

Dec 19	Market share and price in Dutch home care: market power or quality?
Dec 18	Non-profit provision of job training and mediation services: An empirical analysis using contract data of job training service providers
Dec 6	Growth remains high, but is slackening
Dec 6	The trend in female labour force participation: What can be expected for the future?
Dec 5	On the optimality of expert-adjusted forecasts
Dec 4	How (not) to measure competition
Nov 14	India increasingly important for Dutch economy
Nov 8	Measuring annual price elasticities in Dutch health insurance: A new method
Nov 1	Globalisation and the Dutch Economy: A case study to the influence of the emergence of China and Eastern Europe on Dutch international trade
Oct 25	The economic effects of Croatia's accession to the EU
Oct 23	Immigration Policy and Welfare State Design: A Qualitative Approach to Explore the Interaction
Oct 4	R&D in WorldScan
Sep 24	The economics of investing in Strategic Petroleum Reserves
Sep 18	Budget surplus at 1% in 2011
Sep 18	Economic outlook is favourable but uncertain
Sep 12	Reinventing the Dutch tax-benefit system: Exploring the frontier of the equity-efficiency trade-off
Sep 5	Housing supply in the Netherlands
Aug 9	The impact of homeownership on unemployment in the Netherlands
30 July	Post-2012 Climate Policy Scenarios
July 25	Fiscal Prefunding in Response to Demographic Uncertainty
July 12	The Chinese economy, seen from Japan and the Netherlands
July 10	A new approach to measuring competition in the loan markets of the euro area
July 9	The Dutch fiscal framework: History, current practice and the role of the CPB
July 2	Re-exports: international comparison and implications for performance indicators
June 29	Sunny prospects
June 28	Do School Inspections Improve Primary School Performance?
June 25	Excellence for productivity?
June 20	Public and private roles in road infrastructure: an exploration of market failure, public instruments and government failure
June 20	GAMMA, a Simulation Model for Ageing, Pensions and Public Finances
June 18	Public and private roles in road infrastructure: An exploration of market failure, public instruments and government failure
June 14	Measuring lifetime redistribution in Dutch occupational pensions
June 4	Business services and the changing structure of European economic growth
Apr 17	SAFFIER: A multi-purpose model of the Dutch economy for short-term and medium-term analyses
Apr 17	Modelling the reporting discrepancies in bilateral data
Mar 20	Robust economic growth
Mar 15	Opening Services Markets within Europe: Modelling Foreign Establishments in a CGE Framework
Mar 14	The Labour Market Position of Turkish Immigrants in Germany and the Netherlands: Reason for Migration, Naturalisation and Language Proficiency
Mar 13	Will corporate tax consolidation improve efficiency in the EU?
Mar 7	Do non-profits make a difference? Evaluating non-profit vis-à-vis for-profit organisations in social services
Mar 6	The impact of market forces on the provision of childcare: Insights from the 2005 Childcare Act in the Netherlands
Feb 28	Co-payment systems in health care: between moral hazard and risk reduction
Jan 30	Home and Mortgage Ownership of the Dutch Elderly: Explaining Cohort, Time and Age Effects
Jan 22	CPB press releases distributed by e-mail and website only

Published in 2006

29 dec	Tax rates on energy usage: An adjustment of the GTAP-6 rates
15 dec	Schooling inequality and the rise of research
15 dec	Charting choices 2008-2011: economic effects of eight election platforms
15 dec	Liberalisation of European energy markets: challenges and policy options
12 dec	Productivity Effects of FDI Inflows: A Literature Review
12 dec	Foreign Direct Investment in Applied General Equilibrium Models: Overview of the Literature
12 dec	Measuring the Effectiveness of Public Employment Service (PES) Workers; an Empirical Analysis Based on the Performance Outcomes of Regional Employment Offices
11 dec	Dutch retail trade on the rise? Relation between competition, innovation and productivity
11 dec	Competition in the Netherlands, an analysis of the period 1993-2001
Dec 7	Dutch economic growth: robust and steady
28 nov	Employment Protection Legislation
20 nov	A small stochastic model of a pension fund with endogenous saving
14 nov	Report AIECE Working Group on Foreign Trade, Autumn 2006
7 nov	Assessing subsidiarity
7 nov	Innovation Policy: Europe or the Member States?
Oct 30	Is the renminbi undervalued?
Oct 17	EU accession and income growth: an empirical approach
Oct 12	The derivatives of complex characteristic roots in the econometric modelling textbook of Kuh et al.
Oct 6	The impact of competition on productive efficiency in European railways
Sep 28	Bilateral FDI Stocks by sector
Sep 28	EUROFRAME-EFN Autumn Report: Euro Area is doing well
Sep 21	Measuring competition in the Netherlands
Sep 19	Macro Economic Outlook: Dutch economy is gaining momentum
Sep 13	China and the Dutch Economy
Aug 29	Who benefits from tax competition in the European Union?
Aug 25	Disability Insurance and Unemployment Insurance As Substitute Pathways
Aug 25	Hidden Unemployment in Disability Insurance in the Netherlands
Aug 21	Documentation of CORTAX
Aug 4	Bilateral Services Trade Data and the GTAP database
July 31	Higher education: Time for coordination on a European level?
July 27	Successful knowledge policies
July 11	Tobacco Taxation in the European Union
July 05	The price of free advice
June 15	Economic growth is picking up firmly
June 14	Successful knowledge policies
June 14	Evaluating the push for tougher, more targeted policing in the Netherlands: Evidence from a citizen survey
May 03	Assessing the returns to studying abroad
Apr 26	Conference 'Subsidiarity in Europe', Brussels November 8-9, 2006
Apr 12	Regional disparities in a small country? An analysis of regional unemployment and participation differentials in the Netherlands from 1975 to 2003
Mar 17	Ageing and the Sustainability of Dutch Public Finances
Mar 23	Economic recovery on many fronts
Mar 15	Households' Response to Wealth Changes: Do Gains or Losses make a Difference?
Mar 14	Optimal safety standards for dike-ring areas
Mar 13	Health plan pricing behaviour and managed competition
Mar 10	Reinventing the Welfare State
Mar 07	Team incentives in public organisations; An experimental study
Mar 06	WorldScan: a Model for International Economic Policy Analysis
Mar 01	Income Incentives to Labour Participation and Home Production: The Contribution of the Tax Credits in the Netherlands
Feb 23	Government involvement in liberalised gas markets: A welfare-economic analysis of the Dutch gas-depletion policy
Feb 20	Do innovation vouchers help SMEs to cross the bridge towards science?
Feb 16	Compensation of regional unemployment in housing markets
Feb 15	Consumer price sensitivity in health insurance
Feb 09	EU Services Directive has substantial effects on the economy
Jan 26	Models and methods for economic policy; 60 years of evolution at CPB
Jan 25	Trefzekerheid van korte-termijnramingen van het CPB voor de jaren 1971-2004; Inclusief vergelijking met negen andere instanties
Jan 24	Solving large scale normalised rational expectations models
Jan 24	Reaching Lisbon goals would substantially boost growth

Published in 2005

Nov 23	A healthy European budget asks for reforms
Oct 07	Regulation hampers trade in services
Oct 04	Crossing borders: when science meets industry
Sep 29	Switch on the competition: Causes, consequences and policy implications of consumer switching costs
Sep 22	Competition in markets for life insurance
Sep 22	An exploration into competition and efficiency in the Dutch life insurance industry
Sep 20	Macro Economic Outlook 2006
Sep 07	Competition and Quality in the Notary Profession
Sep 07	Liberalisation of the Dutch notary profession: Reviewing its scope and impact
July 28	Scarcity of science and engineering students in the Netherlands
July 07	Human capital, R&D, and competition in macroeconomic analysis
July 07	Why should governments intervene in education, and how effective is education polic
July 01	Caps and Fences in Climate Change Policies, Trade-offs in shaping post-Kyoto
June 16	Adverse selection in disability insurance: empirical evidence for Dutch firms
March 22	CPB Newsletter June 2005: Recovery slowly gets into its stride
March 22	Central Economic Plan 2005 / CPB Newsletter March 2005

Published in 2004

Dec 09	CPB: Dutch growth falls back
Dec 07	Better safe than sorry? Reliability policy in network industries
Nov 24	Intra-EU trade and investment in service sectors, and regulation patterns
Nov 22	Refinement of the partial adjustment model using continuous-time econometrics
Oct 26	Is the American Model Miss World? Choosing between the Anglo-Saxon model and a European-style alternative
Oct 25	The free movement of services within the EU
Oct 18	Risk adjustment in the Netherlands: An analysis of insurers' health care expenditures
Oct 11	Gas exploration and production at the Dutch Continental Shelf
Sep 23	EU proposals raise intra-European trade and investment in services
Sep 21	Macro-economic Outlook 2005
Sep 21	CPB Newsletter: Longer working hours: choosing between income and leisure time
Sep 21	Immigration: a challenge for EU member states
Sep 16	Costs of climate policy are smaller if developing countries join emissions trade
Aug 31	Auctioning Incentive contracts: Application to Welfare-to-Work Programs
Aug 05	Estimating the impact of experience rating on the inflow into disability insurance in the Netherlands
July 26	A different approach to WTO negotiations in services
July 21	Does reducing student support affect educational choices and performance? Evidence from a Dutch reform
July 21	Returns to university education; evidence from an institutional reform
July 06	Do student loans improve accessibility to higher education and student performance? An impact study of the SOFES program in Mexico
June 23	Capacity to spare? A cost-benefit approach to optimal spare capacity in electricity production
May 10	A Leading Indicator for the Dutch Economy: Methodological and empirical revision of the CPB system
May 03	Towards evidence based policy
Apr 29	Reforming labour market institutions does not provide the solution for high unemployment in Poland and the Slovak Republic
March 22	Assessing the economic implications of Turkish accession to the EU, especially if Turkey reforms
March 22	Central Economic Plan 2004: Modest growth of Dutch economy
March 12	Government measures to raise security of energy supply are expensive
Feb 03	Incentives for technology transfer institutes
Feb 03	Explaining the growth of part-time employment: Factors of supply and demand
Feb 03	Pharmaceutical Promotion and GP Prescription Behaviour
Feb 03	An efficient method for detecting redundant feedback vertices
Feb 03	How econometric models help policy makers: Theory and practice
Jan 08	Report AIECE Working Group on Foreign Trade

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