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Personal data

Name : Bas Straathof Me
Sector :  International Economics
Telephone :  +31 70 33 83 382 
Fax :  +31 70 33 83 350 
E-mail : S.M.Straathof@cpb.nl


Research interests

 You can download my detailed curriculum vitae here.

Short articles (mostly in Dutch)

Bas Straathof (2009) Meer koopkracht met de euro, Me Judice, jaargang 2, 1 september 2009
Michiel van Leuvensteijn en Bas Straathof (2009) West-Europa moet nu investeren in Oost-Europa om erger te voorkomen, Me Judice, jaargang 2, February 26th 2009.
Michiel van Leuvensteijn en Bas Straathof (2009) The EU15 should invest in New Europe now, Vox, February 25th 2009.
Arjan Lejour, Bas Straathof, Gert-Jan Linders, and Jan Möhlmann (2008) Vijftig jaar voordeel van de Interne Markt, ESB 93(4547), 682-684.

Publications and working papers

Bas Straathof, Stefan Groot, and Jan Möhlmann (2010) Hoge bomen in de polder: Globalisering en topbeloningen in Nederland, CPB Document 199.
Bas Straathof and Gert-Jan Linders (2009) Europe’s Internal Market at Fifty: Over the Hill?, FEWEB Research Memorandum 2009-55.
Bas Straathof (2008) Gravity with Gravitas: Comment, CPB Discussion Paper 111.
Bas Straathof, Gert-Jan Linders, Arjan Lejour, and Jan Möhlmann (2008) The Internal Market and the Dutch economy: implications for trade and economic growth, CPB Document 168.
Albert van der Horst, Arjan Lejour, and Bas Straathof (2008) "Why European Innovation Policy", in Gelauff, G., Grilo, I., and A. Lejour (eds.),  Subsidiarity and Economic Reform in Europe, Springer, pp. 143-156.
Wim Suyker et al., India and the Dutch economy; stylised facts and prospects, CPB Document 155.
CPB and SCP (2007) Marketplace Europe: Fifty years public opinion and market integration in the European Union, European Outlook 5 (in Dutch). Technical appendix.
Bas Straathof (2007) Shannon's entropy as an index of product variety, Economics Letters, 94 (2), 297-303.
Bas Straathof (2006) Schooling inequality and the rise of research, CPB Discussion Paper 74.
Albert van der Horst, Arjan Lejour, and Bas Straathof (2006) Innovation policy; Europe or the member states?, CPB Document 132.
CPB and SCP (2006), Diverse Europe: Public opinion on the European Union & Cultural diversity, economics and policy, European Outlook 4 (Dutch version).
Bas Straathof (2005) Product Variety and Economic Growth: The Counteracting Effects of Scale and Idiosyncrasy. UPM, Maastricht. (PhD. thesis).
Bas Straathof and Rifka Weehuizen (2005) "Technological substitution, job stress and burnout," in: The Economics of the Digital Society, ed. by Luc Soete & Bas ter Weel.


Work experience

2006- Researcher at the sector International Economics of the CPB
2005-2006
Postdoc at ECIS, Technische Universiteit Eindhoven
2004-2005 Lecturer Department of Economics, University of Maastricht
2000-2005 Graduate student at MERIT, University of Maastricht


Education