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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.

Publications and working papers

2008

Gravity with Gravitas: Comment, CPB Discussion Paper 111.
with Gert-Jan Linders, Arjan Lejour, and Jan Möhlmann, The Internal Market and the Dutch economy: implications for trade and economic growth, CPB Document 168.
with Albert van der Horst and Arjan Lejour, "Why European Innovation Policy", in Gelauff, G., Grilo, I., and A. Lejour (eds.),  Subsidiarity and Economic Reform in Europe, 2008, Springer, pp. 143-156.

2007

Wim Suyker et al., India and the Dutch economy; stylised facts and prospects, CPB Document 155.
CPB and SCP, Marketplace Europe: Fifty years public opinion and market integration in the European Union, European Outlook 5 (in Dutch). Technical appendix.
Shannon's entropy as an index of product variety, Economics Letters, 94 (2), 297-303.

2006

Schooling inequality and the rise of research, CPB Discussion Paper 74.
with Albert van der Horst and Arjan Lejour, Innovation policy; Europe or the member states?, CPB Document 132.
CPB and SCP, Diverse Europe: Public opinion on the European Union & Cultural diversity, economics and policy, European Outlook 4 (Dutch version).

2005

Product Variety and Economic Growth: The Counteracting Effects of Scale and Idiosyncrasy. UPM, Maastricht. (PhD. thesis).
with Rifka Weehuizen: "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