January 1, 1995

CPB: Economic effects of liberalisation of opening times of shops in The Netherlands

Following the intention of liberalization of opening times of shops in The Netherlands, CPB examined the economic effects of it.

The results of the study are presented in this paper. The research starts with an inventory of the available structural data on the Dutch retail business and the results of previous domestic and foreign studies in this area. Based on this inventory, a model was developed to analyze and quantify the effects of liberalization of opening times of shops . The key results of the model are presented in the base version

Authors

Taco van Hoek
Martin Koning

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