Publications

Does the Profit Elasticity (a new competition measure) do its job? →

Stronger competition on the loan market depresses the interest rate. →

We analyze the impact of homeownership on unemployment duration using a theoretical model of job search. →

This paper is the first that applies a recently introduced measure of competition, the Boone indicator, to the banking industry. →

In this paper, we study the effects of housing market institutions on labour mobility. →

The lack of available prices in the Dutch life insurance industry makes competition an elusive concept that defies direct observation. →

We analyse empirically price-setting in the Dutch mortgage market, using information on about 124,000 Dutch households and 54 mortgage lenders over the years 1996-2001. →

Transaction costs have attracted considerable attention in the theoretical literature on residential mobility. In many European countries, these costs mainly consist of ad-valorem transaction costs. →