The rise of online trade alters the role of distance between (potential) buyers and sellers. We use data from eBay subsidiary Marktplaats.nl, one of the largest online trading platforms in the Netherlands, to estimate how distance affects the probability of a transaction between small geographical regions.
CPB Discussion Paper 362 | 3 October 2017
28 pages | pdf document, 2.1 MB
Society is digitising. The five most valuable companies in the world are ICT companies. The Dutch population makes extensive use of the Internet, and the government is also focusing increasingly on the use of digital means. This digitisation also involves an increase in the economic importance of cyber security.
CPB Communication | 3 July 2017
42 pages | pdf document, 2.3 MB
Big data technologies enhance the storage, processing, and analysis of large data sets and can be applied economy-wide. Despite this potential, only one percent of big data patents come from Europe.
CPB Discussion Paper 330 | 7 July 2016
28 pages | pdf document, 1.9 MB
ISBN 978-90-5833-737-5 | Go to publication
This cyber security risk assessment (CSRA) in intended to provide insight into the underlying causes, consequences and magnitude of cyber risks; thus, helping policymakers and businesses to understand and prioritise those risks.
CPB Communication | 6 July 2016
64 pages | pdf document, 2.1 MB
R&D tax incentives are widely used to stimulate private R&D. We review their effectiveness using meta regression analysis.
CPB Discussion Paper 309 | 8 June 2015
28 pages | pdf document, 2.1 MB
ISBN 978-90-5833-695-8 | Go to publication
Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks are a frequently occurring type of cybercrime, with potentially large costs to the real economy. We propose a simple model of the size and direction of DDoS attacks.
CPB Discussion Paper 306 | 29 April 2015
26 pages | pdf document, 1.3 MB
ISBN 978-90-5833-688-0 | Go to publication
Targeted advertising can benefit consumers through lower prices for access to websites. Yet, if consumers dislike that websites collect their personal information, their welfare may go down.
CPB Discussion Paper 280 | 7 July 2014
44 pages | pdf document, 1.7 MB
ISBN 978-90-5833-650-7 | Go to publication
Businesses and the government are all collecting more and more personal data, and they use these data ever more intensively. This is mostly to the benefit of citizens, but not in all cases.
CPB Policy Brief 2014-04 | 12 June 2014
16 pages | pdf document, 4.3 MB
ISBN 978-90-5833-646-0 | Go to publication
This is a presentation about economics of internet security by Bas Straathof at TNO on the 4th of November 2013
CPB Presentation | 14 November 2013
pdf document, 354.2 KB
The security of the Internet depends on the behaviour of both infrastructure providers and end users.
CPB Background Document 2013/14 | 30 July 2013
47 pages | pdf document, 878.7 KB
Reduced credit supply in the years 2008 and 2009 should have resulted in lower growth in industries that are more dependent on external finance.
CPB Discussion Paper 232 | 5 February 2013
24 pages | pdf document, 353.2 KB
ISBN 978-90-5833-583-8 | Go to publication
After decades of negotiations, a single patent for the European Union (EU) is at last within reach.
CPB Policy Brief 2012/05 | 16 November 2012
16 pages | pdf document, 2.9 MB
ISBN 978-90-5833-573-9 | Go to publication
This CPB Discussion Paper presents micro-evidence indicating that the value of patent rights for a given technology show substantial variation across countries.
CPB Discussion Paper 226 | 16 November 2012
40 pages | pdf document, 1.3 MB
ISBN 978-90-5833-574-6 | Go to publication
At the request of the Lower House of the Dutch Parliament, CPB Netherlands Bureau for Economic Policy Analysis (CPB) conducted a second-opinion survey on the report ‘The Netherlands & The Euro’ by Lombard Street Research.
CPB Communication | 18 April 2012
18 pages | pdf document, 961.8 KB
The availability of currency futures can explain the relatively small impact of exchange rate volatility on trade.
CPB Discussion Paper 203 | 9 February 2012
28 pages | pdf document, 350.6 KB
ISBN 978-90-5833-545-6 | Go to publication
This is the final report (Executive Summary) of a project on “The retrospective evaluation of elements of the VAT system in the EU.”
CPB Background Document | 1 December 2011
19 pages | pdf document, 68.6 KB
This CPB Document analyses the causes of the growth of top wages in the Netherlands.
CPB Document 199 | 10 February 2010
76 pages | pdf document, 889.4 KB
ISBN 9789058334367 | Go to publication
The border effect for Canada is half as large as earlier reported.
CPB Discussion Paper 111 | 17 September 2008
25 pages | pdf document, 62.3 KB
ISBN 9789058333735 | Go to publication
This paper estimates the effects of the formation and development of the Internal Market (IM) in the European Union on income per capita for the EU and specifically for the Netherlands.
CPB Document 168 | 9 September 2008
90 pages | pdf document, 628.8 KB
ISBN 9789058333728 | Go to publication
This memorandum provides a technical appendix to Chapter B3 of the Europese Verkenning / European Outlook 5.
CPB Memorandum 180 | 9 May 2007
14 pages | pdf document, 104.5 KB
This document is in Dutch, there is no English translation.
CPB Special Publication 68 | 9 May 2007
132 pages | pdf document, 1.8 MB
ISBN 9789037703054 | Go to publication
During the last twenty years the share of researchers in the workforce has been rising in OECD countries. In the same period, the distribution of schooling has become more equal.
CPB Discussion Paper 74 | 15 December 2006
39 pages | pdf document, 182.5 KB
ISBN 9789058333063 | Go to publication
Innovation seldom has purely domestic causes and consequences, but how can a European innovation policy complement or substitute national policies?
CPB Document 132 | 7 November 2006
80 pages | pdf document, 496 KB
ISBN 9789058332981 | Go to publication
This document is in Dutch, there is no English translation.
CPB Special Publication 63 | 18 September 2006
107 pages | pdf document, 2.4 MB
