Publications


September 25, 2008

Cross your border and look around

This document focuses on innovation, human capital, technology transfers and competition as potential sources of productivity growth for firms.

April 16, 2008

Static efficiency in Dutch supermarket chain

In this study, we analyse changes in market power in the Dutch supermarket chain and discuss the effects on welfare.

December 3, 2007

How (not) to measure competition

We discuss and apply a new measure of competition: the elasticity of a firm's profits with respect to its cost level.

December 12, 2006

Competition in the Netherlands; an analysis of the period 1993-2001

Competition in the Dutch market sector as a whole probably slightly declined during 1993-2001.

September 21, 2006

Measuring competition in the Netherlands

This memorandum investigates the question in which direction competition in the Dutch market sector has changed.

December 5, 2005

Do market failures hamper the perspectives of broadband?

No need for government intervention in present markets for broadband.

December 8, 2003

Do ICT spillovers matter; evidence from Dutch firm-level data

This paper presents an empirical analysis of the contribution of Information Communication and Technology (ICT) to labour productivity growth in the 1990s, using an extensive panel of firm-level data for Dutch market services.