Publications

Optimal dike heights are of crucial importance to the Netherlands as almost 60% of its surface is under threat of flooding from sea, lakes, or rivers. →

In this paper we investigate the individual returns to a doctorate education in the Netherlands over the first twenty years of a career. →

We study the impact of quality on patient volume and hospital choice for cataract treatments. →

This paper compares the welfare effects of three ways in which health care can be organized. →

This study investigates wage leadership in the Netherlands. We empirically examine public and private wages using several wage definitions for the period 1980-2012. →

We estimate the impact of the marginal tax rate on the ownership in risk-bearing assets and on the share in total assets. →

Using a structural vector autoregression with time-varying parameters, I analyze to what extent the dynamic effects of unanticipated changes in tax policy have changed structurally over the post World War II period in the United States. →

The standard time-varying VAR workhorse suffers from overparameterization, which is a serious problem as it limits the number of variables and lags that can be incorporated in the model. →

This research applies a task-based approach to measure and interpret changes in the employment structure of the 168 largest US cities in the period 1990-2009. →

Large banks derive a funding advantage from being too-big-to-fail, while small banks do not. →