Publications

The Dutch current account surplus has increased substantially since the late 90’s, coming mostly from the trade balance in goods. Internationally the surplus is consistently among the top surplus countries, thereby... →

In the Netherlands the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) is the central organization for cyber security. The Dutch Ministry of Justice and Security (JenV) requested CPB to conduct data-driven research into the... →

Do households diminish their wealth during retirement? The life-cycle model by Modigliani and Brumberg (1954) suggests they do, but the empirical evidence in the literature does not support this hypothesis. →

At the request of the Minister of Economic Affairs and Climate Policy, this report contains a number of variants for industry. The variants concern a replacement of the malus scheme from the draft Climate Agreement by... →

This paper investigates income disparities across natives and the most prominent migrant groups in the Netherlands, those with a Moroccan, Turkish, Surinamese, or Antillean background.... →

On average, migrant children in the Netherlands end up lower in the income distribution compared to native children, even if their parents have equal incomes. →

This background document presents and discusses the empirical results included in the CPB Policy Brief ‘Dutch SME-bank financing in a European perspective’. Our goal is to shed light on the differences in access to... →

This background document is associated to the CPB Policy brief on Dutch SME-bank financing in a European perspective. It explains in detail what we do in a microsimulation model that is described in a textframe on... →

Dutch SMEs are obtaining bank loans less often than SMEs elsewhere in the eurozone. →

Until recently, macroeconomic theory provided at most a small role for the financial system to influence the real economy. This changed with the collapse of Lehman Brothers in 2008 and the financial crisis which... →