Leon Bettendorf
wetenschappelijk medewerker, Sector 2 Macro-analyseBezuidenhoutseweg 30
2594 AV Den Haag
Leon Bettendorf has been working since 2003 at CPB. His research interests are broad but are mainly in the field of aging and taxes. He carries a lot of research on corporate taxation in the EU. In his research he likes using applied general equilibrium models. Currently he is also coordinator of a consortium that performs analysis of taxation on behalf of the European Commission (TAXUD).
Last publication: contribution to A retrospective evaluation of elements of the EU VAT system, This report was commissioned by the European Commission (DG TAXUD) and prepared by a consortium under the project leader IFS.
- 1985: Graduate in Economics, K.U. Leuven
- 1994: PhD in Economics, K.U. Leuven (Dissertation: A dynamic applied general equilibrium model for a small open economy)
- 2005 - 2008: assistent professor Macroeconomics Erasmus University Rotterdam
- >2003: researcher CPB
Publications
Markups van bedrijven in Nederland
Estimating Markups in the Netherlands
Frontier firms and followers in the Netherlands: estimating productivity and identifying the frontier
This study shows that constructing a large dataset, which sufficiently covers all firm sizes, is a prerequisite for studying the divergence hypothesis. We merge datasets of individual firm and employee data in the years 20062015 for the Netherlands, resulting in a representative sample of corporations. We find no evidence of diverging productivity between firms on the national frontier and laggard firms. →