Because the Dutch economy is an open economy, CPB analyses worldwide economic developments and the effects these developments have on the Dutch economy.
Most attention is given to the effects of globalisation on the Netherlands, to international economic growth and the effects of European policy.
"Effect trade conflict limited, escalation only has losers". This background document provides information on the economic consequences of the current trade dispute between the US and several countries that announced retaliatory packages or filed them already with the WTO.
CPB Background Document | 6 July 2018
42 pages | pdf document, 2.4 MB
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.
CPB Background Document | 2 July 2018
60 pages | pdf document, 5.2 MB
CPB Communication | 28 June 2018
pdf document, 950 KB
CPB Policy Brief 2018/08 | 1 June 2018
pdf document, 3.1 MB
Productivity growth is on the decline, in the OECD countries. In the Netherlands, structural growth is also slowing down. On the basis of this fact, the European Commission proposed that each EU Member State would install a national productivity board (NPB). The Council of the European Union has since adopted this proposal.
CPB Communication | 22 March 2018
6 pages | pdf document, 1 MB
