Papers

Paper 'The Institutional Determinants of Labour Market Performance', presented at workshop in Maastricht.

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Notes and appendices

Note Accompanying 'Optimal Product Variety and Economic Growth: The Trade-Off between Internal and External Economies of Scale' (with R. Nahuis; Journal of Economics, 2002, 76 (1), pp. 1-32).

Note accompanying 'Vested Interests and Resistance to Technology Adoption' (with E.J.F. Canton and R. Nahuis; European Journal of Political Economy, 2002, 18 (4), pp. 631-652).

Annex 1 to 'Is the American Model Miss World?', CPB Discussion Paper, containing decompositions of GDP per capita.

Annex 2 to 'Is the American Model Miss World?', CPB Discussion Paper (no. 40), containing decompositions of GDP per capita.

Annex to 'The Institutional Determinants of Labour Market Performance', containing decompositions of the total number of hours worked per inhabitant.

Annex to 'Sectoral Energy- and Labour-Productivity Convergence', Environmental and Resource Economics, 36(1), pp. 85-112, 2007 (with P. Mulder).

Annex to 'Fertile Soil for Structural Funds' , Kyklos, 59(1), pp. 17-42, 2006 (with Sjef Ederveen and Richard Nahuis).

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Datasets

Meta-water Database used for paper 'Price and Income Elasticities of Residential Water Demand: A Meta-Analysis', Land Economics, 79 (2), pp. 292-308, 2003 (with J.M. Dalhuisen, R.J.G.M. Florax, and P. Nijkamp), May 2002.

EKC-China This EXCEL file contains the data used in the paper 'Dynamics of China's Regional Development and Pollution', Environment and Development Economics, 9, pp. 507-537, 2004 (with C.A. Withagen and Zhou Minliang).

Trust and Growth Database used for paper 'Trust and Economic Growth: A Robustness Analysis', Oxford Economic Papers, 56 (1), pp. 118-134, 2004 (with S. Beugelsdijk and A.B.T.M. van Schaik).

Miss World Dataset containing core data used in paper 'Is the American Model Miss World', CPB Discussion Paper, no. 40, The Hague, 2004 (with Richard Nahuis and Paul J.G. Tang).

Meta_Convergence Database underlying the paper 'A Meta-Analysis of Beta-Convergence: The Legendary 2%', Journal of Economic Surveys, 19(3), pp. 389-420, 2005 (with M. Abreu and R.J.G.M. Florax).

ISDB-E Database underlying the paper 'Sectoral Energy- and Labour-Productivity Convergence', Environmental and Resource Economics, 36(1), pp. 85-112, 2007 (with P. Mulder).

Structural Funds Database underlying the paper 'Fertile Soil for Structural Funds', Kyklos, 59(1), pp. 17-42, 2006 (with S. Ederveen and R. Nahuis).

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Software

Tool to solve the core-periphery model This user-friendly tool programmed in EXCEL allows you to solve and analyze the core-periphery model. It follows the version of the model that is used in the textbook by Brakman et al. (Introduction to Economic Geography, OUP).

MetaGrowth 1.0 (use set-up to install the program) A Computer Program for Robustness Analysis (developed with R. Heijungs and R.J.G.M. Florax).

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My vitae

Complete version (May 26, 2007)

Publications (May 27, 2007)

Brief version of my CV (June 7, 2005)