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2005-35: On the Sensitivity Matrix of the Nash Bargaining Solution

Jacob Engwerda and R.C.M.H. Douven

2005-34: The Open-Loop Linear Quadratic Differential Game Revisited

Jacob Engwerda

2005-33: A Numerical Algorithm to find Soft-Constrained Nash Equilibria in Scalar LQ-Games

Jacob Engwerda

2005-32: Uniqueness Conditions for the Infinite-Planning Horizon Open-Loop Linear Quadratic Differential Game

Jacob Engwerda

2005-31: Robust Estimation of Dimension Reduction Space

Pavel Cizek and Wolfgang Härdle

2005-30: How Changes in Benefits Entitlement Affect the Duration of Unemployment

Jan van Ours and Milan Vodopivec

2005-29: Time to Complete and Research Joint Ventures: A Differential Game Approach

J. Navas and Peter Kort

2005-28: Close-Form Pricing of Benchmark Equity Default Swaps Under the CEV Assumption

L. Campi and A. Sbuelz

2005-27: Assessing Credit with Equity: A CEV Model with Jump to Default

L. Campi, S.Y. Polbennikov and A. Sbuelz

2005-26: The Value of Fighting Irreversible Demise by Softening the Irreversible Cost

P. Magis and A. Sbuelz

2005-25: Environmental Kuznets Curves for CO2: Heterogeneity Versus Homogeneity

Herman R.J. Vollebergh, Elbert Dijkgraaf and Bertrand Melenberg

2005-24: A Linear Programming Reformulation of the Standard Quadratic Optimization Problem

Etienne de Klerk and D.V. Pasechnik

2005-23: Is Investment-Cash Flow Sensitivity Caused by the Agency Costs or Asymmetric Information? Evidence from the UK

G. Pawlina and Luc Renneboog

2005-22: Patterns in Payout Policy and Payout Channel Choice of UK Firms in the 1990s

Luc Renneboog and G. Trojanowski

2005-21: Dynamics in the Use of Drugs

Jan van Ours

2005-20: A Concede-and-Divide Rule for Bankruptcy Problems

Marieke Quant, Peter Borm and R. Maaten

2005-19: Characterizing Distance-Regularity of Graphs by the Spectrum

Edwin van Dam, W.H. Haemers, J.H. Koolen and E. Spence

2005-17: Solving SDP's in Non-commutative Algebras Part I: The Dual-Scaling Algorithm

Etienne de Klerk and D.V. Pasechnik

2005-16: Ecstacy and cocaine: Patterns of use among prime age individuals in Amsterdam

Jan van Ours

2005-15: Cannabis, Cocaine and Jobs

Jan van Ours

2005-14: Cannabis, Cocaine and the Wages of Prime Age Males

Jan van Ours

2005-13: The Economics of Books

Marcel Canoy, Jan van Ours and Frederick (Rick) van der Ploeg

2005-12: Cannabis Use When it's Legal

Jan van Ours

2005-11: Age at Immigration and Educational Attainment of Young Immigrants

Jan van Ours and J.M.C. Veenman

2005-10: Optimal Environmental Standards under Asymmetric Information and Imperfect Enforcement

Carmen Arguedas

2005-9: Pollution Standards, Costly Monitoring and Fines

Carmen Arguedas

2005-8: Maximin Latin Hypercube Designs in Two Dimensions

Edwin van Dam, B.G.M. Husslage, Dick Den Hertog and H. Melissen

2005-7: Dominated Families of Shifted Palm Distributions

G. Nieuwenhuis

2005-6: Birth Spacing and Neonatal Mortality in India: Dynamics, Frailty and Fecundity

Sonia Bhalotra and Arthur van Soest

2005-5: Computing Integral Solutions of Complementarity Problems

Gerard van der Laan, Adolphus Talman and Zaifu Yang

2005-4: A Fixed Point Theorem for Discontinuous Functions

P. Jean-Jacques Herings, Gerard van der Laan, Adolphus Talman and Zaifu Yang

2005-3: The Bird Core for Minimum Cost Spanning Tree problems Revisited: Monotonicity and Additivity Aspects

S.H. Tijs, S. Moretti, R. Brânzei and Henk Norde

2005-2: Asset Allocation in the Euro-Zone: Industry or Country Based?

E. Eiling, B. Gerard and F.A. de Roon

2005-1: The Impact of Overnight Periods on Option Pricing

M.J. Boes, Feike C. Drost and Bas Werker

2004-130: General Trimmed Estimation: Robust Approach to Nonlinear and Limited Dependent Variable Models

Pavel Cizek

2004-129: Take-and-Guess Games

M.R.M. Dreef and S.H. Tijs

2004-128: Sequencing Games with Repeated Players

Arantza Estévez Fernández, Peter Borm, P. Calleja and H.J.M. Hamers

2004-127: On Properness and Protectiveness in Two Person Multicriteria Games

Marieke Quant, Peter Borm, G. Fiestras-Janeiro and F.J.C. van Megen

2004-126: Processing Games with Shared Interest

Marieke Quant, M. Meertens and Hans Reijnierse

2004-125: Mandelbrot's Extremism

J. Beirlant, W. Schoutens and J.J.J. Segers

2004-124: Business Groups and Profit Redistribution: A Boon or Bane for Firms

R. George, Rezaul Kabir and S.W. Douma

2004-123: Recent Developments in German Corporate Governance

Marc Goergen, M.C. Manjon and Luc Renneboog

2004-122: Dividend Policy of German Firms

Marc Goergen, Luc Renneboog and L. Correia Da Silva

2004-121: Shareholder Lockup Agreements in the European New Markets

Marc Goergen, Luc Renneboog and A. Khurshed

2004-120: Capital Structure and Managerial Compensation: The Effects of Renumeration Seniority

R. Calcagno and Luc Renneboog

2004-119: A Silent Battle over a Cake

Julio González-Díaz, Peter Borm and Henk Norde

2004-118: Equilibrium and the Core in Alonso's Discrete Population Model of Land Use

Marcus Berliant and Thijs ten Raa

2004-117: Information Sharing and International Taxation

Michael Keen and Jenny Ligthart

2004-116: A New Family of Distance-Regular Graphs with Unbounded Diameter

Edwin van Dam and J.H. Koolen

2004-115: How Good is Growth for the Poor? The Role of Initial Income Distribution in Regional Diversity in Poverty Trends

Adriaan Kalwij and A. Verschoor

2004-114: Symmetric Convex Games and Stable Structures

Marco Slikker and Henk Norde

2004-113: Solving discrete zero point problems

Gerard van der Laan, Adolphus Talman and Zaifu Yang

2004-112: General Weak Laws of Large Numbers for Bootstrap Sample Means

John Einmahl and A. Rosalsky

2004-111: Enemies and Friends in Hedonic Games: Individual Deviations, Stability and Manipulation

Dinko Dimitrov and S.C. Sung

2004-110: The Equal Split-Off Set for Cooperative Games

R. Brânzei, Dinko Dimitrov and S.H. Tijs

2004-109: A New Characterization of Convex Games

R. Brânzei, Dinko Dimitrov and S.H. Tijs

2004-108: Cases in Cooperation and Cutting the Cake

S.H. Tijs and R. Brânzei

2004-107: Equilibria with Coordination Failures

P. Jean-Jacques Herings, Gerard van der Laan and Adolphus Talman

2004-106: On the Estimation Error in Mean-Variance Efficient Portfolio Weights

F.A. de Roon

2004-105: Local Sensitivity and Diagnostic Tests

Jan Magnus and Andrey Vasnev

2004-104: Balance of Power

Jan Boone

2004-103: Advanced Planning Concepts in the Closed-Loop Container Network of ARN

H.M. Le Blanc, M.G.C. van Krieken, Harold Krikke and Hein Fleuren

2004-102: Consumption Taxation in a Digital World: A Primer

Jenny Ligthart

2004-101: Core Stability in Chain-Component Additive Games

S. van Velzen, H.J.M. Hamers and Tamás Solymosi

2004-100: The Computation of a Coincidence of Two Mappings

Adolphus Talman and Zaifu Yang

2004-99: Lending to Small Businesses: The Role of Loan Maturity in Adressing Information Problems

H. Ortiz-Molina and María Penas

2004-98: Effects of Leniency Programs on Cartel Stability

Evgenia Motchenkova

2004-97: Analysis of the Properties of Current Penalty Schemes for Violations of Antitrust Law

Evgenia Motchenkova and Peter Kort

2004-96: Determination of Optimal Penalties for Antitrust Violations in a Dynamic Setting

Evgenia Motchenkova

2004-95: Market Structure and Technology Diffusion Incentives under Alternative Environmental Policy Schemes

Frans de Vries

2004-94: Inequality, Redistribution and Growth

D. Haile and Lex Meijdam

2004-93: Competitive Outcomes and Endogenous Coalition Formation in an n-Person Game

N. Sun, Walter Trockel and Zaifu Yang

2004-92: On-the-job Search and the Cyclical Dynamics of the Labor Market

Michael Krause and T.A. Lubik

2004-91: Non-Parametric Inference for Bivariate Extreme-Value Copulas

J.J.J. Segers

2004-90: The Macroeconomic Dynamics of Demographic Shocks

Ben Heijdra and Jenny Ligthart

2004-89: Labor Tax Reform and Equilibrium Unemployment: A Search and Matching Approach

Ben Heijdra and Jenny Ligthart

2004-88: A Cooperative Approach to Queue Allocation of Indivisible Objects

H.J.M. Hamers, Flip Klijn, Marco Slikker and S. van Velzen

2004-87: Effective Labor Market Policies

Jan Boone and Jan van Ours

2004-86: How Changes in Financial Incentives Affect the Duration of Unemployment

Rafael Lalive, Jan van Ours and Josef Zweimüller

2004-85: Approximations of the Generalized Wilks' Distribution

V.M. Raats

2004-84: Generalized Probability-Probability Plots

N.A. Mushkudiani and John Einmahl

2004-83: Processing Games with Restricted Capacities

M. Meertens, Peter Borm, Hans Reijnierse and Marieke Quant

2004-82: A Mixed Model for Double Checking Fallible Auditors

V.M. Raats, J.J.A. Moors and B.B. van der Genugten

2004-81: Health and Wealth of Elderly Couples: Causality Tests Using Dynamic Panel Data Models

Pierre-Carl Michaud and Arthur van Soest

2004-80: Empirical Study: Order Sharing Between Transportation Companies may Result in Cost Reductions Between 5 to 15 Percent

F. Cruijssen and M. Salomon

2004-79: Separating Moral Hazard from Adverse Selection in Automobile Insurance: Longitudinal Evidence from France

Georges Dionne, Pierre-Carl Michaud and M. Dahchour

2004-78: Coordinating Tariff Reduction and Domestic Tax Reform under Imperfect Competition

Michael Keen and Jenny Ligthart

2004-77: Asymptotics of Multivariate Regression with Consecutively Added Dependent Varibles

V.M. Raats, B.B. van der Genugten and J.J.A. Moors

2004-76: The Collective Model of Household Consumption: A Nonparametric Characterization

Laurens Cherchye, Bram De Rock and Frederic Vermeulen

2004-75: A Collective Retirement Model: Identification and Estimation in the Presence of Externalities

Pierre-Carl Michaud and Frederic Vermeulen

2004-74: Econometric Modelling in Blockholder Systems of Corporate Governance

M.C. Manjon

2004-73: Environmental Quality, the Macroeconomy and Intergenerational Distribution

Ben Heijdra, J.P. Kooiman and Jenny Ligthart

2004-72: Asymptotics of Least Trimmed Squares Regression

Pavel Cizek

2004-71: Weighted Approximations of Tail Copula Processes with Application to Testing the Multivariate Extreme Value Condition

John Einmahl, L.F.M. de Haan and D. Li

2004-70: Social Network Formation with Consent

R.P. Gilles and Sudipta Sarangi

2004-69: Competition, Incomplete Discrimination and Versioning

K. Diaw and Jerome Pouyet

2004-68: The Dilemma of Tax Competition: How (not) to attract (Inefficient) Firms?

K. Diaw and Jerome Pouyet

2004-67: A Two-Step First Difference Estimator for a Panel Data Tobit Model under Conditional Mean Independence Assumptions

Adriaan Kalwij

2004-66: One-Dimensional Nested Maximin Designs

Edwin van Dam, B.G.M. Husslage and Dick Den Hertog

2004-65: Job Scheduling, Cooperation and Control

P. Calleja, Arantza Estévez Fernández, Peter Borm and H.J.M. Hamers