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Social Indicators Research, 1995
The relation between the amount of medals won at the Olympic games and various welfare indicators... more The relation between the amount of medals won at the Olympic games and various welfare indicators has been established for the games of Barcelona and Seoul using a Bayesian method of Poisson regression. It was found that medals won correlate strongly with income as well as with more general welfare indicators and that the elasticity with respect to the size of the population is surprisingly smaller than unity.
Economics Letters, 1992
In this paper the correlation between sectoral dispersion of employment growth and unemployment i... more In this paper the correlation between sectoral dispersion of employment growth and unemployment is analyzed. Empirical results for the Netherlands indicate that fluctuations in unemployment are due to aggregate demand factors, with no substantial influence of shifts in sectoral demand.
Ecological Economics, 1996
The standard view is that situations where no transborder environmental externalities occur are m... more The standard view is that situations where no transborder environmental externalities occur are most efficiently dealt with by national environmental policies rather than by international co-operation. Though this may be the general case, non-coordinated national policies do not always produce the most efficient international allocation. This paper presents four cases in which the allocative outcome of non-coordinated domestic policy choices can be improved upon by international environmental co-operation. The first case refers to the use of environmental policy as a strategic trade instrument. The other cases refer to the existence of discrete technologies, set-up costs and increasing returns to scale. The form of international environmental co-operation should be adapted to the situation. Formal international agreements between countries are characterised by high transaction costs and may not always be the most efficient form of co-operation.
Social Indicators Research, 1995
The relation between the amount of medals won at the Olympic games and various welfare indicators... more The relation between the amount of medals won at the Olympic games and various welfare indicators has been established for the games of Barcelona and Seoul using a Bayesian method of Poisson regression. It was found that medals won correlate strongly with income as well as with more general welfare indicators and that the elasticity with respect to the size of the population is surprisingly smaller than unity.
Economics Letters, 1992
In this paper the correlation between sectoral dispersion of employment growth and unemployment i... more In this paper the correlation between sectoral dispersion of employment growth and unemployment is analyzed. Empirical results for the Netherlands indicate that fluctuations in unemployment are due to aggregate demand factors, with no substantial influence of shifts in sectoral demand.
Ecological Economics, 1996
The standard view is that situations where no transborder environmental externalities occur are m... more The standard view is that situations where no transborder environmental externalities occur are most efficiently dealt with by national environmental policies rather than by international co-operation. Though this may be the general case, non-coordinated national policies do not always produce the most efficient international allocation. This paper presents four cases in which the allocative outcome of non-coordinated domestic policy choices can be improved upon by international environmental co-operation. The first case refers to the use of environmental policy as a strategic trade instrument. The other cases refer to the existence of discrete technologies, set-up costs and increasing returns to scale. The form of international environmental co-operation should be adapted to the situation. Formal international agreements between countries are characterised by high transaction costs and may not always be the most efficient form of co-operation.