Working papers

  1. Does Merger Simulation Work? Lessons from a Case in the Swedish Analgesics Market (2012) with Jonas Björnerstedt. [Draft available on request.]

  2. Exclusive Dealing as an Entry Barrier? Evidence from Automobiles (Dec. 2011) with Laura Nurski.

  3. Nested Logit or Random Coefficients Logit? A Comparison of Alternative Discrete Choice Models (Sept. 2011) with Laura Grigolon.

  4. Entry and Competition in Differentiated Products Markets (April 2011) with Catherine Schaumans.

  5. Implicit Interest Rates in Durable Goods Purchasing Decisions - Evidence from Automobile Purchasing Data (1998) also C.E.P.R. Discussion paper no. 2069.

Publications

  1. Vertical Control of a Distribution Network: Evidence from Magazines (2011, May 2010) with Stijn Ferrari, RAND Journal of Economics, forthcoming.

  2. The Internal Economics of a University: Evidence from Personnel Data (2011, March 2010) with Catherine Haeck, Journal of Labor Economics, forthcoming. Web Appendix

  3. Access Regulation, Competition and Broadband Penetration: an Empirical Study (2010, Sept. 2009) with Jan Bouckaert and Theon van Dijk, Telecommunications Policy, 34, 661-671.

  4. Empirical Analysis of Markets with Free and Restricted Entry (2010, Sept. 2009) with Stijn Ferrari, International Journal of Industrial Organization, 28, 403-406.

  5. Program Duplication in Higher Education is not Necessarily Bad (2010, Oct. 2007) with Stijn Kelchtermans, Journal of Public Economics, 94 (5-6), 397-409.

  6. Intra- and Inter-format Competition among Discounters and Supermarkets (2010, June 2007) with Kathleen Cleeren, Marnik Dekimpe and Katrijn Gielens, Marketing Science, 29(3), 456-473.

  7. Investment and Usage of New Technologies: Evidence from a Shared ATM Network (2010, Sept. 2007) with Stijn Ferrari and Hans Degryse, American Economic Review, 100(3), 1046-1079. (Dataset and programs)

  8. Participation and Study Decisions in a Public System of Higher Education (2010, May 2006) with Stijn Kelchtermans, Journal of Applied Econometrics, 25, 355-391.

  9. Cartel Damages Claims and the Passing-on Defense (2009, May 2007) with Theon van Dijk, Journal of Industrial Economics, 57(3), 457-491.

  10. Regulation of Program Supply in Higher Education: Lessons from a Funding System Reform in Flanders (2008, Oct. 2007) with Stijn Kelchtermans, CESifo Economic Studies, 54(2), 204-228.

  11. Entry and Regulation -- Evidence from Health Care Professions (2008, Jan. 2006) with Catherine Schaumans, RAND Journal of Economics, 39, 949-972.

  12. Liberalizing a Distribution System: the European Car Market (2006, Oct. 2002) with Randy Brenkers, Journal of the European Economic Association , 4(1), 216-251. (Dataset)

  13. Competition in Local Services: the Video Rental Case (2006, March 2005) with Kathleen Cleeren and Marnik Dekimpe, International Journal of Research in Marketing, 23, 357-367.

  14. Quantifying the Effects from Horizontal Mergers in European Competition Policy (2005, May 2004) with Marc Ivaldi, International Journal of Industrial Organization, 23 (9-10), 669-691.

  15. Quantifying the Effects from Horizontal Mergers in European Competition Policy: Comments on the Underlying Assumptions (2005, Feb. 2001) with Marc Ivaldi, International Journal of Industrial Organization, 23 (9-10), 693-698.

  16. Discrimination and Nepotism: The Efficiency of the Anonimity Rule (2005, Jan. 2002) with Chaim Fershtman and Uri Gneezy, Journal of Legal Studies, 34(2), 371-394.

  17. Market Integration and Convergence to the Law of One Price: Evidence from the European Car Market (2005, Aug. 2001) with Pinelopi Koujianou Goldberg, Journal of International Economics, 65(1), 49-73. (Dataset)

  18. Cross-Country Price Dispersion and the Euro (2004) with Pinelopi Koujianou Goldberg, Economic Policy,” 19(40), 484-521.

  19. Price Squeezes in a Regulatory Environment (2004) with Jan Bouckaert, Journal of Regulatory Economics, 26(3), 321-351.

  20. Quality-based Price Discrimination and Tax Incidence – the Market for Gasoline and Diesel Cars In Europe (2002),  RAND Journal of Economics, 33(2), 275-297.

  21. The Evolution of Price Dispersion in the European Car Market (2001) with Pinelopi K. Goldberg, Review of Economic Studies, 68(4), 811-848. Reprinted in Paul Joskow and Michael Waterson (ed.) Empirical Industrial Organization -- Vol. 1, Edward Elgar, 478p.

  22. Testing for “Monopoly” Market Power when Products are Differentiated in Quality (2001), The Manchester School – Special Issue on Industrial Organization, 70(1), 115-133.

  23. The Evolution of Markets under Entry and Standards Regulation – the Case of Global Mobile Telecommunications (2001) with Harald Gruber, International Journal of Industrial Organization, 19(7), 1189-1212.

  24. The Diffusion of Mobile Telecommunications Services in the European Union countries (2001) with Harald Gruber, European Economic Review, 45(3), 577-588.

  25. Presents or Investments – An experimental analysis (2000) with Uri Gneezy and Werner Guth, Journal of Economic Psychology, 21(5), 481-493.

  26. Incomplete transmission of coffee bean prices: evidence from the Netherlands (2000) with Leon Bettendorf, European Review of Agricultural Economics, 27(1), 1-16.

  27. Product Line Rivalry and Market Segmentation, with an application to the Pricing of Optional Engine Power on Automobiles (1999), Journal of Industrial Economics, 47(4), 399-425.

  28. Localized Competition, Multimarket Operation, and Collusive Behavior (1998), International Economic Review, 39(2), 371-398.

  29. Collusive Behavior with Heterogeneous Firms (1997) Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 33(1), 21-36.

  30. International Price Discrimination in the European Car Market (1996), RAND Journal of Economics, 27 (2), 240-268. Reprinted as: “International Price Discrimination in the European Car Market”, (1998) in: Louis Philps (ed.) Applied Industrial Economics , Cambridge University Press, 443p.

  31. The Nested Logit Model and Representative Consumer Theory (1996), Economics Letters, 50(1), 57-63.

  32. Corporate Restructuring in a Collusive Oligopoly (1995), International Journal of Industrial Organization, 13(3), 335-354.

Chapters in books

  1. Efficiency Enhancing or Anti-Competitive Vertical Restraints: Selective and Exclusive Car Distribution in Europe (2007), forthcoming in Cases in European Competition Policy: the Economic Analysis, Edited by Bruce Lyons, Cambridge University Press.

  2. Quantification of Damages (2006) joint with Theon van Dijk, forthcoming in ABA Publications in Antitrust.

  3. Price Discrimination: Empirical Studies (2006), forthcoming in The New Palgrave: A Dictionary in Economics, MacMillan.

  4. Market Definition with Differentiated Products -- Lessons from the Car Market (2006) joint with Randy Brenkers, in Jay Pil Choi (ed.) Recent Developments in Antitrust: Theory and Evidence, MIT Press.

  5. Efficiency Gains from Mergers (2001) joint with Lars-Hendrik Röller and Johan Stennek, European Economy, 5, 31-127.

  6. Merger Control and Enterprise Competitiveness: Empirical Analysis and Policy Recommendations (2001) joint with Johan Stennek, European Economy, 5, 130-194.

  7. Price Differences and Price Setting in the European Car Market (2000), joint with Jan Bouckaert, in Ooghe H., Heylen F. and Vennet R. (eds.), The Economic and Business Consequences of EMU: A Challenge for Governments, Financial Institutions and Firms, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 438p.

 

 

 

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