Henry van der Wiel

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors introduce a new measure of competition: the elasticity of a firm's profits with respect to its cost level, which signals more intense competi- tion, and compare PE with the most popular competition measures such as the price cost margin (PCM).

TL;DR: In this article, the authors analyzed the importance of ICT capital deepening and innovation for productivity in German and Dutch firms from the services sector and found that ICT use and innovation may be complementary.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors analyzed whether ICT has recently boosted Dutch labour productivity growth, similar to developments in the US, in the second half of the 1990s, and found that the productivity performance of the Dutch ICT sector accounts for a large share in the rebound of labour productivity.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated the impact of regulatory reforms on competition in the Dutch market sector and found that regulatory reforms could have intensified competition, however, strong growth of market demand has weakened competition and it counterbalanced to some extent the impact on regulatory reforms.