Victoria Shestalova

In many markets there is some form of regulation; and when new policy measures are introduced into a particular sector, the question of how to structure an adequate regulatory process arises. This paper contributes to the literature by describing the approach taken in the nursing home sector in the Netherlands, explaining all the steps needed for i...

Aging populations add to pressure on health budgets, notably in long-term care (LTC). This development is particularly significant in the Netherlands, because of its relatively large, publicly financed LTC sector. The recent LTC reform aimed to substitute institutional care with aging-in-place, and thus reduce LTC expenditure. We investigate whethe...

This study examines the impact of policies and intensification on the environmental performance of Dutch dairy farms in the period 2001-2010 using a hyperbolic distance function. The results indicate that the change from the Mineral Accounting System to the combination of the Application Standards Policy with decoupled payments has not significantl...

Under constant returns to scale, price-taking behavior and no external effects the general equilibrium allocation is efficient. Input-output analysis need not make these assumptions and has the capacity to measure the inefficiency of an observed economic allocation. The objective of a national economy is to fulfill domestic final demand. In this ch...

This paper studies the knowledge spillovers generated by renewable energy technologies, unraveling the technological fields that benefit from knowledge developed in storage, solar, wind, marine, hydropower, geothermal, waste and biomass energy technologies. Using citation data of patents in renewable technologies filed at 18 European patent offices...

The complementarity between the quantity and value systems of input–output analysis is shown to be the basis of the complementarity problem approach to computable general equilibrium. The numerical superiority of the latter to the linear programming approach facilitates stochastic analysis of input–output scenarios. For the example where Kyoto targ...

The technical variation between countries in the production of goods and services, in terms of not only input coefficients, but also emission coefficients, creates scope for international trade to reduce environmental pressures. For this purpose we extend the theory of trade and the environment as to accommodate technical variation between countrie...

This paper discusses policy instruments for redirecting technical change within the electricity sector to mitigate climate change. First, we unravel the mechanism behind directed technical change, explaining why markets may underprovide innovations in expensive renewable technologies in comparison to innovations in energy-efficient fossil-fuel gene...

The thesis presents a collection of articles in the area of productivity and efficiency. It consists of two parts connected by the common subject of productivity and efficiency. Part I discusses alternative approaches to the TFP growth measurement, namely the original approach by Solow (1957), the traditional Index-Numbers and approaches adopted in...

This paper presents the forecasting methodology applied in the Netherlands for the medium-term health expenditure forecast of 2011-2015. The model distinguishes several sub-sectors within healthcare, and decomposes health expenditure growth into four determinants, namely: demographic, epidemiologic and budgetary factors, and the residual. This deco...