The Jaap Abbring Research Page

My current research interests include the empirical analysis of firm and industry dynamics, imperfect information in insurance markets, and labor markets, and topics in econometrics, notably event history analysis and dynamic discrete choice and policy evaluation. See my cv page for a full list of publications.

A transcript of my Tilburg inaugural lecture on "Structural Duration Analysis" (October 9, 2009) can be found here.

Industrial organization

• "Sunk costs, entry and exit in dynamic oligopoly" (with J.R. Campbell and N. Yang)
• "Simple Markov-perfect industry dynamics" (with J.R. Campbell and N. Yang) FRB Chicago WP 2010-21
• "Last-in first out oligopoly dynamics" (with J.R. Campbell), Econometrica, 78, 1491-1527, 2010 Supplementary material
• "Duopoly dynamics with a barrier to entry" TI DP 07-037/3
• "A firm's first year" (with J.R. Campbell) TI DP 05-046/3; Under revision

Insurance and imperfect information

• "Better safe than sorry? Ex ante and ex post moral hazard in dynamic insurance data" (with P.A. Chiappori and T. Zavadil) CentER DP 2008-77 Supplementary material
• "Moral hazard and dynamic insurance data" (with P.A. Chiappori and J. Pinquet), Journal of the European Economic Association, 1, 767-820, 2003
• "Adverse selection and moral hazard in insurance: Can dynamic data help to distinguish?" (with P.A. Chiappori, J.J. Heckman, and J. Pinquet), Journal of the European Economic Association, 1 (Papers and Proceedings), 512-521
• "The effect of unemployment insurance sanctions on the transition rate from unemployment to employment" (with G.J. van den Berg and J.C. van Ours), Economic Journal, 115, 602-630, 2005
• "Dynamische econometrische analyse van asymmetrische informatie in verzekeringsmarkten" Nontechnical exposition in Dutch of some of my insurance research

Event history analysis and dynamic discrete choice

• "Regular variation and the identification of generalized accelerated failure-time models" (with G. Ridder)
• "The hand of the past in censored renewal data" (with T. Zavadil)
• "The likelihood of mixed hitting times" (with T. Salimans) Project home page
• "Estimating mixed hitting-time models" (with T. Salimans) Project home page
• "Identification of dynamic discrete choice models", Annual Review of Economics, 2, 367-394, 2010
• "Mixed hitting-time models" (old version as CentER DP 2009-62, TI DP 07-057/3, and CEMMAP WP 15/07) Project home page
• "The unobserved heterogeneity distribution in duration analysis" (with G.J. van den Berg), Biometrika, 94, 87-99, 2007
• "The identifiability of the mixed proportional hazards competing risks model"  (with G.J. van den Berg), Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series B, 65, 701-710, 2003 Proof of Proposition 1
• "Stayers versus defecting movers: A note on the identification of defective duration models", Economics Letters, 74, 327-331, 2001
• "Econometric duration and event-history analysis" Lecture notes for a graduate course at the University of Chicago

Econometrics of policy evaluation

• "Econometric evaluation of social programs, part III: Distributional treatment effects, dynamic treatment effects and dynamic discrete choice, and general equilibrium policy evaluation'' (with J.J. Heckman). In J.J. Heckman and E. Leamer (2008), editors, Handbook of Econometrics, Volume 6B, Chapter 72, 5145-5303, Amsterdam: Elsevier Science
• "Dynamic policy analysis" (with J.J. Heckman). In L. Mátyás and P. Sevestre (2008), editors, The Econometrics of Panel Data (third ed.), Chapter 24, pp. 797-865, Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers CEMMAP WP 05/08
• "Social experiments and instrumental variables with duration outcomes" (with G.J. van den Berg) TI DP 05-047/3
• "The event-history approach to program evaluation". Forthcoming in D. Millimet, J. Smith, and E. Vytlacil (2006), editors, Advances in Econometrics, Volume 21: Modeling and Evaluating Treatment Effects in Econometrics, Elsevier Science, Oxford TI DP 06-057/3
• "Analyzing the effect of dynamically assigned treatments using duration models, binary treatment models, and panel data models" (with G.J. van den Berg), Empirical Economics, 29, 5-20, 2004
• "A simple procedure for the evaluation of treatment effects on duration variables" (with G.J. van den Berg) IFAU WP 2003:19
• "The nonparametric identification of treatment effects in duration models" (with G.J. van den Berg), Econometrica, 71, 1491-517, 2003
• "Dynamic econometric program evaluation". Paper prepared for the H. Theil Memorial Conference (Amsterdam, 16-18 August 2002) IZA DP 804

Labor economics

• "Displaced workers in the United States and the Netherlands". In P. Kuhn (2002), editor, Losing Work, Moving on: Worker Displacement in International Perspective, Kalamazoo, MI: W. E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research
• "The anatomy of unemployment dynamics" (with G.J. van den Berg and J.C. van Ours), European Economic Review, 46, 1785-1824, 2002
• "Business cycles and compositional variation in U.S. unemployment" (with G.J. van den Berg, and J.C. van Ours) , Journal of Business and Economic Statistics, 19, 436-48, 2001
• "Sequential or nonsequential employers' search?" (with J.C. van Ours), Economics Letters, 44, 323-28, 1994

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