Jan Boone
Biographic Data
| ID | 5731048 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jan Boone |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jan |
| FAMILY NAME | Boone |
| SIGNATURE | BOONE J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Tilburg University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0958-2444 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 26 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Exercise intensity influences variability and test-retest reliability of pulmonary gas-exchange measurements during constant work-rate cycling
Introduction The study examined how exercise intensity and participants' characteristics influence the variability and test-retest reliability of pulmonary gas-exchange while providing domain-specific reliability benchmarks for exercise testing. Methods Forty-two healthy adults (V̇O 2max = 49.6 ± 8.8 ml·kg -1 ·min -1 ) completed a ramp incremental exercise test and six 6-min constant work-rate cycling trials distributed across moderate, heavy, an…
Health Insurance without Single Crossing
Standard insurance models predict that people with high risks have high insurance coverage. It is empirically documented that people with high income have lower health risks and are better insured. We show that income differences between risk types lead to a violation of single crossing in an insurance model where people choose treatment intensity. We analyse different market structures and show the following: if insurers have market power, the v…
Optimal Privatisation using Qualifying Auctions
This article explores use of auctions for privatising public assets. In our model, a single 'insider' bidder possesses information about the asset's common value. Bidders are privately informed about their costs of exploiting the asset. Due to the insider's presence, uninformed bidders face a strong winner's curse in standard auctions. We show that the optimal mechanism discriminates against the informationally advantaged bidder. It can be implem…
Competition
This paper proposes relative profits (RP) as a robust measure of competition. I consider nine different parameterizations of competition and show that more intense competition increases the profits of a firm relative to a less efficient firm. Further, popular competition measures like the price-cost margin (PCM) and Herfindahl index (H) can either increase or decrease in response to more intense competition. In this sense, RP is a more robust com…
A New Way to Measure Competition
This article introduces a new way to measure competition based on firms' profits. Within a general model, we derive conditions under which this measure is monotone in competition, where competition can be intensified both through a fall in entry barriers and through more aggressive interaction between players. The measure is shown to be more robust theoretically than the price cost margin. This allows for an empirical test of the problems associa…
Welfare‐Improving Employment Protection
This paper derives new results on the welfare effects of employment protection. Using data from 17 OECD countries, we show that there exists an inverse U‐shape relationship between employment protection and economic growth. Using a simple theoretical model with non‐contractible specific investments, we show that over some range increasing employment protection does indeed raise welfare. We also show that the optimal level of employment protection…
Modeling Financial Incentives to Get the Unemployed Back to Work
We model how unemployment benefit sanctions - benefit reductions that are imposed if unemployed do not comply with job search guidelines - affect unemployment. We find that benefit sanctions are more effective in reducing unemployment than an across-the-board reduction in the replacement rate, for a given loss in welfare for the unemployed. We decompose the effects of a sanction system into micro, crowding-out, spillover, and tax effects.
Unemployment Insurance and Workers' Mobility
This paper analyses the effects of unemployment insurance (UI) in a model with two sectors where one sector is more risky than the other, in the sense that the probability of becoming unemployed is higher. With risk-averse agents it is the case that, over a range of values of UI, increasing UI increases workers' mobility from the safe to the risky sector, thereby increasing both unemployment and income.
Technological Progress, Downsizing and Unemployment
Journal Article Technological Progress, Downsizing and Unemployment Get access Jan Boone Jan Boone Tilburg University and CPB Netherlands Bureau for Economic Policy Analysis Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 110, Issue 465, July 2000, Pages 581–600, https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-0297.00555 Published: 25 December 2001
A New Way to Measure Competition
This article introduces a new way to measure competition based on firms' profits. Within a general model, we derive conditions under which this measure is monotone in competition, where competition can be intensified both through a fall in entry barriers and through more aggressive interaction between players. The measure is shown to be more robust theoretically than the price cost margin. This allows for an empirical test of the problems associa…
Welfare‐Improving Employment Protection
This paper derives new results on the welfare effects of employment protection. Using data from 17 OECD countries, we show that there exists an inverse U‐shape relationship between employment protection and economic growth. Using a simple theoretical model with non‐contractible specific investments, we show that over some range increasing employment protection does indeed raise welfare. We also show that the optimal level of employment protection…
Technological Progress, Downsizing and Unemployment
Journal Article Technological Progress, Downsizing and Unemployment Get access Jan Boone Jan Boone Tilburg University and CPB Netherlands Bureau for Economic Policy Analysis Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 110, Issue 465, July 2000, Pages 581–600, https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-0297.00555 Published: 25 December 2001
Unemployment Insurance and Workers' Mobility
This paper analyses the effects of unemployment insurance (UI) in a model with two sectors where one sector is more risky than the other, in the sense that the probability of becoming unemployed is higher. With risk-averse agents it is the case that, over a range of values of UI, increasing UI increases workers' mobility from the safe to the risky sector, thereby increasing both unemployment and income.
Modeling Financial Incentives to Get the Unemployed Back to Work
We model how unemployment benefit sanctions - benefit reductions that are imposed if unemployed do not comply with job search guidelines - affect unemployment. We find that benefit sanctions are more effective in reducing unemployment than an across-the-board reduction in the replacement rate, for a given loss in welfare for the unemployed. We decompose the effects of a sanction system into micro, crowding-out, spillover, and tax effects.
Welfare‐Improving Employment Protection
This paper derives new results on the welfare effects of employment protection. Using data from 17 OECD countries, we show that there exists an inverse U‐shape relationship between employment protection and economic growth. Using a simple theoretical model with non‐contractible specific investments, we show that over some range increasing employment protection does indeed raise welfare. We also show that the optimal level of employment protection…
Competition
This paper proposes relative profits (RP) as a robust measure of competition. I consider nine different parameterizations of competition and show that more intense competition increases the profits of a firm relative to a less efficient firm. Further, popular competition measures like the price-cost margin (PCM) and Herfindahl index (H) can either increase or decrease in response to more intense competition. In this sense, RP is a more robust com…
A New Way to Measure Competition
This article introduces a new way to measure competition based on firms' profits. Within a general model, we derive conditions under which this measure is monotone in competition, where competition can be intensified both through a fall in entry barriers and through more aggressive interaction between players. The measure is shown to be more robust theoretically than the price cost margin. This allows for an empirical test of the problems associa…
Optimal Privatisation using Qualifying Auctions
This article explores use of auctions for privatising public assets. In our model, a single 'insider' bidder possesses information about the asset's common value. Bidders are privately informed about their costs of exploiting the asset. Due to the insider's presence, uninformed bidders face a strong winner's curse in standard auctions. We show that the optimal mechanism discriminates against the informationally advantaged bidder. It can be implem…
Health Insurance without Single Crossing
Standard insurance models predict that people with high risks have high insurance coverage. It is empirically documented that people with high income have lower health risks and are better insured. We show that income differences between risk types lead to a violation of single crossing in an insurance model where people choose treatment intensity. We analyse different market structures and show the following: if insurers have market power, the v…
Exercise intensity influences variability and test-retest reliability of pulmonary gas-exchange measurements during constant work-rate cycling
Introduction The study examined how exercise intensity and participants' characteristics influence the variability and test-retest reliability of pulmonary gas-exchange while providing domain-specific reliability benchmarks for exercise testing. Methods Forty-two healthy adults (V̇O 2max = 49.6 ± 8.8 ml·kg -1 ·min -1 ) completed a ramp incremental exercise test and six 6-min constant work-rate cycling trials distributed across moderate, heavy, an…
Economics (8 works) · Labor market dynamics and wage inequality (4 works) · Microeconomics (4 works) · Business (3 works) · Economic growth (3 works) · Firm Innovation and Growth (3 works) · Labour economics (3 works) · Unemployment (3 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Consumer Market Behavior and Pricing (2 works)