K. De Witte

University of Leuven (KUL)

Professor

Naamsestraat 69

Leuven, Vlaams Brabant B-3000

Belgium

http://www.feb.kuleuven.be

Maastricht University

Professor

Boschstraat 24

Maastricht, Vlaams-Brabant 6211 AX

Netherlands

http://www.feb.kuleuven.be

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1.

Designing Incentives in Local Public Utilities: An International Comparison of the Drinking Water Sector

Number of pages: 32 Posted: 17 Jan 2008
K. De Witte and Rui Cunha Marques
University of Leuven (KUL) and Technical University of Lisbon (UTL) - Centre for Management Studies (CEG-IST)
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Data Envelopment Analysis, Bootstrapping, Incentive Scheme, Water Industry, Efficiency Measurement

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Equity and Efficiency in Private and Public Education: A Nonparametric Comparison

Number of pages: 22 Posted: 16 Oct 2007
L. Cherchye, K. De Witte, Erwin Ooghe and Ides Nicaise
KU Leuven, University of Leuven (KUL), Catholic University of Leuven (KUL) - Center for Economic Studies and Catholic University of Leuven (KUL) - HIVA
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equity, efficiency, private versus public education, non-parametric analysis, data envelopment analysis, stochastic dominance

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Blaming the Exogenous Environment? Conditional Efficiency Estimation with Continuous and Discrete Environmental Variables

Number of pages: 31 Posted: 08 Jan 2009
K. De Witte and Mika Kortelainen
University of Leuven (KUL) and Aston University - Aston Business School
Downloads 130 (294,973)
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Nonparametric estimation, Conditional efficiency measures, Environmental factors, Generalized kernel function, Education

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Capturing the Environment: A Metafrontier Approach to the Drinking Water Sector

Number of pages: 17 Posted: 17 Jan 2008
K. De Witte and Rui Cunha Marques
University of Leuven (KUL) and Technical University of Lisbon (UTL) - Centre for Management Studies (CEG-IST)
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Free Disposal Hull, Efficiency Measurement, Environmental Variables, Metafrontier, Water Industry

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Is a Little Sunshine all We Need? On the Impact of Sunshine Regulation on Profits, Productivity and Prices in the Dutch Drinking Water Sector

Number of pages: 34 Posted: 29 Oct 2008
K. De Witte and David S. Saal
University of Leuven (KUL) and Aston University - Aston Business School
Downloads 99 (356,834)
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Regulation, Drinking water utilities, Profit decomposition, Data Envelopment Analysis

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Direct Democracy and Local Government Efficiency

ZEW - Centre for European Economic Research Discussion Paper No. 14-017
Number of pages: 27 Posted: 13 Mar 2014
Zareh Asatryan and K. De Witte
ZEW – Leibniz Centre for European Economic Research and University of Leuven (KUL)
Downloads 95 (366,164)
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Direct democracy, Public sector efficiency, Conditional efficiency

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Mean and Bold? On Separating Merger Economies from Structural Efficiency Gains in the Drinking Water Sector

Tinbergen Institute Discussion Paper No. 07-092/3
Number of pages: 33 Posted: 05 Dec 2007
K. De Witte and Elbert Dijkgraaf
University of Leuven (KUL) and Erasmus University Rotterdam (EUR) - Erasmus School of Economics (ESE)
Downloads 93 (371,252)
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Mergers and acquisitions, efficiency, scale economies, water sector, non-parametric and parametric estimation

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The Political Economy of Efficient Public Good Provision: Evidence from Flemish Libraries Using a Generalised Conditional Efficiency Framework

Number of pages: 24 Posted: 05 Jun 2009
K. De Witte and Benny Geys
University of Leuven (KUL) and Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB)
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nonparametric estimation, conditional efficiency, political economy, public good provision, libraries

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Accounting for Exogenous Influences in a Benevolent Performance Evaluation of Teachers

Number of pages: 24 Posted: 01 Sep 2009
K. De Witte and N. Rogge
University of Leuven (KUL) and KU Leuven - Faculty of Business and Economics (FEB)
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Teacher performance, Data envelopment analysis, Conditional efficiency, Education

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Political Donations, Public Procurement and Government Efficiency

CESifo Working Paper No. 7591
Number of pages: 24 Posted: 19 Apr 2019
Vítězslav Titl, K. De Witte and Benny Geys
Utrecht University - School of Economics, University of Leuven (KUL) and BI Norwegian Business School
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political connections, non-parametric efficiency analysis, benefit-of-the-doubt

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Strategic Housing Policy, Migration and Sorting Around Population Thresholds

CESifo Working Paper Series No. 5639
Number of pages: 34 Posted: 19 Jan 2016
K. De Witte and Benny Geys
University of Leuven (KUL) and BI Norwegian Business School
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rent-seeking, political agency, regression discontinuity designs, building permits

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A Unified Productivity-Performance Approach, with an Application to Secondary Schools in the Netherlands

Number of pages: 27 Posted: 10 Oct 2015
L. Cherchye, K. De Witte and Sergio Perelman
KU Leuven, University of Leuven (KUL) and University of Liège - Department of Economics
Downloads 41 (555,283)
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performance, productivity, resource constraints, secondary schools

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The Effect of Ability Matching and Differentiated Instruction in Financial Literacy Education - Evidence from Two Randomised Control Trials

CESifo Working Paper No. 7997
Number of pages: 45 Posted: 12 Jan 2020
Kaat Iterbeke, K. De Witte, Koen Declercq and Wouter Schelfhout
KU Leuven - Faculty of Business and Economics (FEB), University of Leuven (KUL), KU Leuven - Faculty of Business and Economics (FEB) and University of Antwerp - Faculty of Social Sciences
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financial literacy, ability matching, differentiated instruction, randomised control trial

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Identifying Financially Illiterate Groups: An International Comparison

International Journal of Consumer Studies 2019, 43(5), 490–501.
Number of pages: 20 Posted: 25 Apr 2019 Last Revised: 04 Sep 2019
Kenneth De Beckker, K. De Witte and Geert Van Campenhout
KU Leuven - Faculty of Business and Economics (FEB), University of Leuven (KUL) and KU Leuven - FEB@HUBrussel
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Financial Literacy, Financial Knowledge, Financial Behaviour, Financial Attitudes, Cluster Analysis

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Big and Beautiful? On Non-Parametrically Measuring Scale Economies in Non-Convex Technologies

Number of pages: 21 Posted: 09 Nov 2008 Last Revised: 11 Nov 2008
K. De Witte and Rui Cunha Marques
University of Leuven (KUL) and Technical University of Lisbon (UTL) - Centre for Management Studies (CEG-IST)
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Free Disposal Hull, economies of scale, optimal size, water sector

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The Added Value of More Accurate Predictions for School Rankings

Bank of Italy Temi di Discussione (Working Paper) No. 1209, February 2019
Number of pages: 26 Posted: 06 Aug 2019
Paolo Sestito, Fritz Schiltz, Tommaso Agasisti and K. De Witte
Bank of Italy, University of Leuven, Politecnico di Milano - Department of Management, Economics and Industrial Engineering and University of Leuven (KUL)
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value-added, school rankings, machine learning, Monte Carlo

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The Role of National Culture in Financial Literacy: Cross-Country Evidence

Journal of Consumer Affairs 2020, 54(3), 912–930.
Number of pages: 33 Posted: 13 Nov 2020
Kenneth De Beckker, K. De Witte and Geert Van Campenhout
KU Leuven - Faculty of Business and Economics (FEB), University of Leuven (KUL) and KU Leuven - FEB@HUBrussel
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cross-country analysis, financial literacy, national culture

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How Applicants Want and Expect to Be Treated: Applicants' Selection Treatment Beliefs and the Development of the Social Process Questionnaire on Selection

Number of pages: 21 Posted: 04 May 2004
Eva Derous, Marise Ph. Born and K. De Witte
Erasmus University Rotterdam, Erasmus University Rotterdam (EUR) - Faculty of Social Sciences and University of Leuven (KUL)
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Selection Test Anxiety: Investigating Applicants' Self- vs. Other-Referenced Anxiety in a Real Selection Setting

International Journal of Selection and Assessment, Vol. 16, Issue 1, pp. 14-26, March 2008
Number of pages: 13 Posted: 29 Jan 2008
Karin Proost, Eva Derous, Bert Schreurs, Knut A. Hagtvet and K. De Witte
Open University (Netherlands), Erasmus University Rotterdam, affiliation not provided to SSRN, affiliation not provided to SSRN and University of Leuven (KUL)
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Nonparametric Analysis of Multi-Output Production with Joint Inputs

Number of pages: 39 Posted: 14 Jan 2012
L. Cherchye, Thomas Demuynck, Bram De Rock and K. De Witte
KU Leuven, Catholic University of Leuven (KUL) - Campus Kortrijk (KULAK) - Subfaculty of Economics and Applied Economics, Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB) - European Center for Advanced Research in Economics and Statistics (ECARES) and University of Leuven (KUL)
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cooperative behavior, noncooperative behavior, multi-output production, joint inputs, nonparametric analysis, water sector

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The Effect of Financial Education on Students' Consumer Choices: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment

De Beckker, K., De Witte, K., & Van Campenhout G. (2021) The Effect of Financial Education on Students' Consumer Choices: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment, Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 188, 962–976. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jebo.2021.06.022
Number of pages: 42 Posted: 08 Jul 2021
Kenneth De Beckker, K. De Witte and Geert Van Campenhout
KU Leuven - Faculty of Business and Economics (FEB), University of Leuven (KUL) and KU Leuven - FEB@HUBrussel
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Financial education; Consumer Behavior; Randomized controlled trial; Discrete choice experiment

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The Role of Affect in the Relationship between Distributive Justice Expectations and Applicants' Recommendation and Litigation Intentions

International Journal of Selection and Assessment, Vol. 20, Issue 4, pp. 404-413, 2012
Number of pages: 10 Posted: 21 Nov 2012
Brigitte Geenen, Karin Proost, Marius Van Dijke, K. De Witte and Jasper von Grumbkow
affiliation not provided to SSRN, Open University (Netherlands), affiliation not provided to SSRN, University of Leuven (KUL) and affiliation not provided to SSRN
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Can Information Change Preferences for Higher Education? Evidence from a Randomized Experiment in Colombia

Number of pages: 31 Posted: 19 May 2022
Gloria Lucía Bernal Nisperuza, Luz Abadía Alvarado, Sergio Arango and K. De Witte
Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Pontifical University Javeriana Inicio - Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, affiliation not provided to SSRN and University of Leuven (KUL)
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C25, I23, I25, I28

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The Relation between Selection Expectations, Perceptions and Organizational Attraction: A Test of Competing Models

International Journal of Selection and Assessment, Vol. 18, Issue 4, pp. 447-452, 2010
Number of pages: 6 Posted: 01 Jan 2011
Bert Schreurs, Eva Derous, Karin Proost and K. De Witte
affiliation not provided to SSRN, Erasmus University Rotterdam, Open University (Netherlands) and University of Leuven (KUL)
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Symbolic Attributes and Organizational Attractiveness: The Moderating Effects of Applicant Personality

International Journal of Selection and Assessment, Vol. 17, Issue 1, pp. 35-46, March 2009
Number of pages: 12 Posted: 27 Apr 2009
Bert Schreurs, Celina Druart, Karin Proost and K. De Witte
affiliation not provided to SSRN, affiliation not provided to SSRN, Open University (Netherlands) and University of Leuven (KUL)
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