According to the author, analysis of urban developments in Indonesia has been hampered in the past by weak data. Recently, the National Union Development Strategy (NUDS) project has generated a set of improved data. Rietveld elaborates and supplements the NUDS study. After a discussion of...

The study addressed two problems relating to non-agricultural employment in rural Java. First, four possible determinants of non-agricultural income at the village level are examined. Second, the relationship between non-agricultural activities and rural income distribution is evaluated. The...

This paper employs Vector Autoregression (VAR) models to measure the impact of monetary policy shocks on regional output in Indonesia. Having incorporated a possible structural break following the aftermath of the 1997-98 Asian Crisis, the impulse response functions derived from the estimated...

This paper exploits micro firm level data to examine the impact of spatial clustering and links to foreign buyer networks on firm performance in the wood furniture industry in Central Java, Indonesia. The analysis is based on an annual manufacturing survey. We identify the impact of...

This paper explores the determinants of regional differences in interest rates based on a simple theoretical model of loan pricing. The model demonstrates how risks, costs, market concentration and scale economies jointly determine the bank's interest rates. Using recent data of the Indonesian...

In this paper the Burtless and Hausman model is used to estimate water demand in Salatiga, Indonesia. Other statistical models, as OLS and IV, are found to be inappropiate. A topic, which does not seem to appear in previous studies, is the fact that the density function of the loglikelihood can...