My major research interests are regional and urban economics, international macroeconomics, empirics of economic growth, meta-analysis, technology adoption and diffusion, endogenous growth theory, and environmental economics. I will regularly update this page to inform you about recent publications.
Inaugural Lecture, January 19, 2012
On Thursday, January 19, 2012, I gave my inaugural lecture. The text is available. The lecture was preceded by a symposium in which Sjoerd Beugelsdijk, George Gelauff, Gerlof Rienstra and Piet Rietveld gave very interesting presentations on the importance of trust and institutions for economic development, on scenario analysis, on regional policy and on transport and economic development. All presentations are available.
The crisis sensitivity of European regions
In a series of papers, I have been looking into the sources of variation behind the huge differences with which regions in the Netherlands (as well as in Europe as a whole) have been hit. You may want to take a look at The crisis sensitivity of Euopean countries and regions (in Cambridge Journal of Regions and Society, 4 (3), pp. 437-456), or De Conjunctuurgevoeligheid van Europese Sectoren en Regio’s (in TPEdigitaal; in Dutch).