Faculty Members AE2

Semih Akcomak
Postdoctoral researcher (Maastricht University)

interests: Social and human capital, innovation and applied econometrics
telephone: +31 (0)43 38-83862
room number: TS 53 F2.08
email: s.akcomak@maastrichtuniversity.nl
personal website: http://akcomak.unu-merit.nl/

Theophile T. Azomahou
Professor of Development Economics

interests: growth and development, econometrics
telephone: +31 (0)43 38-84440
room number: KKP19  2.16
email: t.azomahou@maastrichtuniversity.nl
personal website: http://www.merit.unu.edu/about/profile.php?id=898

Lex Borghans
Professor of Labour Economics and Social Policy

interests: human capital, labour economcis, economics of education
telephone: +31 (0)43 38-83444
room number: TS53 A0.02
email: lex.borghans@maastrichtuniversity.nl
personal website: http://www.roa.unimaas.nl/cv/borghans

Bertrand Candelon
Professor of International Monetary Economics

interests: financial crises, international finance, contagion, econometrics
telephone: +31 (0)43 38-83442
room number: TS53 A0.19
email: b.candelon@maastrichtuniversity.nl
personal website: www.personeel.unimaas.nl/b.candelon/bc.htm 

Julio Carrillo
Assistant Professor, PhD in Economics

interests: tenure track in monetary economics
telephone: +31 (0)43 38-83640
room number: TS53 A0.05A
email: j.carrillo@maastrichtuniversity.nl
personal website: http://julioart.googlepages.com

Robin Cowan
Professor of Network Economics

interests: economics of networks, economics of knowledge, technology, innovation
telephone: +31 (0)43 38-84408
room number: KKP19 1.16
email: r.cowan@maastrichtuniversity.nl
personal website: www.cgl.uwaterloo.ca/~racowan 

Thomas Dohmen
Professor of Education and the Labour Market

interests: the nature and economic consequences of preferences, cognitive and non-cognitive skills; the psychology of incentives; personnel economics
telephone: +31 (0)43 38-83892
room number: TS53 G2.03
email: t.dohmen@maastrichtuniversity.nl
personal website: www.roa.unimaas.nl/cv/dohmen/dohmen.htm

Jaap Dronkers
Professor of International comparative research on educational performance and social inequality

interests: the causes and consequences of unequal educational and occupational attainment, changes in educational opportunities, effect-differences  between public and religious schools, the linkages between school and the labour market, the effects of parental divorce on children, cross-national differences in causes of divorce, education of Dutch elites and European nobility
telephone: +31 (0)43 38-83800/83647
room number: TS53 G3.28
email: j.dronkers@maastrichtuniversity.nl
personal website: www.roa.unimaas.nl/cv/dronkers/dronkers.htm
 

Arnaud Dupuy
Assistant Professor, PhD Maastricht University

interests: assignment models, rising wage inequality, elasticity of substitution between factors of production,micro foundations of aggregate production functions and family gap in pay.
telephone: +31 (0)43 38-83735
room number: TS53 G3.18
email: a.dupuy@maastrichtuniversity.nl
personal website: www.roa.unimaas.nl/cv/dupuy/dupuy.htm

Anne Gielen
Postdoctoral researcher, Maastricht University

interests: labor economics; applied microeconometrics
telephone: +31 (0)43 38-83887
room number: TS53 A0.13
email: a.gielen@maastrichtuniversity.nl
personal website: www.annegielen.nl/

Bart Golsteyn
Assistant Professor

interests: behavioral economics, economics of health and education
telephone: +31 (0)43 38-83736
room number: TS53 A0.15
email: b.golsteyn@maastrichtuniversity.nl
personal website: www.iza.org/index_html?lang=en&mainframe=http%3A//www.iza.org/en/webcontent/personnel/photos/index_html%3Fkey%3D2250&topSelect=personnel&subSelect=fellows

Andries de Grip
Professor of Economics

interests: training and informal learning, skill obsolescence,  human resource management, upgrading and overeducation, cognitive and non-cognitive skills, labour mobility and employability
telephone: +31 (0)43 38-83759
room number: TS53 G3.06
email: a.degrip@maastrichtuniversity.nl
personal website: www.roa.unimaas.nl/cv/degrip/Degrip.htm

Wim Groot

interests: educational economics
telephone: +31 (0)43 38-83591
room number:  KAP23 1.006
email: wn.groot@maastrichtuniversity.nl
personal website:  

Bronwyn Hall
Professor of Economics of Technology and Innovation

interests: comparative innovation, patent, and R&D policy; patent data as indicators of technological change; market valuation of intangible corporate assets; panel data estimation; firm size and growth; effects of corporate structure and governance on innovation
telephone: +31 (0)43 38-84485
room number: KKP19 GG2.18
email: bhhall@econ.berkeley.edu
personal website: http://emlab.berkeley.edu/users/bhhall/index.html

Daniel S. Hamermesh
Professor of Labor Economics

interests: time use, labor demand, social programs, academic labor markets and unusual applications of labor economics (to beauty, sleep and suicide)
telephone: +31 (0)43 38-83821
room number: TS53 A0.03
email: hamermes@eco.utexas.edu
personal website: http://www.eco.utexas.edu/faculty/Hamermesh/
 

Hans Heijke
Professor of Economics

interests: educational and occupational labour markets, higher education, vocational education and training, work-related training and the labour market, competences, their acquisition in education and training and their role in the labour market; international migration of labour
telephone: +31 (0)43 38-83827
room number: TS53 A0.05B
email: h.heijke@maastrichtuniversity.nl
personal website: www.roa.unimaas.nl/cv/Heijke/heijke.htm

Paul Jungbluth
Senior researcher

interests: social inequality in education, ethnicity versus class, self-fulfilling prophecies in educational careers, school effectiveness, equal opportunity policies,‘good governance’ in education
telephone: +31 (0)43 38-83446
room number: TS53 A0.16
email: p.jungbluth@maastrichtuniversity.nl
personal website: www.pauljungbluth.nl
www.sjoans.nl

Henriette Maassen van den Brink
 

interests: micro-economics, empirical labor economics, education, economics and health
telephone: +31 (0)43 38-83591
room number: KAP23 1.006
email: h.maassenvandenbrink@maastrichtuniversity.nl
personal website:  

Huub Meijers
Associate Professor of Economics

interests: Economics of Technological Change, Information Society
telephone: +31 (0)43 38-84879
room number: TS53 A0.10
email: huub.meijers@maastrichtuniversity.nl
personal website: meijers.unu-merit.nl/

Christoph Meng
 

interests: transition from school to work, determinants of drop-outs, acquisition and role of competencies and gender-based wage-gaps
telephone: +31 (0)43 38-83740
room number: TS53 G3.22
email: c.meng@maastrichtuniversity.nl
personal website:  

Joan Muysken
Full Professor of Economics

interests: wage formation, labour demand, matching problems, analysis of unemployment, migration and endogenous growth
telephone: +31 (0)43 38-83821
room number: TS53 A0.14
email: j.muysken@maastrichtuniversity.nl
personal website: http://www.personeel.unimaas.nl/J.Muysken/

Elma Nap-Kolhoff
Researcher

interests: Early Childhood Education, Language acquisition, Bilingualism, Linguistics, Turkish
telephone: +31 (0)43 38-83887
room number: TS53 A0.13
email: e.nap@maastrichtuniversity.nl
personal website:  

Chris de Neubourg
Professor of Economics

interests: economics and sociology, international comparative labour market studies, macro economics policy and productivity
telephone: +31 (0)43 38-84650
room number: KAP2 0.034
email: c.deneubourg@maastrichtuniversity.nl
personal website: www.governance.unimaas.nl/home/staff/directorate/chris_de_neubourg.html

Erik de Regt
Senior Lecturer

interests: labour economics, unemployment, wage determination, institutions, personnel economics
telephone: +31 (0)43 38-83809
room number: TS53 A0.20
email: e.deregt@maastrichtuniversity.nl
personal website:  

Trudie Schils
Assistant Professor

interests: labour economics, in particular the comparative analysis of labour market institutions (both at the central and decentral level), individual labour mobility patterns and the relation between the two
telephone: +31 (0)43 38-83736
room number: TS53 A0.02
email: t.schils@maastrichtuniversity.nl
personal website: www.trudieschils.nl/

Olaf Sleijpen
Professor of European Economic Policy

interests: European economic integration, European economic policy-making, central banking issues, financial markets and prudential supervision, pension fund economics
telephone: +31 (0)43 38-84410
room number: TS53 A0.13
email: o.sleijpen@maastrichtuniversity.nl
personal website:  

Luc Soete
Professor of Economics of Technology and Innovation 

interests: theoretical and empirical studies of the impact of technological change, in particular new information and communication technologies on employment, economic growth & international trade and investment, related policy and measurement issues
telephone: +31 (0)43 38-83444
room number: KKP19 012
email: luc.soete@maastrichtuniversity.nl
personal website: www.soete.nl/

Tom van Veen
Associate Professor/Associate Dean for Internationalization and Strategic Development

interests: social policy, unions, monetary economics, financial economics
telephone: +31 (0)43 38-83840
room number: TS53 A0.12
email: t.vanveen@maastrichtuniversity.nl
personal website:

http://www.unimaas.nl/media/um-layout/fdewb/opmaak.htm?http://www.personeel.unimaas.nl/T.vanVeen/

Rolf van der Velden
Professor at Maastricht University

interests: transition from school to work (in international comparative perspective), how education effects competences and labour market outcomes (both in short term and long term), the relation between education and life course in general
telephone: +31 (0)43 38-83741
room number: TS53 G3.02
email: r.vandervelden@maastrichtuniversity.nl
personal website: www.roa.unimaas.nl/cv/vandervelden/velden.htm

Bart Verspagen
Full Professor of International Economics, Maastricht University

interests: globalisation, economic growth, innovation and technological change
telephone: +31 (0)43 38-83691
room number: TS53 A0.04
email: b.verspagen@maastrichtuniversity.nl
personal website: www.verspagen.nl

Bas ter Weel
Senior Researcher

interests: labour economics, economics of innovation and new technology, international economics
telephone:  
room number:  
email: b.terweel@maastrichtuniversity.nl
personal website: www.cpb.nl/nl/org/homepages/btw/

Thomas Ziesemer
Associate Professor

interests: international, development and environmental economics; economics of growth and technical change; microeconomics
telephone: +31 (0)43 38-83872
room number: TS53 A0.06
email: t.ziesemer@maastrichtuniversity.nl
personal website: www.merit.unu.edu/about/profile.php?id=58 

Adriaan van Zon
Associate Professor

interests: the role of technology in growth and development
telephone: +31 (0)43 38-84879
room number: TS53 A0.10
email: adriaan.vanzon@maastrichtuniversity.nl
personal website: www.merit.unu.edu/about/profile.php?id=59