Publications

• (with Jos Ebregt, Douwe Kingma and Gerard van Welzenis) AIECE General Report Report submitted at the general meeting of 5-6 November 2009 ,CPB Document 197, November 2009.
• The economic crisis and economic forecasting ; The world economic outlook; The euro area outlook ; presentations held at the autumn meeting of the AIECE, 5-6 November, Brussels.
• World trade and the Great Recession , presentation, October 2009, Brussels.
• (with Gerard van Welzenis) World Trade Monitor, monthly up to September 2009
• (with Jasper de Jong) Historische krimp Nederlandse economie (Record drop Dutch economy) , ESB, 26 June 2009
• Euro area potential output growth and the credit crisis. Will the potential output method be another victim of the credit crisis? , presentation, Vilnius, 22 June 2009 [Earlier version: Vienna(8 May 2009)].
• (with Michiel Bijlsma) The credit crisis and the Dutch economy... in eight frequently asked questions , 2008, CPB Memorandum, no 210, [in Dutch and in CPB Nieuwsbrief 2008-4 ]
• (with Jasper de Jong and Johan Verbruggen) December 2008 forecast: Tough times ahead , 2008, CPB Memorandum, no 209, [in Dutch and in CPB Nieuwsbrief 2008-4 ]
• Inflatie per inkomensgroep (Dutch inflation by income group) , 2008, CPB Memorandum, no 207.
• Die pijnlijk hoge olieprijs (Oil price painfully high), 2008, CPB Nieuwsbrief, 2008-3.
• (with Jos Ebregt, Douwe Kingma and Gerard van Welzenis) De wereldhandel en grondstoffenprijzen in 2008-2009 (World trade 2007-2009), 2008, CPB Memorandum, no 206, [Spring 2008 version]
• The emerging Indian economy and its global implications Annual lecture of the Netherlands-India Chamber of Commerce & Trade, March 2008
• The world economy does not matter , 2007, CPB Newsletter, 2007-4 ( De wereldeconomie doet er niet toe , 2007, CPB Nieuwsbrief, 2007-4)
• (with Henri L.F.de Groot and Piet Buitelaar, eds.) India and the Dutch Economy, Stylised facts and prospects , 2007, CPB Document, No. 155,
• Ranglijst geeft impuls voor herzien van beleid, (Rankings matter for economic policy), 2007, September 21, Het Financieele Dagblad
• The Chinese economy, seen from Japan and the Netherlands , 2007, CPB Memorandum, no 185
• (with Douwe Kingma) FAQs on oil and the world economy , 2007, CPB Memorandum, no 104 (update of 7 July 2007; earlier version published in 2004).
• De aanbodzijde van de Verenigde Staten en het eurogebied, 2008-2011 (The supply side of the US and the euro area economies 2008-2011) , 2006, CPB Memorandum, no 173
• The (de)coupling definition dilemma, Financial Times, 6 December 2006.
• (with Henri L.F.de Groot, eds.) China and the Dutch Economy, Stylised facts and prospects , 2006, CPB Document, No. 127. [Related presentations: Brussels, Eindhoven(in Dutch)]
• The Global economy, with focus on the US slowdown , presentation, Brussels, 18 October 2006.
• Nuancing the favourable assessments of the Nordic economies , 2006, CPB Memorandum, no 153
• Genoeg oliereserves buiten OPEC, (Sufficient non-OPEC oil reserves), 2005, December 13, Het Financieele Dagblad
• De economische situatie in Italië (The Italian economic situation), 2005, CPB Memorandum, no 125
• (with Gerard van Welzenis) Explanatory note on the CPB world trade series, 2005, CPB Memorandum, no 116
• Afhankelijkheid Nederland van de Duitse economie, (How dependent is the Dutch economy of the German economy; contribution to the CPB/DIA Workshop on the German economic outlook and the consequences for the Dutch economy, Amsterdam, 29 April 2005)
• (with Joachim Scheide, Klaus-Juergen Gern and Malgorzata Markiewicz) Reform of the Growth and Stability Pact, Annex 1 of Economic Assessment of the Euro Area: Forecasts and Policy Analysis , March 2005, Euroframe-EFN
• (with Douwe Kingma) Veelgestelde vragen over olie en de wereldeconomie (Frequently asked questions on oil and the world economy), 2004, CPB Memorandum, no 95
• Looking east: sorry or worry?, 2003, DIW Economic Bulletin, volume 40, No. 1, January
• De aanbodzijde in de Verenigde Staten en de Europese Unie, 2004-2007 (The supply side in the US and the EU, 2004-07), 2003, CPB Memorandum, no 59
• (with Isabelle Joumard) Enhancing the effectiveness of public spending in Norway , 2002, OECD Economics Department working paper, No. 343.
• (with Isabelle Joumard) Options for reforming the Finnish tax system , 2002, OECD Economics Department working paper, No. 319.
• (with Paul Schreyer) Creation of the euro area: consequences for economic statistics , 2002, OECD Statistics Brief, No. 2.
• (with Laurence Le Fouler and Dave Turner) Trade Linkages and the trade matrices in the OECD INTERLINK model , 2001, OECD Economics Department working paper, No. 310.
• (with Pablo Antolin) How should Norway respond to ageing? , 2001, OECD Economics Department working paper, No. 296.
• (with Pablo Antolin) How Will Ageing Affect Finland? , 2001, OECD Economics Department working paper, No. 295.
• More publications can be found at my REPEC home page

Work experience

2009-	Head unit Public Finance at the CPB
2002-2009	Head unit International Cyclical Analysis at the CPB
1999-2002	Head of the Finland/Norway Desk of the Economics Department of the OECD
1994-1998	Principal Administrator at the Macroeconomic Analysis and Systems Management Division of the Economics Department of the OECD
1989-1994	Chief Economist of Financiele Diensten Amsterdam
1986-1989	Administrator at the Growth Division and the Australia/Netherlands Desk of the Economics Department of the OECD
1978-1986	Economist at the Regional Unit, the International Cyclical Analysis Unit and the International Economic Research Unit of the CPB

Education

• Study Economics at the Erasmus University of Rotterdam.