Homepage Wouter Vermeulen
Personal data
| Name : | Wouter Vermeulen |
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| Sector : | Physical Aspects | |
| Telephone : | +31 70 33 83 467 | |
| Fax : | +31 70 33 83 350 | |
| E-mail : | W.Vermeulen@cpb.nl |
Activities
I work as a researcher at CPB and the Spatial Economics department of VU University, and I am an associate of the Spatial Economics Research Centre based at the London School of Economics.My fields of interest are housing supply and land use regulation, which I approach from both positive and normative angels. Empirical work that I have done for the Netherlands suggests that in this country, housing supply is almost fully inelastic with respect to prices and that planning largely shapes the spatial distribution of population and employment growth. In a new joint project with Christian Hilber (LSE), we will investigate the impact of land use regulation on UK housing markets. The welfare economic evaluation of such effects are a second main thread in my research. Currently, I am particularly interested in how agglomeration externalities should enter in these evaluations.
Publications in English
- Does land use planning shape regional economies? A simultaneous analysis of housing supply, internal migration and local employment growth in the Netherlands, Journal of Housing Economics, Volume 18(4), pp. 294 - 310, 2009 (with Jos van Ommeren)
- Land markets and their regulation: the economic impacts of planning, in Geyer, H. S. (ed.), International Handbook of Urban Policy, vol. 2, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 2009 (with Paul Cheshire) [pdf final draft]
- Compensation of regional unemployment in housing markets, Economica, Volume 76 (301), pp. 71 - 88, 2009 (with Jos van Ommeren)
- Essays on housing supply, land use regulation and regional labour markets, Tinbergen Institute Research Series 430, Amsterdam: Thela Thesis, 2008 [pdf] [summary (in Dutch)]
Working papers and CPB output
- Urban expansion or clustered deconcentration?An applied welfare economic analysis of growth controls and the foundation of satellites, Tinbergen Discussion Paper, TI - 08 - 043/3, 2008 (with Jan Rouwendal) [pdf]
- Housing supply in the Netherlands, CPB Discussion Paper, No. 87, September 2007 (with Jan Rouwendal) [pdf] [persbericht (in Dutch)]
- Housing supply and the interaction of regional population and employment, CPB Discussion Paper, No. 65, May 2006 (with Jos van Ommeren) [pdf] [persbericht (in Dutch)]
- Regional disparities in a small country? An analysis of regional unemployment and participation differentials in the Netherlands from 1975 to 2003, CPB Document, No. 113, April 2006 [pdf] [persbericht (in Dutch)]
- Compensation of regional unemployment in housing markets, CPB Discussion Paper, No. 57, Februari 2006 (with Jos van Ommeren) [pdf] [persbericht (in Dutch)]
- The CPB regional labour market model: a tool for long-term scenario construction, in: Frank van Oort, Leo van Wissen and Mark Thissen (eds.) A survey of spatial-economic planning models in the Netherlands. Theory, application and evaluation, Ruimtelijk Planbureau, 2005 (with Eugène Verkade) [pdf final draft]
- Interaction of regional population and employment: identifying short-run and equilibrium adjustment effects, Tinbergen Discussion Paper, TI - 04 - 083/3, 2004 (with Jos van Ommeren) [pdf]
- A model for Dutch commuting, CPB Report 2003/1, 2003
Nederlandstalige publicaties
- De Nederlandse woningmarkt en overheidsbeleid: over aanbodrestricties en vraagsubsidies, in: Don, F. J. H. (ed.) Agenda voor de woningmarkt, Preadviezen van de Koninklijke Vereniging voor de Staatshuishoudkunde, 2008 (met Paul Besseling, Lans Bovenberg en Gerbert Romijn)[pdf]
- Vormt vergrijzing een bedreiging voor de Nederlandse woningmarkt? Property Research Quarterly, Jaargang 6 (4), pp. 20 - 25, 2007 (met Jan Rouwendal) [pdf final draft]
- Economische analyse van ruimtelijke-ordeningsbeleid, Kwartaalschrift Economie, Jaargang 4 (1), pp. 57 - 75, 2007 (met Jan Rouwendal en Willemijn van der Straaten) [pdf final draft]
- Woningaanbod en de interactie van regionale bevolking en werkgelegenheid, Property Research Quarterly, Jaargang 5 (3), pp. 39 - 43, 2006 [pdf final draft]
- Compensatie van regionale werkloosheid in woningmarkten, Tijdschrift voor Politieke Economie, Jaargang 27 (4), pp. 97 -109, 2006 (met Jos van Ommeren) [pdf final draft]
- Nieuwe baan of nieuwe functie?
Een studie naar de beloning van externe en interne mobiliteit,
Werkdocument 96, Sociaal en Cultureel Planbureau, 2004
[pdf]
Work experience
| 2008-present | associate of the Spatial Economics Research Centre, London School of Economics |
| 2008-present | postdoctoral researcher at the Spatial Economics department, VU University |
| Fall 2006 | Visiting Research Scholar at the London School of Economics |
| 2003- 2008 | PhD student at the Spatial Economics department, VU University (supervisors: Piet Rietveld, Jos van Ommeren and Jan Rouwendal) |
| 2001- present | researcher at CPB |
| 2001-2003 | government trainee (rijkstrainee), including three month internship at Social and Cultural Planning Office |
Education
- PhD in Economics, VU University, 2008
- Master of Philosophy in Economics,
Tinbergen Institute, 2004
- Master of Science in Applied Mathematics, Utrecht University, 2001
