Research

Current Research Projects

  • Reference dependence in voting behavior: Experimental evidence. 2020. With Oliver Herrmann and Bert Schoonbeek.

  • Does turnout matter for referendum outcomes? Results from a natural experiment in the Netherlands. 2019. With: Maarten Allers and Harm Rienks.

  • Taxi's, Tips and Terror: Labour market discrimination of Muslim Taxi Drivers. 2019. With: Sharfa Azeez and Ryanne van Dalen

  • An experimental test of the validity of survey–measured political ideology. 2018. With Maite Laméris and Rasmus Wiese.


Publications (peer reviewed academic articles)

  • "No country for old men: aging dictators and economic growth". Economic Modelling. With: Jochen Mierau. 2021

  • "Global value chain participation and its impact on industrial upgrading" World Economy. With: Kailan Tian and Erik Dietzenbacher. 2021.

  • "Do fiscal rules constrain political budget cycles?" With Bram Gootjes and Jakob de Haan. Public Choice, forthcoming. 2020. (also available as: DNB Working Paper no. 634. Download)

  • "Political ideology and the prospect of upward mobility hypothesis." European Journal of Political Economy, forthcoming. With Maite Laméris and Harry Garretsen. 2020

  • "Rich or alive? Political (in)stability, political leader selection and economic growth". Journal of Comparative Economics, forthcoming. With Shu Yu. 2020 Download

  • "A prospect theory model of voter turnout", Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 168: 362-373. with Oliver Herrmann and Bert Schoonbeek. 2019. Download

  • "Measuring industrial upgrading: applying factor analysis in a global value chain framework", Economic Systems Research, forthcoming. 31: 642-664. with: Kailan Tian and Erik Dietzenbacher. 2019. Download

  • "On the measurement of voter ideology. European Journal of Political Economy, 55: 417-432. With Maite Laméris and Harry Garretsen. 2018. Download

  • "Can successful fiscal adjustments only be achieved by spending cuts? " European Journal of Political Economy, 54: 146-166. With Rasmus Wiese and Jakob de Haan. 2018. Download

  • “Expressive voting and political ideology in a laboratory democracy.” European Journal of Political Economy, 50: 54-74. With Rasmus Wiese. 2017. Download

  • “Political leader survival: does competence matter?” Public Choice, 166: 113-142. With: Shu Yu. 2016. Download

  • "Democracy, globalization and ethnic violence." Journal of Comparative Economics, 41: 108-125. With Dirk Bezemer. 2013. Download

  • “Do Budgetary Institutions Mitigate Political Influences on Fiscal Policy? New Empirical Evidence for the EU”. Public Choice, 156: 423 - 441. With Jakob de Haan and Jochen Mierau. 2013. Download

  • "Terrorism and cabinet duration". International Economic Review, 52: 1253-1270, 2011. with: Martin Gassebner and Jochen Mierau. Download

  • “Political regime change, economic liberalization and growth accelerations”, Public Choice, 146: 93-115, 2011. with: Jakob de Haan.

  • “The European Economic and Monetary Union and labor market reform”, European Union Politics, 11: 3-27. 2009. with: Elzbieta Bednarek-Sekunda and Jakob de Haan.

  • “On the measurement of political instability and its impact on economic growth”, European Journal of Political Economy, 25: 15-29, 2009.

  • “Terrorism and electoral accountability: one strike, you’re out!”, Economics Letters, 100: 126-129, 2008. with: Martin Gassebner and Jochen Mierau.

  • “Trade and business cycle synchronization in OECD countries: a re-examination”, European Economic Review, 52: 646-666, 2008. with: Robert Inklaar and Jakob de Haan.

  • “Business cycle synchronization in the euro area: a critical survey”, Journal of Economic Surveys, 22: 234-273, 2008. with: Jakob de Haan and Robert Inklaar.

  • “Growth accelerations and regime changes: a correction”, Econ Journal Watch, 5: 51-58, 2008. with: Jakob de Haan.

  • “Do political variables affect fiscal policy adjustment decisions? New empirical evidence”, Public Choice, 133: 297-319, 2007. with: Jochen Mierau and Jakob de Haan. Download

  • “Financial stability reviews: a first empirical analysis”, Journal of Financial Stability, 2: 337-355, 2007. with: Sander Oosterloo and Jakob de Haan.

  • “On the relationship between central bank independence and inflation: some more bad news”. Applied Financial Economics Letters. 1: 381-385, 2005. with: Kees Bouwman and Jakob de Haan.


Contract research

  • "Evaluatie van de dorpsondersteuner". AJSPH White Paper. Aletta Jacobs School of Public Health. 14 February 2020. (download)

  • "The time-varying impact of public capital on output: new evidence based on VARs for OECD countries", EIB papers, European Investment Bank, 13: 56-81, 2008. with: Jakob de Haan. (download)


Dissertation

  • "Essays on political instability: Measurement, causes and consequences". 2008. Enschede: PrintPartners Ipskamp B.V., Enschede, The Netherlands


Books and Book Chapters

  • “Political regime change, economic liberalization and growth accelerations” in: Haan, de, J. (ed), Institutions and Economic Development, International Library of Critical Writings in Economics series. Volume II. Edward Elgar Publishers, pp: 290-313. 2019.

  • “Preadviezen van de Koninklijke Vereniging voor de Staatshuishoudkunde 2011. De economische toekomst van Nederland”, Sdu uitgevers, Den Haag, 2011. With J.H Garretsen and E. Sterken (editors). Download.

  • “What drives business cycle synchronization in the Pacific RIM countries?” in: Cheung, Y.W. and K.Y. Wong (eds), China and Asia: Economic and Financial interactions, Routledge, pp: 112-129. 2008. with: Jakob de Haan and Mark Mink.

  • A Review of Financial Stability Reports in: D. Evanoff and G. Kaufman (eds.), International Financial Instability: Global Banking and National Regulation, World Scientific Publishers, 2007. with: Jakob de Haan and Sander Oosterloo.

Publications in Dutch periodicals

  • "Social profit canvas toont de sociale winst van de dorpsondersteuner", Economisch Statistische Berichten, blog, 28 november 2022, link

  • “Links en rechts ingehaald”, Economisch Statistische Berichten, 4747: 140-143. 2017. With Maite Laméris and Harry Garretsen

  • "Boekbespreking: The heart of teaching economics: lessons from leading minds", Economisch Statistische Berichten, 4616: p. 498. 2011.

  • “The political economy of fiscal adjustments”, AElementair, August 2009. with: Manon Wolters. (link)

  • “Conjunctuurbeweging en begrotingsbeleid in de eurozone”, Tijdschrift voor Openbare Financiën, 38: 14-19, 2006. (Business cycles and fiscal policy in the euro area). with: Robert Inklaar and Jakob de Haan.

  • “Geldscheppingswinst als bron van inkomsten voor de overheid”, Financiële en Monetaire Studies, 23:2, 2005. (The role of seigniorage in public finance). with: Robert Inklaar and Jakob de Haan.

  • “Hervorming ECB goed voor prijsstabiliteit”, Economisch Statistische Berichten, 4399, pp. 158-159, 2003. (Reform ECB good for price stability). with: Jakob de Haan.

  • “Suriname is toe aan de Amerikaanse Dollar”, Economisch Statistische Berichten, 4416, pp. 487-489, 2003 (Surinam ready for U.S. dollar). with Jakob de Haan


Miscellaneous / unpublished work

  • "Innovaties in de Informele Zorg", chapter: "Evaluatie van de dorpsondersteuner". booklet. Provincie Groningen / Prinsjesfestival 2022.

  • Infographic. De sociale winst van de dorpsondersteuner. June 2022. with: Juliette de Wit. link

  • "Are Banana Republics Banana Republics?" (link). I submitted this paper once to a journal (with a so-called miscellaneous "funny" section). I received 2 referee reports with a total length exceeding the lenght of this paper. The paper was rejected as the referees failed to understand that the paper was meant to be funny.

  • "Using Real-Time Data to Test for Political Budget Cycles", KOF Working Papers, No 12-313. 2012. with Jan Egbert Sturm and Jakob de Haan.

  • "Do Coup Leaders Matter?," KOF Working papers 10-252, KOF Swiss Economic Institute, ETH Zurich. 2010. with Shu Yu. (link)


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