• On the macroeconomic and distributional effects of federal estate tax reforms in the United States (with Pieter Van Rymenant and Dirk Van de gaer) 

• Raising employment: Fiscal policy, wage formation, and their impact on welfare, inequality and poverty – A general equilibrium analysis (with Mieke Dujardin)

On  fiscal policy, consolidation and the effects and dynamics of public debt

• Long-run perspectives on the interest - growth difference on public debt, Journal of International Money and Finance, 2024 (with Marthe Mareels and Christophe Van Langenhove)

• Government efficiency, institutions, and the effects of fiscal consolidation on public debt, European Journal of Political Economy, 2013, 31, 40-59 (with Annelies Hoebeeck and Tim Buyse).

• Government debt and excess sensitivity of private consumption: Estimates from OECD countries, Economic Inquiry, 2004, 42, 618-633 (with Lorenzo Pozzi and Maarten Dossche).

• Success and failure of fiscal consolidation in the OECD: A multivariate analysis, Public Choice, 2000, 105, 103-124 (with Gerdie Everaert).

On the effects of demographic change and public pension reform: distributional effects, secular stagnation, real interest rate, automation,...

• Demographic change, secular stagnation and inequality: Automation as a blessing?, Journal of Demographic Economics, 2024 (with Arthur Jacobs).

• Long-run perspectives on the interest - growth difference on public debt, Journal of International Money and Finance, 2024 (with Marthe Mareels and Christophe Van Langenhove)

• Coping with demographic change: Macroeconomic performance and welfare inequality effects of public pension reform, Journal of Pension Economics and Finance, 2023, 22, 425-449 (with Willem Devriendt and Arthur Jacobs).

• Macroeconomic and distributional effects of demographic change in an open economy - The case of Belgium -," Journal of Demographic Economics, 2020, 86, 87-124 (with Willem Devriendt).

• Pension reform in an OLG model with heterogeneous abilities, Journal of Pension Economics and Finance, 2017, 16, 144-172 (with Tim Buyse and Renaat Van de Kerckhove).

• Pension reform, employment by age, and long-run growth in OECD countries, Journal of Population Economics, 2013, 26, 769-809 (with Tim Buyse and Renaat Van de Kerckhove).

On fiscal policy, labour market performance and economic growth

• On the impact of public policies and wage formation on business investment in research and development , Economic Modelling, 2020, 88, 188-199 (with Tim Buyse and Ruben Schoonackers).

• Getting low educated and older people into work: fiscal policy in an OLG model with heterogeneous abilities, Journal of Policy Modeling, 2019, 41, 586-606  (with Renaat Van de Kerckhove). 

• Cross-country differences in unemployment: fiscal policy, unions and household preferences in general equilibrium, Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2019, 121, 1270-1302 (with Brecht Boone).

• Fiscal Policy and TFP in the OECD: measuring direct and indirect effects, Empirical Economics, 2015, 49, 605-640 (with Gerdie Everaert and Ruben Schoonackers).

• Employment by age, education, and economic growth: effects of fiscal policy composition in general equilibrium, B.E. Journal of Macroeconomics (Advances), 2013, 13, 49-103 (with Renaat Van de Kerckhove).

• Differences in hours worked in the OECD: institutions or fiscal policies? Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, 2011, 43, 1333-1369 (with Tino Berger).

• Employment and growth in Europe and the US: the role of fiscal policy composition, Oxford Economic Papers-New Series, 2009, 61, 538-565 (with Tine Dhont).

• Why do Europeans work (much) less? It is taxes and government spending, Economic Inquiry, 2008, 46, 197-207 (with Tine Dhont).

• Crises and human capital accumulation, Canadian Journal of Economics - Revue Canadienne d'Economique), 2007, 40, 1261-1285 (with Lorenzo Pozzi).

• Public capital and long-term labour market performance in Belgium, Journal of Policy Modeling, 2004, 26, 95-112 (with Gerdie Everaert).

• Public capital and productivity growth: evidence for Belgium, 1953-1996, Economic Modelling, 2001, 18, 97-116 (with Gerdie Everaert).

On institutions and labour market performance

• Cross-country differences in unemployment: fiscal policy, unions and household preferences in general equilibrium, Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2019, 121, 1270-1302 (with Brecht Boone).

• Houses and/or jobs: ownership and the labour market in Belgian districts, Regional Studies, 2015, 49, 1387-1406 (with Daan Isebaert and Carine Smolders).

• Does homeownership lead to longer unemployment spells? The role of mortgage payments, De Economist, 2014, 162, 263-286 (with Stijn Baert and Daan Isebaert).

• Differences in hours worked in the OECD: institutions or fiscal policies? Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, 2011, 43, 1333-1369 (with Tino Berger).

• Unemployment in Europe: a problem of relative or aggregate demand for labour?, International Labour Review, 1996, 135 (with Lucia Goubert and Eddy Omey).

• Real versus nominal convergence: national labour markets and the European integration process, Labour (Roma, Testo Stampato), 1995, 97-119 (with André Van Poeck and Johan Van Gompel).

• Institutions and the rise of taxes on labour in the OECD, Weltwirtschaftliches Archiv - Review of World Economics, 1995, 131, 623-654.

• National labour market institutions and the European Economic and Monetary integration process, Journal of Common Market Studies, 1995, 33, 573-595 (with André Van Poeck).

• Labour market structures, labour market policy and wage formation in the OECD, Labour (Roma, Testo Stampato), 1993, 25-51. 

On price setting and inflation

• The kinked demand curve and price rigidity: evidence from scanner data, Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2010, 112, 723-752 (with Maarten Dossche and Dirk Van den Poel).

• Central bank independence: only part of the inflation story, De Economist, 1996, 144, 45-61 (with André Van Poeck).

(Last 10 years - mostly in Dutch)

Over economisch beleid tijdens en na de coronacrisis

• • Economisch beleid in tijden van corona: een kwestie van de juiste uitgaven te doen, Gentse Economische Inzichten, n° 1, april 2020 (met Stijn Baert, Bart Cockx en Gert Peersman).

Over de effecten van demografische verandering en hervorming van het publiek pensioensysteem

• • Pensioenhervorming: Hoe financiële houdbaarheid, macro-economische efficiëntie en billijkheid verzoenen? Gentse Economische Inzichten, n° 6, januari 2023 (met Arthur Jacobs en Tim Buyse)

  • Macro-economische effecten van demografische verandering in België, Economisch Statistische Berichten, 2018, 103 (4763), p. 330-333 (met Willem Devriendt en Pieter Van Rymenant).

  • Een structurele hervorming van het Belgische pensioensysteem. Macro-economische effecten, beleidsaanbevelingen en reflecties op de voorstellen van de Commissie Pensioenhervorming 2020-2040, Documentatieblad, 2014, Federale Overheidsdienst Financiën (België), 74(4), 1-18 (met Tim Buyse). 

  • Effecten van pensioenhervorming op werkgelegenheid, scholing en groei, in Over.Werk (Leuven), 2011, 21(2). p. 91-96 (met Tim Buyse en Renaat Van de Kerckhove).

Over begrotingsbeleid, arbeidsmarktprestaties, ongelijkheid en economische groei 

• •  Het potentieel van de schenk- en erfbelasting, Gentse Economische Inzichten, n° 13, maart 2024 (met Pieter Van Rymenant en Dirk Van de gaer).

  • Economisch beleid in tijden van corona: een kwestie van de juiste uitgaven te doen, Gentse Economische Inzichten, 2020, n° 1, april 2020 (met Stijn Baert, Bart Cockx en Gert Peersman).

  • Samenvattend visieartikel : Schuldafbouw door groei en werkgelegenheid, Samenleving en Politiek, 2013.

  • Public investment and economic growth, presentatie van een paper voor het Belgisch Instituut voor Openbare Financiën (BIOF), 2016.

  • Begrotingsbeleid voor werkgelegenheid en groei zonder ongelijkheid, Economisch Statistische Berichten, 10 september 2015 (met Renaat Van de Kerckhove en Tim Buyse).

  • Loonmatiging geen stimulans voor O&O-bedrijfsinvesteringen - Langere versie, Economisch Statistische Berichten, 8 oktober 2015 (met Tim Buyse en Ruben Schoonackers).

  • Werkgelegenheid en economische groei: Is Duitsland een voorbeeld voor Europa?  Tijdschrift voor Arbeidsvraagstukken, 2012 (met Tim Buyse).

Over eigenaarschap op de woningmarkt en arbeidsmarktprestaties in België

• • Les Belges propriétaires de leur logement restent-ils plus longtemps au chômage ?  Regards Economiques (Louvain-La-Neuve), 2016, March (122). p.1-7 (met Stijn Baert en Daan Isebaert).

  • Huiseigenaars en/of jobs in België? Een micro- én macrotoets van de Oswald-hypothese, Over.Werk, 2014 (met Daan Isebaert en Carine Smolders).

Andere

• • Over onderzoeksculturen, publicatiegewoonten en –mogelijkheden in verschillende wetenschapsdisciplines, 2015 (met Eddy Omey, Dirk Van de gaer, Stijn Baert, Brecht Boone en Tim Buyse)

• • Macro-economie, 2023, OWL Press, Borgerhoff & Lamberigts, 5de editie

  • Macro-economie, 2014, Garant, 3de editie

  • Macro-economie, 2004, Garant, 2de editie

  • The economic and business consequences of the EMU: a challenge for governments, financial institutions and firms, Hubert Ooghe, Freddy Heylen and Rudi Vander Vennet, 2000

  • EMU dé uitdaging, Hubert Ooghe, Freddy Heylen and Rudi Vander Vennet, 2000

  • Macro-economie, 1999

  • Economische Politiek: Principes en Ervaringen, André Van Poeck, Annick Bruggeman, Philippe Du Caju, Freddy Heylen and Hendrik Van Dalen, 1999

  • Leven na de dop: een onderzoek naar de haalbaarheid en effectiviteit van opleidings- en werkervaringsgaranties voor langdurig werklozen in Vlaanderen, Ilse Vleugels, Tiny Ergo, Joost Bollens, Freddy Heylen and Ides Nicaise, 1998