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).