Function: researcher
Telephone: 09/264.35.03.
Fax: 09/264.35.99.
E-mail: Bruno.Merlevede@UGent.be
Office: 110.015

Economic performance in transition countries, effects of foreign direct investment, macroeconomic modelling, European integration.

• Merlevede B., (2003), Reform Reversals and Output Growth in Transition Economies, Economics of Transition, vol. 11(4), pp. 649-69
• Merlevede B., Plasmans J. and van Aarle B., (2003), A Small Macroeconomic Model of the EU-Accession Countries, Open Economies Review, vol. 14(3), p. 221-50.
• Merlevede B., (2001), Groei gedurende de transitie van plan naar markteconomie (Growth during the Transition from Planned to Market Economy), Economisch en Sociaal Tijdschrift, nr. 3, september, p. 537-75. (in dutch)
• Gobbin N. and Merlevede B., (2000), The Russian Crisis: A Debt Perspective, Post Communist Economies, Vol. 12, No. 2, June, p. 141-62.

• van Aarle B., Merlevede B. and Plasmans J., (2003), Macro-Economic Adjustment in EU-Accession Countries: An Analysis Using a Small Macro-Economic Model, in eds. Vinhas de Souza L. and van Aarle B., The Euroarea and the New EU Member States, Palgrave-MacMillan, pp. 54-78.
• Merlevede B., (2002), Stabilisation, Reform, Initial Conditions and Output Paths in Transition Economies, in eds. Charemza W. and Strzala K., East European Transition and EU Enlargement: A Quantitative Approach, Physica-Verlag, Berlin, pp. 179-198.

• Merlevede B. and Schoors K., (2004), Determinants of FDI in Transition Countries
• Merlevede B., Schoors K. and van Aarle B., (2004), A Macroeconomic Model for the Russian Economy and an Assesment of Russia’s Oil Dependency
• Merlevede B., Verbeke T. and De Clercq M., (2004), The EKC for SO2: Does Firm Size Matter?, Ghent University Working Paper 04/218 (under revision)
• Merlevede B. and Schoors K., (2003), Gradualism versus big bang: evidence from transition countries (under revision)
• Di Bartolomeo G., Merlevede B., Plasmans J. and van Aarle B., (2003), Monetary Policy Regimes in the New Keynesian Framework: Results for Accession Countries (under revision)
• Borghijs A., Di Bartolomeo G. and Merlevede B., (2003), Inflation and Unemployment in OECD Countries: The Role of Political Ideologies, Central Bank Independence and Industrial Relations – Faculty of Applied Economics UFSIA-RUCA Research paper 2003-01
• Plasmans J., Meersman H., Van Poeck A. and Merlevede B., (2002), The Unemployment Benefit System and Wage Flexibility in EMU: Time-varying Evidence in five Countries – Faculty of Applied Economics UFSIA-RUCA Research paper 2002-020 (under revision)

• Center for Empirical Macroeconomics, University of Bielefeld, Germany (workshop November 2000), paper “Generosity of the Unemployment Benefit System and Wage Flexibility in EMU: time-varying Evidence in five Countries”
• Bank of Finland Institute for Transition Economies (BOFIT), Helsinki, Finland (seminar May 2001), paper “Reform Reversals and Output Growth in Transition Economies”
• "East European Transition and EU Enlargement: a Quantitative Approach”, Gdansk, Poland (conference June 2001), paper “Reform Reversals and Output Growth in Transition Economies”
• VVE-day, LUC, Diepenbeek, Belgium (conference October 2001), paper: “Inflation and unemployment in OECD countries: The role of political ideologies, central bank independence and industrial relations”
• XVIIth AIEL (Associazione Italiani degli Economisti del Lavoro) Conference, Salerno, Italy (September 26-27 2002), “The Unemployment Benefit System and Wage Flexibility in EMU: Time-varying Evidence in five Countries”
• AEA Conference, Washington, USA, January 2003, “Monetary policy regimes with hybrid output gaps and inflation rates with an application to EU-accession countries”
• International CESifo Area Conference on Macro, Money and International Finance, Munich, Germany, February 2003, “Monetary policy regimes with hybrid output gaps and inflation rates with an application to EU-accession countries”
• EcoMod 2003 International Conference on Policy Modeling, Istanbul, Turkey, July 2003, “Monetary Policy Regimes with Hybrid Output Gaps and Inflation Rates with an Application to EU-Accession Countries”
• VIIIth Spring Meeting of Young Economists, Leuven, Belgium (April 4-5, 2003); paper “Reform Reversals and Output Growth in Transition Economies”
• VVE-day, University of Antwerp, Belgium (October 2003), “Determinants of FDI in transition countries”
• Econometrics of Emerging Countries Conference, Applied Econometrics Association, Toledo, Spain, November 2003, “Reform Reversals and Output Growth in Transition Economies”
• International Atlantic Economic Conference, Lisbon, Portugal, March 2004, “Determinants of FDI in transition countries”

• “Economic Implications of the EU-enlargement”, Central Planning Bureau, The Hague, The Netherlands (panel discussion October 2001)
• “The European Macroeconomy: Integration, Employment and Policy Coordination”, University of Antwerp, Belgium (November 2001), discussant “Public expenditure and wage setting in a monetary union” (N. Acocella)
• XIVth Summer School of the European Economic Association: Microeconometrics; Institute for Fiscal Studies Londen (2003)
• Member programme committee IXth Spring Meeting of Young Economists, Warsaw University, Warsaw, Poland (2004)