Research activities

• Research interest
  - Macroeconomics : fiscal policy, long-run growth, labour market performance
• Recent research papers
  

  -	Fiscal consolidation, institutions and institutional reform: a multivariate analysis of public debt dynamics (with A. Hoebeeck and T. Buyse) Revise and resubmit to European Journal of Political Economy
  -	Houses and/or jobs: ownership and the labour market in Belgian districts (with D. Isebaert and C. Smolders)
  -	Fiscal Policy and TFP in the OECD: A Non-Stationary Panel Approach (with R. Schoonackers) Revise and resubmit to Canadian Journal of Economics
  -	Pension reform, employment by age, and long-run growth in OECD countries (with Tim Buyse and Renaat Van de Kerckhove) Forthcoming in Journal of Population Economics
  -	Fiscal policy, employment by age, and growth in OECD economies (with Renaat Van de Kerckhove)
  -	Differences in hours worked in the OECD: institutions or fiscal policies? (with T. Berger) Journal of Money, Credit and Banking 43, 1333-1369

• Recent policy papers
  

  -	Concurrentiekracht en macro-economische prestaties in Duitsland: Volg de gids? (with T. Buyse) Forthcoming in Reflets et Perspectives de la Vie Economique
  -	Loonvorming, concurrentiekracht en werkgelegenheid in België (in Dutch) (with G. Everaert, N. Gobbin, F. Heylen, E. Omey, G. Rayp and K. Schoors)
  -	Onderzoeksoutput van (top)onderzoekers in verschillende wetenschapsdisciplines: een vergelijking (with D. Van de gaer en S. Monsaert)
  -	Conjunctuurgevoeligheid van de Vlaamse arbeidsmarkt (in Dutch) (with D. Reymen and A. Van Pelt)

• Publications

Teaching and other activities go to the website of Department of Social Economics>>>		Handboek Macro-economie 2de editie, Garant, 2004
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