Macroeconomics
Modern Macroeconomics is firmly grounded in the principles of economic theory and allows for heterogeneity, frictions and incomplete markets. A lot of the research is quantitative and uses micro data. Specific topics include: optimal taxation with climate change, public and private insurance with information frictions, understanding the implications of wage rigidities and labor market sorting.
Macroeconomics
Modern Macroeconomics is firmly grounded in the principles of economic theory and allows for heterogeneity, frictions and incomplete markets. A lot of the research is quantitative and uses micro data. Specific topics include: optimal taxation with climate change, public and private insurance with information frictions, understanding the implications of wage rigidities and labor market sorting.
Researchers in this field
Fellows and Faculty
Fellows and Faculty
PhD Students
PhD Students
Key Publications
Sloof, R., Beetsma, R. and Steinweg, A. (2026). Debt Ceilings with Fiscal Intransparency and Imperfect Electoral Accountability International Economic Review, 67(1):97--125.
Douenne, T., Hummel, \.J. and Pedroni, M. (2026). Optimal Fiscal Policy in a Climate-Economy Model with Heterogeneous Households Economic Journal, :.
Figueiredo, A., Marie, O. and Markiewicz, A. (2026). The unequal job security scars of displacement Journal of Public Economics, 255:1--25.
Gerritsen, A., Jacobs, B., Spiritus, K. and Rusu, A. (2025). Optimal taxation of capital income with heterogeneous rates of return Economic Journal, 135(665):180--211.
Cai, X., Gautier, P. and Wolthoff, R. (2025). Spatial search Journal of Economic Theory, 224:1--18.
Discussion Papers
25-043/VI - Should Carbon taxes be Pre-announced? On Irreversible Investment, Real Options and Carbon Taxes
Date: July 25, 2025
25-030/VI - Sea Level Rise and Optimal Flood Protection under Uncertainty
Date: April 25, 2025
25-001/VI - Soft Landing and Inflation Scares
Date: January 08, 2025
24-071/VI - Corporate Legacy Debt, Inflation, and the Efficacy of Monetary Policy
Date: November 26, 2024
24-054/VI - Competitive search with private information: Can price signal quality?
Date: August 30, 2024
Upcoming events
Seminar
| Amsterdam | 16:00 - 17:15
The Propagation of Tariff Shocks via Production Networks
Gernot Müller (University of Tübingen, Germany)
- Macro Seminars
Seminar
| Amsterdam | 16:00 - 16:45
Conflict Inflation with Multilateral Trade
Lara Klein
- PhD Lunch Seminars
Seminar
| Rotterdam | 11:30 - 12:30
Title to be announced
Laura Hering (Erasmus University Rotterdam)
- Brown Bag Seminars General Economics, Research on Monday
Seminar
| Rotterdam | 11:30 - 12:30
Title to be announced
Bart Los (University of Groningen)
- Spatial International and Macroeconomics
Seminar
| Amsterdam | 16:00 - 17:15
Title to be annunced
Árpád Ábrahám (University of Bristol, United Kingdom)
- Macro Seminars
Academic Distinctions
February 06, 2026
Igo Dobbe was awarded the Jan Brouwer Scriptieprijs 2026
Igo Dobbe
December 11, 2025
Aksel Erbahar has been awarded an NWO Open Competition SSH XS...
Aksel Erbahar
July 04, 2025
NWO Open Competition SSH M Grant
Maarten Bosker