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
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.
Chen, Y., Ward, F., Palma, N. and Brzezinski, A. (2024). The Vagaries of the Sea: Evidence on the Real Effects of Money from Maritime Disasters in the Spanish Empire Review of Economics and Statistics, 106(5):1220--1235.
Cahuc, P., Carcillo, S., Patault, B. and Moreau, F. (2024). Judge bias in labor courts and firm performance Journal of the European Economic Association, 22(3):1319–1366.
Bosker, M. and Westbrock, B. (2024). The network origins of the gains from trade Journal of Economic Theory, 216:.
Discussion Papers
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
24-053/VI - The Chinese waste import ban and the emergence of waste havens within Europe
Date: August 22, 2024
Upcoming events
Seminar
| Rotterdam | 11:30 - 12:30
Taxes and Jobs within Multinational Firms
Irem Güçeri (University of Oxford, United Kingdom)
- Research on Monday
Seminar
| Amsterdam | 16:00 - 17:15
Private Equity and Workers: Modeling and Measuring Monopsony,...
Kyle Herkenhoff (University of Minnesota, United States)
- Macro Seminars
Seminar
| Rotterdam | 11:30 - 12:30
Title to be announced
Glenn Schepens (ECB, Germany)
- Research on Monday
Conference
| Amsterdam | 09:00 - 17:00
Annual Oxford Saïd-VU SBE Macro-finance Conference 2025
Conference
| Rotterdam | 09:00 - 17:00
Benelux PECO 2025 on Trust in Political Institutions
Andrew Little (UC Berkeley, United States), Marco Tabellini (Harvard University, United States), Michael Thaler (UCL London, United Kingdom), Arianna Ornaghi (Hertie School, Germany), Camille Urvoy (University of Mannheim, Germany) et. al
Academic Distinctions
January 06, 2025
Felix Ward obtains NWO Open Competition SSH XS grant
Felix Ward
November 01, 2024
Yao Chen (Erasmus University Rotterdam) has been awarded a NWO...
Yao Chen
July 17, 2024
Albert Jan Hummel receives Veni grant for research on labor-market...
Albert Jan Hummel