Marcel Timmer
onderdirecteur, DirectieMarcel Timmer is deputy-director of the CPB Netherlands Bureau of Economic Policy Analysis since 2019 and professor at the University of Groningen.
Marcel has worked on a broad range of issues of economic growth, structural change, international trade, productivity and economic measurement. He extensively published in major academic journals, typically based on joyful cooperative work with many colleagues. He has led large-scale international research programs and was a former director of the Groningen Growth and Development Centre (GGDC). He has supervised more than a dozen PhD students over the years and been a consultant and advisor for various organizations including the OECD, the World Bank, Dutch Ministry of Economic Affairs, Japanese Ministry of Economics, Trade and Industry (METI), Asian Development Bank and Statistics Netherlands.
More information on academic endeavors and full cv can be found on his university webpage and in Google scholar.
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Publications
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Keuzebeperking helpt welvaart
Een vakantierit naar voormalig Oost-Duitsland zette CPB-directielid Marcel Timmer aan het denken over het belang van keuzevrijheid voor consumenten. Oost-Duitse huishoudens waren flink beperkt in hun consumptiekeuzes door het toenmalige socialistische productiesysteem. Onvrede hierover zwol aan en zette het regime onder druk, wat uitmondde in de ’Val van de Muur’ in 1989. Is het een historische les dat inperking van consumptiekeuze de welvaart altijd verlaagt? →