Stefan Boeters

Activities

• Researcher in the sector "Labour and Education".
• Numerical labour market model with special focus on age-specific labour market effects.
• Further development and application of the global general equilibrium model "WorldScan" and its energy/climate extension.

Current projects

• Project on the labour market for older workers for the Ministry of Social Affairs (SZW).

Previous projects

• Article on labour market modelling in a CGE context for the "Handbook of CGE Modeling" (ed.: D. Jorgenson and P. Dixon).
• MODELS: Model development for the evaluation of the EU Lisbon targets. Implementation of a labour market module for WorldScan with endogenous labour supply and unemployment.
• EU Competitiveness Report 2007: Assessment of the EU biofuel targets.
• IBO: Medium-term (post 2012) scenarios for climate policy.
• TAXBEN: Project for the European Commission to evaluate different aspects of the European public finance system. Focus of WP 5: optimal timing of climate policy, alternative post-Kyoto strategies, interaction of emission trading schemes with pre-existing energy taxes.

Fields of interest

• All aspects of computable general equilibrium (CGE) models.
• Labour market issues in relation to CGE: aggregation of heterogeneous households, macroeconomic aspects of wage negotiations.
• Numerical implementation of optimal taxation problems.
• Environmental economics: climate change, "double dividend", transportation.
• Linking partial and general equilibrium models.