Wouter Den Haan

Wouter Den Haan is a Professor of Economics at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), where he has held the position since 2011. He previously served as a professor at the University of Amsterdam (2006–2011), London Business School (2003–2007), and UC San Diego (2001–2004). His research focuses on macroeconomics, dynamic stochastic equilibrium models, heterogeneous agents, and numerical solution techniques. Den Haan has held editorial roles at journals like Quantitative Economics and the Economic Journal and serves as a research consultant for the European Central Bank.

He holds a Ph.D. in Economics from Carnegie Mellon University (1991) and an MSc in Economics (cum laude) from Erasmus University Rotterdam (1986). His awards include multiple Excellence in Education Awards (2018–2021) and the Alexander Henderson Dissertation Award (1991). Den Haan’s work has been published in leading journals such as the Journal of Monetary Economics, Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, and the American Economic Review.

His research emphasizes frictions in financial and labor markets, business cycle models with heterogeneous agents, and computational economics. Notable contributions include studies on uncertainty in search and matching models, agnostic structural disturbances in macroeconomic models, and the role of debt and equity finance in business cycles. Den Haan has advised numerous PhD students and holds grants from organizations like the ESRC and the Dutch Science Council (NWO).

He has been affiliated with institutions such as the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) and the Centre for Macroeconomics (CFM), contributing to policy debates on quantitative easing, central bank independence, and financial innovation. His teaching evaluations reflect consistently high ratings across undergraduate and graduate courses in macroeconomics.