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Eric Bartelsman is a Full Professor of Economics at the School of Business and Economics, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, and an Economics Research Fellow at the Tinbergen Institute. He has held this position since 2000 and served as General Director of the Tinbergen Institute from 2016-2023. His academic career includes previous roles as an economist at the Federal Reserve Board in Washington DC, advisor to CPB Netherlands, and Head of Economic Research at the Ministry of Economic Affairs in the Netherlands.
Professor Bartelsman earned his BS from MIT and PhD from Columbia University. His extensive experience includes serving as a member of the Netherlands Council of Economic Advisors (2007-2008), non-resident Fellow of DG ECFin (2012-2013), and Research Visitor at the ECB (2013-2017). He currently holds additional positions as Adviseur at the Halle Institute for Economic Research (2023-2027), Lid Bankraad at De Nederlandsche Bank (since 2024), and member of the Expertisekring Miljoenennota at Raad van State (2025-2028).
His research focuses on productivity growth from both micro and macro perspectives, with particular interest in firm dynamics, factor allocation, industrial organization, innovation, and technological progress. Bartelsman's work often utilizes panel data to analyze how productivity varies across firms and countries, and how policy interventions affect economic outcomes. His research has significant implications for understanding cross-country productivity differences and the role of resource allocation in economic growth.
Professor Bartelsman's publications reveal a consistent focus on productivity measurement and analysis, with an evolving emphasis from firm-level dynamics to cross-country comparisons. His work increasingly incorporates microdata to understand macroeconomic phenomena, bridging the gap between microeconomic behavior and aggregate economic outcomes. A notable trend is his exploration of how institutional factors and policy distortions affect resource allocation and, consequently, aggregate productivity.
- NWO Open Competition Grant (2021)
As an educator, Bartelsman supervises PhD students (10 theses completed) and teaches courses ranging from first-year macroeconomics principles to advanced macroeconomics at the MSc level and specialized topics in resource allocation at the Tinbergen Institute. He has secured research funding including the NWO Open Competition Grant for the project "Supply and demand-oriented economic policies to boost robust growth in Europe" (2019-2022).
Bartelsman is actively involved in research communities as a Fellow of the Tinbergen Institute and IZA Bonn. His work contributes to Sustainable Development Goals related to economic growth and innovation. He serves on editorial boards including Industrial and Corporate Change (2008-2017) and Tijdschrift voor Openbare Financiën (2012), and continues to influence economic policy through his various advisory roles.
