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Jan Oosterhaven

Dutch academic

Date of Birth: 19-Jun-1945

Profession: economist, university teacher

Nationality: Kingdom of the Netherlands

Zodiac Sign: Gemini


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About Jan Oosterhaven

  • Jan Oosterhaven (born 19 June 1945, Gouda) is a Dutch economist, who currently is Professor of Spatial Economics at the University of Groningen.
  • Before that, he held positions as associate and assistant professor at the same university since 1970.
  • Between 1985 and 1986, he was a visiting professor at the University of California, Los Angeles, teaching urban economics, and between 1998 and 1999 was as a senior consultant for TNO. Oosterhaven completed his MA in Econometrics at the Erasmus University Rotterdam in 1969, and obtained a PhD on "Interregional Input-Output Analysis and Dutch Regional Policy Problems" from the University of Groningen in 1981 (published with Gower). His research focuses on interregional input-output analysis, demo-economic modeling, indirect economic effects of transport infrastructure, and integral cost-benefit analysis of all kind of spatial policy measures.
  • Besides about 60 research reports mostly for government agencies, he has written and edited 10 books and some 130 scientific articles on a wide range of subjects, such as sectoral, regional and urban policy, housing, impacts of social security, high-speed rail, road infrastructure, tourism and agricultural projects.
  • These articles have been published in Annals of Reg.Sc., Env.
  • & Pl.
  • A, Econ.
  • Syst.
  • Res., ESB, Geografie, Geo.
  • Analysis, Int.
  • Reg.Sc.
  • Rev., J.of Geo.Syst., J.of Reg.Sc., Kwartaalschr.
  • Econ., Openb.
  • Fin., Papers in Reg.Sc., Reg.
  • Studies, Reg.Sc.
  • & Urb.
  • Econ., Southern Econ.
  • J., Tijdschr.
  • Vervoersw.
  • and Transportation. He is a Fellow of the Regional Science Association International, President of the International Input-Output Association (IIOA), Member of the scientific board of the Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung Halle (IWH), Editorial board member of the Australazian Journal of Reg.
  • Studies, Brazilian Review of Reg.
  • Studies, Kwartaalschrift Economie, Papers in Reg.
  • Science, Tijdschrift Vervoerswetenschappen, and Economic Systems Research (of which he was the managing editor for five years).

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