John van Reenen (economist)
John Michael van Reenen , OBE (born December 26, 1965 ) is a British economist .
Career, research and teaching
Van Reenen studied between 1985 and 1988 at Queens' College of the University of Cambridge , where he as a BA graduate . He then moved to the London School of Economics , where he completed his studies in industrial relations as a Master of Science in 1989 . Until 1992 he continued his studies at University College London , where he graduated with Michael Devereux and Richard W. Blundell as Ph.D. in economics.
After completing his studies, van Reenen conducted research at the Institute for Fiscal Studies . In 1994 he was appointed professor at University College London. In 1999 he was one of the founders of the software company Polygnostics , where he was Chief Technology Officer until 2002 at the top management level. From 2000 he was a member of the advisory staff of Health Minister Alan Milburn , for whom he was involved in the formulation of the reform plan “ NHS Plan 2000 ”, parallel to his academic work . Between 2001 and 2002 he was a brief partner in the consulting firm Lexecon , which was later taken over by Charles River Associates . In 2003 he accepted a call from the London School of Economics, where, in addition to his professorship, he also became director of the Center for Economic Performance . Since 2016 he has been researching and teaching as a professor at the MIT Sloan School of Management . He visited the University of California, Berkeley , Stanford Graduate School of Business , Princeton University and Harvard University .
Van Reenen has been a Fellow of the British Academy since 2010 , the Econometric Society since 2012 and the Society of Labor Economists since 2013 . He is co-editor of the American Economic Review , and previously held the same position at The Review of Economic Studies , Journal of Industrial Economics , Journal of Economic Literature , European Economic Review , Economic Policy and Quantitative Economics .
Van Reenen's main areas of work are innovation economics and labor economics , where he often applies methods of econometrics . At the beginning of his academic career, he dealt in particular with the effects of technology on income , wages , jobs and profits . He later focused primarily on measuring the impact of management practices on profitability and productivity .
In 2009 van Reenen received the Yrjö Jahnsson Prize of the European Economic Association together with Fabrizio Zilibotti . In 2011 he and Carol Propper were awarded the Arrow Prize of the International Health Economics Association . In 2017 he was named Officer of the Order of the British Empire .
Web links
- Official homepage at MIT
- John van Reenen in the IDEAS database
- Literature by and about John van Reenen in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Van Reenen, John |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Van Reenen, John Michael (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British economist and university professor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 26, 1965 |