prof. dr. D.J. (Dirk) Bezemer
I research & teach (international) money, debt, banks, asset markets, and their impacts on macroeconomic and ecological outcomes - through institutions such as housing markets, stock and bond markets, pension systems, the Eurozone, monetary policy and the global monetary architecture.
I am also interested in the methodology of economics, how to best teach monetary and financial issues, interdisciplinarity, and communicating all this in the public and political discourse.
You can find papers in each of these areas in my published research and current work.
Working papers
‘Finance for Investment? Explaining Macrofinancial Slippage', working paper
‘The growth of funded pensions: a case study of the Netherlands’, IMK Working Paper 213-2022
‘Do corporate green bonds lead to greener production?’, with Christiaan Stumphius, working paper
"Asset pricing and the Covid-19 deposit glut", with Richard Senner, working paper
Coming Soon
Special issue on 'Making Climate Finance Work: new sights from ethics, economics and law ', Cambridge Forum on Corporate Climate Governance with co-editors Roland Mees and Cynthia Williams
'Does the global currency hierarchy restrain monetary policy freedom?', with Indy Dirksen
'Distributed profit, investment and wages in Europe', with Cas Wetsema
'Does FDI constrain long-term growth? Outflows matter more than Inflows', with Jannis Müller-Hester
'Financialization Needs Focus: A Proposal'
'When sustainable finance' works, with Hans Stegeman
'A balance sheet approach to teaching monetary macroeconomics'
Recente bijdragen aan publiek en politiek debat
Bijdrage Tweede-Kamer Wetenschappelijk factsheet, met Mark Sanders (i.s.m. Job de Jager en Brenda Kramer): "Een andere kijk op de Europese kapitaalmarktunie" Tweede Kamer briefing 9 september 2025
https://www.tweedekamer.nl/kamerstukken/detail?id=2025Z08961&did=2025D20575
Supervision of Ph.D. thesis
"Long-Term Determinants of African Growth", by Jutta Bolt (2006 - 2010)
"The Financial Cycle", Kristiana Rozite (2014 - 2019)
"Agent-based simulations of monetary policy and financial markets", Joeri Schasfoort (2015 - 2020)
"Stability, Inequality and the Housing market: Agent-Based Simulations", Ruben Tarne (2017 - 2024 )
"Sustainable finance for gains in wealth and health", Slavek Roller (2021 - 2023)
"ECB asset purchase programs and bank lending in Germany" , Sebastian Eiblmeier (Leipzig University Hannover, 2020 - 2026)
"Rents, investments, and inequality: Theory and evidence 1980-2019" , Arend Stemerding (2021 - )
" The role of climate in banks’ lending decisions to small and medium-sized enterprises", Anne Schoenauer (2023 - )