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 markets, pension systems, the Eurozone 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.

Beyond my base in the Groningen Faculty of Economics and Business, I work with the Groningen Centre for Philosophy, Politics and Economics and the Sustainable Finance Lab, and I am on the editorial board of the European Journal of Economics and Economic Policies.

I am now co-editing a special issue of the Cambridge Forum journal series. This is a Cambridge University Press initiative to promote cross-disciplinary conversations, combining academic and practitioner expertise and insights. With my co-editors Roland Mees and Cynthia Williams, we're looking for new insights from ethics, economics and law into 'Making Climate Finance Work', the special issue's theme. All details are in the call for papers.

Journal articles just out:

Exploring the capital gains economy: the case of the UK. New Political Economy, DOI: 10.1080/13563467.2025.2536792

Roof or real estate? An agent-based model of housing affordability in The Netherlands, with Ruben Tarne. Structural Change and Economic Dynamics, Volume 72, March 2025, Pages 163-178, doi.org/10.1016/j.strueco.2024.11.014

Current working papers:

‘Finance for Investment? Explaining Macrofinancial Slippage'

‘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

"Asset pricing and the Covid-19 deposit glut", with Richard Senner

"Is Property Income Undercounted in Explanations of Extreme Secular WealthConcentration? Evidence from the United States, 1960-2020", with Steve Roth

Coming Soon - working papers on:

=> how to make sustainable finance more effective, given macrofinancial slippage? (what's that? see above), with Hans Stegeman

=> does the global currency hierarchy restrain monetary policy options in developing economies?, with Indy Dirksen

=> Why & how to use a balance sheet approach to teaching monetary macroeconomics (methodology alert)

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 - )

"Rents, investments, and inequality: Theory and evidence 1980-2019" , Arend Stemerding (2021 - )

" The role of climate in banks’ lending decisions to Small and Medium Enterprises", Anne Schoenauer (2023 - )