Lex Meijdam

Lex Meijdam is professor of economics an dean of the School of Economics and Management. His field is macroeconomics and public economics. His research interests are: the macroeconomic effects of ageing, intergenerational transfers (including pensions and government debt), fertility, migration, public capital, education.

Professional experience:

• Professor of Economics, Tilburg University (1999 - present)
• Professor of Economics, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (2001-2002, 0 fte)
• Assistant professor, Department of Economics,Tilburg University (1990 - 1999)
• Assistant professor, Institute of Economics, Nijmegen University (1986 - 1990)
• Research assistant, Department of Econometrics, Tilburg University (1984 - 1986)
• Student assistant, Department of Econometrics,Tilburg University (1981 - 1984)

Management experience:

• Dean Tilburg School of Economics and Management (TiSEM)
• Director Research Programme on Innovation and Growth in Low Income Countries, financed by the Department for International Development
• Head of the department of Economics,  Tilburg School of Economics and Management, Tilburg University (2006-2012)
• Scientific Director Network for Studies on Pensions, Ageing, and Retirement (Netspar)(2006-2009)
• Associate Dean Educational Programs, Tilburg School of Economics and Management, Tilburg University (2002-2006)
• Chairman board Netherlands Network of Economics (NAKE) (2005-2010)
• Director Netherlands Network of Economics (NAKE ) (1999-2002)
• Chairman faculty Council Tilburg School of Economics and Management, Tilburg University (2000-2002)
• Founder and first director International Economics and Finance program, Tilburg University (1998-1999)
• Member Program Committe CentER Graduate School of Economics, Tilburg University (1995-1999)
• Member Faculty Council Tilburg School of Economics and Management, Tilburg University, Tilburg University (1993-1997)

(310148)   Seminar Generational Economics

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Supervision PhD students

• Martijn van de Ven, thesis: Intergenerational Redistribution in Representative Democracies; defended at Tilburg University, 1996 (with Harrie Verbon).
• Theo Leers, thesis: Public Pensions and Population Ageing: An Economic Analysis of Fertility, Migration and Social-security Policy; defended at Tilburg University, 2001 (with Harrie Verbon).
• Bas van Groezen, thesis:The Wealth of Generations: Ageing, Pensions and Welfare from a Macroeconomic Perspective;defended at Tilburg University, 2003 (with Harrie Verbon).
• Daniel Haile, thesis: Inequality, Redistribution, and Growth; defended at Tilburg University, 2005 (with Harrie Verbon).
• Judith Lammers, thesis: HIV/AIDS, Risk and Intertemporal Choic. The HIV Anticipatory Saving Motive, defended at Tilburg University, 2008.
• Yvonne Adema: thesis: The international spillover effects of ageing and pensions, defended at Tilburg University, 2008(with Harrie Verbon)

• David Hollanders, thesis: The effect of aging on pensions; defended at Tilburg University, 2012.

• Igor Fedotenkov, thesis: Pensions and Ageing in a Globalizing World, defended at Tilburg University, 2012
• Jan Bonenkamp (CPB), thesis:  Risk, redistribution and retirement: the role of pension schemes, to be defended at Tilburg University, June 2013 ((with Casper van Ewijk).
• Maria Antonieta Sucre Reyes (Universidad Mayor San Simon, Bolivia) thesis subject: Finance, competitiveness and economic growth in Bolivia (with Henk van Gemert and Wim Pelupessy)