Adriaan van Zon

Senior Researcher

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  • Adriaan van Zon
    INSTITUTE:
    UNU-MERIT
    OFFICE:
    Keizer Karelplein 19, 6211 TC Maastricht, The Netherlands
    E-MAIL:
    PHONE:
    +31(0)43 3884414
    NATIONALITY:
    Netherlands

    Research Interests

    CO2 emission reductions in a macro-sectoral framework Impact of technological change on employment and competitiveness

    Education

    Maastricht University

    Biographical Statement

    Adriaan van Zon studied economics at the University of Groningen from 1974 to 1981. In 1985, having completed his Ph.D. research involving the construction of a multi-sectoral model for the Netherlands, he moved to the Department of Economics of Maastricht University. Since 1988 he has been working at the UNU Maastricht Economic and Social Research Institute on Innovation and Technology (UNU-MERIT), where he has been involved in the construction of various macro-sectoral models to study the impact of technological change on employment and competitiveness, but also on CO2 emission reductions in a macro-sectoral framework.

  • Peer-reviewed Book Chapters

    • Zon, Adriaan van & Tobias Kronenberg, 2006, Energy transitions and policy design in a GPT setting with cyclical growth through basic and applied R&D, in: In C. de Miguel, X Labandeira Villot, & B Manzano (Eds.), Economic Modelling of Climate Change and Energy Policy, Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, pp. 196-204
    • Zon, Adriaan van & Tobias Kronenberg, 2006, Energy transitions and policy design in a GPT setting with cyclical growth through basic and applied R&D, in: Carlos de Miguel, Xavier Labandeira and Balthasar Manzano (eds.), Economic Modelling of Climate Change and Energy Policy, Edward Elgar, Cheltenham
    • Zon, Adriaan van & Joan Muysken, 2005, The impact of ICT investment on knowledge accumulation and economic growth, in: L.L.G. Soete & B ter Weel (Eds.), The Economics of the Digital Society, Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, pp. 305-329
    • Zon, Adriaan van & Joan Muysken, 2005, Health as a Principal Determinant of Economic Growth, in: G Lopez-Gasanovas, L Currais & B Rivera (Eds.), Health and Economic Growth, Findings and Policy Implications, MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, pp. 41-66
    • Bevilacqua, Franco & Adriaan van Zon, 2004, Random walks and non-linear paths in macroeconomic timeseries: some evidence and implications, in: John Foster & Werner Holzl (Eds.), Applied Evolutionary Economics and Complex Systems, Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, pp. 36-77
    • Zon, Adriaan van, Mark Sanders & Joan Muysken, 2001, Modelling the link between skill biases in technical change and wage divergence through labour market extensions of Krugman’s North-South model, in: Pascal Petit and Luc Soete (eds.), Technology and the Future of European Employment, Edward Elgar Publishing, 387-402
    • Zon, Adriaan van & Joan Muysken, 2001, Skill biases in employment opportunities and income perspectives: Should we try to shake the invisible hand?, in: G.H. Kuper, E. Sterken and E. Wester (eds.), Coordination and Growth: Essays in Honour of Simon Kuipers, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht
    • Zon, Adriaan van, Huub Meijers & Joan Muysken, 2001, Sweeping the chimney before kindling the fire as a workable option for employment policy, in: Pascal Petit and Luc Soete (eds.), Technology and the Future of European Employment, Edward Elgar Publishing, 317-351
    • Zon, Adriaan van, Huub Meijers & Joan Muysken, 2000, On trickling chimneys and other unemployment misery, in: Hans Heijke and Joan Muysken (eds.), Education and Training in a Knowledge-Based Economy, MacMillan Press, London, 117-158

    Peer-reviewed Journal Articles

    • Zon, Adriaan van & Hakan Yetkiner, 2003, An endogenous growth model with embodied energy-saving technical change, Resource and Energy Economics, 25, 81-103
    • Zon, Adriaan van & Joan Muysken, 2001, Health, education and endogenous growth, Journal of Health Economics, 20 (2), 169-185
    • Muysken, Joan, Mark Sanders & Adriaan van Zon, 2001, Wage divergence and asymmetries in unemployment in a model with biased technical change, De Economist, 149 (1), 13-31
    • Soete, Luc & Adriaan van Zon, 2000, Energy technology dynamics, International Journal of Global Energy Issues, 14 (1-4), 65-103
    • Smith, Keith & Adriaan van Zon, 2000, A longer-term outlook on future energy systems, International Journal of Global Energy Issues, 14 (1-4), 348-373
    • Zon, Adriaan van & G. J. Kommer, 1999, Patient-flows and optimal health care resource allocation at the macro-level: A dynamic linear programming approach, Journal of Health Management Sciences