Huub Meijers
Senior Researcher
- INSTITUTE:
- UNU-MERIT
- OFFICE:
- Keizer Karelplein 19, 6211 TC Maastricht, The Netherlands
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- PHONE:
- +31 43 388 3640
- NATIONALITY:
- Netherlands
Education
Ph.D., University MaastrichtBiographical Statement
Huub Meijers is a senior researcher at UNU Maastricht Economic and Social Research Institute on Innovation and Technology (UNU-MERIT). His research interests focus on macro-economics, more specifically the modelling of technological change and economic growth; vintage modelling, the diffusion of new technologies; labour market issues; and the Information Society. He obtained his Ph.D. in 1994, which dealt with the introduction of diffusion of new technologies within a putty-clay vintage framework.
Huub Meijers is currently is working on topics concerning the Information Society. This includes research on the implications of new information and communication technologies on statistics and on the way statistical information is collected and assimilated. The main theme however is the relation between ICT investments and productivity growth. Huub Meijers is also the programme coordinator of the infonomics bachelor’s and master’s programme at the faculty of economics and business at the University Maastricht. Next to research and teaching in economics, he also teaches computer programming in php and practices these skills on a neighbourhood website.
Peer-reviewed Books
- Meijers, Huub, Bernhard Dachs & Paul J. J. Welfens (eds.), 2008, Internationalisation of European ICT Activities – Dynamics of Information and Communications Technology, Springer-Verlag, Heidelberg, Germany, XII, 352 p
Peer-reviewed Book Chapters
- Dunnewijk, Theo & Huub Meijers, 2008, Empirical Analysis of the Trade Position, in: B. Dachs, H. Meijers, P. Welfens, Internartionalsation of ICT Activities in Europe, Springer Verlag, Wuppertal
- Meijers, Huub, 2005, Adoption and Diffusion of e-Business and the role of network effects, in: B ter Weel & LLG Soete (Eds.), The economics of the digital society, Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, pp. 64-88
- 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
- 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
- Meijers, Huub, 2000, Internethandel en lage inflatie in de informatie-economie, in: Luc Soete (ed.), ICT en de Nieuwe Economie. Preadviezen van de Koninklijke Vereniging voor de Staathuishoudkunde, Lemma, Utrecht, 83-104
- Zon, Adriaan van, Joan Muysken & Huub Meijers, 1998, Asymmetric skill substitution, labour market flexibility, and the allocation of qualifications, in: H. Heijke and L. Borghans (eds), Towards a Transparent Labour Market for Educational Decisions, Avebury Publishers
Peer-reviewed Journal Articles
- Meijers, Huub, 2006, Diffusion of the Internet and Low Inflation in the Information Economy, Information Economics and Policy, Volume 18, Issue 1, pp. 1-23
- Meijers, Huub, 2006, Diffusion of the Internet and Low Inflation in the Information Economy, Information Economics and Policy, Volume 18, Issue 1, pp. 1-23
- Meijers, Huub, 2004, Productivity in Europe and the U.S.: ICTs and the role of network effects, Communications and Strategies , 52 (2), 161-188
- Meijers, Huub, 2000, De Bug die niet beet, Economisch Statistische Berichten, 85 (4239), 43
- Soete, Luc & Huub Meijers, 1999, Regulering van de Telecom Markt: OPTA of NMa, Economisch Statistische Berichten, 84 (4188), 88-90, (published as ‘Regulering met Oog voor Dynamiek’)
- Meijers, Huub & Luc Soete, 1999, Regulering met oog voor dynamiek, Economisch Statistische Berichten, 84 (4188), 88-91
- Meijers, Huub, 1994, On the slowdown of productivity growth in the Netherlands 1960-1988: A macro economic vintage diffusion approach, Economics of Innovation and New Technology, vol. 3, nr. 2, pp. 99-121
- The role of technology in growth and development
- Analysis of the evolution of the costs of research- trends, drivers and impacts
- Innovation in the European Service Economy – scenarios and implications for skills and knowledge
- Internationalisation of European ICT activities
- Macro-economic and Urban trends in Europe’s Information Society