Adriaan van Zon is a Senior Researcher at UNU-MERIT.
Adriaan 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.
Research Interests
- CO2 emission reductions in a macro-sectoral framework
- Empirical and theoretical issues in the areas of labour economics and the economics of innovation and new technology
- Impact of technological change on employment and competitiveness
- Interpersonal relationships between workers to explain labour-market outcomes.
- Knowledge diffusion
- MNEs' innovation strategies
- Regional knowledge network
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