Pierre Mohnen is Professorial Fellow at UNU-MERIT, Professor Emeritus at Maastricht University, Associated Fellow at CIRANO, Senior Research Associate at the Technology and Management Centre for Development at Oxford University, and Associated Research Professor at ETH Zürich. He has an MA in economics from the Catholic University of Louvain and a PhD in economics from New York University. His research is empirically oriented and deals with issues related to R&D, innovation, productivity, growth, development, competition and the evaluation of innovation, environmental and social policies.
PIERRE A. MOHNEN Curriculum vitae (short version) – May 2024 Office address: UNU-MERIT, Maastricht University, P.O. Box 616, 6200 MD Maastricht, The Netherlands, tel (+31)-43-388 3869, fax (+31)-43-388 4905 E-mail address: p.mohnen@maastrichtuniversity.nl Date of birth : September 19, 1954 Education : Joint B.A. and M.A. in Economics, Université Catholique de Louvain, 1977 Ph.D. in Economics, New York University, 1984 Current positions Professor emeritus: Department of Quantitative Economics, Maastricht University Professorial Fellow: UNU-MERIT Associated Fellow: CIRANO (Montreal) Guest Professor: KOF (ETH Zürich) Senior Research Associate: TMDC (Oxford University) Research interests Technological change, productivity, innovation, innovation policy, growth, applied econometrics Publications in the last four years Chen, Rui, Boris Lokshin and Pierre Mohnen (2024),”Knowledge spillovers and science parks. Evidence from China”, Annals of Economics and Statistics, 153, 173-200. https://www.jstor.org/stable/e48515758 Nigus, H., E. Nillesen and P. Mohnen (2024), “The effect of weather index insurance on social capital. Experimental evidence of rural Ethiopia”, Journal of Risk and Insurance, 91:121–159. http://doi.org/10.1111/jori.12454 Chen, Rui, Boris Lokshin and Pierre Mohnen (2023), "Heterogeneity in performance of science and technology parks in China: Is there ‘club’ convergence?", Papers in Regional Science, 102(6), 1145-1167, DOI: 10.1111/pirs.12759 Cantner, Uwe, Martin Kalthaus, Matthias Menter and Pierre Mohnen (2023), “Global knowledge flows: characteristics, determinants and impact”, Industrial and Corporate Change, 32(5), 1063-1076. https://doi.org/10.1093/icc/dtad041 Antonio Martins-Neto, Nanditha Mathew, Pierre Mohnen and Tania Treibich (2023), “Is there job polarization in developing economies? A review and outlook”, UNU-MERIT working paper 2021-045, CESifo working paper 9444, World Bank Research Observer, lkad008, https://doi.org/10.1093/wbro/lkad008, forthcoming Halefom Nigus, Eleonora Nillesen, Pierre Mohnen and Salvatore Di Falco (2023), “Markets and socially responsible behavior: Do punishment and religion promote social responsibility in markets?”, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 209, 572-593, https://authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S0167268123000963 Chongcharoentanawat, Patima, Franziska Gassmann and Pierre Mohnen (2022), “Thailand’s Vocational Training and Upward Mobility: Impact Heterogeneities and Policy Implications”, Journal of Development Effectiveness, 14(4), 380-394. https://doi.org/10.1080/19439342.2022.2089199 Zhang, M. and P. Mohnen (2022), “R&D, innovation and survival of firms in Chinese manufacturing, 2000-2006”, Eurasian Business Review, 12, 59-95. DOI: 10.1007/s40821-021-00200-1 Gassmann, Franziska, Pierre Mohnen and Vincenzo Vinci (2022), “Institutional factors and people’s preferences in social protection”, International Social Security Review, 75(1), 107-154. DOI: 10.1111/issr.12290 Mohnen, Pierre (2022), Taxation and Innovation. Inter-American Development Bank, IDB-Technical Note 2480. https://publications.iadb.org/en/taxation-and-innovation Mohnen, P. (2022), “Returns to R&D”, in Elgar Encyclopedia on the Economics of Knowledge and Innovation, 425-430, Cristiano Antonelli (ed.). Edward Elgar, Cheltenham. ISBN: 978 1 83910 698 9. Mohnen, P. (2022), “R&D tax incentives”, in Elgar Encyclopedia on the Economics of Knowledge and Innovation, 415-419, Cristiano Antonelli (ed.). Edward Elgar, ISBN: 978 1 83910 698 9. Fu, Xiaolan, Jun Hou and Pierre Mohnen (2021), “The impact of China-Africa trade on the productivity of African firms: Evidence from Ghana”, European Journal of Development Research, forthcoming. Doi: 10.1057/s41287-021-00381-5 Avenyo, Elvis Korku, Maty Konte and Pierre Mohnen (2021), “Product innovation and informal market competition in sub-Saharan Africa: Firm-level evidence”, Journal of Evolutionary Economics, 31, 605-637. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00191-020-00688-2 Mohnen, P., M. Polder and G. van Leeuwen (2021), “ICT, R&D, and Organizational Innovation: Exploring Complementarities in Investment and Production”, in Measuring and Accounting for Innovation in the Twenty-First Century, Carol Corrado, Jonathan Haskel, Javier Miranda and Daniel Sichel (eds.), Studies in Income and Wealth, University of Chicago Press, Chicago. (also appeared as NBER working paper 25044). Stephan Dietrich, Daniele Malerba, Armando Barrientos, Franziska Gassmann, Pierre Mohnen, Nyasha Tirivayi (2020), “Human capital returns to cash transfers in Uganda: Does it matter in the long run?”, Journal of Development Effectiveness, 12(1), 54-73. https://doi.org/10.1080/19439342.2019.1691626 Reinhilde Veugelers, Pierre Mohnen, Barbara Annichiarico, Omar Licandro and Eva Ortega (2020), Moving the Frontier of Macroeconomic Modeling of Research and Innovation Policy. European Commission, Directorate General of Research and Innovation. Luxembourg, Publications Office of the European Union.