Frederic Vermeulen
Contact details
Department of Econometrics and OR
Tilburg University
P.O. Box 90153
5000 LE Tilburg
The Netherlands
Tel. +31 13 466 3234
E-mail: frederic.vermeulen@uvt.nl
Research interests
Labour supply, consumer behaviour, collective household models, microeconometrics, ageing.
Biographical data
Date of birth: April 16, 1974 (Kortrijk, Belgium).
Nationality: Belgian.
Marital status: cohabiting (two children).
Education
2002: PhD “Essays on the collective approach to household labour supply” (KU Leuven).
1996-1997: Master of Science in Economics (KU Leuven).
1994-1996: Licentiaat in de Toegepaste Economische Wetenschappen (UFSIA).
1992-1994: Kandidaat in de Toegepaste Economische Wetenschappen (KU Leuven Campus Kortrijk).
Current and previous positions
01/01/2008 - present: Associate Professor, Department of Econometrics and OR - Tilburg University.
01/09/2005 - 31/12/2007: Assistant Professor, Netspar and Department of Econometrics and OR - Tilburg University.
01/10/2003 - 31/08/2005: Post-doctoral researcher (RTN Fellow Economics of Ageing), CentER - Tilburg University).
01/01/2003 - 30/09/2003: Research assistant, Policy Research Centre (Faculty of Social Sciences, KU Leuven) and
Center for Economic Studies (Faculty of Economic and Applied Economic Sciences, KU Leuven).
01/10/1996 - 31/12/2002: Research assistant, Center for Economic Studies (KU Leuven).
Fellowships
CentER-Tilburg University
Netspar-Tilburg University Netspar
Institute for the Study of Labor-Bonn IZA
Editorial work
Member of the Editorial Board, Review of Economic Studies , 2010 -
Associate Editor, Review of Economics of the Household , 2009 -
Research grants and awards
01/01/2008-31/12/2012: VIDI grant from the Dutch Science Foundation (NWO).
Winner (together with Laurens Cherchye and Bram De Rock) of the 2008 prize of the Association of Economics (Vereniging voor Economie) for the paper “The revealed preference approach to collective consumption behavior: testing, recovery and welfare analysis” (awarded to authors under the age of 35).
Teaching 2008-'09
Empirical research in pension and retirement economics
Regressieanalyse
PhD (co-)supervisor
Bram De Rock (Leuven, 03/12/2007)
Karen van der Wiel (Tilburg, expected 2009)
Guillaume Schollier (Tilburg, expected 2012)
Publications in international journals
Cherchye, L., B. De Rock and F. Vermeulen (2009), "An Afriat Theorem for the collective model of household consumption", CentER Discussion Paper, 2008-72, Tilburg, CentER, Pdf forthcoming in Journal of Economic Theory
Cherchye, L., B. De Rock and F. Vermeulen (2008), "Opening the black box of intra-household decision-making: Theory and non-parametric empirical tests of general collective consumption models", forthcoming in Journal of Political Economy. Pdf
Cherchye, L., B. De Rock, J. Sabbe and F. Vermeulen (2008), "Nonparametric tests of collectively rational consumption behavior: an integer programming procedure", Journal of Econometrics , 147, 258-267.
Cherchye, L. and F. Vermeulen (2008), "Nonparametric analysis of household labour supply: goodness-of-fit and power of the unitary and the collective model", Review of Economics and Statistics , 90, 267-274.
Cherchye, L., B. De Rock and F. Vermeulen (2008), "Analyzing cost efficient production behavior under economies of scope: a nonparametric methodology", Operations Research , 56, 204-221.
Kalwij, A. and F. Vermeulen (2008), "Health and labour force participation of older people in Europe: what do objective health indicators add to the analysis", Health Economics , 17, 619-638.
Cherchye, L., B. De Rock and F. Vermeulen (2007), "The collective model of household consumption: a nonparametric characterization", Econometrica , 75, 553-574.
Van Ours, J. and F. Vermeulen (2007), "Ranking Dutch economists", De Economist , 155, 469-487.
Vermeulen, F. (2006), "A collective model for female labour supply with nonparticipation and taxation", Journal of Population Economics , 19, 99-118.
Bargain, O., M. Beblo, D. Beninger, R. Blundell, R. Carrasco, M.-C. Chiuri, F. Laisney, V. Lechene, N. Moreau, M. Myck, J. Ruiz-Castillo and F. Vermeulen (2006), "Does the representation of household behavior matter for welfare analysis of tax-benefit policies? An introduction", Review of Economics of the Household , 4, 99-111.
Bargain, O., M. Beblo, D. Beninger, R. Blundell, R. Carrasco, M.-C. Chiuri, F. Laisney, V. Lechene, N. Moreau, M. Myck, J. Ruiz-Castillo and F. Vermeulen (2006), "Collective models of labor supply with nonconvex budget sets and nonparticipation: a calibration approach", Review of Economics of the Household , 4, 113-127.
Bargain, O., M. Beblo, D. Beninger, R. Blundell, R. Carrasco, M.-C. Chiuri, F. Laisney, V. Lechene, E. Longobardi, N. Moreau, M. Myck, J. Ruiz-Castillo and F. Vermeulen (2006), "The Working Families'Tax Credit and some European tax reforms in a collective setting", Review of Economics of the Household , 4, 129-158.
Bargain, O., M. Beblo, D. Beninger, R. Blundell, R. Carrasco, M.-C. Chiuri, F. Laisney, V. Lechene, N. Moreau, M. Myck, J. Ruiz-Castillo and F. Vermeulen (2006), "Evaluating the move to a linear tax system in Germany and other European countries", Review of Economics of the Household , 4, 159-180.
Vermeulen, F. and A. Watteyne (2006), "Quand un et un ne font plus deux: calcul d’échelles d’équivalence intra-familiales au moyen d’un modèle collectif", Actualité Economique , 82 (1-2), 155-180.
Cherchye, L. and F. Vermeulen (2006), "Robust rankings of multi-dimensional performances. An application to Tour de France racing cyclists", Journal of Sports Economics , 7, 359-373.
Vermeulen, F. (2005), "And the winner is... An empirical evaluation of unitary and collective labour supply models", Empirical Economics , 30 (3), 711-734.
Capéau, B. and A. Decoster (2005), "Homeownership and the life cycle: an ordered logit approach", Applied Economics Quarterly (Konjunkturpolitik) , 51, 345-357.
Vermeulen, F. (2003), "Do smokers behave differently? A tale of zero expenditures and separability concepts", Economics Bulletin, 4, 1-7.
Vermeulen, F. (2002), "Collective household models: principles and main results", Journal of Economic Surveys, 16, 533-564.
Vermeulen, F. (2001), "A note on Heckman-type corrections in models for zero expenditures", Applied Economics, 33, 1089-1092.
Publications in other journals
Vermeulen, F. and A. Watteyne (2005), "Welvaartseconomische aspecten van de collectieve benadering van het gedrag van gezinnen", Tijdschrift voor Economie en Management , 50, 261-286.
Capéau, B., A. Decoster and F. Vermeulen (2004), "Het effect van de verlaging van de Vlaamse registratierechten: simulaties met een geordend logitmodel", Kwartaalschrift Economie , 1, 63-82.
Papers in edited volumes
Cherchye, L. B. De Rock and F. Vermeulen (2010), "Revealed preference tests for collective behavior" forthcoming in J.A. Molina (editor), Household Economic Behaviors , Springer Verlag, Berlin, Germany.
Cherchye, L., I. Crawford, B. De Rock and F. Vermeulen (2009), "The revealed preference approach to demand" in D. Slottje (editor), Quantifying consumer preferences , Contributions to Economic Analysis, Emerald Group Publishing Limited, Bingley, UK.
Recent working papers and research reports
Cherchye, L., B. De Rock and F. Vermeulen (2008), "Economic well-being and poverty among the elderly: an analysis based on a collective consumption model", CentER Discussion Paper, 2008-15, Tilburg, CentER. Pdf
Cherchye, L., B. De Rock and F. Vermeulen (2007), "The revealed preference approach to collective consumption behavior: testing, recovery and welfare analysis", CentER Discussion Paper, 2007-73, Tilburg, CentER. Pdf
Michaud, P.-C. and F. Vermeulen (2006), "A collective labor supply model: identification and estimation in the presence of externalities by means of panel data", RAND Labor and Population Program WR-406, Santa Monica, RAND Corporation. Pdf
Popular press
"Waarom een leerplicht vanaf 3 jaar een goed idee is", De Morgen , 03.09.2008.
"Dopinggebruik steunt op wiskundige logica", De Tijd , 08.02.2005.
Refereeing
American Economic Review, Review of Economic Studies, Journal of Political Economy, Journal of Economic Theory, Journal of Econometrics, Journal of Human Resources, Economic Journal, Journal of Applied Econometrics, Economic Theory, Journal of Public Economics, Journal of Labor Economics, Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, Journal of Population Economics, Labour Economics, Scandinavian Journal of Economics, American Journal of Agricultural Economics, Theory and Decision, Economica, Empirical Economics, International Journal of Manpower, Review of Economics of the Household, Canadian Journal of Economics, Labour, Journal of Transport Economics and Policy, Research in Economics, Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, Tijdschrift voor Economie en Management.
See also:
Contact:
CentERPO Box 90153
5000 LE Tilburg
The Netherlands