Adriaan van Zon is a Senior Researcher at ²ÝÁñÊÓƵ-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 ²ÝÁñÊÓƵ Maastricht Economic and Social Research Institute on Innovation and Technology (²ÝÁñÊÓƵ-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