Balk, Prof. dr. B.M.


Bert M. Balk

Professor of Economic Measurement and Economic-Statistical Research
Chair supported by Statistics Netherlands

Education

  • Primary 1953-1959
  • Secondary 1959-1964
  • Universities of Leiden and Utrecht 1964 - 1971
  • Graduated in Mathematics, Leiden, April 1971
  • Ph. D. Economics, University of Amsterdam, May 1984

Publications

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Employment

  • 1971-1972 Military service
  • 1973-date  Statistics Netherlands
  • 1975-1994 Chief of Research Section of Department for Price Statistics
  • 1984-1994 Deputy Head of Department for Price Statistics
  • 1994-2004 Senior Researcher at Department of Statistical Methods/ Methods and Informatics Department
  • 1998-2004 Director of Cerem ( Center for Research of Economic Micro-data)
  • 2004-date  Senior Researcher/Consultant at Division of Macro-economic  Statistics and Dissemination, Development and Support Department
  • 2001-date  Professor of Business Administration, Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University Rotterdam (part time)

Key Qualifications

Micro-economics, Index number theory, Productivity measurement.

Professional Affiliation

  • Netherlands Mathematical Society
  • Netherlands Society for Statistics and Operations Research
  • Econometric Society
  • International Association of Survey Statisticians
  • Economic Measurement Group (University of New South Wales, Sydney)
  • Institute for Productivity and Earnings Evaluation Research

  • Associate editor of Statistica Neerlandica 
  • Associate editor of the Journal of Productivity Analysis

Co-promotor of

George van Leeuwen, “Innovation and Performance: A Collection of Microdata Studies” (Technical University Delft, 13 January 2009).

Martijn Houtman, "Nonparametric Consumer and Producer Analysis" (Maastricht University, 15 September 1995).

Jan de Haan, "Empirical Studies on Consumer Price Index Construction" (Erasmus University Rotterdam, 28 January 2000).

J. Michael Polder, "Non-linear Investment and Labour Adjustment Dynamics" (Maastricht University, 16 June 2005).

Address

Bert M. Balk
Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University
P.O. Box 1738
3000 DR Rotterdam
The Netherlands

Phone:       +31 10 408 2694
Fax :          +31 10 408 9014
Room:        T10-44

E-mail:        bbalk@rsm.nl
Secretary: Ms. C. Meesters-Mirasol