Dirk Bezemer

Dirk Bezemer
Dirk Bezemer in 2016
Born1971 (age 52–53)
NationalityDutch
TitleProfessor
Academic background
Education
Academic work
DisciplineEconomics and business
InstitutionsRijksuniversiteit Groningen

Dirk Bezemer (born 1971) is a Dutch economist who is a professor at the Faculty of Economics and Business of the Rijksuniversiteit Groningen. He studied at Wageningen University (M.Sc. in Economics (1995)) and University of Amsterdam & Tinbergen Institute (Ph.D. in Economics (2001)).[1] His topics of expertise include the financial sector, credit creation, credit cycles, monetary policy, and the cause of economic crises.[2][3][4] Bezemer provides commentary at the Centre for Economic Policy Research and De Groene Amsterdammer.[5] In a September 2009 opinion piece in the Financial Times he wrote that a dozen economists whom he listed had seen the 2007–2008 financial crisis coming for years, but were ignored.[6][7][8][9][10]

  1. ^ a b "Dirk Bezemer | University of Groningen". academia.edu.
  2. ^ Policy Failures and the Irish Economic Crisis
  3. ^ Green Barons, Force-of-Circumstance Entrepreneurs, Impotent Mayors; Rural Change in the Early Years of Post-Socialist Capitalist Democracy
  4. ^ The Century of the Emerging World; Development with a Vengeance
  5. ^ "prof. dr. D.J. (Dirk) Bezemer". University of Groningen. July 7, 2006.
  6. ^ Finance at the Threshold; Rethinking the Real and Financial Economies
  7. ^ Inside the Crystal Ball; How to Make and Use Forecasts
  8. ^ Debunking Economics; The Naked Emperor Dethroned?
  9. ^ When the Bubble Bursts; Surviving the Canadian Real Estate Crash
  10. ^ "Opinion Global Economy: Why some economists could see the crisis coming" by Dirk Bezemer (Financial Times, 7 September 2009)