Jan Oosterhaven

Who is Jan Oosterhaven?

Jan Oosterhaven is a Dutch economist, who currently is Professor of Spatial Economics at the University of Groningen. Before that, he held positions as associate and assistant professor at the same university since 1970. Between 1985 and 1986, he was a visiting professor at the University of California, Los Angeles, teaching urban economics, and between 1998 and 1999 was as a senior consultant for TNO.

Oosterhaven completed his MA in Econometrics at the Erasmus University Rotterdam in 1969, and obtained a PhD on "Interregional Input-Output Analysis and Dutch Regional Policy Problems" from the University of Groningen in 1981.

His research focuses on interregional input-output analysis, demo-economic modeling, indirect economic effects of transport infrastructure, and integral cost-benefit analysis of all kind of spatial policy measures. Besides about 60 research reports mostly for government agencies, he has written and edited 10 books and some 130 scientific articles on a wide range of subjects, such as sectoral, regional and urban policy, housing, impacts of social security, high-speed rail, road infrastructure, tourism and agricultural projects.