Prof. Jakob de Haan Professor of Economics, University of Groningen, The Netherlands

Jakob de Haan is Professor of Political Economy, University of Groningen, The Netherlands. He is also Scientific Director of SOM, the graduate school and research institute of the faculty of economics and business of the University of Groningen. He graduated from the University of Groningen, where he also received his... read morePhD. He has published extensively on issues such as public debt, monetary policy, central bank independence, political and economic freedom and European integration. He is a member of the editorial board of Public Choice and European Union Politics, Editor of the European Journal of Political Economy, and has been President of the European Public Choice Society. De Haan has been Visiting Professor at the Free University Berlin, Kiel Institute and the University of Munich.