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Professor of Economic Growth and director of the Groningen Growth and Development Centre (GGDC).

He has been co-leading the EU KLEMS project and is also part of the management team of the forthcoming WIOD project. Editor of the Review of Income and Wealth. He is very experienced in constructing large databases and published extensively in the field of international comparisons of productivity, among other things. Key publications include articles in Journal of Economic Perspectives, The Economic Journal (forthcoming), Review of Economics and Statistics (forthcoming), Journal of Economic History, Journal of Development Economics, Economic Policy and Oxford Economic Papers. He will coordinate the work on market services in work packages 1 to 4 and in particular work on the EU KLEMS database in WP1.

Deputy Head, ICT Group

Research interests include macroeconomic productivity, in particular productivity aspects of ICT. Publications include papers in the Scandinavian Journal of Economics and Journal of Macroeconomics. Her specific research contributions will be on ICT use and productivity in the service sector.

Research interests include international comparisons of productivity including the public sector, the impact of ICT on growth and the   demand for skilled labour, and links between market structure and growth. Publications include articles in the Journal of Economic  Perspectives The Economic Journal,(forthcoming), Research Policy, Labour Economics, Economica, The Journal of Productivity Analysis (forthcoming) and The Review of Income and Wealth. She is also a Public Services Fellow of the Advanced Institute of Management Research, funded by the UK Economic and Social Research Council. She will coordinate the overall project and will contribute to research in most WPs.

Assistant Professor in the department of International Economics & Business at the University of Groningen

His research has focused on international comparisons of productivity growth and levels and their determinants and synchronization of business cycles. Publications include articles in the European Economic Review, Economic Policy, Oxford Economic Papers, Economica, Review of Income and Wealth and Journal of Productivity Analysis. He will contribute to WP1 on service productivity trends and lead WP4 on financial services.

Research Professor

Associate Senior Research Fellow at CEPS

He graduated in economics and statistics from the University in Copenhagen in 1963 and served as official in the OECD and DG ECFIN. Since 1989 he has been associated with CEPS. Through his involvement in the research projects and studies he has acquired a broad insight into the different aspects of employment and welfare issues in Europe. Aside from his academic skills, Jørgen Mortensen has long experience as team and project leader thanks to which he developed a unique capacity to spot colleagues' abilities and distribute tasks according to it.

Senior research fellow at Kopint-Tárki

She has experience in analysing the measurement of non-market services as well as the performance of business sector enterprises using large datasets. In recent years she has also been involved in adapting methodology and developing data collection for foreign trade in services and services producer price statistics. She will be responsible for the Hungarian country studies for non-market services other than health.

Senior Research Officer

Her current research includes analysis of the relationship between R&D and productivity. She will contribute to WP3, WP4 and WP6.

Senior adviser at Kopint-Tarki, Professor at the Budapest Corvinus University

She was formerly she was the head of the national accounts in the Hungarian Central Statistical Office and deputy president of HCSO responsible for economic statistics. Research interest includes statistical methodology and macroeconomic analysis. She is also advising the Ministry of Finance in government Finance Statistics. She will lead the Hungarian pilot study in measuring the performance of non-market services.

Full Professor at the University of Alicante and Senior Researcher at the IVIE

Her research interests include health economics, fairness and game theory. Her publications in the health economics field include articles in Journal of Health Economics, Health Economics, Social Sciences and Medicine, and Mathematical Journal of Operations Research.

Deputy Head, Industrial Economics and International Management

He is mainly concerned with research on innovation in firms, technology transfer and technology policy. He is project manager of the ZEW innovation survey (Mannheim Innovation Panel) which is the German contribution to CIS. He will contribute to the work based on CIS in the project.

Senior Researcher

Daniel Cerquera studied economics at the Universidad de Los Andes in Bogota, Colombia. After finishing his studies he worked for the Ministry of Planning (DNP) and for the Colombian Stock Exchange. Between August 2001 and May 2002 he participated in the "Advanced Studies Program in International Economic Policy Research" at the Kiel Institute for World Economics, Germany. Daniel Cerquera obtained his Ph.D. in economics from the University of Munich in April 2006 with the dissertation "Dynamic R&D Incentives in Network Industries".

Since April 2006, he has been working as a researcher at the Centre for European Economic Research in the research group "Information and Communication Technologies". His main fields of research are productivity, innovation and competition issues in ICT intensive industries.

Senior Research Fellow

His work has focussed on a range of topics in applied labour economics. His recent research has covered evaluation methodology with applications to welfare-to-work programmes; the impact of recent changes in student funding, and he is currently working on a quality measurement framework that considers the quality of pre-school education. He has published in the Industrial and Labour Relations Review and the Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics.

Senior Researcher

Population studies, migration and labour market behaviour, health care, long-term care and consumption behaviour. She is an economist, but with a large experience in demographic and health research. She participated in particular in the AGIR and AHEAD projects, financed by the EC. She was involved in preparing the Social Situation Observatory report, Lot1 Demography, with the special focus on the development at the labour and housing market. She is a member of the German Association for Demography (and was more than 10 years member of the board) and the leader of the working group "Population Economics". She will contribute to WP5 on health services.

General Director (CEO) of KOPINT-TÁRKI Economic Research Institute Ltd (from 2007)

Chairman of the Board of the KOPINT Foundation for Economic Research (from 2002)

Macroeconomic analysis, fiscal and monetary policy;

Business surveys, microeconomic analysis;

Development paths of transformation in Central and eastern Europe;

Methodology of Financial Accounts in the framework of System of National Accounts;

Role of services in development patterns and in international trade;

International trade in manufactures, services, foreign direct investment flows.

Research Fellow

He received his Ph.D. from the University of Birmingham in 2008, having previously worked in the managerial economics group and been a lecturer in the CUEB (Capital University of Economics and Business, Beijing).  His main research interests are in the areas of productivity and labour economics, including education and training, wage cyclicality and labour market institutions. He is also working on opportunistic behavior in contracting and acquisition in Chinese capital market.

Research Fellow at the Centre for European Policy Studies and post-doc Fellow at the University of Göttingen

He holds a PhD in economics from University of Göttingen, Germany. Research interests include the impact of intangible and social capital on economic growth. He is currently involved in the FP7 research project INNODRIVE in which he is building up stocks of intangible capital in the EU27 at an aggregated level. Before working at CEPS he was a research fellow of the postgraduate programme at the University of Göttingen and Visiting Researcher at the London School of Economics. Publications include articles in peer reviewed journals, books and chapters in books.

Research Fellow

She graduated in economics in 1989, Middle East Technical University, Turkey, has M.Sc. in Health Services Management from Hacettepe University, Turkey in 1993 and MS.C. from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine in 1994. In 2007 she obtained a PhD in Economics form University of Marmara, Turkey. Her background includes posts as a Consultant in Health Economics and Finance in the Ministry of Health and Social Security Institution, national expert on Turkey for the WHO She is responsible for research in health economics and health sector projects in CEPS. She is the Project Director of FP7 research project on Assessing Needs of Care in European Nations-ANCIEN.

Reseach Assistant

In July 2008 she graduated in European Affairs with a thesis on the exportability of flexicurity to big countries. Through this work, she has acquired familiarity with data collection and analysis and labour issues from both the institutional and political economy point of view.

Lecturer in Economic Analysis in the University of Valencia and research professor of the IVIE

His specialty fields are Banking and Regional Economics. Visiting researcher at the Florida State University and Consultant of the European Commission. He has published 8 books and over 50 articles in specialized journals (Journal of Banking and Finance, Regional Studies, Review of Income and Wealth, Journal of International Money and Finance, etc.). Principal researcher of several competitive projects as well as projects for enterprises and public institutions

Lecturer at the Universitat de València

He has been a visiting scholar at Florida State University (1996-1997) and an external consultant of the World Bank. His research interests include Human Capital, Banking and Regional Economics. Co-author of several books and has published articles in international academic journals.

Research Fellow

Developed dynamic programming models for policy analysis. Published in journals such as Economic Journal and Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics. He will work on labour market regulation in WP4.

Researcher at the IVIE and lecturer at the Universitat de València

He received his Ph.D. in Economics in 1998. His work covers topics such as Human Capital, Growth and Regional Economics. He has published numerous books and articles in Spanish as well as in international journals (Review of Income and Wealth, Applied Economics, Economics Letters, International Journal of Transportation and Statistics, Regional Studies, Transportation among others.

Research Officer

Her research interests include evaluating performance in the health sector and in hospitals and the quality of pre-school education. She will contribute mainly to WP6 and WP7 on non-market services.

Deputy Head of the Department of Innovation, Manufacturing, Services at DIW Berlin.

He is Honorary Professor at the Technical University of Berlin and member of the Centre for Metropolitan Studies at Humboldt University, Berlin. His main research fields are productivity and earning analyses on the industry, the regional and the firm level and observations of service and construction industries. He has been engaged in a number of research projects for the German Government ,e.g. to the impacts of the EU service directive or the perspectives of service industries in the New German Countries. He was involved in the team of the EUKLEMS project (6. framework program) and is currently participating in the INNODRIVE project (7. framework program). Publications include articles in Regional Studies and The Economics of Transition and various contributions to books. He will contribute to WP1.

Professor of Environmental Economics

Research interests include globalisation and growth with particular interest in the impact of trade, economic growth and investment flows on the natural environment. His journal publications include China Economic Review, Environmental and Resource Economics, Scandinavian Journal of Economics and The World Economy. He will contribute to the research on internationalisation of services in WP3.

PhD student, ICT group

Miruna Sarbu studied economics at the University of Heidelberg focussing on "Statistics and Econometrics". In her diploma thesis she analysed the relation between returns and risk of stocks using multivariate GARCH models. In September 2009 she joined the research group "Information and Communication Technologies".

Ray Barrell
Senior Research Fellow

Specialist areas
He leads the National Institute's programme of macro-economic research. He has worked on a wide range of applied econometrics and policy design issues, including consumption, determinants of growth, labour markets, fiscal and monetary policy, the impact of European integration, accession and expansion, and on macro economic modelling. Publications include articles in Economic Journal, European Economic Review, Review of Economics and Statistics, Economics Letters, Bank of France Bulletin and German Economic Review. He will lead macro-economic analysis of the financial markets (WP1).

Research Fellow, Principal Investigator for NIESR on the FP7 project, INNODRIVE

Her Research interests include the economics of the labour market, skills, technical progress and policy evaluation of the labour market. Recent publications include papers in Labour Economics and Oxford Economic Papers. She will coordinate NIESR research in WP2 and WP3.

Head of Dept of Economics

Research interest include empirical international trade, environmental, development and labour economics. His journal publications include Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series A, International Economic Journal and The World Economy. He will contribute to the research on internationalisation of services in WP3.

Professor of Labour Economics

His main research interests are on regulation in labour markets, management input in explaining productivity across firms, job quality and work life balance. His journal publications include the Academy of Management Journal , Oxford Economic Papers , Industrial and Labor Relations Review, British Journal of Industrial Relations to name but a few and has produced a number of widely cited books. He will contribute to the work on labour market regulation.