Professor of Econometrics
PhD in Economics - Tilburg University - 1975
Production investment behaviour, with an application to six EEC-countries

Contact information
Universiteit Antwerpen - City Campus
Prinsstraat 13 - room B-121
BE-2000 Antwerpen

Research interest

• Econometrics
• Multi-Country Modeling
• Dynamic Games
• European Integration Policies
• Innovation Strategies

Courses taught

• Time series analysis
• Advanced econometrics
• Econometrics of Innovation 

Key publications

• Lukach R., P. Kort & J. Plasmans (2007), Optimal R&D investment strategies under the threat of new technology entry, International Journal of Industrial Organization, vol. 25(1), pp. 103-119.
• di Bartolomeo G., J. Engwerda, J. Plasmans & B. van Aarle (2006), Staying together or breaking apart: Policy-makers' endogenous coalitions formation in the European Economic and Monetary Union, Computers & Operations Research, vol. 33, pp. 438-463.
• Di Bartolomeo G., J. Engwerda, J. Plasmans, B. van Aarle & T. Michalak (2006), Macroeconomic stabilization policies in the EMU: Spillovers, asymmetries, and institutions, Scottish Journal of Political Economy, vol. 53, pp. 461-484.
• Plasmans J. (2006), Modern Linear and Nonlinear Econometrics, Springer Verlag, New York, 372 pages.
• Plasmans J, J. Engwerda, B. van Aarle, G. Di Bartolomeo and T. Michalak (2006), Dynamic Modelling of Monetary and Fiscal Cooperation Among Nations, Springer Verlag, New York, 322 pages.
• van Aarle B., G. Di Bartolomeo, J. Engwerda & J. Plasmans (2004), Policymakers' Coalitions and Stabilization Policies in the EMU, Journal of Economics (Zeitschrift für Nationalökonomie), vol. 82, No. 1, pp. 1-24.
• Engwerda J.C., B. van Aarle & J.E.J. Plasmans (2002), Cooperative and non-cooperative fiscal stabilization policies in the EMU, Journal of Economic Dynamics & Control, vol. 26, No. 3, pp. 451-481.
• Engwerda J.C., B. van Aarle & J.E.J. Plasmans (1999), The (in)finite horizon open-loop Nash LQ game: an application to EMU, Annals of Operations Research, vol. 88, pp. 251-273.
• Plasmans J.E.J. & A.J. De Zeeuw (1980), Incentives to Cooperate in Linear Quadratic Difference Games, International Journal of Systems Science, vol. 11, No. 5, pp. 607-619.
• Plasmans J.E.J. (1975), Production Investment Behaviour, with an Application to six EEC-Countries, Tilburg University Press, 330 p.

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