Wouter Den Haan

Wouter Den Haan is a Professor of Economics at the London School of Economics and Political Science, affiliated with the Department of Economics. His research focuses on macroeconomics, with particular emphasis on the role of frictions in financial and labour markets for business cycles, business cycle models with heterogeneous agents, and computational economics. He is also involved in research centres at LSE, including the CFM Developing New Methodologies Programme and the CFM Interaction between Financial Markets, Monetary Policy, and the Macro Economy Programme. He teaches courses such as EC2B1: Macroeconomics, EC413: Macroeconomics, EC417: Advanced Macroeconomics, and EC442: Macroeconomics for MRes Students.

Wouter den Haan is a professor of economics at the London School of Economics, specializing in macroeconomics. His research focuses on macroeconomic dynamics, including the behavior of debt and equity finance, the monetary transmission mechanism, and the comovement between output and prices. He has explored the role of expectations, business cycles, and financial fragility in economic models. His work often addresses the accuracy of simulations and the impact of aggregate shocks on heterogeneous agents. Den Haan has contributed to understanding the cyclical behavior of financial markets and the implications of liquidity flows for business enterprises.