1. Professor, Department of Economics, University College London (1994-2003)
2. Senior Policy Analyst in the Strategy Unit at the Department of Health (2000-01), reporting directly to the Secretary of State
3. Visiting Professor, Department of Economics University of California at Berkeley, January 1998-January 1999
4. Policy advisor to No.10 Downing Street, 1999-2000, education, enterprise and tax.
5. Research Fellow in the Corporate Sector, Institute for Fiscal Studies (September 1992-February 1999). Founded the productivity and innovation program at IFS
6. Editorial Board - Economic Policy (2000-2003), European Economic Review (1999-2003), The Review of Economic Studies (1997-2003)
7. Partner, Lexecon Ltd 2001-2002

"Technology, Information and the Decentralization of the Firm" (with Daron Acemoglu, Philippe Aghion, Claire Lelarge and Fabrizzio Zilibotti, Forthcoming, Quarterly Journal of Economics

"How special is the relationship: Using the impact of US R&D spillovers on British firms as a test of technology sourcing " (with Rupert Harrison and Rachel Griffith) American Economic Review (December 2006) 96(5), 1859-1875

"Uncertainty and Company Investment Dynamics: Empirical Evidence for UK firms" (with N. Bloom and S. Bond) Review of Economic Studies (2007) 74, 391-415 "

"Management Practices, Work-Life Balance and Productivity: A Review of Recent Evidence" (with Nick Bloom), Oxford Review of Economic Policy 22(4), 2006

"The Impact of Training on Productivity and Wages: Evidence from British Panel Data" (with Howard Reed and Lorraine Dearden) CEP Discussion Paper No. 674. Oxford Bulletin of Economic and Social Research (2006), 68, 4, 397-421.

"The internationalisation of public welfare policy" (with James Banks, Richard Disney and Alan Duncan) Economic Journal (2005)
115(502) 62-81

"Evaluating the Employment Impact of mandatory a job search assistance programme" (with R. Blundell, M. Costa Dias and C. Meghir) Journal of the European Economics Association (2004) 2(4) 569-606.

"Mapping the Two Faces of R&D: Productivity Growth in a panel of OECD industries" (with Rachel Griffith and Stephen Redding) Review of Economics and Statistics, (2004) 86(4) 883-895.

"Skill biased organisational change? Evidence from British and French establishments" (with Eve Caroli) Quarterly Journal of Economics (2001) CXVI, No. 4, 1449-1492

"Market share, market value and Innovation: Evidence from British Manufacturing Firms" (with Richard Blundell and Rachel Griffith). Review of Economic Studies (July 1999) 66(3), 228, 529-554

"Technology and changes in the skill structure: Evidence from seven OECD countries" (with Stephen Machin). Quarterly Journal of Economics (November 1998) CXI, 113, 1215-44

"The Creation and Capture of Economic Rents: Wages and Innovation in a Panel of UK Companies" Quarterly Journal of Economics (February 1996) CXI, 443, 195-226

Selected Working Papers:

• "Americans do I.T better: US Multinationals and the Productivity Miracle " (with Nick Bloom and Rafaella Sadun), CEP Discussion Paper No. 788, April 2007. Submitted to the American Economic Review

• "The Impact of the National Minimum Wage on Firm Profitability" (with Mirko Draca and Steve Machin) CEP Discussion Paper No. 715, Journal of Labor Economics

• "Identifying Technology Spillovers and Product Market Rivalry" (with Nick Bloom and Mark Schankerman), CEP Discussion Paper No. 675. Under Revision - American Economic Review.

• " Microeconometric Models of Investment and Employment" (with Stephen Bond) December 2003. Forthcoming, Handbook of Econometrics Volume 6 edited by James Heckman and Ed Leamer.

• Empirical Methods in Micro-economics: Panel Data
  • Course Overview
  • lecture_1
  • lecture_2
  • lecture_3
  • lecture_4
  • lecture 5
  • GMM for Panel Data Using Stata
  • GMM Stata Exercises
  • Data file 1 [zipped STATA .dta file]
  • Data file 2 [zipped STATA .dta file]

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• EC406
  Course outline, lecture notes and problem sets available at http://cep.lse.ac.uk/people/vanreenen/EC406/

• 1990-92 University College London PhD
• 1988-89 London School of Economics MSc (Distinction with Prize)
• 1986-88 Queens College, University of Cambridge BA (First Class, Joshua King prize, College prize and Subject prizes)

• Centre for Economic Policy Research - Research Fellow
• National Bureau of Economic Research
• Strategy Board on Productivity, Office for National Statistics