Thijs Van Rens
Curriculum Vitae
Contact details
Telephone: +44 (0)24 761 51423
Fax: +44 (0)24 765 23032
Email: J dot M dot van-Rens at warwick dot ac dot uk
Room: S2.105
Advice and feedback hours: Thursdays and Fridays 9:30-10:30 (please check my calendar to make sure I am not travelling)
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Associate Professor of Economics
Research Interests
- Macroeconomics, business cycles
- Labour markets
Education
- PhD Princeton University 2005
Research
For publications, working papers, data and programs, please see my personal website at thijsvanrens.com.
Impact
Parliamentary Academic Fellow assisting the Health Committee on childhood obesity.
Academic co-lead of the University's Global Research Priority on Food.
Teaching
EC201: Macroeconomics 2, with Roberto Pancrazi (UG2)
EC9A2: Advanced Macroeconomic Analysis, with Roberto Pancrazi, Omer Moav, Marija Vukotic and Roger Farmer (MRes/PhD1)
MSc dissertation supervision, see the list of topics.
PhD student advising
In principle I will schedule meetings only on Wednesday afternoons, with a max of four 30-minute meetings per week; please sign up.
Except for very short questions, I will answer email queries once per week.
All students I advise are required to participate in the macro seminar as well as in the macro workshop and encouraged to participate in the macro reading group.
Administrative Responsibilities
Coordinator of the macro- and international economics group.
Director of the MRes/PhD programme.
Member of the Senate.