Mark Thissen

Background

About Mark Thissen

Mark Thissen got his Master’s degree in economics from the Erasmus University Rotterdam and his PhD in economics at the University of Groningen. He is specialized in regional competitiveness analysis, input-output and CGE modelling. Within these research topics he worked on the region and sector specific consequences of Brexit, Smart specialization, regional economic effects of flooding, wider economic benefits of infrastructure investment, the economics of European economic integration and the monetary union, the importance of agglomeration economies, and the treatment of financial markets in Computable General Equilibrium modelling. He is also the lead researcher in the estimation of regional trade within a system of National accounts resulting in the construction of the unique European wide PBL interregional trade data set between European Nuts2 regions.