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Dirk Bezemer

Dirk Bezemer
Dirk Bezemer in 2016
Born1971 (age 52–53)
NationalityDutch
TitleProfessor
Academic background
Education
Academic work
DisciplineEconomics and business
InstitutionsRijksuniversiteit Groningen

Dirk Bezemer (born 1971) is a Dutch economist who is a professor at the Faculty of Economics and Business of the Rijksuniversiteit Groningen. He studied at Wageningen University (M.Sc. in Economics (1995)) and University of Amsterdam & Tinbergen Institute (Ph.D. in Economics (2001)).[1] His topics of expertise include the financial sector, credit creation, credit cycles, monetary policy, and the cause of economic crises.[2][3][4] Bezemer provides commentary at the Centre for Economic Policy Research and De Groene Amsterdammer.[5] In a September 2009 opinion piece in the Financial Times he wrote that a dozen economists whom he listed had seen the 2007–2008 financial crisis coming for years, but were ignored.[6][7][8][9][10]

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