Working Group Public Economics

KRIS DE SWERDT

Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
Faculty of Economics and Applied Economics
Department of Economics
Center for Economic Studies
Naamsestraat 69, 3000 Leuven, Belgium

Room 02.159
Tel.: +32 (0) 16 32 67 88
Fax: +32 (0) 16 32 67 96
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Personalia:

Licentiaat Toegepaste Economische Wetenschappen (Applied Economics), Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, 1998
Master of Science in Economics, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, 2002
Research Assistant since October, 2002

Research activities and interests:

Statistical matching techniques
Microsimulation models
Development Economics
Inequality and Poverty measurement
Public Choice

Publications

Decoster André and De Swerdt Kris (2008), Enriching income data with expenditure information: a semi-parametric imputation technique, Discussion Paper DPS 08.11, Center for Economic Studies, Leuven
Decoster André, De Swerdt Kris and Verbist Gerlinde (2007), Indirect taxes and social policy: distributional impact of alternative financing of social security, Discussion Paper DPS 07.11, Center for Economic Studies, Leuven.
Decoster A., De Swerdt K. (2005), Hoe maken we een echte prijsindex voor woningverkopen in België? [How to construct a genuine price index of house sales?], SBOV, Leuven. (download hier)
Decoster A. and De Swerdt K. (2005), Why and how to construct a genuine Belgian price index of house sales?, Tijdschrift voor Economie en Management, 51(2), 309-329.
Decoster A., De Swerdt K. and Van Camp G. (2004), Matching of income and expenditure data by means of nonparametric estimation of Engel curves, Eindrapport DWTC-project AG/01/079, Leuven, Centrum voor Economische Studiën.

Current work

Valorisation of the Microsimulation Model for Social Security Mimosis, Final Report, Project AG/01/116.

Unpublished research papers and work in progress

Decoster André, Capéau Bart, De Swerdt Kris, (2005), Residential mobility in Belgium: a duration analysis, mimeo, Center for Economic Studies, Leuven.