Working Group Public Economics

LAURENS CHERCHYE

University of Leuven

Department of Economics

Faculty of Business and Economics

Campus KULAK

E. Sabbelaan 53, 8500 Kortrijk, Belgium

Tel.: +32 (0) 56 24 61 09
Fax: +32 (0) 56 24 69 99
E-mail: Laurens.Cherchye@kuleuven-kortrijk.be

Center for Economic Studies
Naamsestraat 69, 3000 Leuven, Belgium

Tel.: +32 (0) 16 32 68 45
Fax: +32 (0) 16 32 67 96
E-mail: Laurens.Cherchye@econ.kuleuven.be

CV (pdf)

Publications

Personalia - education - positions/career:

Born on November 19, 1974 in Ieper, Belgium
Married; three children

Education:

PhD in Economics, K.U. Leuven, 2001

Current positions:

Full professor, Department of Economics, K.U.Leuven
Extramural fellow of CentER, Tilburg University
Honorary senior research associate, University College London (UCL; Department of Economics)
International research fellow, Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS)

Past positions:

Full professor, CentER, Tilburg University, 2009-2011
Visiting professor at ECARES, Université Libre de Bruxelles, 2008-2009
Postdoctoral fellow of the Fund for Scientific Research-Flanders (FWO-Vlaanderen), 2002-2008

Current research activities and interests:

Revealed preference theory and nonparametric analysis of consumption behavior
The collective model of household consumption behavior
Nonparametric production and efficiency analysis

Some recent working papers:

CHERCHYE, L., B. DE ROCK, A. LEWBEL and F. VERMEULEN (2012),"Sharing rule identification for general collective consumption models"
CHERCHYE, L., I. CRAWFORD, B. DE ROCK and F. VERMEULEN (2011),"Aggregation without the aggravation? Nonparametric analysis of the representative consumer"
CHERCHYE, L., T. DE MUYNCK, B. DE ROCK and K. DE WITTE (2011),"Nonparametric analysis of multi-output production with joint inputs"
CHERCHYE, L., T. DE MUYNCK and B. DE ROCK (2011),"Revealed preference tests for weak separability: an integer programming approach"
CHERCHYE, L., T. DE MUYNCK and B. DE ROCK (2011),"The empirical content of Cournot competition"
CHERCHYE, L., T. DE MUYNCK and B. DE ROCK (2011),"Nash bargained consumption decisions: a revealed preference analysis"
CHERCHYE, L., B. DE ROCK, B. DIERYNCK, F. ROODHOOFT and J. SABBE (2011),"Opening the 'black box' of efficiency measurement: input allocation in multi-output settings"
CHERCHYE, L., T. DE MUYNCK and B. DE ROCK (2011),"Is utility transferable? A revealed preference analysis"
CHERCHYE, L., T. DE MUYNCK and B. DE ROCK (2011),"Noncooperative household consumption with caring"
CHERCHYE, L., B. DE ROCK, J. SABBE and E. Verriest (2010),"Commitment in intertemporal household consumption: a revealed preference analysis".
CHERCHYE, L., B. DE ROCK and F. VERMEULEN (2011), "Married with children. A collective labor supply model with detailed time use and intrahousehold expenditure information" (revised version forthcoming in The American Economic Review).
CHERCHYE, L., B. DE ROCK and V. PLATINO (2010), "Private versus public consumption within groups: testing the nature of goods from aggregate data".
BRUYNEEL, S., L. CHERCHYE and B. DE ROCK (2011), "Collective consumption models with restricted bargaining weights: an empirical assessment based on experimental data". (revised version forthcoming in Review of the Economics of the Household).
CHERCHYE, L., B. DE ROCK and F. VERMEULEN (2008), "Economic well-being and poverty among the elderly: an analysis based on a collective consumption model" (revised version forthcoming in European Economic Review).

Current and past teaching:

Microeconomic theory (Leuven)
Econometrics (Tilburg)
Operations research (Leuven)
Principles of economics (Leuven)
Research seminar (Leuven)