Background

Wessel Vermeulen joined Newcastle University in September 2016. He obtained degrees in Economics (BSc) and Financial Economics (MSc) from Maastricht University, The Netherlands, followed by a PhD from the University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg. He held a position as Junior Research Fellow at the University of Oxford for three years.

Further information can be found on his personal website.

Research

Wessel works on international and regional economics, using applied theoretical and empirical methods, as well as conflict studies and genocide prevention.

His research has been published in a.o. The Economic Journal (2015), Journal of Empirical Finance (2016), Journal of Economic Geography (2019).

Current research deals with regional interactions and spillovers, with applications to natural resources, trade and migration. Further interest includes international macroeconomics, financial markets, institutions and politics.

Teaching

Current, Newcastle

Central Banking (NBS8204), Module leader

Macroeconomic Theory (NBS8252), Module leader

Economic Modelling (ECO2003), seminars

Advanced Macroeconomics  (ECO3002), seminars

Past, London Campus

Introductory Economics (LEC1017)

Introductory Econometrics (LBS8331)

Applied Econometrics (LBS8257)

Research Methods in Economics and Finance (LBS8330)

Convenor of Issues in Post-Graduate Research

Publications

• Moshiri S, Østenstad G, Vermeulen WN. Manufacturing in a Natural Resource Based Economy: Evidence from Canadian Plants. OxCARRE Research Papers 2019, 216.
• Hamano M, Vermeulen WN. Natural disasters and trade: the mitigating impact of port substitution. Journal of Economic Geography 2019, epub ahead of print.
• Vermeulen WN. The cost of being stuck outside the Single Market. Evidence from firms in central and eastern Europe. 2019. Submitted.
• Carpantier J-F, Vermeulen WN. Emergence of Sovereign Wealth Funds. Journal of Commodity Markets 2018, 11, 1-21.
• Pegan A, Vermeulen WN. Parliament in Gross Human Rights Violations: The Case of Darfur. Acta Politica 2018, 53(3), 448-468.
• Vermeulen WN. Scarcity drives economic development: The effect of energy subsidies on export diversification in the Middle East. In: Verhoeven, H, ed. Environmental Politics in the Middle East. Local Struggles, Global Connections. London, UK: Hurst Publishers, 2018.
• Gokmen G, Vézina PL, Vermeulen WN. The Imperial Roots of global trade. 2017. In Preparation.
• Perego ER, Vermeulen WN. Macroeconomic determinants of European stock and bond correlations: A tale of two regions. Journal of Empirical Finance 2016, 37, 214-232.
• Beine M, Coulombe C, Vermeulen WN. Dutch Disease and the Mitigation Effect of Migration: Evidence from Canadian Provinces. Economic Journal 2015, 125(589), 1574-1615.
• Grünfeld F, Vermeulen WN. Failure to prevent Gross Human Rights Violations in Darfur. Warnings to and Responses by International Decisions Makers (2003-2005). Brill-Martinus Nijhoff, 2014.
• Grünfeld F, Vermeulen WN. The role of the Netherlands in the European Framework for an international response on Darfur during its Presidency in 2004-2005. Genocide Studies International 2014, 8(2), 176-192.
• Grünfeld F, Vermeulen WN. Failures to Prevent Genocide in Rwanda (1994), Srebrenica (1995), and Darfur (since 2003). Genocide Studies and Prevention 2009, 4(2), 221-237.