Bert Balk

Prof. Dr. Bert M. Balk held a chair in business administration, in particular the measurement of price, quantity, and productvity changes and economic-statististical research, at Rotterdam School of Management, from 2001 to 2011. This chair was supported by Statistics Netherlands, where Prof. Balk worked in various positions from 1973 to 2011. A.o. he was deputy head of the Department for Price Statistics and director of the Center for Research of Enterprise Microdata (Cerem). His research interests include measurement in economics, in particular index number theory and productivity measurement. He has published a large number of articles in academic journals, has written two books, and has served on the editorial boards of the Journal of Productivity Analysis and Statistica Neerlandica.

Education:

• Primary 1953-1959
• Secondary 1959 – 1964
• Universities of Leiden and Utrecht 1964 – 1971
• Graduated in Mathematics, Leiden, April 1971
• Ph. D. Economics, University of Amsterdam, May 1984

Employment details

• 1971-1972 Military service
• 1973-2011 Statistics Netherlands
• 1975-1994 Chief of Research Section of Department for Price Statistics
• 1984-1994 Deputy Head of Department for Price Statistics
• 1994-2004 Senior Researcher at Department of Statistical Methods / Methods and Informatics Department
• 1998-2004 Director of Cerem (Center for Research of Economic Micro-data)
• 2004-2011 Senior Researcher/Consultant at Division of Macro-economic Statistics and Dissemination
• 2001-2011 Professor, Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University Rotterdam (part time)
• 2011-2021 Professor emeritus, Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University Rotterdam

Books

Industrial Price, Quantity, and Productivity Indices, The Micro-Economic Theory and An Application (Kluwer Academic Publishers /Springer US, 1998).

Price and Quantity Index Numbers: Models for Measuring Aggregate Change and Difference (Cambridge University Press, New York, 2008).

Productivity: Concepts, Measurement, Aggregation, and Decomposition. Contributions to Economics (Springer Nature Switzerland AG, 2021)