Martijn Mak works as a consultant at Economic Bureau Amsterdam. Martijn has conducted various studies for the Dutch central government and local authorities in the (European) Netherlands as well as in Aruba, Curaçao, Sint Maarten, and the Caribbean Netherlands. He has experience with policy evaluations across a wide range of policy domains. He has provided advice on topics ranging from purchasing power to economic development strategies. In addition, he carried out several studies related to the implementation agreements for Aruba, Curaçao, and Sint Maarten.
Martijn has extensive quantitative experience and has carried out various competition law and state aid assessments, in particular Market Economy Operator (MEO) tests. In addition, he evaluated an econometric forecasting model for social assistance budgets in the context of legal proceedings. Martijn has also (co-)developed several dashboards and is familiar with macroeconomic input–output methodology, policy impact modelling, and cost price analyses. Furthermore, he has developed a range of purchasing power models.
Martijn is a graduate economist and econometrician. During his bachelor Econometrics he also completed the first year of Economics and Business Economics and broadened his study towards general economics. He took both his bachelor’s degree in econometrics and his master’s degree in economics at the Free University of Amsterdam, both of which he completed cum laude. The research for his thesis was published in the journal Sustainability.