Martijn Mak works as a consultant at Economic Bureau Amsterdam. Martijn has done several studies for the central government and local governments in Aruba, Curaçao and St. Maarten and in the Dutch Caribbean. For example, he mapped the digital infrastructure in the Dutch Caribbean and researched the economic effects of landlord subsidy in the Dutch Caribbean. He also conducted several studies for the country packages of Aruba, Curaçao and St. Maarten and evaluated the Kingdom Act on Financial Supervision Curaçao and St. Maarten, the Schuldsanering Curaçao and St. Maarten, and the Protocols Aruba-Netherlands. He also conducted research for a macro-economic action plan for Curaçao and mapped the socioeconomic effects of vacation rentals in Aruba.
Martijn has extensive quantitative experience and has performed several competition and state aid law calculations, in particular Market Economy Operator (MEO) tests. Furthermore, he develops and manages the data tool Caribbean Analytics and Statistics (CAS).
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.