Dr. Jos Blank

Profile

Jos Blank is endowed professor Productivity of the Public Sector at the Erasmus University Rotterdam, and is also affiliated with the Delft University of Technology. He is the director of the centre for Innovation and Public Sector Efficiency (IPSE Studies), a partnership of the CAOP in The Hague, the Delft University of Technology and the Erasmus University Rotterdam. IPSE Studies carries out research on the efficiency and the effectiveness of the public sector. IPSE Studies aims at facilitating academic research, but also at contributing to the policy discussions concerning the optimal design of the public sector. The latter also includes the implementation of research results in everyday policy.

Jos has over 30 years of experience in public sector efficiency research. He wrote many (national and international) articles and several books about the productivity of the public services in the Netherlands. Most of his work relates to the health care and education sector. Important themes in his work are: funding, market conditions, regulation, capacity planning, outsourcing, human resource management and governance.

He is also an active member of the Productivity Analysis Research Network, has joined several official committees about benchmarking in the public sector, and is a referee for various different international journals. Jos is an important advisor for politicians, cabinet members, policy makers and managers of public sector institutions.

Previous employment positions of Jos were at Statistics Netherlands (CBS), the Social and Cultural Planning Office of the Netherlands (SCP) and ECORYS-NEI.

Research

Prof. Blank collaborates with the foundation IPSE Studies (he is also the chair). IPSE Studies carries out research on public sector efficiency and effectiveness. The goal of IPSE Studies is to perform academic research and to contribute to the policy discussions concerning the optimal design of the public sector. The latter also includes the implementation of the research results in everyday policy. IPSE Studies performs both academic research and contract research, maintains intensive (international) contacts with policy makers and academia and organizes colloquia on a variety of related topics. The research of IPSE Studies is mainly empirical and uses advanced quantitative analyses to assess the consequences of policy and management choices on the efficiency of public services. Policy research addresses questions of market structures, budgeting systems, market regulation, interdependencies between organizations and bureaucracy. Management oriented research of IPSE studies relates to the organization of public services, and the role of different innovations in this context.

Health System Management in Minor MedTech (Delft University of Technology)
Financial Management in Master Public Management (Erasmus University Rotterdam)
Various masterclasses In productivity Measurement

Blank, J. L. T., van Hulst, B. L., & Valdmanis, V. G. (2016). Concentrating Emergency Rooms: Penny-Wise and Pound-Foolish? An Empirical Research on Scale Economies and Chain Economies in Emergency Rooms in Dutch Hospitals. Health Economics. Retrieved from http://doi.wiley.com/10.1002/hec.3409
Blank, J.L.T., & Valdmanis, V.G. 2015. Technology diffusion in hospitals: a log odds random effects regression model. The International Journal of Health Planning and Management, 30(3), 246-259.
Blank, J.L.T., & van Hulst, B.L. 2015. “Optimal administrative scale for planning public services: a social cost model applied to Flemish hospital care”. The International Journal of Health Planning and Management. 30 (4), 382-394
Veeneman, W., Wilschut, J., Urlings, T., Blank, J., & van de Velde, D. (2014). “Efficient frontier analysis of Dutch public transport tendering: A first analysis”.Research in Transportation Economics, 48(0), 101-108.
Blank, J.L.T., & Eggink, E. 2014. “The impact of policy on hospital productivity: a time series analysis of Dutch hospitals”. Health Care Management Science, 17: 139-149.
Blank, J. L. T., & Valdmanis, V.G.. 2013. Principles of productivity measurement: an elementary introduction to quantitative research on the productivity, efficiency, effectiveness and quality of the public sector. Maastricht: Shaker Publishing B.V.
Blank, J.L.T. 2013. “Maximizing public value for subsidized non-profit firms: an economic mathematical model” Journal of Productivity Analysis, 40 (2), 173-183.

More publications

N.W.O. Smart Governance in collaboration with EUR
Research program Governance and productivity Public Sector Ministry of Interior 2010-2013
Research program Governance and productivity Public Sector Ministry of Interior 2014-2017

Energy Journal.
Journal of Productivity Analysis.
European Journal of Health Economics (Health Economics in Prevention and Care).
Health Care Management Science.
Omega International Journal of Management Science.
European Journal of Operations Research.
Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization.
Health Economics.
European Review of Agricultural Economics.
Canadian Public Policy/Analyse de politiques.
Medical Care (in 2011 rewarded as excellent reviewer).
Health Policy.
Applied Economics.
Bulletin of Economic Research
Socio-economic Planning Sciences
Statistica Neerlandica
Social Science & Medicine
Annals of Regional Science

Blank, J.L.T., & Heezik van, A.A.S. 2016. Productiviteit van overheidsbeleid: deel II, De Nederlandse zorg 1980-2013. Delft: Eburon.
Niaounakis, T.K., J.L.T. Blank, & W.Veeneman. 2016. Doelmatig aanbesteden: een empirisch onderzoek naar de relatie tussen aanbestedingskenmerken en de kostendoelmatigheid van concessies in het regionaal openbaar vervoer. IPSE Studies Research Reeks. Delft: IPSE Studies.
Niaounakis T.K., J.L.T. Blank. 2015. Lasten van samen belasten. IPSE Studies Research Reeks. Delft: IPSE Studies.
Blank, J.L.T. 2015. Illusies over fusies. Een kritische beschouwing over de schaalvergroting in de Nederlandse publieke sector. Overheid en arbeid (Vol. 41). Den Haag: CAOP (oratie leerstoel Productiviteit Publieke Sector).
Blank, J.L.T., & Heezik van, A.A.S. 2015. Productiviteit van overheidsbeleid: deel I, het Nederlandse onderwijs 1980-2012. Delft: Eburon.
Blank, J.L.T. 2014. Productief onderwijs. In: Klarus, R., L. Borghans en I. Waterreus (eds.), Wat is goed onderwijs: bijdragen uit de economie. Den Haag: Boom Lemma Uitgevers.
Blank, J. L. T., & Valdmanis, V.G.. 2013. Principles of productivity measurement: an elementary introduction to quantitative research on the productivity, efficiency, effectiveness and quality of the public sector. Maastricht: Shaker Publishing B.V.
Blank, J.L.T. 2010. Principes van Productiviteitsmeting: elementaire handleiding voor kwantitatief onderzoek naar de productiviteit, doelmatigheid, kwaliteit en effectiviteit van de publieke sector. Maastricht: Shaker Publishing B.V.

More books

Blank, J.L.T. & T.K. Niaounakis. 2016 Is big echt wel zo zo beautiful? Illusies over fusies. Publiek Denken, 2016 (5): 38-41.
Hulst, B. L. van & Blank, J. L. T. 2016. Verstandig fuseren: Optimale schaal niet synoniem met grotere schaal. TPC 14 (3): 10-14.
Blank, Jos, & Heezik van, Alex. 2015. Onderwijsbeleid: niet altijd wijs. Didactief 45 (7): 44-45.
Niaounakis, T.K., & J.L.T. Blank. 2015. (2015). Gerichte gemeentelijke samenwerking beter dan fuseren. TPC, augustus 2015, 4–8.
Hulst, B. L. van & Blank, J. L. T. 2015. Paracetamol voor Baumol. Tijdschrift voor Openbare Financiën, 47 (1), 63-74.
Blank, J. L. T., & van Hulst, B. L. 2013. Schaaleffecten bij de spoedeisende hulp. In: Economisch Statistische Berichten, 98(4673), 718-720.
Blank, J. L. T.. 2013. Arbeidsproductiviteit publieke sector in historisch perspectief: de aard van technische ontwikkelingen. Tijdschrift voor Openbare Financiën, 45(3), 135-142.