Dr Wynand van de Ven (1950) wrote his thesis "Studies in Health Insurance and Econometrics" at Leiden University. Since 1986 he is professor of Health Insurance at the Erasmus University Rotterdam. His teaching and research focus on managed competition in health care, competitive health insurance market, risk selection, moral hazard, risk equalisation, managed care and priority choices in health care. He has experience as a governor and adviser of insurance companies, political parties, government, research institute, hospitals and other health care organizations. He serves (served) as member of many advisory committees and the editorial Board of scientific journals. As a consultant, e.g. for the World Bank and the World Health Organization, he has studied the health care systems in Chile, Ireland, Israel, New Zealand, Poland, Russia, South Africa and Sweden. He is one of the founding fathers of the European Risk Adjustment Network. Previous positions are Programme Director of the Master Health Economics, Policy and Law at Erasmus University and Chair of the iHEA Jury-Committee for the annual Arrow Award for best paper in health economics.


Selected publications:

Ven, WPMM van de and BMS van Praag,
'The demand for deductibles in private health insurance; a probit model with sample selection',
 Journal of Econometrics 17 (1981), 229-252.

Ven, WPMM van de,
"Ziektekostenverzekering en financiële prikkels tot doelmatigheid; Deel I: Op weg naar een volksverzekering; Deel II: Contouren van een Algemene Wet Ziektekosten",
Economisch Statistische Berichten 68 (1983), 72-78, 110-117

Ven, WPMM van de, RCJA van Vliet, FT Schut, EM van Barneveld,
Access to coverage for high-risks in a competitive individual health insurance market: via premium rate restrictions or risk-adjusted premium subsidies?
Journal of Health Economics 19 (2000) 311-339.

Ven, WPMM van de, R.P Ellis,
 Risk adjustment in competitive health plan markets,
Handbook of Health Economics, Volume 1, Edited by A.J. Culyer and J.P. Newhouse, Elsevier Science B.V. 2000, 755-845.

Van de Ven, WPMM., RCJA van Vliet, LM Lamers,
'Health-adjusted premium subsidies in the Netherlands',
Health Affairs, vol 23, No. 3, May/June 2004, 45-55.