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PhD, AM, economics, Harvard University
MSc, economics, Universitat Pompeu Fabra
Doctorandus, Spanish language and literature, Universiteit Utrecht
Doctorandus, business administration, Erasmus University Rotterdam
LLB, laws, University of London
Scholars
Senior Fellow
Public finance, Political economy, European Union, Criminal justice reform, DC metropolitan area, Immigration policy
Stan Veuger is a senior fellow in economic policy studies at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), the editor of AEI Economic Perspectives, and an affiliate of AEI’s Center on Opportunity and Social Mobility. He is also an affiliate of Harvard’s Center for American Political Studies and a fellow at the IE School of Politics, Economics, and Global Affairs. He has been a visiting lecturer of economics at Harvard University a number of times, most recently in the fall of 2025, and was a Campbell Visiting Fellow at the Hoover Institution in May 2022.
Dr. Veuger’s research has been published in leading academic and professional journals, including the Journal of Monetary Economics, The Quarterly Journal of Economics, and The Review of Economics and Statistics. He is the editor, with Michael R. Strain, of Economic Freedom and Human Flourishing: Perspectives from Political Philosophy (2016) and Preserving Links in the Pandemic: Policies to Maintain Worker-Firm Attachment in the OECD (2023).
Dr. Veuger comments frequently on economics, politics, and popular culture for general audiences. His writing has been featured in The Bulwark, Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, The New York Times, USA Today, and The Washington Post, among other outlets. His broadcast appearances include CNN, Fox News, MSNBC, Telemundo, and Univision.
He received a PhD and an AM in economics from Harvard University. He also holds degrees from Erasmus University Rotterdam, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, University of London, and Utrecht University.
Dr. Veuger serves as a director of the Netherland-America Foundation and as a member of its executive committee. He welcomes media inquiries in English, Spanish, and Dutch.
PhD, AM, economics, Harvard University
MSc, economics, Universitat Pompeu Fabra
Doctorandus, Spanish language and literature, Universiteit Utrecht
Doctorandus, business administration, Erasmus University Rotterdam
LLB, laws, University of London
Working Paper
AEI Economic Policy Working Paper Series
Abstract During the COVID-19 pandemic the US federal government appropriated $189.5 billion in emergency aid to school districts. These funds were supplied to help districts replace lost revenues and to mitigate the harmful effects of...
BY Stan Veuger + Jeffrey P. Clemens + Philip G. Hoxie ON 27 Mar 26
Op-Ed
Ending the ban on ordinary Iranians would show that Washington recognizes Iranians are America’s allies.
BY Michael Rubin + Stan Veuger ON 27 Mar 26
Article
Last year American policymakers decided to give up on geopolitical competition with China, a development that was foreshadowed near the end of the first Trump administration. Nowhere is this evolution in American policy thinking reflected as clearly as in tariff policy.
BY Stan Veuger ON 9 Mar 26
Article
President Trump's new Section 122 tariffs are unlawful given that the US has not experienced balance-of-payments problems since the early 1970s, when Nixon suspended dollar-gold convertibility and jettisoned fixed exchange rates.
BY Stan Veuger + Clark Packard ON 26 Feb 26
Article
Postliberalism, whatever its flavor, allows one to remain at a distance of specific policies, lets one avoid having to think through trade-offs or engage in serious policy analysis, and, perhaps most importantly, vaguely hints at supporting whatever national conservative elected officials do without expressly saying so.
BY Stan Veuger ON 22 Jan 26
Press
Senior Fellow Stan Veuger discusses the domestic constraints on the Trump administration on NPO Radio 1’s ‘Dit is de Dag.’
BY Stan Veuger ON 19 Jan 26
Op-Ed
Ending the ban on ordinary Iranians would show that Washington recognizes Iranians are America’s allies.
BY Michael Rubin + Stan Veuger ON 27 Mar 26
Article
Last year American policymakers decided to give up on geopolitical competition with China, a development that was foreshadowed near the end of the first Trump administration. Nowhere is this evolution in American policy thinking reflected as clearly as in tariff policy.
BY Stan Veuger ON 9 Mar 26
Article
President Trump's new Section 122 tariffs are unlawful given that the US has not experienced balance-of-payments problems since the early 1970s, when Nixon suspended dollar-gold convertibility and jettisoned fixed exchange rates.
BY Stan Veuger + Clark Packard ON 26 Feb 26
Article
Postliberalism, whatever its flavor, allows one to remain at a distance of specific policies, lets one avoid having to think through trade-offs or engage in serious policy analysis, and, perhaps most importantly, vaguely hints at supporting whatever national conservative elected officials do without expressly saying so.
BY Stan Veuger ON 22 Jan 26
Article
The second Trump administration has rapidly upended US–EU economic relations, replacing decades of low tariffs and open investment with sweeping protectionism. Although Europe initially hoped for negotiated, reciprocal liberalization, it instead accepted a highly unbalanced arrangement largely because its dependence on US security guarantees constrained its ability to retaliate.
BY Stan Veuger ON 7 Jan 26
Op-Ed
If the Supreme Court correctly strikes down President Trump's IEEPA tariffs, the administration could use—and contort—alternative statutes to reconstruct a large share of his sweeping tariff regime.
BY Stan Veuger + Clark Packard ON 5 Dec 25
Report
Net migration was between –295,000 and –10,000 in 2025—the first year with negative net migration in at least half a century. For 2026, we project net migration is likely to remain in negative territory, implying weaker employment, GDP, and consumer spending growth.
BY Stan Veuger + Wendy Edelberg + Tara Watson ON 13 Jan 26
Report
AEI Economic Perspectives
Light-touch density housing policies enable modest redevelopment of single-family lots into duplexes, triplexes, and townhomes. In Washington, DC, they would create thousands of family-sized homes that are affordable for middle-income households and offer a practical, equitable, and fiscally responsible path to addressing DC’s housing affordability crisis.
BY Tobias Peter + Stan Veuger ON 18 Nov 25
Journal Publication
States that received disproportionate amounts of intergovernmental transfers in the form federal COVID-19 relief funds—those which are overrepresented in Congress—were less likely to lower their corporate tax rates, suggesting that this federal grant program dampened tax competition among states.
BY Stan Veuger + Jeffrey Clemens ON 14 Oct 25
Journal Publication
Incumbent candidates performed significantly better in states which received more COVID-19 relief aid per capita due to their overrepresentation in Congress, illustrating how access to government resources—both representation and spending—can have strong electoral implications.
BY Stan Veuger + Jeffrey Clemens + Julia Payson ON 22 Sep 25
Journal Publication
Using an instrumental-variables design exploiting variation in congressional representation, the authors find that federal COVID-19 relief aid to state and local governments had little impact on employment, costing hundreds of thousands of dollars per job-year saved, with negligible spillover effects on the broader labor market, aggregate income, or output.
BY Stan Veuger + Jeffrey Clemens + Philip G. Hoxie ON 13 Sep 25
Report
AEI Economic Perspectives
We assess the macroeconomic implications of the observed and expected changes to immigration policy during the second Trump administration and project a dramatic decrease in inflows and somewhat higher outflows.
BY Wendy Edelberg + Stan Veuger + Tara Watson ON 2 Jul 25
Event
Please join AEI’s Stan Veuger, Dutch Ambassador to the US Birgitta Tazelaar, and a panel of experts for a conversation about the results of the Dutch general election and what it portends for the future of the Netherlands and the European political landscape
BY Stan Veuger ON 2 Oct 25
Event
With these noteworthy developments in mind, AEI’s Michael R. Strain and Stan Veuger welcome Valdis Dombrovskis—the commissioner for economy and productivity and for implementation and simplification of the European Commission—for a conversation about the pressing challenges that Europe faces, the frictions and possibilities in the US-EU relationship, and the future of the transatlantic partnership.
BY Michael R. Strain + Stan Veuger ON 2 Oct 25
Event
Join AEI’s Stan Veuger, Cristina Rodríguez of Yale Law School and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, John W. Lettieri and Adam Ozimek of the Economic Innovation Group, and Michael A. Clemens of George Mason University for a conversation about the design of regional immigration programs.
BY Stan Veuger ON 23 Apr 25
Event
Join AEI’s Pia M. Orrenius and Stan Veuger along with Wendy Edelberg, director of the Brookings Institution’s Hamilton Project, for a conversation about the changing immigration policy landscape and its implications for the US labor market and macroeconomy.
BY Stan Veuger + Pia M. Orrenius ON 24 Mar 25
Event
AEI’s Michael R. Strain and Stan Veuger welcome Maroš Šefčovič, European commissioner for trade and economic security, for a conversation about economic security, trade policy, and EU-US cooperation.
BY Stan Veuger + Michael R. Strain ON 13 Feb 25
Event
Join AEI for the 13th annual housing conference, a two-day hybrid event. Panelists will explore the state of the housing market, housing priorities for the new administration, insights from the AEI Housing Center’s housing supply case studies, and more.
BY Brent Orrell + Tobias Peter + Edward J. Pinto + et al. ON 4 Sep 24
Multimedia
As the Supreme Court prepares to hear arguments challenging the legality of President Trump's IEEPA tariffs next month, the direction US trade policy goes from here will be immensely consequential for US businesses and consumers as well as for the separation of powers.
BY Stan Veuger + Ana Swanson + Natasha Sarin + et al. ON 30 Sep 25
Podcast
Senior Fellow Stan Veuger discusses the debt ceiling standoff, industrial policy, and immigration on the “Amerikaanse Toestanden” podcast
BY Stan Veuger ON 26 May 23
Podcast
AEI's Stan Veuger is back to discuss our fiscal response to the pandemic, the Fed's tricky task of cooling inflation without causing a recession, and more.
BY James Pethokoukis + Stan Veuger ON 13 Oct 22
Multimedia
To address the threat posed by inflation and other problems in the economy, Stan Veuger discusses a number of public policies—increasing the supply of goods through reform of regulatory and trade policies, increasing the labor force through immigration, and tapping our domestic energy supply—all of which could help us navigate these uncertain times on Conversations with Bill Kristol.
BY Stan Veuger ON 8 Jun 22
Multimedia
The economic crisis triggered by the COVID-19 pandemic has led to historic job losses across a range of industries. In this Faculti interview, Stan Veuger discusses the extent to which income and sales taxes pay for the salaries and benefits of different categories of workers.
BY Stan Veuger ON 29 Oct 21
Multimedia
In this Netherland-America Foundation webinar, AEI's Stan Veuger hosts historian Peter Veru for a discussion of Veru's research on how Dutch bankers helped stabilize the public finances of the early United States and explain how the Dutch financial community saw America’s future at the time.
BY Stan Veuger ON 7 Oct 21
