NAME Falko Jüßen PERSONAL INFORMATION Date of birth: 27.05.1977 German citizen CONTACT INFORMATION
Address: Bergische Universität Wuppertal
Schumpeter School of Business and Economics
Lehrstuhl für Internationale Wirtschaft und Regionalökonomik Prof. Dr. Falko Jüßen
Gaußstr. 20, Raum K.11.13 D-42119 Wuppertal Tel.: +49 202 4395113
Email: [email protected]
RESEARCH INTERESTS
International Economics, Macroeconomics, Labor Economics, Applied Econometrics EDUCATION
Dr. rer. pol. University of Dortmund, Graduate School “Economic Policy, Allocation Theory and Collective Decisions” (2002-2006).
Thesis title: “Essays on Empirical Macroeconomics: Convergence and Risk Sharing” Advisors: Heinz Holländer, Mathias Hoffmann, Walter Krämer
Diplom: Economics, University of Dortmund, 1997-2002 RELEVANT POSITIONS HELD
Since summer 2013 Full professor (W2), Lehrstuhl für Internationale Wirtschaft und Regionalökonomik, Schumpeter School of Business and Economics, University of Wuppertal.
Summer term 2011 Lehrstuhlvertretung (W2), “Internationale Wirtschaftspolitik”, Bonn University.
2010-2013 DFG SFB 823 (with Andreas Schabert), Household Economics, Labor Markets, and Macroeconomic Dynamics”.
2007-2013 Akad. Rat auf Zeit, TU Dortmund, LS Makroökonomie (Prof. Dr. Andreas Schabert)
2007-2009 Teilprojektleiter (with Walter Krämer), “International Allocation of Risk”, DFG SFB 475.
2006-2007 Research Associate, “International Allocation of Risk”, SFB 475. 2002-2006 Research and Teaching Assistant (“wiss. Mitarbeiter”), University
2/7 FURTHER AFFILIATIONS AND ACTIVITIES
Since 2013 External member in DFG SFB 823
Since 2010 Member of DFG SPP 1578 “Finanzmärkte und
Gesamtwirtschaftliche Entwicklung” (in the project of Prof. Dr. Andreas Schabert: “Monetary and Fiscal Policy in Time of Crisis”. Since 2010 IZA Research Fellow (2007-2010: IZA Research Affiliate)
3/7 PUBLICATIONS
1) “Assortative Mating and Female Labor Supply” (with Christian Bredemeier), 2013, Journal of Labor Economics, 31, 603-631.
2) “Exchange Rate Regimes and Fiscal Multipliers” (with Benjamin Born and Gernot Müller), 2013, Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, 37, 446-465. 3) “The Life-Cycle and the Business Cycle of Wage Risk: A Cross-Country Comparison”
(with Christian Bayer), 2012, Economics Letters, 117(3), 831-833.
4) “Markups and Fiscal Transmission in a Panel of OECD Countries” (with Ludger Linnemann), 2012, Journal of Macroeconomics, 34, 674-686.
5) “On the Dynamics of Interstate Migration: Migration Costs and Self-Selection” (with Christian Bayer), 2012, Review of Economic Dynamics, 15, 377-401.
6) “A Distribution Dynamics Approach to Regional GDP Convergence in Unified Germany”, 2009, Empirical Economics, 37, 627-652.
7) “Convergence in West German Regional Unemployment Rates” (with Christian Bayer), 2007, German Economic Review, 8, 510-535.
8) “Interregional Risk Sharing and Fiscal Redistribution”, 2006, Papers in Regional Science, 85, 235-255.
WORKING PAPERS
1) “Minimum Wages and Female Labor Supply in Germany” (with Christian Bredemeier), October 2012, IZA Discussion Paper 6892.
2) “Identifying Regional Labor Demand Shocks Using Sign Restrictions” (with Ludger Linnemann), July 2012, IZA Discussion Paper 6767.
3) “Government Spending and Unemployment in the OECD: Evidence from an Annual Panel VAR” (with Ludger Linnemann), January 2012, SFB Discussion Paper 8/2012. 4) “Fiscal Sustainability and the Pricing of Government Bonds” (with Ludger Linnemann
and Andreas Schabert), March 2012.
5) “Happiness and the Persistence of Income Shocks” (with Christian Bayer), July 2012. Revise and resubmit at American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics.
6) “Fiscal Policy, Sovereign Default, and Bailouts” (with Andreas Schabert), April 2012. 7) “Household Labor Supply in a Heterogeneous-Agents Model with Tradable Home
Labor” (with Christian Bredemeier), April 2011.
8) “Default Risk Premia on Government Bonds in a Quantitative Macroeconomic Model” (with Ludger Linnemann and Andreas Schabert), April 2012. A previous version circulated under the title “Understanding Default Risk Premia on Government Bonds”. Revise and resubmit at Macroeconomic Dynamics.
9) “Interest Rates, Sovereign Default Risk, and Time-Varying Aggregate Volatility” (with Joost Röttger), January 2012.
10) “Fiscal Shocks, Productivity, and Capital Utilization” (with Ludger Linnemann), February 2011.
4/7 11) “Estimating Panel VARs from Macroeconomic Data: Some Monte Carlo Evidence and
an Application to OECD Public Spending Shocks” (with Ludger Linnemann), April 2010, SFB 823 Discussion Paper 24.
12) “Risk Sharing and Commuting Among US Federal States”, February 2008, IZA Discussion Paper No. 3374.
Miscellaneous
1) Co-Editorship: Potential Growth and Potentials for Growth in Europe: Innovation, Productivity, and Monetary Integration, with Christoph Meister, Michael H. Stierle, and Jan Van Hove (Eds.), 2008, LIT Verlag.
2) Book Review: Schumpeter on the Economics of Innovation and the Development of Capitalism – By Arnold Heertje, 2007, Papers in Regional Science, 86, 335-337. REFEREEING AND OTHER PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
Refereeing for peer-reviewed journals:
International Economic Review, European Economic Review, Labour Economics, Scottish Journal of Political Economy, Empirical Economics, German Economic Review, Economic Inquiry, Journal of Population Economics, Publius, Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik, Growth and Change, European Journal of Health Economics, Journal of Labour Market Research, Journal of Macroeconomics. Professional reports for:
Jubiläumsfonds der Österreichischen Nationalbank
GRANTS AND AWARDS
2008, 2010 Verein für Socialpolitik (travel stipend) 2009 Research Award, TU Dortmund, 2nd place
2007 Best Dissertation Award Economics, TU Dortmund
2006 Invited participation at “International Conference on the Empirical Methods for the Study of Economic Agglomerations”, Kyoto
2002 Best Diploma Award Economics, TU Dortmund
CONFERENCE PRESENTATION AND INVITED SEMINARS
Conference presentations
2013 Royal Economic Society (London), Verein für Socialpolitik (Düsseldorf, scheduled)
2012 Participation at Konstanzer Seminar, 1st DFG Schwerpunktprogramm
5/7 Performance” (Mannheim), Verein für Socialpolitik (Göttingen), Cologne Workshop on Macroeconomics
2011 Verein für Socialpolitik (Frankfurt), Royal Economic Society (London), Cologne Workshop on Macroeconomics
2010 Econometric Society World Congress (Shanghai)
2009 Royal Economic Society (Surrey), North American Summer Meeting Econometric Society (Boston), European Economic Association (Barcelona), 13th ZEI International Summer School (Bonn)
2008 American Economic Association Annual Meeting (New Orleans), Spring Meeting of Young Economists (Lille), North American Summer Meeting of the Econometric Society (Pittsburgh), Latin American Meeting of the Econometric Society (Rio de Janeiro),
2007 CEPR Loughborough Workshop, Society of Computational Economics (Montreal), European Regional Science Association (Paris)
2006 Royal Economic Society (Nottingham), International Workshop on Spatial Econometrics and Statistics (Rome), North American Summer Meeting of the Econometric Society (Minnesota), European Economic Association (Vienna), Verein für Socialpolitik (Bayreuth)
2005 Spring Meeting of Young Economists (Geneve), Verein für Socialpolitik (Bonn), International Network for Economists (London), Association of Southern European Economic Theorists (Rethymnon)
Seminars
2012 University of Würzburg, Kiel Institute of the World Economy 2011 Frankfurt University
2009 Bonn University, Siegen University , University of Bochum 2007 IZA Bonn, RWTH Aachen
2006 Kiel Institute for the World Economy, University of Zurich
SUMMERSCHOOLS ATTENDED
2009 13th ZEI International Summer School on Heterogeneity in Macroeconomics,
Per Krusell and Eduardo Engel, in Bonn.
2007 4th NIPE Summer School, Quantitative Methods in Macroeconomics and
Policy Analysis, Ellen McGrattan, in Braga.
2006 Spring Course on Spatial Econometrics, James P. LeSage, in Coimbra.
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Summer 2013 Lecture and Tutorial „International Economics“ (Master) Winter 2012 Lecture „Konjunktur, Wachstum und Beschäftigung“
6/7 PhD Elective Course „Advanced Methods for Macroeconomic Research“ (joint with Roland Winkler)
Summer 2012 Lecture “Geld, Währung, Kapitalmärkte” (Bachelor) Winter 2011 Lecture “Makroökonomik” (Bachelor)
PhD Topics Course „Dynamic Macroeconomics and Heterogenous Agents“ (joint with Christian Bayer) Summer 2011 All at Bonn University: Lecture “Arbeitsmärkte und
Bevölkerungsökonomik” (Bachelor)
Literature seminar „Konsum verstehen“ (Bachelor, Master and Diploma) (joint with Christian Bayer)
Topics Course „Household Heterogeneity, Incomplete Markets, and Aggregate Dynamics” (PhD level) (joint with Christian Bayer)
Winter 2010 Literature seminar “Financial Markets, Sovereign Debt and Default” (Bachelor)
Literature seminar “Topics in Macroeconomics” (Master) Summer 2009 Course “Applied Econometrics” (Master)
Winter 2008 Course “Empirical Macroeconomics” (Master)
Summer 2008 Literature seminar “Asset Pricing with Macroeconomic Models”
December 2007 Graduate Course “Development Macroeconomics” (Center for Development Research, ZEF, Bonn)
Winter 2007 Lecture “Real Macroeconomics” (Diploma)
Summer 2007 Lecture “Growth and Distributional Theory” (Diploma) Course “Introduction to MATLAB for Economists” (Diploma) Summer 2006 Class in “Growth Theory” (Diploma)
Winter 2005 Literature seminar on “The Economics of an Ageing Society” (Diploma)
Winter 2004 Literature seminar on “Regional Economics and Policy” (Diploma)
Winter 2003 Class in “Macroeconomic Theory” (Diploma)
Summer 2003, 2004, 2005 Class in “Growth and Distributional Theory” (Diploma) Winter 2002, 2004, 2005 Class in “Makroökonomische Theorie” (Vordiplom) Winter 2001 Tutorial in “Makroökonomische Theorie” (Vordiplom)
7/7 NON-UNIVERSITY TEACHING EXPERIENCE
2009, 2010, 2011, 2012 “Economics” in the program “Management and
Participation” for managers and members of works councils, taught at the Zentrum für Weiterbildung of the TU Dortmund University
“Study techniques” in the same program LANGUAGES