Curriculum Vitae (April 2015) 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: juessen@wiwi.uni wuppertal.de Homepage: juessen.wiwi.uni wuppertal.de RESEARCH INTERESTS Macroeconomics, International Economics, Labor Economics, Quantitative Economics 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 Diploma: 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 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 of Dortmund, LS Makroökonomie (Prof. Dr. Heinz Holländer).
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 Times of Crisis. Since 2010 IZA Research Fellow (2007 2010: IZA Research Affiliate) PUBLICATIONS 1) Happiness and the Persistence of Income Shocks (with Christian Bayer), accepted for publication at American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics. 2) Default Risk Premia on Government Bonds in a Quantitative Macroeconomic Model (with Ludger Linnemann and Andreas Schabert), accepted for publication at Macroeconomic Dynamics. 3) Assortative Mating and Female Labor Supply (with Christian Bredemeier), 2013, Journal of Labor Economics, 31, 603 631. 4) Exchange Rate Regimes and Fiscal Multipliers (with Benjamin Born and Gernot Müller), 2013, Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, 37, 446 465. 5) The Life Cycle and the Business Cycle of Wage Risk: A Cross Country Comparison (with Christian Bayer), 2012, Economics Letters, 117(3), 831 833. 6) Markups and Fiscal Transmission in a Panel of OECD Countries (with Ludger Linnemann), 2012, Journal of Macroeconomics, 34, 674 686. 7) On the Dynamics of Interstate Migration: Migration Costs and Self Selection (with Christian Bayer), 2012, Review of Economic Dynamics, 15, 377 401. 8) A Distribution Dynamics Approach to Regional GDP Convergence in Unified Germany, 2009, Empirical Economics, 37, 627 652. 9) Convergence in West German Regional Unemployment Rates (with Christian Bayer), 2007, German Economic Review, 8, 510 535. 10) Interregional Risk Sharing and Fiscal Redistribution, 2006, Papers in Regional Science, 85, 235 255. WORKING PAPERS 1) Man cessions, Fiscal Policy, and the Gender Composition of Employment (with Christian Bredemeier and Roland Winkler), IZA Discussion Paper 8948, March 2015. 2) Interest Rate Spreads, Fiscal Policy, and the Zero Lower Bound (with Christian Bredemeier and Andreas Schabert), IZA Discussion Paper 8993, April 2015. 3) Estimates of Labor Supply Elasticities with Joint Borrowing Constraints of Couples (with Christian Bredemeier and Jan Gravert), December 2014. 4) Fiscal Policy, Sovereign Default, and Bailouts (with Andreas Schabert), April 2014. 5) Minimum Wages and Female Labor Supply in Germany (with Christian Bredemeier), IZA Discussion Paper 6892, October 2012. 2/6
6) Identifying Regional Labor Demand Shocks Using Sign Restrictions (with Ludger Linnemann), IZA Discussion Paper 6767, July 2012. 7) Government Spending and Unemployment in the OECD: Evidence from an Annual Panel VAR (with Ludger Linnemann), SFB Discussion Paper 8/2012, January 2012. 8) Household Labor Supply in a Heterogeneous Agents Model with Tradable Home Labor (with Christian Bredemeier), April 2013. 9) Estimating Panel VARs from Macroeconomic Data: Some Monte Carlo Evidence and an Application to OECD Public Spending Shocks (with Ludger Linnemann), SFB 823 Discussion Paper 24, April 2010. 10) Risk Sharing and Commuting Among US Federal States, IZA Discussion Paper No. 3374, February 2008. 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, International Economics and Economic Policy, European Journal of Health Economics, Journal of Labour Market Research, Journal of Macroeconomics, Journal of Applied Econometrics Professional reports for: Jubiläumsfonds der Österreichischen Nationalbank Jahrestagung des Vereins für Socialpolitik (2013) 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 3/6
CONFERENCE PRESENTATION AND INVITED SEMINARS 2014 University of Zurich (seminar) 2013 Royal Economic Society (London), Verein für Socialpolitik (Düsseldorf) 2012 Participation at Konstanzer Seminar, 1 st DFG Schwerpunktprogramm 1578 Workshop on Financial Market Imperfections and Macroeconomic Performance (Mannheim), Verein für Socialpolitik (Göttingen), Cologne Workshop on Macroeconomics, University of Würzburg (seminar), Kiel Institute of the World Economy (seminar) 2011 Verein für Socialpolitik (Frankfurt), Royal Economic Society (London), Cologne Workshop on Macroeconomics, Frankfurt University (seminar) 2010 Econometric Society World Congress (Shanghai) 2009 Royal Economic Society (Surrey), North American Summer Meeting Econometric Society (Boston), European Economic Association (Barcelona), 13 th ZEI International Summer School (Bonn), Siegen University (seminar), Bonn (seminar), Bochum University (seminar) 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), IZA Bonn (seminar), RWTH Aachen (seminar) 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), Kiel Institute for the World Economy (seminar), University of Zurich (seminar) 2005 Spring Meeting of Young Economists (Geneve), Verein für Socialpolitik (Bonn), International Network for Economists (London), Association of Southern European Economic Theorists (Rethymnon) SUMMERSCHOOLS ATTENDED 2009 13 th ZEI International Summer School on Heterogeneity in Macroeconomics, Per Krusell and Eduardo Engel, Bonn. 2007 4 th NIPE Summer School, Quantitative Methods in Macroeconomics and Policy Analysis, Ellen McGrattan, Braga. 2006 Spring Course on Spatial Econometrics, James P. LeSage, Coimbra. 4/6
TEACHING EXPERIENCE Winter 2014 Summer 2014 Winter 2013 Summer 2013 Winter 2012 Summer 2012 Winter 2011 Summer 2011 Winter 2010 Summer 2009 Winter 2008 Summer 2008 December 2007 Winter 2007 Summer 2007 Lecture Regionalökonomik, Proseminar in International Economics and Regional Economics, Master Seminar in International Economics (Applied VAR Analysis for Economic Policy) Lecture International Economics (Master), Seminar International Economics (Master), Proseminar in International and Regional Economics Lecture Regionalökonomik, Proseminar in International Economics and Regional Economics, Master Seminar in International Economics Lecture and Tutorial International Economics (Master) Lecture Konjunktur, Wachstum und Beschäftigung (Bachelor) (joint with Roland Winkler) PhD Elective Course Advanced Methods for Macroeconomic Research at Ruhr Graduate School in Economics (joint with Roland Winkler) Lecture Geld, Währung, Kapitalmärkte (Bachelor) Lecture Makroökonomik (Bachelor) PhD Topics Course Dynamic Macroeconomics and Heterogenous Agents (joint with Christian Bayer) 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) Literature seminar Financial Markets, Sovereign Debt and Default (Bachelor) Literature seminar Topics in Macroeconomics (Master) Course Applied Econometrics (Master) Course Empirical Macroeconomics (Master) Literature seminar Asset Pricing with Macroeconomic Models Graduate Course Development Macroeconomics (Center for Development Research, ZEF, Bonn) Lecture Real Macroeconomics (Diploma) Lecture Growth and Distributional Theory (Diploma) Course Introduction to MATLAB for Economists (Diploma) 5/6
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) 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 LANGUAGES German (native), English (fluent) Study techniques in the same program 6/6