CREI and Universitat Pompeu Fabra Wellington building, office 23.406 Ramon Trias Fargas, 25-27 08005 Barcelona SPAIN Tel: (+34) 93 542 2598 Fax: (+34) 93 542 1860 Email: tvanrens@crei.cat www.crei.cat/~vanrens Other affiliations: Barcelona GSE Affiliated Professor CEPR Research Affiliate IZA Research Fellow · Curriculum Vitae · Teaching · Research · Seminars

Thijs van Rens Curriculum Vitae [download pdf] Teaching Topics in Applied Economics I (2008/09:I) Topics in Macroeconomics II (2008/09:II) Advanced Macroeconomics II (2008/09:III, 2007/08:II) Labor Economics (2006/07:II) Macroeconomics I (2006/07:I, 2005/06:I) Research The Vanishing Procyclicality of Labor Productivity October 2009, with Jordi Gali [paper] First version: August 2008 Cyclical Skill-Biased Technological Change June 2009, with Almut Balleer [paper] First version: February 2008 Wage Rigidity and Job Creation August 2008, with Christian Haefke and Marcus Sonntag [paper and data] First version: April 2007 Heterogeneous Life-Cycle Profiles, Income Risk and Consumption Inequality January 2009, with Giorgio Primiceri [paper] First version: February 2006 Journal of Monetary Economics, 56(1), pp.20-39. Organizational Capital and Employment Fluctuations November 2004  [paper] Should Higher Education Subsidies Depend on Parental Income? Summer 2004, with Robert Dur and Coen Teulings  [paper] Oxford Review of Economic Policy, 20(2), pp.284-297. Inequality over the Business Cycle: Estimating Income Risk using Consumption Data October 2004, with Giorgio Primiceri  [paper] First version: July 2002 Education, Growth and Income Inequality February 2008, with Coen Teulings [paper and data] First version: January 2001 Review of Economics and Statistics, 90(1), pp.89-104. Working papers also available at SSRN, Google Scholar and IDEAS/RePEc. Discussions: - Housing Market Spillovers: Evidence from an Estimated DSGE Model by Matteo Iacoviello and Stefano Neri - Efficient Search on the Job and the Business Cycle by Guido Menzio and Shouyong Shi - The Missing Swedish Skill Premium by David Domeij and Lars Ljungqvist - Not All Oil Shocks Are Alike by Lutz Kilian - Peer Influence in Higher Education in China by Li Han and Tao Li - Gold Rush Fever in Business Cycles by P. Beaudry, F. Collard and F. Portier Seminars CREI-Kiel Conference on Macroeconomic Fluctuations and the Labor Market CREI macroeconomics seminar CREI macroeconomics workshop (discontinued in 2008/09) CREI macroeconomics breakfast student seminar Applied lunch seminar CREI macro faculty lunch UPF labor and development seminar Updated: January 2010

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Thijs van Rens  |  CREI  |  Department of Economics and Business  |  Universitat Pompeu Fabra

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