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Thijs van Rens Curriculum Vitae [download pdf] Teaching Macroeconomics - Macroeconomics (UPF, masters, 2011/12:II, 2010/11:II) - Advanced Macroeconomics I (UPF, first year Ph.D., 2010/11:II, 2006/07:I, 2005/06:I) - Advanced Macroeconomics II (UPF, first year Ph.D., 2011/12:III, 2009/10:III, 2008/09:III, 2007/08:II) - Topics in Macroeconomics II (UPF, second year Ph.D., 2009/10:II, 2008/09:II) - Topics in Macroeconomics (UPF, undergraduate, 2009/10:II, 2008/09:II) Labor Economics and Applied Econometrics - Advanced Applied Econometrics (OECD, practitioners, 2011:Jan, 2010:Nov-Dec) - Topics in Applied Economics I (UPF, second year Ph.D., 2008/09:I) - Labor Economics (UPF, second year Ph.D., 2006/07:II) Research Research statement, October 2011 Working papers also available at SSRN, Google Scholar and IDEAS/RePEc. Recent working papers Selective Hiring and Welfare Analysis in Labor Market Models NEW January 2012, with Christian Merkl First version: March 2011 Presented at the CEPR-ESSLE, September 2011 Structural Unemployment July 2011, with Benedikt Herz First version: February 2011 Presented at the NBER Summer Institute (EF-RSW), July 2011 Search with Diminishing Returns to Labor September 2011, with Nicolas Petrosky-Nadeau Submitted papers The Vanishing Procyclicality of Labor Productivity July 2010, with Jordi Gali First version: August 2008 Review of Economic Studies, revise and resubmit Skill-Biased Technological Change and the Business Cycle May 2011, with Almut Balleer First version: February 2008 Review of Economics and Statistics, revise and resubmit Wage Rigidity and Job Creation August 2008, with Christian Haefke and Marcus Sonntag First version: April 2007 Journal of Monetary Economics, revise and resubmit Publications How Important is the Intensive Margin of Labor Adjustment? Discussion of “Aggregate Hours Worked in OECD Countries” by Lee Ohanian and Andrea Raffo Prepared for the April 2011 Carnegie-Rochester Conference on Advances in Labor Market Dynamics NEW October 2011 Journal of Monetary Economics, 59(1), forthcoming January 2012. Heterogeneous Life-Cycle Profiles, Income Risk and Consumption Inequality January 2009, with Giorgio Primiceri First version: February 2006 Journal of Monetary Economics, 56(1), pp.20-39. Should Higher Education Subsidies Depend on Parental Income? Summer 2004, with Robert Dur and Coen Teulings Oxford Review of Economic Policy, 20(2), pp.284-297. Education, Growth and Income Inequality February 2008, with Coen Teulings First version: January 2001 Review of Economics and Statistics, 90(1), pp.89-104. Older working papers Organizational Capital and Employment Fluctuations November 2004 Inequality over the Business Cycle: Estimating Income Risk using Consumption Data October 2004, with Giorgio Primiceri First version: July 2002 Discussions - The Cyclical Behavior of Equilibrium Unemployment and Vacancies in the US and Europe by Alejandro Justiniano and Claudio Michelacci - Hours Worked over the Business Cycle in OECD Countries, 1960-2010 by Lee Ohanian and Andrea Raffo - The Propagation of Technology Shocks: Do Good, Labor and Credit Market Imperfections Matter and How Much? by Nicolas Petrosky-Nadeau and Etienne Wasmer - Sectoral Labour Market Effects of the 2006 FIFA World Cup by Arne Feddersen and Wolfgang Maennig - 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 Notes and comments - The Incentive Theory of Matching: A Note, March 2010 - Age Effects and the Pre-Sample Evolution of Income and Consumption Inequality, August 2008, with Giorgio Primiceri - Comment on Gertler and Trigari, April 2008 - Passive Monetary Policy Under Asymmetric Information, April 2008, with Alberto Martin - The Value of an Educated Workforce: What We Learn From a Comparison of Growth and Inequality Across Countries, February 2008 About the real world NEW Spanish elections and the fiscal crisis “Nieuwsuur” daily news broadcast [video, in Dutch], November 19, 2011 Spanish Labor Market Reform Roundtable discussion at the 8^th trobada of the Barcelona GSE [video], October 22, 2011 Seminars CREI Macroeconomics Seminar CREI Macroeconomics Workshop (discontinued in 2008/09) CREI Macro Faculty Lunch CREI Macroeconomics Breakfast Student Workshop UPF Labor/Public/Development Seminar Labor/Public/Development Faculty Lunch and Student Workshop (formerly Applied Lunch Seminar) CREI-CEPR Conference Understanding Jobless Recoveries, Dec 17, 2011 CREI-CEPR Workshop on Changes in Labor Market Dynamics, Nov 5-6, 2010 CREI-Kiel Conference on Macroeconomic Fluctuations and the Labor Market, Oct 30-31, 2009 Updated: December 2011

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