João Miguel Gil Ejarque

Curriculum Vitae

Business Address                                                                             

Institute of Economics, University of Copenhagen, Studiestraede 6, 1455 Copenhagen K, Danmark

Tel: 00 - 45 - 35 32 30 31 Email: Joao.Ejarque@econ.ku.dk.  web: www.econ.ku.dk/okoje

Permanent Address

Rua Porto Alegre, 14, 5-R, 2780 Oeiras, Portugal.

Tel: 00 - 351 - 21 - 4436309

Education and Current Employment  

Current: Assistant Professor, University of Copenhagen

1999: Winter and Spring: TMR-NASEF Fellow, Universita di Modena

1998: Fall: TMR Fellow, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

1998: Winter and Spring: Post Doctoral Fellow, University of California at S. Diego.

1997: Fall: JNICT Post Doctoral Fellow, Universidade Nova de Lisboa

1996-1997:  Post Doctoral Fellow.  Institute of Economics, University of Copenhagen.

1991-1996:  Ph.D, Boston University, August 1996.  First advisor:  Russell Cooper. Second advisor: Simon Gilchrist. Third advisor: Jeffrey Miron.  Fields: Macroeconomics, Industrial Organization, Econometrics.

1988-1991:  Teaching Fellow at Faculdade de Economia da Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal.

1988:  Licenciatura em Economia, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal

 

Publications

 

Cooper, R. and J. Ejarque; "Financial Intermediation and the Great Depression: A Multiple Equilibria Interpretation", Carnegie-Rochester Conference Series on Public Policy, 43, 285-323, (1995) 

Cooper, R. and J. Ejarque; "Financial Intermediation and Aggregate Fluctuations: A Quantitative Analysis", Macroeconomic Dynamics, Vol. 4, No. 4, December 2000

“Variable Capital Utilization and Investment Shocks”, Economics Letters 65, 199-203 (1999)

 

Research

 

Exhuming Q: Market Power vs. Capital Market Imperfections”, with Russell Cooper, NBER Working Paper W8182, March 2001

"Employment, Productivity, Inequality and Institutional Change", with Torben Tranæs, Institute of Economics, U. Copenhagen, Working Paper Series #98-04, (Torben.Tranaes@econ.ku.dk)

"Productivity and Unemployment in a Search Model of the Labor Market", with Birthe Larsen, Working Paper  317-98, Faculdade de Economia, Universidade Nova de Lisboa. (blr@cls.dk)

"Uncertainty and Durable Consumption in the Great Depression", Discussion Paper 97-04, Institute of Economics, University of Copenhagen

"Investment Irreversibility and Precautionary Savings in General Equilibrium", Discussion Paper 98-08, Department of Economics, UCSD.

 

Teaching

 

1999-2000, University of Copenhagen: Investment Theory. Numerical Methods. Economic Growth.

1991-1996, Boston University:  Instructor in Introductory Macroeconomics.  Teaching Assistant in graduate Macroeconomics and Econometrics

1988-1991, Universidade Nova de Lisboa:  Teaching Assistant in intermediate macroeconomics, intermediate microeconomics, econometrics, linear algebra, calculus, industrial organization.

 

Fellowships

 

1991-1995:  JNICT Doctoral Scholarship, Programa Ciencia, BD 1210-91, and Programa Praxis XXI, Lisbon, Portugal, BD 3869-94

 

References

 

Russell Cooper,  Professor of Economics, Boston University, Department of Economics.  270 Bay State Road, Boston, MA, USA 02215. Tel: (617) 353-7082. email: rcooper@bu.edu

Simon Gilchrist,  Assistant Professor of Economics, Boston University, Department of Economics.  270 Bay State Road, Boston, MA, USA 02215.  Tel: (617) 353-4454. email: sgilchri@bu.edu

Vasco D'Orey, Professor of Economics,  Faculdade de Economia, Universidade Nova de Lisboa.  Travessa Estevao Pinto, 1000 Lisboa, Portugal.  email: vmaria@fe.unl.pt

Peter Birch Sorensen, Professor of Economics, Institute of Economics, University of Copenhagen. Studiestraede 6, 1455 Copenhagen K, Denmark, email: Peter.Birch.Sorensen@econ.ku.dk

Leora Friedberg, Assistant Professor of Economics, University of California-San Diego, 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, CA, USA 92093-0508.  Email: lfriedbe@weber.ucsd.edu

Joseph Zeira, Professor of Economics, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel, Email: mszeira@mscc.huji.ac.il

Graziella Bertocchi, Professor of Economics, Universita di Modena, Italy. Email: bertocchi@unimo.it

Troels Ostergaard Sorensen, Professor of Economics, University of Copenhagen. Email: Troels.Ostergaard.Sorensen@econ.ku.dk

 

Personal Data

 

Citizenship: Portugal

Birth Date: April 8th, 1965