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has been accepted for publication at the Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization (JEBO).

CEBI researcher Sarah Zaccagni and Assistant Professor Paolo Falco both from the Department of…

Answers are provided by CEBI researchers Kristoffer B. Hvidberg and Claus T. Kreiner together with…

De økonomiske vismænd: Det er afgørende, at der i kampen mod covid-19 er det fornødne fokus på at…

KOMMENTAR: Nyt studie viser, at rentefradraget ikke øger andelen af boligejere, men til gengæld gør…

On 11 November, Professor Finn Tarp from the Development Economics Research Group (DERG) took part…

Christina Gravert studies how people make decisions and how they can be motivated or nudged to "do…

You can see his slides here

by Chris Roth, Sonja Settele and Johannes Wohlfart has been accepted for publication in the Journal…

A large-scale research project among university students reveals that using your mobile phone in th…

by Mette Gørtz, Martin Browning and co-author Olivier Donni, accepted for publication in the…

Myndighedernes restriktioner under Corona-nedlukningen var ikke hovedårsagen til det faldende…

Professor David Dreyer Lassen will take up a new position as Prorector at the University of…

by Martin Browning and Co-authors has been accepted for publication in The Review of Economic…

A Nationwide Study from Lockdown to Reopening: there is an increasing attack rate and transmission…

The Paper “The Wealth of Parents: Trends Over Time in Assortative Mating Based on Parental Wealth” …

Many children spend a substantial share of their early childhood in preschool programs. We know fro…

DERG members publish new report with the Central Statistical Organisation (CSO) and UNU-WIDER:…

Social distancing laws cause only small losses of economic activity during the COVID-19 pandemic i…

New evidence from CEBI researchers, referred to in the Economist, shows that, when short of cash,…

Nearly 70% of firms report a revenue decline, with the median firm experiencing a decline of 20% du…

covered in article in The New York Times and in Die Welt

Et stort forskningsprojekt blandt universitetsstuderende afslører, at brug af mobiltelefoner i…

Statens udbetalinger af lønkompensation til virksomheder med hjemsendte medarbejdere har modvirket…

This year the topic is COVID-19: Economic Consequences and Policy Response

Recent research from CEBI provides key estimate for the current discussions about the right fiscal…

Evidence from Danish Administrative Records has been accepted for publication in American Economic…

Hvad er det egentlig for en krise, vi står i, når vi hæver os op over nyhedsflimmeret og helt op i…

In March 2020, the share of Google searches for prayer surged to the highest level ever recorded,…

Mette Gørtz and Mette Ejrnæs find that highly-educated mothers were apparently more sensitive to…

Over 1,400 renowned economists from all parts of the world cooperate with IZA as Research Fellows.…

Christina ordinates cocktails - not the ones in glasses topped with little colourful umbrellas. But…

Hvorfor er cool cash fra staten sat direkte ind på din bankkonto en god idé? Og hvorfor er der inge…

Most of the economic contraction is caused by the pandemic itself and occurs regardless of whether…

In their newly published research Sarah Zaccagni and Paolo Falco find that the reminder…

Danmark låner under Coronakrisen milliarder af kroner i vores egen centralbank. Men er det…

The group advices the Danish government on the implications of re-opening the society during the…

to comment on the economic expert report and the consequences of re-opening selected sectors in…

Rapporten om genåbningen af Danmark offentliggøres tirsdag 6. maj i løbet af eftermiddagen. Senere…

CEBI researchers in The Economist

Jakob Egholt Søgaard and Henrik Kleven (together with Camille Landais) for the paper "Children and…

Allerede om en måned vil landets virksomheder kunne få hjælp til at styre bedst muligt igennem…

by Bo Honoré, Thomas H. Jørgensen and Áureo de Paulahas has been accepted for publication in Journa…

House prices and spending move together but little is known about the underlying mechanism linking…

where he lays out the economic consequences of the corona virus and how to deal with it

has been accepted for publication in The Economic Journal.

accepted for publication in Jounal of Applied econometrics

The Economist and The Financial Times cover still unpublished research by Niels Johannesen on elite…

Ellen and Hans Hermer’s Foundation honors Peter Birch Sørensen for his great efforts to inform the…

during Marco Piovesan’s two weeks visit in February at Collegio Carlo Alberto, Turin

The Development Economics Research Group (DERG) has with Professor Finn Tarp as Project Coordinator…

In recent research, Niels Johannesen and co-authors Johannes Becker and Nadine Riedel study how…

and the International Institute of Public Finance (IIPF), and will give the 12th Richard Musgrave…

Niels Johannesen presents a recent working paper to the Finance Committee at the Dutch Parliament…

Marco Piovesan was featured in this collection of ideas imagining the next decade of behavioral…

The Development Economics Research Group (DERG) has with Professor Finn Tarp as grant recipient…

The Development Economics Research Group (DERG) has with Professor Finn Tarp as Project Coordinator…

The Development Economics Research Group (DERG) has with Professor Finn Tarp as Project Coordinator…

Niels Johannesen, Jannick Damsgaard and Thomas Elkjaer's paper on Washington Post's list of "best…

The paper “Taxing Hidden Wealth: The Consequences of U.S. Enforcement Initiatives on Evasive Foreig…

Since its publication in 2016, the article ‘Does Foreign Aid Harm Political Institutions?’ by…

PhD student and DERG member Kasper Brandt has recently contributed to the Danish medium Altinget.dk…

shows that patient people are wealthier

Vice-President Margrethe Vestager and tax commissioner Paolo Gentiloni invited Niels Johannesen and…

The NBER working paper "Durables and Lemons: Private Information and the Market for Cars",…

The Czech Economic Society has awarded the title Young Economist of the Year 2019 to Andrei…

The meeting on 26 November marked the 10th Anniversary of the “Global Forum on Transparency and…

Jens Erik Wang får prisen for sine meget populære forelæsninger i Matematik A og B. Prisen gives ti…

for his new research project Skill Formation in the Labor Market for Physicians

In the Danish newspaper Information, Simon Halphen Boserup explains the debate and why other U.S.…

Cortnie will present joint work with Co-author Alexandra Fedorets (DIW Berlin) entitled “Great…

At the world’s largest tech conference, Niels discussed the future of taxation in an increasingly…

in the Department of Economic and Social Affairs.

He will be organizing the next Public Economics conference in Münich on 19-21 March 2020

at NABE conference in Seattle. The increasing popularity of mobile money transfer apps is generatin…

Research by Søren Leth-Petersen, Costas Meghir, Richard Blundell, Ran Gu and Hamish Low mentionned…

Professors John Rand and Finn Tarp are co-authors of the UNU-WIDER study ‘Technology Transfers,…

The paper Neonatal Health of Parents and Cognitive Development of Children is accepted for…

A lemon is rotting from the inside, i.e. it looks nice on the surface even if it is not good

This honor recognizes an exceptional citation record within the Web of Science index: one that…

The paper" What is the Added Value of Preschool for Poor Children? Long-Term and Intergenerational…

in Mannheim (Germany) on September 12 and 13.

The paper "Wealth taxation and wealth accumulation: Theory and evidence from Denmark" accepted for…

on "Income and Life Expectancy: What can be Learned from International Comparisons" in Boston on 5…

A large proportion of the world’s stock of foreign direct investment is “phantom” capital

Here are news that travel the world these days: Nearly 40 per cent of worldwide FDI — worth a total…

at Stanford conference on Global Income Dynamics, August 30-31, 2019.

Read more about the IIPF Board of Management here

published in The American Economic Review .

at the EEA-ESEM 2019 congress in a lunch session organized by the EEA Standing Committee on…

at a Workshop in Oslo on Inequality: Measurement, Evolution, Mechanisms and Policies on 26 August

The research program is about the role of differences in people’s economic behavior for inequality…

CEBI research by Jeppe Druedahl, Mette Ejrnæs and Thomas Jørgensen on "Earmarked paternity leave…

A two-week workshop on Social Accounting Matrix (SAM) building and analysis was undertaken by the…

Gregers will present his paper "Upfront premiums in exchange for future coverage: Evidence on…

It has been a busy June-July for DERG research group at the University of Copenhagen. Just after th…

Økonomistudiet i Tal 2018 samler og præsenterer et væld af information om økonomistuderende på…

World Scientific’s Journal of International Commerce, Economics and Policy (JICEP) has chosen the…

Single-party political systems exist in a number of countries, such as China and Vietnam. In these…

Niels Johannesen presented his paper at a seminar in Helsinki on 7 June and on the CEPR conference…

at a Workshop on Economics of Taxation and Social Expenditure in Barcelona June 4-5, 2019

at a seminar at the University of Bristol on June 12, 2019.

in a debate about private data and digital traces – under the headline “Almost everything you do…

Torben will take part in a debate about inequality in health under the headline “Rather rich and…

at a symposium about the Ministry of Finance organized by the Royal Danish Academy of Science and…

Nick Fabrin Nielsen publishes article in Diabetes Care on Socioeconomic Inequality in Metabolic…

On 6 May 2019, UNU-WIDER and the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UN DESA)…

Journal of Health Economics accepts for publication the work “Childhood Health Shocks, Comparative…

The American Economic Review accepts for publication the paper “Family Health Behaviors” by Torben…

She was born in Germany, she did her postdoc in Sweden, and now she is part of our department where…

The paper "Earmarked Paternity Leave and the Relative Income within Couples" has been accepted for…

"...nature selected individuals who had a predisposition to invest in their children."

The chapter from Nick Fabrin Nielsen's PhD thesis: ”Sick of Retirement” has been accpted for…

Adam succesfully defended his Phd thesis with the title "Essays on Banks, Insurance, and Social…

Niels Johannesen, Michael Devereux and John Vella's paper accepted in the Economic Journal

Benjamin succesfully defended his Phd thesis with the title Essays in Health Economics: Measurement…

CEBI Recruitment Event on Friday 15 March 2019 from 15:15 -16:30 in room 35.3.13, building 35 at CS…

The Department of Economics at the University of Dar es Salaam and the Development Economics…

Motherhood is the biggest cause of the gender pay gap. This is true even in Scandinavia and that is…

The interns will be working in two different organizations during the internship period (4-6…

Association of Type 1 Diabetes With Standardized Test Scores of Danish Schoolchildren

their income share has risen sharply in recent decades. Jakob Egholt Søgaards findings featured in…

We invite you to submit a paper or express interest in attending this conference on New Consumption…

The Paper Financial Trouble Across Generations: Evidence from the Universe of Personal Loans in…

CEBI contributes to the 2019 photo competition of the Danish National Research Foundation You can…

Niels Johannesen participated at the CPB Symposium "The End of Tax Havens?" Read here for more…

Niels Johannesen, Adam Sheridan and Thais Lærkholm's paper has been accepted in Review of Financial…

The research, nominated by professor Emely Oster, Brown University, in Quartz, finds that having a…

Niels Johannesen, Thomas Tørsløv and Ludwig Wier's paper has been accepted in World Bank Economic…

at an invited talk for the Swedish Tax Agency. The presentation "Lessons about tax evasion and tax…

In January and February 2019 Marco Piovesan will be visiting the Einaudi Institute for Economics an…

Niels Johannesen presents his paper “The Distortive Effects of Too-Big-To-Fail: Evidence from the…

at the Econometric Society European Winter Meeting in Naples

Niels Johannesen presents his paper "The distortive Effects of Too-Big-To-Fail: Evidence from the…

Tommy Ahlers, Minister of Higher Education and Science, has appointed David Dreyer Lassen, Professo…

The paper "Tax Evasion and Inequality" written with Annette Alstadsæter and Gabriel Zucman, has bee…

The paper "Biased Voters, Social Information, and Information aggregation Through Majority Voting"…

of huge differences in life expectancy between high and low-income individuals.

Mette Gørtz, Eva Rye Johansen and Marianne Simonsen publish article about Academic Achievement and…

Helene Willadsen presented the papers "Gender differences in competitiveness: Evidence from childre…

Niels Johannesen presented his paper "Tax evasion and inequality" at University of Barcelona on 2…

On 11 October Niels Johannesen will give a talk on "Hvem ejer de gemte formuer" Read more about DFF…

Marco Piovesan will contribute to the research project “Research in the Health and Quality of Life…

On September 13-15, many DERG members participated in and presented their work at the UNU-WIDER…

Gregers will present his paper "Patience, Risk aversion, and Debt behavior" on the conference at th…

On 4 September 2018 Søren Leth-Petersen gave a presentation about Consumer debt behavior. You can…

Together with Sule Alan, Martin Browning and Mette Ejrnæs has a paper titled “Income and…

The workshop will take place in the Department of Economics at The University of Copenhagen on…

Forthcoming in Journal of Political Economy: “Income and Consumption: a Micro Semi-structural…

PhD student Benjamin Ly Serena presents his recent research about the importance of Iodine…

Anne successfully defended her PhD thesis with the title: Causes and Consequences of Gender…

is visiting CEBI in August and September 2018

Mette Ejrnæs will present her joint paper (with Thomas H. Jørgensen) “Intended and Unintended…

Simon H. Boserup and Claus T. Kreiner publish article about wealth and inequality in the Economic…

Mette Gørtz will present her joint paper (with Martin Browning and Olivier Donni) “Do you have time…

Niels Johannesen, Gabriel Zucman and Anette Alstadsæter's paper "“Who Owns the Wealth in Tax Havens…

There was a trade‐off between child quantity and quality in England during the industrial…

CEBI is organizing the CEPR Annual Public Economics Symposium on June 21-22, 2018

Recent years have seen growing empirical and experimental evidence suggesting that people’s…

Mette Ejrnæs is co-organizer of the Review of Economic Studies Tour 2018 and the 30th year…

Liqiudity Constraints Tightness and Consumer Responses to Fiscal Stimulus Policy

Detektor søgte hjælp hos Mette Gørtz for at svare på om offentligt ansatte tjener lidt eller meget.

Experimental Economics meets Statistical Physics.

"These 3 Personality Traits Affect What You Earn - but only After Age 40"

Miriam Gensowski publishes article in The Harvard Business Review

Finn Tarp from the Development Economics Research Group (DERG) at the Department of Economics has…

John Rand, Finn Tarp and Neda Trifkovic from the Development Economics Research Group (DERG) at the…

New York Times, the Economist, TV2 news, DR radioavisen, Berlingske, Slate, vox, Quartz,…

Enforcement-driven disclosures increase annual reported capital income by $2.5-$4 billion

New NBER working paper by CEBI researchers Katrine Jakobsen and Henrik Kleven entitled "Wealth…

In a new publication in Journal of Public Economics Itzik Fadlon, UCSD, and CEBI researcher Torben…

"Who owns the wealth in tax havens? Macro evidence and implications for global inequality".

Daniel Pink’s “When: The Scientific Secrets of Perfect Timing” refers to Marco Piovesan’s paper…

Reducing the average LTV ratio may unintentionally increase macroeconomic volatility

An interaction of traits with education reveals that personality matters most for highly educated…

CEBI member Torben Heien Nielsen and Itzik Fadlons new NBER working paper "Family Health Behaviors"…

Mette Gørtz starts up a new research project studying the formation of health inequality

Gregers successfully defended his PhD thesis with the title Patience, Risk Aversion, and Economic…

Featuring Nobel laureate Robert F. Engle, Christian Gourioux, and Andrew Patton, among many others.

A study published in 2010 by Sam Jones and Finn Tarp from the Development Economics Research Group…

In 2010 Sam Jones and Finn Tarp published a study that is now the most downloaded research paper…

How does a financial crisis spread to the real economy?

Professors John Rand and Finn Tarp from the Development Economics Research Group (DERG) at the…

The first four issues of our CEBI working paper series are out already. We share results on the…

Video presentations on DERG directed data collection in Vietnam now available

Anders Fogh Rasmussen gæsteforelæste om "Den økonomiske politik 2001-09".

Professor Søren Johansen has been appointed Honorary Doctor at Aarhus University.

We present a fast and accurate computational method for solving and estimating a class of dynamic…

We find a huge multiplicity of Markov perfect equilibria (MPE) and show that when firms move…

Oxford University's Centre for Business Taxation awards the best paper of their annual doctoral…

CEBI asks 'in relation to inequality what is the role of peoples' different choices in education,…

CEBI member Thomas Epper was honoured for his achievements when HSG celebrated its dies academicus…

“EALE Labour Economics Prize” for the best paper published in Labour Economics during the previous…

"The Price of Prejudice" The paper, forthcoming in American Economic Journal: Applied Economics,…

Er det FOAs beregning eller Joakim B. Olsens bud på hvad en SOSU-hjælper tjener, der er korrekt.…

Sarah is 1 out of 370 young economists who have been selected for participation in the meeting that…

The NEP-DGE discussion blog features Ph.D. Fellow Marcus Mølbak Ingholt’s working paper “House…

Anthony B. Atkinson and co-author Jakob Egholt Søgaard win the Scandinavian Journal of Economics…

Assistant professor Jeanet Bentzen answers in DR2 Deadline, April 25th.

Mckinsey prisen på 10.000 kr, for bedste øvelsesoplæg på Økonomistudiet i efteråret 2016 blev uddel…

Marc Klemp and Oded Galor in NY Times

The Swedish Think tank SNS invited Mette Foged to talk at their latest seminar on January 31st.

D. 23. januar 2017, var Henrik Jensen i audiens hos Dronning Margrethe for at takke for tildelingen…

Two professorships in economics have been granted as part of the celebration of the Danish Central…

Postdoctoral grant to Rasmus Søndergaard Pedersen and a Distinguished Associate Professorhip to…

Indkaldelse til generalforsamling for Cafélitten, fredag d. 2. december kl. 13:00, afholdes i…

Simon Boserup and Claus Kreiner from Department of Economics, UCPH, and Wojciech Kopczuk from…

Rasmus Søndergaard Pedersen publishes article in Journal of Econometrics

Family migration and Relative Earnings Potentials

“Climate and the Emergence of Global Income Differences”, Carl-Johan Dalgaard and Pablo Selaya’s…

On Tuesday, September 27th, the Department of Economics hosted a reception to celebrate the 20th…

Together with Louis Putterman and Jean-Robert Tyran, Thomas Markussen has published a paper titled…

Detektor has asked Assistant Professor Søren Hove Ravn to fill in with his knowledge on economic…

Mckinsey prisen, på 10.000 kr, for bedste øvelsesoplæg på økonomistudiet i foråret 2016 blev uddelt…

New video on global inequality, featuring DERG Coordianator Finn Tarp.

Evidence for the OECD countries show that the "great ratios”, such as the unemployment rate, factor…

Ved en højtidelighed på Økonomisk Institut den 16. juni blev året Heilmann Pris overrakt til Mikkel…

Daniel le Maire, Jakob Roland Munch, and Søren Leth-Petersen are awarded DFF-Research Project…

Der er indgået aftale mellem udviklingsøkonomigruppen (DERG) ved Økonomisk Institut og Ministry of…

In this paper, Søren Hove Ravn devises a general equilibrium model of the macroeconomy in which…

The Danish National Research Foundation grants Peter Norman Sørensen close to DKK 30 mil. for the…

- starting July 1st this year. Cixiu has a PhD from Rugters and is currently Assistant Professor…

Perhaps this is the crucial point: what we need is not just economic analysis of price trends but…

Ved en højtidelighed den 17. marts på Økonomisk Institut blev årets Mikael Kristiansen priser…

McKinsey prisen, på 10.000 kr, for bedste øvelsesoplæg på økonomistudiet i efteråret 2015 blev…

The Danish Council for Independent Research, Social Sciences awards 12 postdoc grants to research…

Five of Denmark's most talented young researchers will receive DKK 1.2 million today in recognition…

Test Scores Drop as the School Day Drags on: each hour that passes before starting a test drags…

Is Danish export supported in the best possible way? That is the question Jakob Roland Munch and a…

This week The Economist cites Mette Foged and Giovanni Peri under the headline "Europe’s new…

A long standing open issue in econometrics and statistics is how to make inference in time series…

Can the microeconomic Mincerian (log-linear) functional relationship between human capital, years o…

Does foreign aid harm political institutions? The notion remains prevalent.

Der er indgået aftale mellem udviklingsøkonomigruppen (DERG) ved Økonomisk Institut og Department…

Der er indgået aftale mellem udviklingsøkonomigruppen (DERG) ved Økonomisk Institut og Department…

The EEA is an international scientific body with membership open to all persons involved or…

DERG coordinator Finn Tarp recently gave a lengthy interview to Kristeligt Dagblad on

Our department is now 3 talented postdocs richer: Anna Folke Larsen, Jeppe Druedahl og Anders…

As an alternative to quasi-maximum likelihood, targeting estimation is a much applied estimation…

We revisit the comparison of mathematical programming with equilibrium constraints (MPEC) and neste…

In recent years, academic studies have been converging towards the view that foreign aid promotes…

Stochastic sensitivity analyses rarely measure the extent to which realized simulations cover the…

We define a class of dynamic Markovian games, directional dynamic games (DDG), where directionality…

Using longitudinal data on the universe of workers in Denmark during the period 1991-2008 we track…

Sam Jones (together with Youdi Schipper of Uwazi) has published an article in the Africa Education…

Peter Norman Sørensen modtager Sapere Aude top-forskerbevillingen. Den giver mulighed for at kaste…

Thomas Markussen, Casper Worm Hansen and Bertel Schjerning are all granted funds for research…

In the article, "Publish or perish the publication history of the Department of Economics" Karl…

We analyze theoretically encouragement and resentful demoralization in RCTs and show that these…

In this article, we assert that developing countries are much better prepared to undertake…

We adopt a multi-sectoral approach and consider the full range of climate projections

This paper explores the relationship between foreign direct investment (FDI) and the productivity o…

This study provides a replication of the empirical results reported by Nowak-Lehmann, Dreher,…

This paper explores the effect of land titling on agricultural productivity in Vietnam and the…

In the present paper we advance a theory of pre-industrial growth where body size and population…

We hypothesize that the timing of the fertility transition is an important determinant of…

This paper confirms recent evidence of a positive impact of aid on growth and widens the scope of…

This paper confirms recent evidence of a positive impact of aid on growth and widens the scope of…

This is an introduction to the UNU-WIDER special issue of World Development on aid policy and the…

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This research studies whether the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) of the Kyoto Protocol achieves…

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One of the dualobjectives of the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) of the Kyoto Protocol is to…

International economic integration has been a central policy goal for the Vietnam government since…

Maintaining (Locus of) Control? Data Combination for the Identification and Inference of Factor…

The paper entitled “Weather shocks and cropland decisions in rural Mozambique” has been published b…

The paper entitled “Weather shocks and cropland decisions in rural Mozambique” has been published b…

Together with co-authors Vincenzo Salvucci and Channing Arndt, Sam Jones has recently published a…

Together with co-authors Vincenzo Salvucci and Channing Arndt, Sam Jones has recently published a…

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From Washington Post to Michigan Radio: the international press has an eye on research uncovering…

People with high health risks are underinsured while people with low health risks buy insurance…

Bootstrap Testing of Hypotheses on Cointegration Relations in VAR Models

Skill complementarity and the dual economy

Price Reaction to Information with Heterogeneous Beliefs and Wealth Effects: Underreaction,…

Surprisingly, academics argue that European countries should not cut the funding when they uncover…

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Klima- og energiminister Rasmus Helveg Petersen har udpeget professor Peter Birch Sørensen til at…

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The last 15 years have seen major changes to education systems in East Africa.

Alexander Sebald, Niels Johannesen, and Jakob Roland Munch have been granted a total of 11.5 millio…

Peter Birch Sørensen (2014), Measuring the deadweight loss from taxation in a small open economy - …

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Claus Thustrup Kreiner et al. (2014), Year-End Tax Planning of Top Management: Evidence from…

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Mette Ejrnæs , Mette Gørtz og Tea Bengtsson har modtaget en bevilling fra Trygfonden på 7,9 mio.…

Henrik Hansen and John Rand (2014), Estimates of gender differences in firm’s access to credit in…

Økonomistuderende fra Københavns Universitet vinder guld i verdensmesterskaberne i statistik, The…

Groth, C., and R. Wendner (2014), Embodied learning by investing and speed of convergence, Journal…

Sebald, A. and Walzl, M. (2014), Subjective performance evaluations and reciprocity in…

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This paper uses household panel data from rural Vietnam to explore the effects of having a relative…

This paper confirms recent evidence of a positive impact of aid on growth and widens the scope of…

This paper confirms recent evidence of a positive impact of aid on growth and widens the scope of…

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The authors comprehensively analyse the long-run effect of foreign aid (ODA) on key macroeconomic…

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This study provides a replication of the empirical results reported by Nowak-Lehmann, Dreher,…

This paper tests the effect of corruption on the efficiency of capital investment. Using firm-level…

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Analysis of the long-run effect of foreign aid (ODA) on key macroeconomic variables in 36…

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On 14 January 2014, the Vietnamese Minister of Planning and Investment (MPI) Bui Quang Vinh…

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Professor Henrik Hansen diskuterer det fremtidige samarbejde mellem Vietnam og Danmark med Trine…

We estimate how offshoring (and exporting) affect wages by skill type.

In this article we investigate if self-employed men who has an unemployment insurance are more…

Nina Boberg-Fazlic, Paul Sharp (SDU) and Jacob Weisdorf (SDU) have received the Figuerola Prize 201…

In this article, the recent idea of bootstrapping in multivariate cointegrated models is …

This paper develops some new methodology in order to address the empirically difficult issue of…

This article considers multivariate modeling of volatility as applied in vast dimensional financial…

He will take up the position 1st October 2013.

Entrusting the power to punish to a central authority is a hallmark of civilization, yet informal o…

Entrusting the power to punish to a central authority is a hallmark of civilization, yet informal o…

In this paper, we investigate sources that drive the massive bunching of Danish self-employed at th…

Bogen gennemgår de vigtigste kulturøkonomiske problemer i Danmark.

Does prosperity lead to greater longevity? If so, what is the strength of the income channel?

Torsdag den 30. maj 2013 afholdtes forårets translokationshøjtidelighed.

The Department of Economics is ranked as number 1 in Scandinavia

Økonomer fastslår, at vi ikke bruger flere penge, selv om vores hus stiger i værdi.

Er det muligt både at reformere og bevare velfærdsstaten?

Torsdag den 21. marts 2013 uddelte Annemarie og Erling Kristiansens fond ved en højtidelighed i…

In this paper, I evaluate the performance of two recently proposed approaches to solving and…

McKinsey prisen på 10.000 kr. for bedste økonomiske øvelsesbidrag på økonomistudiet i efteråret 201…

Den 8. februar 2013 blev Boston Consulting Groups pris for bedste bachelorprojekt i efteråret 2012…

Anders Rahbek, professor i økonomi ved Københavns Universitet, og hans forskning bidrager til at…

”During the financial crisis, G20 countries compelled tax havens to sign bilateral treaties…

Per 1. januar 2013 er der ny bemanding i Det Frie Forskningsråd.

To forskere på DMI har sammen med en statistiker fra Økonomisk Institut på Københavns Universitet i…

How can the government make people save more for retirement? The New York Times cites joint researc…

In collaboration with DERG, the Department of Economics has hired three new, permanent staff…

Anders Rahbek, professor på Økonomisk Institut, får i dag del af den attraktive kage, når Det Frie…

Den 13. september 2012 blev Boston Consulting Groups pris for bedste bachelorprojekt i foråret 2012…

McKinsey prisen på 10.000 kr. for bedste økonomiske øvelsesbidrag på økonomistudiet i foråret 2012…

Professor MSO ved Økonomisk Institut, David Dreyer Lassen har fået tildelt ca. 11 millioner kr. fra…

Det Europæiske Forskningsråd (ERC) giver nu store prestigefyldte bevillinger til fem unge forskere…

The Center of Experimental Economics is currently undertaking a new Internet experiment analyzing…

Mange europæiske lande har i de seneste årtier decentraliseret overenskomst-forhandlingerne på…

Det har vakt opmærksomhed, at dimittendledigheden for DJØF-medlemmer er større end det tilsvarende…

Jeanet Bentzen er blandt de 8 vindere af årets Ph.d. cup, arrangeret af Dagbladet Information og…

During the financial crisis, G20 countries compelled tax havens to sign bilateral treaties providin…

Økonomistuderende fra Københavns Universitet vinder guld i ’Econometric Game 2012’, hvor…

On Monday 16 april, the INET Copenhagen Centre, which will engage in research that will help…

Mandag den 16. april åbner INET Copenhagen Center, der skal give plads til, at en ny og innovativ…

Christine Aggerstrøm Hansen og Maja Henriette Jakobsen har fået Zeuthen Prisen, der uddeles af…

Danmark har traditionelt været blandt de rigeste lande i OECD. Men siden midten af 1990’erne er de…

McKinsey prisen på 10.000 kr. for bedste økonomiske øvelsesbidrag på økonomistudiet i efteråret 201…

Boston Consulting Group har taget initiativ til at oprette en pris for bedste bachelorprojekt.…

Peter Norman Sørensen, professor i finansiering ved Økonomisk Institut, får i år den eftertragtede…

Professor i økonomi Christian Schultz er udnævnt som ny formand for Konkurrencerådet.

Professor Finn Tarp og DERG har modtaget en ny bevilling (med finansiering fra Danida) til at…

Pablo Selaya er blevet tildelt en Sapere Aude bevilling på kr 2.334.791 for sit projekt: "Marine…

During the celebrations taking place on 23 November 2011 on the occasion of the 40th anniversary of…

Bootstrap Determination of the Cointegration Rank in VAR Models, Anders Rahbek, Copenhagen; Giusepp…

Karl Gunnar Persson’s An Economic History of Europe, 600 to the Present, published by Cambridge…

Nykredits Fond ønsker at stimulere forskningen i Danmark og uddeler for anden gang Nykredits…

This paper presents a model of trade that explains why firms wait to export and why many exporters…

The EEA Council, in its meeting in Glasgow 2010, agreed unanimously to institute a prize to a woman…

Boston Consulting Group har taget initiativ til at oprette en pris for bedste bachelorprojekt.…

McKinsey prisen på 10.000 kr. for bedste økonomiske øvelsesbidrag på økonomistudiet i foråret 2011…

Den offentlige sektor kan ikke bruge penge uden at have en finanslov.

Søren Leth-Petersen er blevet tildelt en Sapere Aude bevilling på 7,4 mio kr.

The launch of the recently completed research report “Characteristics of the Vietnamese Rural…

On July 6th, Professor Finn Tarp presented the recently completed report “Characteristics of the…

Anders Milhøj har for tredje gang vundet præmien for bedste foredrag ved SAS Institutes danske…

Torsdag den 26. maj afholdtes forårets translokationshøjtidelighed.

Årets uddeling af Heilmann-stipendiet var noget særligt. Vi fejrede den 15. uddeling, og det blev…

Professor Finn Tarp og DERG har modtaget en ny bevilling med finansiering fra den mozambikanske…

Invitation

Udlicitering af offentlige serviceopgaver sluger en stadig større del af de offentlige budgetter og…

Channing Arndt, Sam Jones og Finn Tarp har netop publiceret en artikel i Berkeley-Press tidsskrifte…

Forskningsresultater af professor Jakob R. Munch og medforfattere er onsdag den 10. november 2010…

Alexander Sebald har for nylig modtaget 3 mil. Kr. fra Frie Forskningsråd, Samfund og Erhverv til…

Carl-Johan Dalgaard og Henrik Hansens seneste analyse af den danske vækst er blevet kritiseret af…

McKinsey prisen for bedste økonomiske øvelsesbidrag i foråret 2010

Professor Christian Schultz er med virkning fra 1. marts blevet ansat som institutleder

Søren Hove Ravn fik præmie ved "3rd Doctoral Conference of the RGS"

During the summer of 2010 the Department of Economics will be hosting several summer school courses

Svaret er "nej" mener forfatterne til EPRU-analyse

Peter Norman Sørensen har modtaget 565.000 kr

Udnævnelse af Hans Jørgen Whitta-Jacobsen og Claus Thustrup Kreiner

CHE inddrager både statskundskab og økonomi i gruppen

Mette Ejrnæs har modtaget 132.083 kr.

Helge Sander har udpeget 19 nye og genbeskikket 21 medlemmer til de faglige forskningsråd

Anders Milhøj vandt pris for bedste foredrag

Jacob Weisdorf har fået en bevilling på 396.000 kr. fra FSE

Thomas Jensen har modtaget en bevilling fra FSE på 1.813.559 dkr.

Professor Finn Tarp is appointed as Director of United Nations University - World Institute for…

Professor Finn Tarp har modtaget en bevilling på 128.973 US dollars fra Verdensbanken

Lektor Frank Hansen har modtaget en bevilling på kr. 85.000

Professor Anders Rahbek har modtaget kr. 302.613 fra Villum Kann Rasmussen Fonden

Professor Finn Tarp har fået en bevilling på i alt 174.000 euro til at fremme samarbejdet mellem…

Ph.d.-studerende Asger Lau Andersen har modtaget et Eliteforsk rejsestipendium fra…

Professor Hans Jørgen Whitta-Jacobsen, Københavns Universitet, bliver nyt medlem (vismand) af…

Ida Maria Hjortsø vandt Zeuthenprisen 2008 med artiklen ”The Welfare Gains From Monetary Policy…

Henning Brandt Jensen modtog 2008 prisen "Den usynlige hånd".

Cand. polit'erne Laust Johan Johnsen og Nicolai Troels Møllgaard Lassesen har vundet Sparinvest…

Stud.polit.erne Nicolaj Allan Christiansen og Hans Henrik Sievertsen er blevet tildelt McKinsey…

Professor Finn Tarp has been appointed Vice Chairman of the Board of DIIS.

Line Ekner Elvstrøm modtager af Heilmann-stipendiet.

I konkurrencen deltog 21 økonometrihold fra de bedste europæiske universiteter.

Mikael Kristiansen priser uddelt til stud. polit'er.

Professor Claus Thustrup Kreiner og institutleder Peder Andersen er blevet udpeget til…