VCard for Dr. Christian Merkl
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Dr. Christian Merkl
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+49 431 8814 260 |
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+49 431 880 2605 |
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| Current research topics |
- Macroeconomics
- Monetary and Fiscal Policy
- Labor Economics
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| Short biography |
| Since 8/2010 | Research-Professor / Senior Economist (Part-Time) at the Kiel Institute for the World Economy | | Since 8/2010 | Professor, Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg | | 12/2007 – 7/2010 | Assistant Professor, joint appointment of the Christian-Albrechts-University and the Kiel Institute for the World Economy | | 10/2007 – 7/2010 | Head of the Research Area „Monetary Policy under Market Imperfections“ | | Since 9/2007 | IZA Research Fellow | | 10/2004 – 11/2007 | Economist at the Kiel Institute for the World Economy and Research and Teaching Assistant to Professor Dennis Snower at Kiel University | | 10/2004 – 5/2007 | PhD Student in Quantitative Economics at Christian-Albrechts-University, Kiel | | 8/2003 - 5/2004 | Advanced Studies in International Economic Policy Research, the Kiel Institute for the World Economy | | 10/2002 - 6/2003 | Double Diploma Studies at the Institut d'Etudes Politiques, Strasbourg, Diplôme de l’IEP | | 10/2000 - 5/2001 | Master Studies in Economics at Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan | | 10/1998-9/2004 | Studies in Business Administration at Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg | | Born in Weiden (Germany) on March 4, 1979. |
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| Selected projects |
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| Selected publications |
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Faia, E., Lechthaler, W., Merkl, C. (2009). Labor Turnover Costs, Workers' Heterogeneity and Optimal Monetary Policy. Kiel Working Paper, 1534, Kiel Institute for the World Economy, 38 pp.
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Lechthaler, W., Merkl, C., Snower, D. (2010). Monetary Persistence and the Labor Market: A New Perspective. Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, 34(5), 968-983 .
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Ascari, G., Merkl, C. (2009). Real Wage Rigidities and the Cost of Disinflations. Journal of Money, Credit, and Banking, 41 (2-3), 417-435.
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Brown, A., Merkl, C., Snower, D. (2009). Globalization and the Welfare State: A Review of “Can Germany Be Saved?”. Journal Of Economic Literature, 47:1, 136–158.
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Merkl, C., Snower, D. (2009). Monetary Persistence, Imperfect Competition and Staggering Complementarities. Macroeconomic Dynamics, Vol. 13, pp. 81-106.
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Merkl, C., Stolz, S. (2009). Banks’ Regulatory Buffers, Liquidity Networks and Monetary Policy Transmission. Applied Economics, 41 (16), 2013-2024.
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Merkl, C., Snower, D. (2008). Escaping the Unemployment Trap - The Case of East Germany . Journal of Comparative Economics, 36 (4), 542-556.
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Snower, D., Merkl, C. (2006). The Caring Hand that Cripples: The East German Labor Market after Reunification. American Economic Review, 96 (2), American Economic Association, 375-382.
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Esanov, A., Merkl, C., Vinhas de Souza, L. (2005). Monetary Policy Rules for Russia. Journal of Comparative Economics, 33 (3), 484–499.
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