Benjamin Born is an associate professor of macroeconomics at the Frankfurt School of Finance & Management and a research fellow at the CEPR and CESifo. In addition, he serves as research director at the ifo Institute’s Center for Macroeconomics and Surveys and as an associate editor at the European Economic Review. He holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Bonn.

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4th European Midwest Micro/Macro Conference (EM3C): Final Program.

Interests

  • Business Cycles
  • Fiscal and Monetary Policy
  • Heterogeneous Agents
  • Empirical Methods

Education

  • PhD in Economics, 2011

    University of Bonn, Germany

  • MSc in Econometrics and Economics, 2007

    University of York, UK

  • BA/MA in Economics, 2006

    University of Siegen, Germany

Current Work

(2023). Expectation dispersion, uncertainty, and the reaction to news. European Economic Review, revised & resubmitted.

CEPR DP15581 Ungated

(2022). Firm Expectations and News: Micro v Macro.

CEPR DP17768 Ungated VoxEU

(2022). Inclusive Monetary Policy: How Tight Labor Markets Facilitate Broad-Based Employment Growth.

Working Paper

(2022). A Temporary VAT Cut as Unconventional Fiscal Policy.

NBER WP29442 Ungated VoxEU Feature @ BFI

(2022). Mr. Keynes meets the Classics: Government Spending and the Real Exchange Rate. Journal of Political Economy, revised & resubmitted.

CEPR DP14073 Ungated

(2020). Uncertainty shocks in currency unions.

CEPR DP15579 Ungated

(2020). Different no more: Country spreads in advanced and emerging economies.

CEPR DP14392 Ungated VoxEU

Selected Publications

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(2023). Shocks, Frictions, and Inequality in US Business Cycles. American Economic Review, conditionally accepted.

Code CEPR DP14364 Ungated VoxEU

(2023). Unconventional Fiscal Policy at Work. AEA Papers & Proceedings, forthcoming.

Ungated

(2022). The Liquidity Channel of Fiscal Policy. Journal of Monetary Economics, forthcoming.

Code Published Version Ungated VoxEU

(2022). The Coronavirus Stimulus Package: How large is the transfer multiplier?. Economic Journal, forthcoming.

Code Published Version Ungated VoxEU

(2022). Firm expectations about production and prices: Facts, determinants, and effects. Handbook of Economic Expectations, Elsevier, Chap. 12, pp. 355–384.

Chapter Online Appendix

(2021). Uncertainty-driven Business Cycles: Assessing the Markup Channel. Quantitative Economics, 12(2), pp. 587-623.

Code Published Version Ungated

(2020). Does Austerity Pay Off?. Review of Economics and Statistics, 102(2), pp. 323–338.

Dataset Published Version Ungated VoxEU Ökonomenstimme

(2019). The Costs of Economic Nationalism: Evidence from the Brexit Experiment. Economic Journal, 129(10), pp. 2722–2744.

Published Version Ungated VoxEU

(2019). Time-Varying Business Volatility and the Price Setting of Firms. Journal of Monetary Economics, 101, pp. 82-99.

Published Version Ungated

(2014). Risk Matters: The Real Effects of Volatility Shocks: Comment. American Economic Review, 104(12), pp. 4231-4239.

Published Version Ungated Codes

(2014). Policy Risk and the Business Cycle. Journal of Monetary Economics, 68, pp. 68-85.

Published Version Ungated Web Appendix Particle Filter Code

(2014). Central Bank Communication on Financial Stability. Economic Journal, 124(577), pp. 701-734.

Published Version VoxEU

Teaching

Spring/Summer 2022

  • Macroeconomics (B.Sc.)
  • Global Economy (Bocconi@FrankfurtSchool EMBA)
  • Advanced Management Program (Exec. Education)

Past Teaching

Macroeconomics and Econometrics at all levels.

Thesis Supervision

I supervise theses in the area of macroeconomics and applied econometrics. To apply for supervision, please email me an up-to-date transcript, a short CV, and a rough description of what you are interested in.

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