Benjamin Born is an Associate Professor of Macroeconomics at the Frankfurt School of Finance & Management and affiliated with 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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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

Rüdiger Bachmann, Benjamin Born, Olga Goldfayn-Frank, Georgi Kocharkov, Ralph Luetticke, Michael Weber (2021). A Temporary VAT Cut as Unconventional Fiscal Policy.

NBER WP29442 Ungated VoxEU Feature @ BFI

Benjamin Born, Zeno Enders, Manuel Menkhoff, Gernot J. Müller, Knut Niemann (2021). How economic expectations react to news: Evidence from German firms.

Working Paper

Christian Bayer, Benjamin Born, Ralph Luetticke (2021). The Liquidity Channel of Fiscal Policy. Journal of Monetary Economics, reject & resubmit.

CEPR DP14883 Ungated VoxEU

Benjamin Born, Zeno Enders, Gernot J. Müller, Knut Niemann (2021). Firm expectations about production and prices: Facts, determinants, and effects. Handbook of Economic Expectations, Elsevier, in preparation.

Draft

Benjamin Born, Francesco D’Ascanio, Gernot J. Müller, Johannes Pfeifer (2021). Mr. Keynes meets the Classics: Government Spending and the Real Exchange Rate. Journal of Political Economy, revise & resubmit.

CEPR DP14073 Ungated

Benjamin Born, Jonas Dovern, Zeno Enders (2021). Expectation dispersion, uncertainty, and the reaction to news.

CEPR DP15581 Ungated

Benjamin Born, Gernot J. Müller, Johannes Pfeifer (2020). Uncertainty shocks in currency unions.

CEPR DP15579 Ungated

Christian Bayer, Benjamin Born, Ralph Luetticke (2020). Shocks, Frictions, and Inequality in US Business Cycles. American Economic Review, revise & resubmit.

Code CEPR DP14364 Ungated VoxEU

Christian Bayer, Benjamin Born, Ralph Luetticke, Gernot J. Müller (2020). The Coronavirus Stimulus Package: How large is the transfer multiplier?. Economic Journal, revise & resubmit.

CEPR DP14600 Ungated VoxEU

Benjamin Born, Gernot J. Müller, Johannes Pfeifer, Susanne Wellmann (2020). Different no more: Country spreads in advanced and emerging economies.

CEPR DP14392 Ungated VoxEU

Selected Publications

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

Code Published Version Ungated

Benjamin Born, Gernot J. Müller, Johannes Pfeifer (2020). Does Austerity Pay Off?. Review of Economics and Statistics, 102(2), pp. 323–338.

Dataset Published Version Ungated VoxEU Ökonomenstimme

Benjamin Born, Gernot J. Müller, Moritz Schularick, Petr Sedlacek (2019). The Costs of Economic Nationalism: Evidence from the Brexit Experiment. Economic Journal, 129(10), pp. 2722–2744.

Published Version Ungated VoxEU

Rüdiger Bachmann, Benjamin Born, Steffen Elstner, Christian Grimme (2019). Time-Varying Business Volatility and the Price Setting of Firms. Journal of Monetary Economics, 101, pp. 82-99.

Published Version Ungated

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

Published Version Ungated Codes

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

Published Version Ungated Web Appendix Particle Filter Code

Benjamin Born, Michael Ehrmann, Marcel Fratzscher (2014). Central Bank Communication on Financial Stability. Economic Journal, 124(577), pp. 701-734.

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Teaching

Spring/Summer 2021

  • Macroeconomics (B.Sc.)
  • Global Economy (Bocconi@FrankfurtSchool EMBA)

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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