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 Macroeconomic Dynamics. He holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Bonn.

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Interests

  • Fiscal and Monetary Policy
  • Business Cycles
  • Empirical Macroeconomics

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

Benjamin Born, Jonas Dovern, Zeno Enders (2020). 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.

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?.

CEPR DP14600 Ungated VoxEU

Benjamin Born, Alexander Dietrich, Gernot J. Müller (2020). The lockdown effect: A counterfactual for Sweden.

CEPR DP14744 Ungated Covid Economics Issue 16 (old)

Christian Bayer, Benjamin Born, Ralph Luetticke (2020). The Liquidity Channel of Fiscal Policy.

CEPR DP14883 Ungated

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

CEPR DP14392 Ungated VoxEU

Benjamin Born, Gernot J. Müller, Moritz Schularick, Petr Sedlacek (2020). The Macroeconomic Impact of Trump.

CEPR DP13798 Ungated VoxEU

Benjamin Born, Francesco D’Ascanio, Gernot J. Müller, Johannes Pfeifer (2019). The worst of both worlds: Fiscal policy and fixed exchange rates.

CEPR DP14073 Ungated

Selected Publications

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Benjamin Born, Johannes Pfeifer (2020). Uncertainty-driven Business Cycles: Assessing the Markup Channel. Quantitative Economics, forthcoming.

Ungated

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

Published Version Ungated Fiscal Shock Series 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.

Published Version VoxEU

Teaching

Spring 2020

  • 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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