Prof. Michael C. Burda PhD
Institute for Economic Theory II
School of Business and Economics
Humboldt Universität zu Berlin
Spandauer Straße 1
D-10178 Berlin Germany
E-mail: burda@wiwi.hu-berlin.de
Tel.: +49-30-2093-5638
Fax: +49-30-2093-5696
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Professor of Economics, School of Business and Economics,
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany (W3)
Director of the Institute for Economic Theorie II (Macro), Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany
Research Fellow of the Centre for Economic Policy Research, London, UK
Program Director and Research Fellow of the Institut Zukunft der Arbeit (IZA), Bonn, Germany
Fellow of the European Economic Association (EEA)
Visiting Professor of Economics, European School of Management
and Technology (ESMT), Berlin, Germany
Topics of Interest:
Labor Economics, Macroeconomics, European Integration
Education:
BA and Ph.D. (1987) at Harvard University, Cambridge/Massachusetts, USA
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Working Papers:
| 2020 | "Social Security Contributions and the Business Cycle", Journal of Macroeconomics, Vol 65 with A. Almosoca and S. Voigts |
2020 | "30 Jahre deutsche Einheit: Wie steht es wirklich?", Wirtschaftsdienst 100, 390–391 |
| 2020 | "Reevaluating the German labor market miracle", German Economic Review 21 (2), 139–179 with S. Seele |
2019 | “Racial/Ethnic Differences in Non-Work at Work”, Industrial and Labor Relations Review with D. Hamermesh & K. Genadek |
| 2019 | “Unemployment and Effort at Work”, Economica with D. Hamermesh & K. Genadek |
| 2019 | "Convergence of the German Bundesländer: Lessons for the EU", Intereconomics 54, 34–39 |
2017 | "Social Security Contributions and the Business Cycle" with Almosova, A., and Voigts, S. [Data available here] |
| 2017 | “The Economics of German Unification after Twenty-five Years: Lessons for Korea” (with M. Weder) SFB Discussion Paper 2017-009, April 2017. |
| 2017 | “Racial/Ethnic Differences in Non-Work at Work” (with D. Hamermesh and K. Genadek) NBER Working Paper w23096, January 2017. |
| 2016 | "No Role for the Hartz Reforms? Demand and Supply Factors in the German Labor Market, 1993-2014.", with Seele, S., SFB 649 Discussion Paper 2016-010. |
| 2016 | "The German Labor Market Miracle, 2003-2015, An Assessment", SFB 649 Discussion Paper 2016-005. |
| 2016 | "Not Working at Work: Loafing, Unemployment and Labor Productivity", with Genadek K. and Hamermesh D., NBER Working Paper No. 21923. |
Recent Research:
| 2017 | "Das deutsche Arbeitsmarktwunder: Eine Bilanz" with Stefanie Seele, Perspektiven der Wirtschaftspolitik, forthcoming. [Data available here] |
| 2017 | "TFP Convergence in German States since Reunification: Evidence and Explanations" with Severgnini, B., Journal of Comparative Economics, forthcoming. |
| 2017 | Burda, M. and Wyplosz, C., Textook Macroeconomics: A European Text. Oxford: Oxford University Press (sixth edition, April 2017. (first edition 1993). |
| 2016 | "Payroll Taxes, Social Insurance and Business Cycles", with Weder M., Journal of the European Economic Association, (July) |
| 2015 | "Wissenschaftliches Fehlverhalten und der Ethikkodex des Vereins für Socialpolitik", with Gebhard Kirchgässner, Perspektiven der Wirtschaftspolitik, 16(1), 88–105. |
2014 | "Solow Residuals without Capital Stocks", with Severgnini B., Journal of Development Economics 109, 154–171. |
| 2014 | "The European Debt Crisis: How did we get into this mess? How can we get out of it?" In C. Paulus, ed. A Debt Restructing Mechanism for European Sovereigns - Do We Need a Legal Procedure?, München: Vahlen-Verlag. |
| 2013 | "Cyclical Variation in Labor Hours and Productivity Using the ATUS", with Hamermesh D. and Stewart J., American Economic Review, 103(3), 99-104. |
| 2013 | "Total Work and Gender: Facts and a Possible Explanations", with Hamermesh D. and Weil P., Journal of Population Economics, 26(1), 239-261. |
| 2013 | Burda, M. and Wyplosz, C., Textook Macroeconomics: A European Text. Oxford: Oxford University Press (sixth edition, November 2013. (first edition 1993). |
| 2013 | "How to Avoid Contagion and Spillover Effects in the Eurozone?" Chapter in A. Dombret und O. Lucius, eds. The Stability of the Financial System: Illusion or Feasible Concept? Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing 2013. |
| 2013 | "Die makroökonomische Zwänge der Treuhand Privatisierung," Chapter in: O. Depenhauer und H.-H. Paqué (eds.) Einheit–Eigentum–Effizienz Heidelberg: Springer-Verlag, 2013. |
2013 | “The East German Economy in the Twenty-First Century”, in Berghoff and Balbier, eds. The East German Economy, 1945-2010. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2013, 195-216. |
| 2011 | "What Explains Germany's Labor Market Miracle in the Great Recession?", with Hunt, J. , Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, 42 (1), 273-335. |
| 2011 | Review of Robert E. Hall: "Forward-looking decision making: dynamic programming models applied to health, risk, employment, and financial stability (The Gorman Lectures in Economics)", Journal of Economics, 104, 195–197. |
| 2010 | "Payroll Taxes, Social Insurance and Business Cycles", with M. Weder, IZA Discussion Paper 5150 August 2010; Adelaide Research Paper 2010-17, August 2010; CEPR Discussion Paper 7984, September 2010. Second revision, Journal of the European Economic Association. |
| 2010 | "Unemployment, Market Work and Household Production", with Hamermesh D., Economic Letters, 107(2), 131-133. |
| 2009 | "TFP Growth in Old and New Europe", with Severgnini B., Comparative Economic Studies 51, 447-466. |
| 2009 | "Preferences for Collective versus Individualized Wage Setting", with Boeri T., Economic Journal, 119(540), 1440-1463. |
| 2009 | "TFP Growth in Old and New Europe", with Severgnini B., Comparative Economic Studies, 1(51), 447-466. |
| 2009 | "Sectoral Transformation, Turbulence, and Labour Market Dynamics in Germany", with Bachmann R., German Economic Review, 11(1), 37-59. |
| 2009 | "Evidence on Unemployment, Market Work and Household Production", SFB 649 Discussion Paper 2009-043. |
| 2008 | "What kind of shock was it? Regional integration and structural change in Germany after Unification", Journal of Comparative Economics, 36(4), 557-567. |
| 2008 | "Working Hours and Job Sharing in the EU and the USA: Are Europeans Lazy? Or Americans Crazy?", with Boeri T. and Kramarz F., Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008. |
| 2008 | "The Distribution of Total Work in the EU and the US", with D. Hamermesh and P.Weil, Chapter in Boeri, Burda and Kramarz, eds., Working Hour and Job Sharing in the EU and the USA: Are Europeans Lazy or Americans Crazy? Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008. |
| 2008 | "Unionization, Stochastic Dominance, and Compression of the Wage Distribution: Evidence from Germany", with Fitzenberger B., Lembcke A., Vogel T., SFB 649 Discussion Paper 2008-041 |
| 2008 | "Solow Residuals without Capital Stocks", with B. Severgnini, SFB Discussion Paper 2008-40, August 2008. Second revision, Journal of Development Economics. |
| 2007 | "Economic truths behind Germany's recovery", Financial Times July 25 2007. |
| 2006 | "Factor Reallocation in Eastern Germany after Reunification", American Economic Review 96, 368-374. |
| 2006 | "Zeitarbeit: Trends und Perspektiven (Temporary Help Services: Trends and Perspectives)", with Kvasnicka M., Perspektiven der Wirtschaftspolitik 5, 195-225. |
| 2005 | "Employment Duration and Resistance to Wage Reductions: Experimental Evidence", with W. Güth, G. Kirchsteiger, and H. Uhlig, Homo Oeconomicus, 22, 169-189. |
| 2005 | "Ohne historisches Vorbild: Die Treuhandanstalt 1990-1994: eine kritische Würdigung", with B. Breuel, Berlin: Bostelmann u. Siebenhaar, 2005. |
| 2004 | "Humankapital und Arbeitsmarktinstitutionen bei gleichgewichtiger Arbeitslosigkeit," in: M. Stadler, eds., Bildung. Tagungsband des 33. Wirtschaftswissenschaftlichen Seminars Tübingen, Mohr, 2004. |
| 2004 | "Factor Mobility, Income Differentials and Regional Economic Integration," Chapter in H. Berger, and T. Moutos, eds. Managing European Union Enlargement, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2004. |
| 2004 | Comment on Slemrod, "Trust in Public Finance," in Cnossens, ed. Public Finances and Public Policy in the New Millennium Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2004. |
| 2002 | "Cost Competition, Fragmentation, and Globalization", with B. Dluhosch, Review of International Economics, 10 (3), 424-441. |
| 2002 | "Complementarity of Labor Market Institutions, Equilibrium Unemployment and the Propagation of Business Cycles", with M. Weder, German Economic Review, 3, 1-24. |