Benjamin Schoefer
Associate Professor (with tenure)
Department of Economics, UC Berkeley
Associate Editor, Journal of Monetary Economics
NBER Research Associate (Economic Fluctuations & Growth, Monetary,
Public, Labor), CEPR
Research Affiliate (Monetary Economics and Fluctuations, Labour, Public), IZA Research Fellow, CESifo
Affiliate Member, IWH Halle Research Fellow (Senior Researcher)
CV
Job Market Candidates 2022/23
I am supporting (writing letters for) two excellent job market candidates in 2022/23.
In alphabetical order, they are:
Pauline Carry
CREST (ENSAE - Ecole Polytechnique)
Fields: labor and macro
Job market paper:
"The Effects of the Legal Minimum Working Time on Workers, Firms and the Labor Market"
Vitaliia Yaremko
UC Berkeley
Fields: macro, labor, comparative, political economics
Job market paper:
"The Long-Term Consequences of Blacklisting: Evidence From the Ukrainian Famine of 1932-33"
Please email me for any questions.
Research Papers
Voice
at Work
American Economic Journal: Applied, Revise and Resubmit, Jarkko Harju and Simon Jäger
VOX
summary,
Slides
Wages
and the Value of Nonemployment
Quarterly
Journal of Economics, 135(4), 2020, 1905-1963, with Simon Jäger, Samuel Young
and Josef Zweimüller
Publication,
Slides
Policy Papers and Other Writing
Employment Adjustment and COVID: Some Thoughts
on Theory and Reality
Invited short talk connecting academic and policy
perspectives CEPR-IZA-OECD Workshop: Employment Support
Strategies during COVID-19 October 15, 2020
Slides
Teaching
Econ
202B: Macroeconomic Theory (mandatory first-year PhD course)
Econ 101B: Intermediate Macroeconomics (Math Intensive/Honors Track)
Econ 191: Topics in Economic Research
[Econ 236B: Macroeconomics (second-year field course) (not
currently)]
Econ 237: Macroeconomics Research Seminar
My
side project: I run the German Economic Policy Roundtable
(Wirtschaftspolitik-Diskussionsrunde). Most members are academics, policy
practitioners, journalists, think tank researchers. (German)
Twitter link for sign-up instructions here.