Nezih Guner

MSc in Macroeconomic Policy and Financial Markets

Nezih Guner is ICREA research professor at Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, and Research Professor of Barcelona Graduate School of Economics. He is also a Research Affiliate of Center for Economic Policy Research (CEPR), a Research Fellow of Institute for Study of Labor (IZA), and a Research Fellow of MOVE (Markets, Organizations and Votes in Economics). He is a co-editor of Economic Inquiry and Associate Editor of Journal of Population Economics and SERIEs (Journal of Spanish Economic Association). He received his PhD in Economics from University of Rochester in 2000. Before joining the Barcelona economics community, he held academic positions at Queen’s University (Canada), Pennsylvania State University, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid.

Family structure in industrialized countries changed dramatically during the 20th century. An important part of my research focuses on causes of these changes, and their consequences for children and income inequality. I have also been studying how changes in family structure can alter the way public policy, e.g. taxation, affect the aggregate economy. Besides my work on family economics, I have examined how misallocation of resources across firms affects the size distribution of firms and aggregate productivity. I have also been working on the interaction between labor market frictions and firm dynamics, and how this interaction can affect the outcomes of trade reforms.

“Social Change: The Sexual Revolution,” with Jeremy Greenwood, International Economic Review, forthcoming.

“Marriage and Divorce since World War II: Analyzing the Role of Technological Progress on the Formation of Households”, with Jeremy Greenwood, NBER Macroeconomics Annual 2008, April 2009, edited by Daron Acemoglu, Kenneth Rogoff and Michael Woodford (Chicago: University of Chicago Press).

“Macroeconomic Implications of Size-Dependent Policies,” with Gustavo Ventura and Xu Yi, Review of Economic Dynamics, October 2008.

“Love and Money: A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis of Household Sorting and Inequality,” with Raquel Fernandez and John Knowles, Quarterly Journal of Economics, February 2005.

“On the State of the Union,” with S. Rao Aiyagari and Jeremy Greenwood, Journal of Political Economy, 108(2), 213-244, April 2000.