Prof. Nezih Guner – Program Director
Nezih Guner (PhD, University of Rochester, 2000) is ICREA Research Professor at MOVE (Markets, Organizations and Votes in Economics), Adjunct Professor at Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona and Research Professor of the Barcelona Graduate School of Economics.
Before joining the Barcelona economics community, he held academic positions at Queen’s University (Canada), Pennsylvania State University, and Universidad Carlos III de Madrid. Prof. Guner is Affiliate of the Center for Economic Policy Research (CEPR), Research Fellow of the Institute for Study of Labor (IZA), and a member of the Family Inequality Working Group in the Becker Friedman Institute for Economic Research at the University of Chicago. He is a co-editor of Economic Inquiry and Associate Editor of Journal of Population Economics and SERIEs (Journal of Spanish Economic Association). He is also a member of the Council of Spanish Economic Association.
In 2010, Prof. Guner was awarded a European Research Council (ERC) Starting Grant, and in 2011 he received a RecerCaixa grant for his project "Households and Children: Rethinking the Welfare State."
An important part of his research focuses on the causes of changes in family structure in industrialized countries during the 20th century, and their consequences for children and income inequality. He is also studying how changes in family structure can alter the way public policy, such as taxation and social insurance programs, affect the aggregate economy.
In addition to his work on family economics, he has examined how misallocation of resources across firms affects the size distribution of firms and aggregate productivity; the interaction between labor market frictions and firm dynamics; and how this interaction can affect the outcomes of trade reforms.
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