Curriculum Vitae

John Hassler

September 2008

Job Address

Home Address

Institute for International Economic Studies

Hasselstigen 2

Stockholm University

S-125 53 Stockholm, Sweden

S-106 91 Stockholm, Sweden

Telephone: +46-8-647 37 31

Telephone: +46-8-162070, fax: +46-8-161443

Mobile: +46-708-117 26 3

Email: John.Hassler@iies.su.se

Homepage: http://hassler.se/

 

Date of Birth and Family Situation

September 18, 1960, married with Susanne, two children, Samuel and Emil.

Current Occupation

Professor at the Institute for International Economic Studies (IIES), Stockholm University, Jan. 2005-.

Current Research

·        Global warming and long run economic growth.

·        Dynamic political economy of government, in particular redistribution, social security and health.

·        Optimal taxation and social insurance.

Education 

·        Ph.D. in Economics, Majors in Public Finance and Macroeconomics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1994. Title of Ph.D. Thesis, ”Effects of Variations in Risk on Demand and Measures of Business Cycle Fluctuations”.

·        Filosofie Licentiat, Stockholm University, 1993.

·        B.A. in Economics, Stockholm School of Economics, 1989.

·        Visiting MBA student at Stern Business School, New York University September-December 1987.

Affiliations and Other Functions

·        Vice Chairman of the Swedish Fiscal Policy Council, 2011-

·        Member of the Bellagio group of central bankers and academics, 2011-

·        Voting associate member of the price committee for the Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel, Dec 2009-.

·        Member of the European Economic Advisory Group, EEAG, 2008-

·        Advisor to the Swedish Ministry of Finance (October 2008-March 2009).

·        CEPR Research Fellow (International Macro and Public Policy Programmes).

·        CESifo Research Fellow.

·        IZA Research Fellow.

·        Member of The Swedish Economic Council (advisory board to the Finance Ministry), 1997-2005

·        Expert to the governmental committee on deregulation evaluation, 2004-05

·        Board member of The Swedish Association of Economists (Nationalekonomiska föreningen), 2004-2012

·        President of the Economic Club, 2006-08

Papers and Articles

Published English Articles in Books and Journals 

·        “Oil monoploy and the climate,” with Per Krusell and Conny Olofsson, American Economic Review: Papers and Proceedings, May 2010, v. 100, iss. 2, pp. 460-64

·        “Unemployment Insurance Design: how to induce moving and retraining” with José V. Rodríguez Mora, European Economic Review, 52: 5, July 2008, pp. 757-791

·        “On Optimal Timing of Capital Taxation”, with Per Krusell, Kjetil Storesletten, and Fabrizio Zilibotti, Journal of Monetary Economics, 55:4, May, 2008, pp. 692-709.

·        ”Inequality and Mobility”, with José V. Rodríguez Mora and Joseph Zeira, Journal of Economic Growth, 12:3, September, 2007, pp.235-59.

·        ”Democratic Public Good Provision”, with Kjetil Storesletten and Fabrizio Zilibotti, Journal of Economic Theory, vol. 133 (1), March 2007, pp. 127-151

·        “The Dynamics of Government”, with Per Krusell, Kjetil Storesletten, and Fabrizio Zilibotti, Journal of Monetary Economics, 52:7 , October 2005, pp 1331-1358.

·        ”A Positive Theory of Geographic Mobility and Social Insurance”, with Kjetil Storesletten, José V Rodríguez Mora and Fabrizio Zilibotti, International Economic Review, 46:1, February 2005, pp 263-303.

·        ”The Survival of the Welfare state”, with Kjetil Storesletten, José V. Rodríguez Mora and Fabrizio Zilibotti, American Economic Review, 93(1), March, 2003, pp.87-112.

·        ”Dynamic Political Choice in Macroeconomics”, With Kjetil Storesletten and Fabrizio Zilibotti. Journal of the European Economic Association, April-May, 2003, 1(2-3), pp. 533-42.

·        ”Unemployment, Specialization, and Collective Preferences for Social Insurance”, with Kjetil Storesletten, José V. Rodríguez Mora and Fabrizio Zilibotti, in Cohen, Piketty and Saint Paul eds., The New Economics of Inequalities, Oxford Univeristy Press, 2002, London.

·        ”Uncertainty and the Timing of Automobile Purchases”, Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 103(2), 2001.

·        ”Intelligence, Social Mobility and Growth”, with José V. Rodríguez Mora, American Economic Review,90:(4), 2000. 

·        ”Employment Turnover and the Public Allocation of Unemployment Insurance”, with José V. Rodríguez Mora, Journal of Public Economics, 73:(1), 1999. 

·        ”Does Increased International Influence Cause Higher Stock Market Volatility”, Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 101:(1), 1999.  

·        ”International covariation in manufacturing 1975-95”, Swedish Economic Policy Review, Vol. 4, No. 4, 1997.

·        ”Optimal Actuarial Fairness in Pension Systems - a Note”, with Assar Lindbeck, Economic Letters, 55:(2), 1997.

·        ”Risk and Consumption,” Swedish Economic Policy Review, 3:(2), 1996.

·        ”Variations in Risk and Fluctuations in Demand – a theoretical model,” Journal of Economic Dynamics & Control 20:(6-7), 1996. 

·        ”The Swedish Business Cycle – Stylized facts over 130 years” (with P. Lundvik, T. Persson and P. Söderlind), in V. Bergström and A. Vredin, eds., Measuring and Interpreting Business Cycles, Clarendon Press, 1994. 

Selected working papers

·       “Economics and Climate Change: Integrated Assessment in a Multi-Region World”, NBER WP 17757, with Per Krusell,

·        ”The dynamics of commitment and loss aversion”, with Sevi Rodríguez Mora

·        ”Optimal taxes on fossil fuel in general equilibrium"”, NBER WP 17348 with Mike Golosov, Per Krusell and Aleh Tsyvinski

·        ”Explaining Asymmetric Price Adjustment”, With Tore Ellingsen and Richard Friberg

·        ”Is There Excess Volatility of Stock Prices?””, with Joseph Zeira.

·        ”Equilibrium Unemployment Insurance”, CEPR discussion paper 2126, with Kjetil Storesletten, José V. Rodríguez Mora and Fabrizio Zilibotti. 1999. 

·        ”Can and should a pay-as-you-go pension system mimic a funded system”, mimeo with Assar Lindbeck, 1999

·        ”Intergenerational Risk Sharing, Stability and Optimality of Alternative Pension Systems”, with Assar Lindbeck, CEPR, Discussion Paper No. 1774,  

·        ”Variations in Risk as a Cause of Fluctuations in Demand – the empirics”, IIES Seminar Paper No. 554.

·        ”Effects of Variations in Risk on Demand and Measures of Business Cycle Comovements”, Ph.D. Dissertation, IIES Monograph Series No. 24.

·        ”Variations in Risk - a cause of fluctuations in demand?”, IIES Seminar Paper No. 532, Stockholm University. (An updated version)

·        ”Are They Swinging Together – A measure of linear comovement with an application to Swedish and foreign business cycles”, IIES Seminar Paper No. 531.

In Swedish

·              “Ändra dig Anders Borg!”, Dagens Industri, Novemeber 12, 2010,

·              Monthly columns in the business magazine Affärsvärlden, May 2008-

·              "Behåll och höj fastighetsskatten""Behåll och höj fastighetsskatten", Brännpunkt, Svenska Dagbladet, September 22, 2006, (with co-authors).

·              "Därför Euron", Brännpunkt, Svenska Dagbladet, May 14, 2003 (with co-authors).

·              "Är Sverige i takt med Europa?”   in "Därför euron - tio ekonomer om den gemensamma valutan", Ulf Jacobsson (ed.), Ekerlids förlag, Stockholm, 2003. 

·              DN-Debatt on Auctioning of licences for 3G mobil phones, (with members of the Economic Council), January 26, 2001.

·              DN-Debatt on EMU, (with Assar Lindbeck), November 27 and December 1996.

·              Internationell samvariation inom tillverkningsindustrin 1975-96, Bilaga 4, EMU-utredningen (SOU 1996:158). 

·              Lu-bilaga ger inget stöd för konjunkturens utlandsberoende”, Ekonomisk Debatt, 1994:7 

·              ”Vad tror marknaden om skattereformen?”, (with Mats Persson), Ekonomisk Debatt 17:4, 1989. 

Editorial functions

·              Associate editor of Macroeconomic Dynamics 2012-

·              Member of Economic Policy Panel 2008-2010

·              Associate editor of Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2006-

·              Associate editor of European Economic Review, 2007-2009

·              Member of the Editorial Board of The Review of Economic Studies, 2004-2011

·              Member of the program committee for the EEA congresses in Berlin 1998 and Bolzano 2000, Stockholm 2003, Madrid 2004 and Amsterdam 2005.

·              Editor of Swedish Economic Policy Review, special issue on international tax-competition, Vol 9:1, 2002 and special issue on human capital and growth, Vol. 6:2, 1999.

·              Associate Editor of Ekonomisk Debatt 1996-1997.

·              Referee for American Economic Review, B.E. Journals in Macroeconomics, Economic Journal, Environmental and Resource Economics, Economica, European Economic Review, European Journal of Political Economy, International Economic Review, Journal of Comparative Economics, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, Journal of Economic Growth, Journal of Economics, Journal of the European Economic Association, Journal of International Economics, Journal of Macroeconomics, Journal of Public Economics, Journal of Pension Economics and Finance, Journal of Population Economics, Macroeconomic Dynamics, National Science Foundation, Physical Review Letters, Review of Economic Studies, Scandinavian Journal of Economics, Scottish Journal of Political Economy and Swedish Economic Policy Review.

·              Editor of ”Thirteen papers on Unemployment” (in Swedish), published by the Swedish Labor Movement's Economic Council (Arbetarrörelsens ekonomiska råd).

Earlier Employment

·              1994-2003 Assistant professor at the Institute for International Economic Studies.

·              1989-90 Research Assistant at the Institute for International Economic Studies.

·              1987 Research Assistant at the Research Department of The Confederation of Swedish Trade Unions. 

Teaching Experience

·              First year undergraduate macro at Stockholm University, 2003-6, 2009.

·              Dynamic Public Finance, Ph.D. program at Stockholm University and Stockholm School of Economics, 2006-8.

·              Modern macroeconomics for policy makers, course given at the Swedish Riksbank 2005 and at the Swedish Parliament 2008.

·              Macroeconomics II, Ph.D. program at Stockholm University and Stockholm School of Economics, 2006-8.

·              Second year undergraduate macro at Stockholm University, 2002.

·              Non-standard preferences in macroeconomics, Ph.D. program at Stockholm University and Stockholm School of Economics, 2005-8 and at Fudan University, Shanghai 2006.

·              Macroeconomics I, Ph.D. program at Stockholm University and Stockholm School of Economics, every year 1995-2000.

·              Mathematics II, Ph.D. program at Stockholm University and Stockholm School of Economics, 1994-1996, 1998-2003 and 2008.

·              Main advisor for Ph.D. students Mirco Tonin (2007), Erika Färnstrand (2008).

·              Faculty opponent on Doctoral Thesis by Davide Ticchi, Pompeu Fabra University, 2004.

·              Faculty opponent on Doctoral Thesis by Jari Viitanen, Joensuu Univeristy, 2004.

·              Faculty opponent on Doctoral Thesis by Giovanni Pica, Pompeu Fabra University, 2004.

·              Member of Doctoral Grading Committee for Fredrik Andersson, Uppsala University, 2003, Robert Östling 2008.

·              Faculty opponent for Sean Hove, Aarhus University, 2002.

·              External evaluator on Ph.D. thesis by Hosny Zoabi, Hebrew University Jerusalem, 2004

·              External evaluator on Ph.D. thesis by Omer Moav, Hebrew University Jerusalem, 1999.

·              Faculty opponent on Doctoral Thesis by Tomas Lindström, Uppsala University, 1998.

·              Faculty opponent on Licentiate Thesis by Jesper Hansson, Lund University, 1997.

·              Faculty opponent on Licentiate Thesis by Henrik Schulze, Uppsala University, 1996.

Non-academic positions

·              1984 Member of the National Board of Conscripts (Värnpliksrådet i Sverige).

·              1981-84 President of the Swedish School Students Union (Elevorganisationen i Sverige).