Ekkehard Ernst

Staff Member Ekkehard Ernst Senior Economist PARTICULARS Telephone: (+41) 22 799 7791 Fax: (+41 22) 799 8542 E-mail: ernste@ilo.org Web page: ekkehard.ernst.free.fr

EDUCATIONAL AND PROFESSIONAL BACKGROUND

RESEARCH AREAS

• Macroeconomics and growth
• Labour economics and public policies
• Financial market developments
• Institutional economics and varieties of capitalism

PUBLICATIONS AND WORKING PAPERS

• "Global economic linkages. A model of employment and income dynamics in open economies" (joint with M. Charpe) - (pdf, 702 KB);
• "The effects of financial globalization on global imbalances, employment and inequality" - (pdf, 535 KB);
• “A Search Phillips Curve”, paper presented at the European Meeting of the Econometric Society (ESEM), Milan 2008;
• “Coping with labour shortages: How to bring outsiders back to the labour market?”, OECD Economics Department Working Paper, no 619, 2008;
• “The Dutch tax-benefit system and life-cycle employment. Outcomes and reform options”, OECD Economics Working Paper, no 617, 2008 (joint with T. Teuber);
• “La place des institutions dans la théorie de la croissance. Croissance endogène, théorie de la Régulation et complémentarités institutionnelles”, in: E. Lafay de Micheaux, E. Mulot and P. Ould-Ahmed (eds.), Institutions et développement. La fabrique institutionnelle et politique des trajectoires de développement, Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 2007, pp. 157-181;
• “Quantifying the impact of structural reforms”, ECB Working Paper, 2006, no. 666 (joint with L. Bukeviciute, G. Gong, W. Semmler);
• “Strengthening innovation in the Netherlands: making better use of knowledge creation in innovation activities”, OECD Economics Department Working Paper, no 479, 2006 (joint with D. Carey, R. Oyomopito and J. Theisens);
• “How do financial markets affect industrial relations: an institutional complementarity approach”, Socio-Economic Review, 2005, 3/2, pp. 311-330 (joint with B. Amable and S. Palombarini);
• “Financial and labor market interactions. Specific investments and market liquidity”, paper presented at the Allied Social Science Association Meeting, Philadelphia, 2005; available as CEM Working Paper, no. 93 (joint with B. Amable);
• “Profils institutionnels. Présentation et analyse d’une base de données originale sur les caractéristiques institutionnelles de pays en développement, en transition et développés: Une discussion”, Revue française d’économie, 2004, 19, pp.197-226;
• “Financial Systems, Industrial Relations and Industry Specialization: An Econometric Analysis of Institutional Complementarities”, in H. Schubert (ed.), “The Transformation of the European Financial System”, Proceedings of the 1st OeNB Workshop, Vienna, 2004, pp. 60-95;
• “Endogenous shocks and evolutionary strategy: An application to a three players game”, in: Nowak, A. (ed.), Advances in Dynamic Games and Applications, Birkhäuser, 2005 (joint with B. Amable and S. Palombarini);
• “Labour Market Regulation, Industrial Relations, and Technological Regimes: A Tale of Comparative Advantage”, Industrial and Corporate Change, 2002, 11/3, pp. 391-426 (joint with A. Bassanini);
• “Labour Market Institutions, Product Market Regulation, and Innovation: Cross-country Evidence”, OECD Economics Department Working Paper, no 316, 2002 (joint with A. Bassanini);
• “Product and labour market interactions in OECD countries”, OECD Economics Department Working Paper, no 312, 2001 (joint with G. Nicoletti, A. Bassanini, S. Jean, P. Santiago, P. Swaim).

• RECENT SPEAKING INVITATIONS

  • OECD Development Center (2009), “Income inequalities in the age of financial globalization. Trends, consequences, policies”, Paris;
  • Federal Ministry of Finance (2008), “Decoupling of emerging economies amidst financial market turbulences”, Berlin;
  • Institute for the World Economy (2007), Invitation by Dennis Snower to hold the Erich-Schneider-Seminar, Kiel;
  • Turkish Ministry of Finance (2007), “Measuring macroeconomic effects of structural reforms”, Ankara;
  • OECD Workshop on Resilience (2007), “Resilience, consumption smoothing and structural policies”, Paris (Presenter and Co-organizer);
  • CEPR Labour market workshop (2006), Frankfurt.