Winfried Koeniger

Winfried considers macroeconomic issues with a particular focus on consumption and labour markets. He has analyzed the effects of labour market institutions on economic performance emphasizing interactions between the structure of labour markets, financial markets and product markets. Moreover, he researches quantitative models with heterogeneous agents to understand consumption and saving patterns.

Selected publications

• “On the Evolution of the US Consumer Wealth Distribution”, with Thomas Hintermaier, Review of Economic Dynamics, vol. 14 (2), 317-338, 2011
• "The Method of Endogenous Gridpoints  with Occasionally Binding Constraints among Endogenous Variables", with Thomas Hintermaier, Journal of Economic Dynamics & Control, vol. 34 (10), 2074-2088, 2010.
• "Redistributive Taxation and Personal Bankruptcy in US States", with Charles Grant, Journal of Law & Economics, vol. 52(3), 445-467, 2009.
• "Consumption Smoothing and Income Redistribution", with Giuseppe Bertola, European Economic Review, vol. 51 (8), 1941-1958, 2007.
• "On the Role of Market Insurance in a Dynamic Model", with Helge Braun, The Geneva Risk and Insurance Review, vol. 32 (1), 61-90, 2007.
• "Employment Protection, Product Market Regulation and Firm Selection", with Julien Prat, Economic Journal, vol. 117 (521), F302 - F332, 2007.
• "Openness, Wage Floors and Technology Change", The B.E. Journal of Macroeconomics, Contributions, vol. 7 (1), Article 5, 2007.
• "Capital Deepening and Wage Differentials: Germany vs. US", with Marco Leonardi, Economic Policy, vol. 22 (49), 71-116, 2007.
• "Labor Market Institutions and Wage Differentials", with Marco Leonardi and Luca Nunziata, Industrial & Labor Relations Review, vol. 60(3), 340-356, 2007.
• "On the Use of Substitutability as a Measure of Competition", with Omar Licandro, The B.E. Journal of Macroeconomics, Topics, vol. 6(1), Article 2, 2006.
• "Uncertainty and Debt-Maturity in Emerging Markets", with Matthieu Bussière and Marcel Fratzscher, B.E. Journal in Macroeconomics, Topics, vol. 6(1), Article 5, 2006.
• "Dismissal Costs and Innovation", Economics Letters, vol. 88 (1), 79-84, 2005.
• "Dealer Pricing of Consumer Credit", with Giuseppe Bertola and Stefan Hochgürtel, International Economic Review, vol. 46 (4), 1103-1142, 2005.
• "Labor Income Risk and Car Insurance in the UK", The Geneva Papers on Risk and Insurance Theory, vol. 29 (1), 55-74, 2004.