Professoren
Prof. Ph. D. Michael C. Burda

Prof. Ph. D. Michael C. Burda

1998
Gossen Prize, Verein für Socialpolitik


1991
German Marshall Fund Research Fellow 1991-1992


1986
Böttcher Foundation Essay Prize, Institut für Weltwirtschaft an der Universität Kiel


1985-1986
DAAD Research Fellow at the Institute for World Economics, Kiel, Germany


1982-1983
Slichter Fellow in Economics, Harvard University, Tuition and Stipend Fellowship


1982
Honorable Mention, National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship Competition


1981-1982
Rotary Foundation Fellowship for International Understanding for Study at Georg-August Universität, Göttingen, West Germany


1978-1981
Harvard College Scholarship, John Harvard ScholarshipA. Articles in Journals


"Complementarity of Labor Market Institutions, Equilibrium Unemployment and the Persistence of Business Cycles," (with M. Weder) German Economic Review (2002) forthcoming.

"From Reunification to Economic Integration: Productivity and Labor Markets in Germany" (with J. Hunt) Brookings Papers on Economic Activity (2001) forthcoming.

"Cost Competition, Fragmentation and Globalization" (with B. Dluhosch) Review of International Economics (2002) forthcoming.

"West-Ost-Transfers im Gefolge der deutschen Vereinigung" (with U. Busch) Konjunkturpolitik (2001) 47:1-38.

"Wages and Worker Displacement in Germany" (with A. Mertens), Labour Economics 8 (2001):15-41.

"Mehr Arbeitslose – Der Preis für die Osterweiterung? Zur Auswirkung der EU-Erweiterung für die europäischen Arbeitsmärkte im Osten und Westen," Zeitschrift für die Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaften 274 (2000):79-102.

"Product Market Regulation and Labor Market Outcomes: How can Deregulation Create Jobs?" Ifo-Studien 1/2000:55-72.

"Semiparametric Analysis of German East-West Migration Intentions: Facts and Theory" (with M. Müller, W. Härdle, and A. Werwatz) Journal of Applied Econometrics 13 (1998), 525-541.

"Corporatism, Labor Unions, and the Safety Net," European Economic Review 41 (May 1997), 635-646.

"Active Labour Market Polices, Job Matching and the Czech Miracle," (with T. Boeri) European Economic Review 40 (April 1996), 805-818.

"Matching Across Space: Evidence on Mobility in the Czech Republic," (with S. Profit) Labour Economics 3 (1996), 225-278.

"East Germany: Can't We Be More Optimistic?" (with M. Funke) Ifo-Studien 41 (3/1995), 327-354.

"Migration and the Option Value of Waiting," Economic and Social Review 27 (October 1995), 1-19.

"Gross Worker and Job Flows in Europe," (with C. Wyplosz) European Economic Review 38 (June 1994), 1287-1315.

"German Trade Unions after Unification: Third-Degree Wage Discriminating Monopolists?" (with M. Funke) Weltwirtschaftliches Archiv 129 (1993), 537-560.

"Currency Union and Exchange Rate Dynamics: the Case of the OM-DM Rate," (with S. Gerlach), Empirical Economics 18 (1993), 417-429.

"Unemployment, Labor Market Institutions and Structural Change in Eastern Europe," Economic Policy 16, (April 1993).

"The Determinants of East-West German Migration: Some First Results," European Economic Review 37 (April 1993), 452-462.

"Intertemporal Prices and the U.S. Trade Balance," (with S. Gerlach) American Economic Review 82 (December 1992), 1234-1253.

"Human Capital, Investment and Migration in an Integrated Europe," (with C. Wyplosz), European Economic Review 36 (April 1992), 677-684.

"A Note on Firing Costs and Severance Benefits in Equilibrium Unemployment," Scandinavian Journal of Economics 94:3 (1992) 479-489.

"Monopolistic Competition, Costs of Adjustment and the Behavior of European Manufacturing Employment," European Economic Review 35 (January 1991), 61-79.

"Membership, Seniority and Wage Setting in Democratic Labor Unions," Economica 57 (December 1990), 455-466.

"Some Evidence on the Membership Hysteresis Hypothesis in Europe," Empirical Economics 15 (2:1990), 143-162.

"Assessing High Unemployment in the Federal Republic of Germany," (with J. Sachs) The World Economy 11 (4) (December 1988), 543-563.

"Wait Unemployment in Europe," Economic Policy 7 (October 1988), 391-416.

"Is There a Capital Shortage in Europe?" Weltwirtschaftliches Archiv 124 (March 1988), 38-57.

"New Evidence on Real Wage-Employment Correlations from US Manufacturing Data," Economics Letters 18 (1985), 283-285.




B. Chapters in Books and Contributions in Conference Proceedings


“Fragmentation, Globalization and Labor Markets" (with B. Dlushosch), forthcoming in Proceedings of IEA Conference on Globalisation and Labour Markets, ed. by D. Greenaway, R. Upward and K. Wakelin, Macmillan 2001.

"Wage and Structural Adjustment in the New German States", (with M. Funke), in: Riphahn/Snower/Zimmermann (eds.) Employment Policy in Transition: Lesson on German Integration for the Labour Market, Springer-Verlag 2001, S. 31-51.

“The Future of Collective Bargaining in Europe,” (with L Calmfors, A. Booth, D. Checchi, R. Naylor and J. Visser) in Boeri, Brugiavini and Calmfors, (eds.) The Role of Unions in the Twenty-First Century Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001.

"Einige Überlegungen über europäische Arbeitsmärkte und die Europäische Währungsunion," in G. Engel and P. Rühmann, (eds.) Geldpolitik und Europäische Währungsunion (Festschrift Prof. Dr. H.-J. Jarchow) Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2000, 163-188.

"Job and Service Economy" in The Service Economy-An Engine for Growth and Employment, Institut der deutschen Wirtschaft Köln, 2000, 100-109.

"European Labor Markets and the Euro: How Much Flexibility Do We Really Need?" in Deutsche Bundesbank, (ed.) The Monetary Transmission Process MacMillan, 2000.

"Endogenes Wachstum, gleichgewichtige Arbeitslosigkeit und persistente Konjunkturzyklen" (Endogenous Growth, Equilibrium Unemployment and the Persistence of Business Cycles, with M. Weder) in Franz, W., H.Hesse, H-J.Ramser and M.Stadler (eds.), Trend und Zyklus Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 1999, 193-216.

"Globalization and European Labor Markets," (with B. Dluhosch) in Siebert, H. (ed.) Globalization and Labor Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 1999, 181-207.

"Arbeitsplatzverlust und Lohnentwicklung - Eine empirische Analyse für Westdeutschland," Konjunkturpolitik Beiheft Nr. 48/98 (with A. Mertens).

"The Consequences of EU Enlargement for Central and Eastern European Labour Markets" European Investment Bank Papers 3 (1998): 65-82.

"Eine wichtige Säule des amerikanischen Beschäftigungserfolgs: Der Dienstleistungssektor," Mitteilungen aus der Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung 30 (1997) S. 819 – 821.

"Persistently High Irish Unemployment: A Comparison with the UK," in A.Gray (ed.) International Perspectives on the Irish Economy Dublin: Indecon, 1997.

"Getting behind the East-West Wage Differential:Theory and Evidence" (with C. Schmidt), in R. Pohl, ed., Wandeln oder Weichen - Herausforderungen der wirtschaftlichen Integration für Deutschland Sonderheft, Wirtschaft im Wandel 3/97.

"Unemployment Compensation: Theory and Practice," in H.Giersch (ed.), Reforming the Welfare State Berlin: Springer Verlag, 1997.

"Unemployment in Central and Eastern Europe: East Meets West," in H.Giersch (ed.), Fighting Europe's Unemployment in the 1990s Berlin: Springer Verlag, 1996.

"Structural Change and Unemployment in Central and Eastern Europe: Some Key Issues," in H. Lehmann and J. Wadsworth, eds. Labour Markets by Design? Munich: Weltforum-Verlag, 1996, 9-29.

"Locational Competition versus Cooperation in Labor Markets: An Implicit Contract Reinterpretation," (with A. Mertens) in Siebert, H., ed., Locational Competition in the World Economy, J.C.B. Mohr, Tübingen 1995.

"The Impact of Active Labour Market Policies: A Closer Look at the Czech and Slovak Republics," (with M. Lubyova) in Newbery, (ed.), Tax and Benefit Reform in Central and Eastern Europe (London: CEPR 1995).

"Labor Market Institutions and the Economic Transformation of Central and Eastern Europe," in S. Commander and F. Coricelli, (eds.) Unemployment, Restructuring and the Labor Market in Eastern Europe and Russia (Washington D.C: The World Bank, 1995).

"Modelling Exits from Unemployment in Eastern Germany: A Matching Function Approach," in H. König and V. Steiner (eds.) Arbeitsmarktdynamik und Unternehmensentwicklung in Ostdeutschland (Baden-Baden: Nomos Verlag, 1994).

"Decentralized Trade as a Market Imperfection: The Case of the Labor Market," in Gahlen, Hesse and Ramser, (eds.) Unvollkommenheiten auf den Arbeits- und Produktmärkten Tübingen: J.C.B. Mohr, 1993.

"Labor Mobility and German Integration: Some Vignettes," (with C. Wyplosz), in H. Siebert, ed., The Transformation of Socialist Economies, J.C.B. Mohr, Tübingen 1992.

"Labor and Product Markets in Czechoslovakia and the Ex-GDR: A Twin Study," European Economy, July 1991.

"Capital Flows and the Reconstruction of Eastern Europe: The Case of the GDR after the Staatsvertrag," in H. Siebert, ed., Capital Flows in the World Economy Tübingen: J.C.B. Mohr, 1991.

"Les Conséquences de l'Union Economique et Monétaire de l'Allemagne," Revue de l'OFCE, October 1990, and in Fitoussi, ed. A l'Est, En Europe, Fondation Nationale de Science Politique, 1990.

"Structural Change, Unemployment Benefits and High Unemployment: A US-European Comparison," in C. Neubourg, ed., The Art of Full Employment, North Holland, 1992.

"Is Mismatch Really the Problem? Estimates of the Chelwood Gate II Model with US Data," in C. Bean and J. Dreze, (eds) Europe's Unemployment Problem, MIT Press 1991.


C. Books and Monographs

Macroeconomics: A European Text, Oxford, Oxford University Press (with C. Wyplosz), third edition, published in November 2001. Wyplosz). Second edition published in 1997. Translations published in French (deBoeck), German (Franz-Vahlen-Verlag), Italian (il Mulino), Spanish (Ariel), and Polish (Pan’stwowe Wydawnictwo Economiczne), Russian (Sodenie), and Ukranian (Ochobi), Korean, Romanian and Serbian editions forthcoming or under negotiation.

Mediating the Transformation: Labour Markets in Central and Eastern Europe EPI Report Number 4 (with Tito Boeri and Janos Köllõ) London: Centre for Economic Policy Research, 1998.

Essays on the Rise of Unemployment in Europe, doctoral dissertation, Harvard University, May 1987.


D. Comments and Book Reviews

Comment on Berthold and Fehn, "Labor Market Policy in the New Economy,” in Siebert, H. (ed.) Economic Policy in the New Economy Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2001, forthcoming.

Comment on Lorz, "How to Improve Locational Competitiveness," in Siebert, H. (ed.) Globalization and Labor Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 1999, 269-272.

Comment on Abraham and Kertesi, "Regional Unemployment Rate Differentials in Hungary, 1990-1995: The Changing Role of Race and Human Capital," in L. Halpern and C. Wyplosz, (eds.) Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998.

Comment on Fitzenberger und Franz, "Flexibilität der qualifikatorischen Lohnstruktur und Lasterverteilung der Arbeitslosigkeit: Eine ökonometrische Analyse für Westdeutschland," in B. Gahlen, H. Hesse, and H.-J. Ramser, eds., Verteilungsprobleme der Gegenwart: Diagnose und Therapie, Tübingen: J.C.B. Mohr, 1998.

Review of Dluhosch, Freytag and Krüger, International Competitiveness and the Balance of Payments for Economic Journal 1997.

Comment on Jackman, "EU Labour Markets Inside and Outside the Monetary Union," in P. Welfens, ed., European Monetary Union: Transition, International Impact and Policy Options Berlin: Springer-Verlag, 1997.

Comment on Millard and Mortensen, "The Unemployment and Welfare Effects of Labour Market Policy: A Comparison of the USA and the UK," in D.Snower and G. de la Dehesa, Unemployment Policy: Government Options for the Labour Market, CEPR, 1997.

Comment on Terrell, Lubyova, and Strapec, "Evidence on the Implementation and Effectiveness of Active and Passive Labour Market Policies in the Slovak Republic," in OECD, Lessons from Labour Market Policies in the Transition Countries, Paris: OECD, 1996.

Comment on Franz, "Theoretische Ansätze zur Erklärung der Arbeitslosigkeit: Wo stehen wir 1995?" in B. Gahlen, H. Hesse, and H.-J. Ramser, eds., Europäische Integrationsprobleme aus wirtschaftswissenschaftlicher Sicht, Tübingen: J.C.B. Mohr, 1996.

Review of Chernyshev (ed). Labour Statistics for a Market Economy Central European University Press, 1994 in: Economics of Transition 4 (1) 1996, p.225.

Review of Siebert (ed.), Overcoming the Transformation Crisis Tübingen: J.C.B. Mohr, 1995 in: Zeitschrift für Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaften.

Comment on Bartolini, Razin and Symansky, "G7 Fiscal Restructuring in the 1990s: Macroeconomic Effects," Economic Policy 20, April 1995.

Comment on Boeri and Scarpetta, "Emerging Regional Labour Market Dynamics in Central and Eastern Europe," The Regional Dimension of Unemployment in Transition Countries, OECD 1995.

Comment on Fitzenberger and Franz, "Dezentrale versus zentrale Lohnbildung in Europa: theoretische Aspekte und empirische Evidenz," in B. Gahlen, H. Hesse, and H.-J. Ramser, eds., Europäische Integrationsprobleme aus wirtschaftswissenschaftlicher Sicht, Tübingen: J.C.B. Mohr, 1994.

Comment on Blanchard, Commander and Coricelli "Unemployment and the Labour Market in Eastern Europe," in Boeri, ed Unemployment in Transition Countries: Transient or Permanent? Paris: OECD 1994.

Review of Portes, (ed.) The Economic Transformation of Europe: A Progress Report, in: The Economics of Transition 1 (4), 504-506.

Review of Kolodko, et al. Hyperinflation and Stabilization in Postsocialist Economies, in Zeitschrift für Nationalökonomie, 1993.

Review of Collins and Rodrick, Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union in the World Economy, Journal of International Economics, 1992.

Comment on Bolton and Roland, "The Economics of Mass Privatization," Economic Policy 16, October 1992.

Comment on Calvo and Coricelli, "Stabilizing a Previously Centrally Planned Economy: Poland 1990," Economic Policy 14, April 1992.

Comment on Bentolila and Saint-Paul, "The Macroeconomic Impact of Flexible Labor Contracts: An Application to Spain," European Economic Review, 1992.

Comment on Siebert, "German Unification: The Economics of Transition," Economic Policy 14, October 1991.

Comment on Hussein and Stern, "Effective Demand, Enterprise Reforms and Public Finance in China," Economic Policy 13, April 1991.

Comment on Freeman, "Labor Market Tightness and the Declining Economic Position of Less-Educated Male Workers in the United States," in Padoa-Schioppa ed., Mismatch and Labor Mobility, Cambridge University Press, 1991.


E. Other publications

“Die deutsche Volkswirtschaftslehre krankt an der Angst vor Zahlen” (with J. Komlos) Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, February 6, 2001, p.18.

“Ein titanischer Konflikt zwischen der gerechten Verteilung und der Effizienz,“ Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, October 2, 2000, p.21.

"The Eastward March of Europe's Jobless," European Brief 2 (March 1995), 23-24.

"Un Déficit Productif," Figaro, April 7-8 1990.

"Des Faits Nouveaux sur le Chômage," Figaro, 29 January 1989.

"Le Déficit Extérieur Américain: Interprétations et Perspectives," Observations et diagnostics économiques (lettre de l'OFCE) n° 72, 23 February 1990.

"The Wild, Wild East," New York Times, 23 June 1990.

"East Germany: Wild West Days in the Market Place," International Herald Tribune, 26 June 1990.

"Wenig Attraktiv," Wirtschaftswoche, 3 June 1988, 103-104.

"A Crisis of Choice: a German-American Perspective on Unemployment in the Federal Republic," German Politics and Society (June 1986), 21-25.


F. Unpublished Working Papers and Work in Progress

“Notes on the Dynamics of Factor Mobility and Regional Economic Integration,”
mimeo November 2001.

"Preferences for Rigid Wages and Job Protection in Equilibrium Unemployment,”
(with T.Boeri) November 2001.

“The Role of Market Size and Fragmentation in Regional Integration: Is it all Factor Proportions?” (with B. Dluhosch), mimeo, August 2001.

"Production Fragmentation and Labor Market Outcomes in an Integrated Economy" (with B. Dluhosch), mimeo, December 2000.

"Blue Laws" (with P. Weil), May 2000.

"Employment Duration and Resistance to Wage Reductions: Experimental Evidence" (with Werner Güth, Georg Kirchsteiger, Harald Uhlig), June 1998. (HU Discussion Paper No. 121)

"Trade Unions, Wages and Structural Adjustment in the New German States," (with Michael Funke) Center for Economic Studies Working Paper No. 15 (June 1992, revised July 1996)

"Unions and Wage Insurance," CEPR Discussion Paper No. 1232 (August 1995).

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