Dr Jan Grobovšek
Lecturer
Address
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Room 2.10
31 Buccleuch Place - City
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Availability
Office Hour:
Tuesday, 14.00 - 15.00 (digitally via Microsoft Teams)
Background
Jan Grobovšek completed his undergraduate studies at Université Paris Dauphine and obtained his PhD in Economics from Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona.
His research area is macroeconomics with a particular focus on economic growth and development. He uses general equilibrium models to measure the extent to which cross-country productivity differences can be explained by policies, institutions, technologies, and structural transformation.
Research summary
Macroeconomics
Economic Growth
Current research interests
Development Accounting with Intermediate Goods (2011); Managerial Delegation and Aggregate Productivity (2012); Job-Embodied Growth and the Decline of Job Tenure (2012, joint with Tomaz Cajner)Project activity
Jan Grobovšek is the PI on the ESRC-DFID grant entitled “Agricultural Misallocation, Occupational Choice and Aggregate Productivity – The Role of Insecure Land Rights and Missing Financial Markets”.
The project started on the 1st of September 2014 and is funded for 3 years.
Total value is £387,943.
Dr. Charles Gottlieb (University of St Gallen) and Prof. Philipp Kircher (University of Edinburgh) are the Co-Is.
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Working from home in developing countries
In:
European Economic Review, vol. 133
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.euroecorev.2021.103679
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
Lockdown accounting
(14 pages)
In:
B.E. Journal of Macroeconomics
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/bejm-2020-0251
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (E-pub ahead of print) -
Managerial delegation, law enforcement, and aggregate productivity
(33 pages)
In:
The Review of Economic Studies, vol. 87, pp. 2256–2289
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/restud/rdaa025
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
Working from home across countries
(21 pages)
Research output: › Working paper (Published) -
Communal land and agricultural productivity
In:
Journal of Development Economics, vol. 138, pp. 135-152
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jdeveco.2018.11.001
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published)