Prof Philipp Kircher
Honorary Professorial Fellow

Background
Philipp Kircher's research is on the interface between macro, micro and labor economics. The two areas which interest him the most are: (1) how the job search process affects the labor market in terms of efficiency, unemployment, and wages; and (2) how two-sided heterogeneity of both workers and firms affects their interaction. He also has an interest in epidemiology, combining models of individual protection with existing models of disease transmission in the context of HIV/AIDS and Covid-19.
Philipp studied economics at the University of Bonn and received his Ph.D. there in 2006. He is the Irving M. Ives Professor of Industrial and Labor Relations at Cornell and Researcher at UC Louvain, and previously held appointments at the London School of Economics, Oxford University and the University of Pennsylvania. He was managing editor and later chairman at the Review of Economic Studies, and is a fellow of the Econometric Society and the European Economic Association.
Research summary
- Macroeconomics labour
- Microeconomic Theory
- Resource Allocation in Markets with Search Frictions
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Directed search and competitive search equilibrium: A guided tour
(59 pages)
In:
Journal of Economic Literature, vol. 59, pp. 90-148
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1257/jel.20191505
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
Providing advice to jobseekers at low cost: An experimental study on online advice
In:
The Review of Economic Studies, vol. 86, pp. 1411-1447
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/restud/rdy059
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
An equilibrium model of the African HIV/AIDS epidemic
(73 pages)
In:
Econometrica, vol. 87, pp. 1081-1113
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3982/ECTA11530
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
Assortative matching with large firms
(48 pages)
In:
Econometrica, vol. 86, pp. 85-132
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3982/ECTA14450
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
The role of marriage in fighting HIV: A quantitative illustration for Malawi
(5 pages)
In:
American Economic Review, vol. 107, pp. 158-162
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1257/aer.p20171056
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published)