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| Awards | Fellow of the Econometric Society Member of the Academia Europaea King Jaume I Award |
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Jan Eeckhout is a Belgian economist. He is an ICREA Research Professor at Pompeu Fabra University (UPF) and at the Barcelona School of Economics. Eeckhout is known for his research on the macroeconomic implications of market power, as well as his contributions to the economics of labor markets.[1] He served as President of the European Economic Association in 2024[2] and is a Fellow of the Econometric Society[3] and a Member of the Academia Europaea.[4]
Education
[edit | edit source]Eeckhout obtained a degree in Engineering and Economics from KU Leuven in 1992 and a Master of Arts in Economics from the University of Manchester in 1993. He earned his PhD in Economics from the London School of Economics (LSE) in 1998.[5]
Career
[edit | edit source]Eeckhout began his academic career as a Lecturer in Economics at the London School of Economics in 1996–1997. He joined the Department of Economics at Pompeu Fabra University (UPF) in 1997 and held a Marie Curie Fellowship there in 1998–1999.[4]
From 2000 to 2010 he was on the faculty of the University of Pennsylvania, where he became Associate Professor with tenure and was voted Full Professor in 2010.[6]
Between 2011 and 2019, Eeckhout was Professor of Economics at University College London. He returned to UPF as an ICREA Research Professor in 2008, a position he continues to hold,[7][8] and since 2019 he has also been a Research Professor at the Barcelona School of Economics.[9]
Professional service
[edit | edit source]Eeckhout served as president of the European Economic Association in 2024[2] and is a member of the executive committee[10] and council of the Econometric Society.[11] He is also a research fellow at the Centre for Economic Policy Research,[12] an associate researcher at the Centre de Recerca en Economia Internacional (CREI),[13] and a research associate at the Institute for Fiscal Studies.[14]
He is currently the Founding Editor of Review of Economic Studies: Insights. In the past, he has been Editor of the International Economic Review and has served on the editorial boards of the Review of Economic Dynamics,[15] the Journal of Economic Theory,[16] and the Journal of the European Economic Association. He was Chair of the European Research Council Consolidator Grant panel in 2024.[17]
Awards and honors
[edit | edit source]- King Jaume I Award, 2025[18]
- William G. Bowen Book Award, Princeton University, 2021[19]
- Fellow of the Econometric Society, elected 2019[3]
- Member of the Academia Europaea, elected 2014[4]
- Fellow of the European Economic Association, elected 2012[20]
- Kravis Award, University of Pennsylvania, 2005 and 2002[21]
Selected publications
[edit | edit source]- The Profit Paradox: How Thriving Firms Threaten the Future of Work (Princeton University Press, 2021) Translated into Spanish, Italian, Chinese, Korean, Dutch, Catalan, Persian, and Japanese.[22][23]
- “The Rise of Market Power and the Macroeconomic Implications” (with J. De Loecker and G. Unger), Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2020.
- “Gibrat’s Law for (All) Cities,” American Economic Review, 2004.
- “Global Market Power” (with J. De Loecker), National Bureau of Economic Research.
- “Spatial Sorting” (with R. Pinheiro and K. Schmidheiny), Journal of Political Economy, 2014.
- “Identifying Sorting—In Theory” (with P. Kircher), Review of Economic Studies, 2011.
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- Living people
- Belgian economists
- Labor economists
- Macroeconomists
- Academics of the London School of Economics
- University of Pennsylvania faculty
- Academics of University College London
- Academic staff of Pompeu Fabra University
- KU Leuven alumni
- Alumni of the University of Manchester
- Alumni of the London School of Economics
- Fellows of the Econometric Society
- Fellows of the European Economic Association
- Members of Academia Europaea