Externally funded research projects

• Inside the black box of treatment exposure

  Early-life policies have long-run impacts. While most research relates individuals' outcomes to program availability, intention-to-treat analyses do not speak to the effects at the intensive margin, the role of parental … »

• Who influcences child health?

  This project contributes novel insights on how health care professionals—general practitioners —affect children’s healthcare and outcomes. What are the impacts of physician characteristics and treatment styles on … »

• ORIGENDER: The Origen of Gender Inequality

  Women continue to earn significantly less than men. This is true even in Scandinavia, a region long considered a forerunner in offering better opportunities for women to balance career and family. However, in recent … »

• Building Resilience to Climate Change in Ethiopia

  We will compare and evaluate the drivers of resilience to climate change examining actions taken at the household and village/district level. Moreover, we will analyse the effects of large-scale interventions, including … »

• Reintegration Through Active Labour Market Reforms (REALM)

  Myanmar is in a historical political, economic and social transition. A key element to ensure inclusive development in the transition is a well-functioning labour market. Recognizing this, the Government of Myanmar has … »

• Precision diagnostics and predictions in ischemic heart disease including identificatin over over-treated patients

  Globally, the leading cause of years of life lost is ischemic heart disease (IHD). In the EU 13.2 mio. patients are diagnosed with IHD of these 700,000 live in the Nordic countries. IHD causes chest pain, myocardial … »

• Scarcity Strategies for Product Launch - Influencing Observational Learning

  Under what circumstances do sellers have a strategic incentive to create shortages intentionally, so as to increase demand for their products? … »

• Dynamic effects of public expenditures

  It is the ambition to provide the first actual steps towards inclusion of dynamic effects in analyses of welfare consequences of various policy initiatives.The development of a structural dynamic general equilibrium … »

• A GREEN NET NATIONAL PRODUCT FOR DENMARK and THE GREEN REFORM MODEL

  Peter Birch Sørensen is lead in the Danish effort to reform economic structures to include also the value of environmental and ecosystem services. The Carlsberg Foundation supports his work with funds for to related … »

• Price-setting in an Evolving Inflationary Environment

  How have firms have adapted their price-setting strategies in the aftermath of the Great Recession? … »

• The Heterogeneous Costs of Exchange Rate Fluctuations

  How do different exchange rate regime impact households in different income groups? … »

• GEM: Generalised Entropy Models for Spatial Choices

  Mogens Fosgerau has been granted the prestigious Advanced Grant from the European Research Council to develop a new paradigm for statistical models for agent's choices in spatial settings. … »

• Behavioral responses to health innovations and the consequences for socioeconomic outcomes

  The growing gap in health is a challenge for society that this research team will shed light on over the next 4 years … »

• LODALORD: Local Diversity and Long-Run Development

  The project will deliver the first within-country long-run investigations involving local and individual population diversity. … »

• Theory of the “Bootstrap” in Econometric Models with Time Varying Volatility

  Anders Rahbek will provide econometric theory for new innovative bootstrap schemes applied to key econometric models with timevarying volatility. … »

• Personalization and the dynamics of online search

  Christoph Schotmüller develops dynamic models capturing essential featurs of the search engine market … »

• New Center of Excellence: Economic Behavior and Inequality (CEBI)

  DKK 57 mill to Claus Thustrup Kreiner, Søren Leth-Petersen, and David Dreyer Lassen from The Danish National Research Foundation. … »

• Governance in Unlisted Danish Companies

  The project 'Governance in Unlisted Danish Companies' aims to develop new knowledge on the economic impact of the different management models in SMEs. As part of the project we will share the newly obtained knowledge in … »

• Behavioral Economics, Nudging, and Labor Market Performance

  We exploit new insights from psychology and behavioral economics to improve labor market prospects of individuals, functioning of labor market policy and overall labor market performance. … »

• EARN: Economic Assimilation Research Network

  Migration towards Europe has surged over the last couple of years. A large number has fled the war in Syria and others have left their home country hoping to create a better life for themselves and their children in … »

• FAMBUSS: The Impact of Family Assets on Corporate Structures and Outcomes

  What is the relationship between family contributions and innovation? Does a family firm have a different internal organization? Is there a link between family values and leadership style? These are major research … »

• Lessons from Big Data on Consumer Finances

  Household consumption is key to understanding central economic questions about business cycles, inequality and economic growth; however, its measurement remains a major challenge. … »

• Flexible Work and Wealth

  Making people work longer and save more for retirement is a key policy objective. With this project Søren Leth-Petersen and his collaborators aim to understand how savings and benefit policies impact wealth accumulation … »

• Human Capital, Education and the Global Economy

  The purpose of this project is to advance our understanding of how the value of education is affected in the global economy. Principal investigator, Jakob Roland Munch explains: "We propose to build the first dataset on … »

• Mismatch, matching and the allocation of workers to jobs

  This project aims to make the next big push in the understanding of labor market matching by exploiting the Danish administrative data and a novel data source on job vacancies. Daniel le Maire is principal investigatoer. … »

• Drought shocks, food shortage and child height

  In Africa, 56 million children are undernourished, and the number is increasing. Being undernourished early in life makes them likely to do worse in school and to become less productive in adulthood. … »

• Dynamic Aspects of Competition: Optimal Regulation of the Pharmaceutical Market

  The market for prescription drugs is one of the most heavily regulated markets. In this empirical project, Anders Munk-Nielsen will create new knowledge on the pros and cons of this regulation … »

• Taxation of Transactions in Imperfect Financial Markets

  With this research project Peter Norman Sørensen combines models and insights from two fields of Economics to study the rationale for a small tax on transactions in financial markets … »

• Effective interventions for children in out-of-home care: Explaining the impact of decisions and types of treatment

  This study aims at improving our knowledge base significantly, not only by measuring the absolute and relative effects of out-of-home care interventions, but also by offering an explanatory framework for understanding … »

• The Development of Non-Standard Preferences

  Are economic preferences an innate and specific characteristic of each human being or are they learnt through socialization? This fundamental question on nature or nurture has attracted the attention of developmental … »

• Consumption and Labor Market Supply of Couples over the Life Cycle

  The effect of the policies aimed at individuals will often be determined by a household decision process. This project takes the underlying economic theory on household behavior seriously and uses it to empirically … »

• Tax havens under the microscope

  Household wealth hidden in tax havens is a major policy concern, but the lack of reliable data severely constrains research. With existing macro-level data sources, it is impossible to give compelling answers to the … »