Externally funded research projects

• Robust Econometric Methods in Empirical and Quantitative Finance

  Risk and returns on financial assets are key areas of interest in both academics and applied quantitative finance. In order to empirically assess risk and returns on assets, one should be aware of the well-documented … »

• Crisis management in Danish companies

  Apart from being a major health crisis, the Corona crisis is the largest negative shock we have seen to business the last 100 years. We map the consequence through a 2 part survey sent out to all active firms in Danish … »

• The Impact of Inequality on Growth, Human Development and Governance @EQUAL

  A significant empirical literature in economics and political science explores the impact of inequality on major economic and political outcomes, in particular economic growth, human development and governance. While the … »

• Determining the Impact of Religion on the Gender Gap and Conflict Using Natural Experiments

  Introducing religion into macroeconomics is new and might lead to a leap forward in our understanding of socio-economic differences across the globe. … »

• Enhancing the Effectiveness of Vocational Education in Vietnam

  Is it possible to make technical and vocational education and training (TVET) more effective and responsive to the needs of enterprises, learners and the labour market in Vietnam? DERG and the Institute of Labour Science … »

• Skill Formation in the Labor Market for Physicians

  We spend 10% of our GDP on health care. For this amount, the objective is to maintain a healthy population, and provide equal access to quality health care regardless where we live. Our physicians are at the center of … »

• Labor Market effects of Automation, Offshoring and Multinationals

  Labor markets in Denmark and other advanced countries are being reshaped in fundamental ways by structural change. In particular two factors appear to play important roles: Automation and internationalization of firms. … »

• 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 … »

• Economic Development and Institutions (EDI) - Mozambique Institutional Diagnostic Tool

  There has been increasing awareness of how important institutions are for countries to grow and develop. The Economic Development & Institutions (EDI) research project aims to gather evidence on how to achieve positive … »

• Antibiotic Resistance

  Socio-Economic Determinants and the Role of Information and Salience in Treatment Choice (ABRSEIST) Antibiotics have contributed to a tremendous increase in human well-being, saving many millions of lives. However, … »

• 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 … »

• 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. … »

• CEBI Center of Excellence: Economic Behavior and Inequality

  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 … »

• 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 … »

• Behavioral Economics and Labor Market Performance

  With new insights from psychology and behavioral economics we will improve labor market prospects of individuals. … »

• Towards Inclusive Development in Myanmar

  This project owned by the Myanmar Central Statistical Organization (CSO) and funded by Danida is implemented with technical and organisational support from DERG under two contracts with UNU-WIDER. The project period is … »

• Towards Inclusive Economic Development in Southern Africa

  This large UNU-WIDER project covering six work streams is implemented during 2017-20 with technical and organisational support from two DERG staff (Professors Finn Tarp and John Rand). Funding originates from South … »

• 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 … »

• Growth and Development in Tanzania

  The Growth and Development Research Project in Tanzania (GDRP) is a collaborative project between the Department of Economics (DoE) of University of Dar es Salaam and DERG with funding from the Embassy of Denmark in … »

• 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 … »

• Inclusive Growth in Mozambique - Scaling-Up Research and Capacity

  This project builds on several decades of DERG work in Mozambique. The present activities planned until the end of 2020 are implemented in a programme jointly with UNU-WIDER, the Mozambican Ministry of Economy and … »