Nezih Guner

 

Director and Professor of Economics at CEMFI

Banco de España-CEMFI Research Associate

ICREA Research Professor (on leave)

 

            E-mail: nezih.guner[AT]cemfi.es

 

Publications           CV


 

Recent Publications

 

Labor Market Power and Development (with Tristany Armangué-Jubert and Alessandro Ruggieri), June 2025, American Economic Review-Insights 7(2):  177–95.     Online Appendix       Slides

 

Does the Added Worker Effect Matter?  (with Yuliya Kulikova and Arnau Valladares-Esteban), April 2025, Review of Economic Dynamics 56, 101271     Online Appendix

 

Labor Market Institutions and Fertility (with Ezgi Kaya and Virginia Sánchez Marcos), August 2024, International Economic Review 65(3): 1151-1587.    Online Appendix    Slides

 

Nada es Gratis (in Spanish)

 

Rethinking the Welfare State (with Remzi Kaygusuz and Gustavo Ventura), November 2023, Econometrica 91(6): 2261-2294.    Online Appendix    Slides

 

Video of Pierre Werner Chair Lecture by Nezih Guner, 17 March 2021

 

Read Le Monde Features

 

The Looming Fiscal Reckoning: Tax Distortions, Top Earners, and Revenues (with Martin Lopez-Daneri and Gustavo Ventura), October 2023, Review of Economic Dynamics 50: 146-170.   Slides

 

               Special Issue of Review of Economic Dynamics in Memory of Tom Cooley

              

               Introduction to Special Issue (with Jeremy Greenwood and Lee Ohanian)         

 

Working Papers

 

Optimal Spatial Taxation: Are Big Cities Too Small? (with Jan Eeckhout), August 2025. R&R Journal of European Economic Association. New Version! BSE Focus

 

The Role of Friends in the Opioid Epidemic (with Effrosyni Adamopoulou, Jeremy Greenwood, and Karen Kopecky), August 2025. New Version!     CEPR DP18803      NBER WP32032

 

Read Peter Coy, NYtimes

 

Family-Friendly Policies and Fertility: What Firms Got to Do with It (with Olympia Bover, Yuliya Kulikova, Alessandro Ruggieri, and Carlos Sanz), July 2025.           CEPR DP20411   VOXEU

 

March 2025 Worshop on “Households in the 21st Century: Marriage, Fertility and Challenges for Public Policies”                        Program              Presentations

 

Opioids and Post-COVID Labor Force Participation (with Francesco Chiocchio, Jeremy Greenwood, and Karen A. Kopecky), May 2025.          CEPR DP20412                   NBER WP33717

 

The Downward Spiral: A Macroeconomic Analysis of the Opioid Crisis (with Jeremy Greenwood and Karen Kopecky), May 2025.       CEPR DP17033             NBER WP29764

 

Means-Tested Transfers in the US: Facts and Parametric Estimates (with Christopher Rauh and Gustavo Ventura), December 2024. R&R Review of Economic Dynamics. CEPR DP19801

 

Demographic Transitions across Time and Space (with Matthew J. Delventhal and Jesus Fernandez-Villaverde), July 2024.  R&R Journal of Political Economy – Macro.   CEPR DP16708     NBER WP29480

 

Check the interactive webpage where you can access our data on demographic transitions HERE!

 

Segregation and Sorting of U.S. Households: Who Marries Whom and Where?  (with Davide Alonzo and Claudio Luccioletti and ), November 2023.

 

Misallocation and Inequality (with Alessandro Ruggieri), May 2023. R&R American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics.           CEPR DP17113

 

Incarceration, Unemployment, and the Racial Marriage Divide (Elizabeth Caucutt and Christopher Rauh), November 2021. R&R Review of Economic Studies.           BSE Focus           VOXEU