JULIEN PRAT CREST Phone: +33 (0)1 41 17 60 81 15 Boulevard Gabriel Peri Email: [email protected] 92245 Malakoff Cedex, France Web: http://prat.iae-csic.org Personal Details Date of Birth September 9, 1974 Citizenship French Language Skills French; English; Italian; Spanish; German Academic Positions 2012-present Research Scientist (CNRS), CREST, Paris, France 2009-present Tenured Scientist, Institute for Economic Analysis, CSIC, Barcelona, Spain 2008-2009 Visiting Scholar, New York University, Department of Economics, USA 2004-2008 Assistant Professor, University of Vienna, Department of Economics, Austria 2004 Spring Lecturer, Ajou University, Business School, South-Korea Affiliations 2011-present Research Affiliate, Ifo Institute, Center for Economic Studies (CESifo) 2009-present Research Affiliate, Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (BGSE) 2009-present Research Affiliate, Center for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) 2004-present Research Affiliate, Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) Education 2004 Sept. Ph.D. in Economics, European University Institute, Florence: • Supervisor: Giuseppe Bertola • Thesis Committee: Samuel Bentolila, Omar Licandro, Christopher Pissarides 2002 Exchange Student, New York University, Economics Department, New York 2000 Master of Arts in Economics, EHESS, Delta, Paris 2000 Magistère in Economics, Sorbonne University, Paris I 1997 Master of Arts in Philosophy, Sorbonne University, Paris I 1996 Bachelor of Sciences in Logic, Sorbonne University, Paris I Updated January 2014 Julien Prat Fields of Interest Macroeconomics, Labor Economics, International Trade, Contract Theory Publications Articles in refereed journals 1. “Dynamic Incentive Contracts when Agent’s Quality is Unknown”, with Boyan Jovanovic, Forthcoming in Theoretical Economics 2. “Efficiency Gains from Trade and Labor Market Outcomes” with Gabriel Felbermayr, Nordic Economic Policy Review, 2013, Vol. 1, pp. 45-72 3. “Job Market Signaling and Employer Learning”, with Carlos Alós-Ferrer, Journal of Economic Theory, September 2012, Vol. 147 (5), pp. 1787-1817 4. “Trade and Unemployment: What Do the Data Say”, with Gabriel Felbermayr and Hans- Jörg Schmerer, European Economic Review, August 2011, Vol. 55 (6), pp. 741-758 5. “Product Market Regulation, Firm Selection and Unemployment”, with Gabriel Felbermayr, Journal of the European Economic Association, April 2011, Vol. 9 (2), pp. 278-318 6. “Globalization and Labor Market Outcomes: Wage Bargaining, Search Frictions and Firm Heterogeneity”, with Gabriel Felbermayr and Hans-Jörg Schmerer, Journal of Economic Theory, January 2011, Vol. 146 (1), pp. 39-73 7. “The Rate of Learning-by-doing: Estimates from a Search-matching Model”, Journal of Applied Econometrics, September 2010, Vol. 25 (6), pp. 929-962 Co-winner of the 2012 Richard Stone Prize in Applied Econometrics 8. “Employment Protection, Product Market Regulation and Firm Selection”, with Winfried Koeniger, Economic Journal, June 2007, Vol. 117, F302–F332 9. “The Impact of Disembodied Technological Progress on Unemployment”, Review of Economic Dynamics, January 2007, Vol. 10 (1), pp. 106-125 10. “Job Separation under Uncertainty and the Wage Distribution”, Contributions to Macroeconomics, January 2006, Vol. 6 (1), Article 2 11. “Increasing Optimism and Demand Uncertainty”, Economics Bulletin, June 2005, Vol. 12 (10), pp. 1-8 Working Papers 1. “Dynamic Contracts and Human Capital Accumulation”, January 2014 2. “Directed Search and Residual Inequality in Open Economies”, with Gabriel Felbermayr and Giammario Impullitti, January 2014 Updated January 2014 Julien Prat Awards and Grants 2013 CNRS Excellence in Science Award 2012 Richard Stone Prize in Applied Econometrics 2008 Schrödinger Grant 2008 First Prize of the Bank Austria Research Award 2007 Austrian Young Economist Award 2007 Graf Hardegg grant 2002-2004 Doctoral fellowship, European University Institute 2002 European University Institute Scholarship for exchange at NYU 2000-2002 Lavoisier Grant, French Foreign Office 1999-2000 Grant of the Paris education authority Professional Activities Organizer: CREST Internal Seminar in Macroeconomics, 2012, 2013; Bellaterra Macroeconomics Seminar series, 2010, 2011, 2012; VI REDg Workshop, 2011; Workshop on “Industry and Labor Market Dynamics”, 2011 Program Committee: Simposio de la Asociación Española de Economía, 2010, 2011, 2012 Referee for American Economic Review, Annales d’Economie et de Statistique, B.E. Journal in Macroeconomics, B.E. Journal in Theoretical Economics, B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy, Canadian Journal of Economics, Econometrica, Economic Inquiry, Economic Journal, Economica, European Economic Review, European Journal of Comparative Economics, Games, International Economic Review, International Economics and Economic Policy, International Game Theory Review, Journal of Applied Econometrics, Journal of Applied Economics, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, Journal of Economic Theory, , Journal of Economics, Journal of International Economics, Journal of Labor Economics, Journal of Macroeconomics, Journal of Population Economics, Journal of Public Economic Theory, Labour: Review of Labour Economics and Industrial Relations, Labour Economics, Macroeconomic Dynamics, Oxford Economic Papers, Quarterly Journal of Economics, Regional Science and Urban Economics, Review of Economic Dynamics, Review of Economic Studies, Review of World Economics, Scandinavian Journal of Economics, Scottish Journal of Political Economy Teaching Fall 2013/14 Macroeconomics I, ENSAE, France Spring 2012 Labor Economics, Masters course, BGSE, Spain Fall 2009/10/11 Labor Economics, Graduate course, University Autònoma Barcelona, Spain Fall 2007 Growth Theory, University of Vienna, Austria Spring 2005/6/7/8 Labor Economics, University of Vienna, Austria Fall 2004/5/6 Introduction to Microeconomics, BWZ, Austria Spring 2004 Advanced Corporate Finance, Ajou Business School, South-Korea Fall 2003 Graduate course in Macroeconomics (T.A.), EUI, Italy Updated January 2014 Julien Prat Selected Seminars and Conferences 2013 Lunch Seminar, Polytechnique Paris (February); Bank of France Workshop on Globalization and Labour Market Outcomes (May); Society for the Advancement of Economic Theory (SAET), Paris (June); CEPR-IZA European Summer Symposium in Labour Economics (ESSLE), Munich (September); EUI Alumni Conference, Florence (October); University of Zurich (November); University of Konstanz (December) 2012 Bank of France (March); University of Paris I Sorbonne (March); University of Barcelona (March); Uppsala University (April); Search and Matching (SAM) workshop, Mainz (April); Seminar Roy, Paris School of Economics (April); Ecole Polytechnique, Paris (April); IESE Business School, Barcelona (May); OFCE Workshop on Inequality, Paris (October); NEPR Conference, Copenhagen (November); BI Business School, Oslo (November); SAM Workshop, Rennes (December); BGSE Winter Workshop, Barcelona (December) 2011 Bank of Italy (March); Cambridge University (April); Society of Economic Dynamics (SED) st meeting, Ghent (July); 1 Econ Day at ENSAI, Rennes (September); CESifo, Munich (November); University of Paris Dauphine (November) 2010 University of Naples (April); Institute for Advanced Studies (IMT), Lucca (April); Tinbergen Institute, Amsterdam (May); THEMA-ESSEC Seminar, Cergy-Pontoise (May); University of Alicante (June); IESE Workshop on IO: Search and Matching, Barcelona (June); Institute for International Economic Studies (IIES), Stockholm (June); Uppsala Trade Workshop (June); Konstanz Search Workshop (June); CEPR-IZA European Summer Symposium in Labour Economics (ESSLE), Munich (September); Trobada meeting, Barcelona (October); ASSET conference, Alicante (October); University of Vienna (November); WiiW Institute, Vienna (November); Queen Mary University of London (November); Simposio de la Asociación Española de Economía, Madrid (December) 2009 Harvard University (February); Yale University (April); Bocconi University (November); European University Institute (November); Barcelona JOCS Seminar (November) 2008 University of Marne-la-Vallée (March); Economic Theory Seminar, Vienna (April); Wirtschaft Universität, Vienna (April); University of Quebec at Montreal (May); CEPR European Summer Symposium in International Macroeconomics (ESSIM), Tarragona (May); University of Aarhus (June); FEDEA 3rd REDg workshop, Madrid (July); Institute for Economic Analysis, Barcelona (October) 2007 Workshop in Public Policy Design, Girona (May); Austrian Economic Association (NOeG) meeting, Klagenfurt (May); Society of Economic Dynamics (SED) meeting, Prague (June); CESifo Workshop on Heterogenous Firms, Venice (July); European Economic Association (EEA) meeting, Budapest (August); University of Leicester (October) Updated January 2014 Julien Prat Selected Seminars and Conferences 2006 University of Tübingen (May); Austrian Economic Association (NOeG) meeting, Vienna (May); North American Summer meeting of Econometric Society (NAES), Minneapolis (June); Society of Economic Dynamics (SED) meeting, Vancouver (July); European Economic Association (EEA) meeting, Vienna (August); Economic Theory seminar, Vienna (October); University of Konstanz (December); IZA workshop on Frictions in the Labor Market, Bonn (December) 2005 Vienna Institute of Demographics (June); IZA workshop on Employment Protection Legislation, Bonn (November) 2003 Conference on Lumpy Investment and Technical Change, Madrid (June); European Economic Association (EEA) meeting, Stockholm (August); European Association of Labour Economists (EALE) meeting, Sevilla (September) 2002 Venice International University workshop on Economic Theory (June) Updated January 2014 .