Almut Balleer

Professor for Applied Macroeconomics

RWI Essen and TU Dortmund

Biography

I am Co-Head of the Department of Macroeconomics and Public Ecoomics at RWI Essen and Professor for Applied Macroeconomics at TU Dortmund. Previously, I was Professor at RWTH Aachen. I am affiliated with IIES at Stockholm University, CEPR and CESifo. I also serve as research professor at the ifo Institute Munich. My research focuses on macroeconomics, in particular business cycles, labor and monetary economics. I hold a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Bonn.

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Current Research

Almut Balleer, Marvin Nöller (2023). Monetary policy in the presence of supply constraints: Evidence from German firm-level data.

Latest version CESifo WP

Almut Balleer, Georg Dürnecker, Susanne Forstner, Johannes Goensch (2023). Wage Bargaining and Labor Market Policy with Biased Expectations.

Latest version CEPR DP CESifo WP

Almut Balleer, Georg Dürnecker, Susanne Forstner, Johannes Goensch (2023). Bias in labor market expectations and wages: Evidence from German survey data.

Latest version CEPR DP CESifo WP

Almut Balleer, Georg Dürnecker, Susanne Forstner, Johannes Goensch (2022). The Effects of Biased Labor Market Expectations on Consumption, Wealth Inequality, and Welfare. revise and resubmit at American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics.

Latest version CEPR DP

Almut Balleer, Peter Zorn (2019). The Micro-level Price Response to Monetary Policy.

Latest version CEPR DP CESifo WP

Almut Balleer, Nikolay Hristov, Dominik Menno (2019). Menu costs, the price gap distribution and monetary non-neutrality: The role of financial constraints.

Latest version Online appendix CEPR DP VoxEU

Hamzeh Arabzadeh, Almut Balleer, Britta Gehrke (2019). Uncovering the mechanism(s): Financial constraints and wages.

Latest version

Almut Balleer, Chantal Tezkan (2019). Migration and Investment: A Business-Cycle Perspective.

Almut Balleer, Monika Merz, Tamas Papp (2018). Couples’ Time-Use and Aggregate Outcomes: Evidence from a Structural Model.

Recent Publications

Almut Balleer (2023). Comment on “Sectoral shocks, reallocation, and labor market policies” by Joaquín García-Cabo, Anna Lipińska, and Gastón Navarro. European Economic Review, Volume 157, 2023, 104523.

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Hamzeh Arabzadeh, Almut Balleer, Britta Gehrke (2023). Minimum wages and financial constraints in firms. European Economic Review, accepted for publication.

Latest version IZA DP 16455

Almut Balleer, Sebastian Link, Manuel Menkhoff, Peter Zorn (2022). Demand or supply? Price Adjustment During the Covid-19 Pandemic. International Journal of Central Banking, forthcoming.

Published version CEPR DP CESifo WP Covid Economics VoxEU

Almut Balleer, Morten Endrikat (2021). Air quality in welfare accounting. Macoeconomic Dynamics,27 (4), June, pp. 1019-1058.

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Almut Balleer, Britta Gehrke, Christian Merkl (2017). Some surprising facts about working time accounts and the business cycle. International Journal of Manpower, 38 (7), pp. 940-953.

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