Christian Merkl

Research Fellow

University of Erlangen-Nuremberg

christian.merkl@fau.de

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Research Interests

Christian Merkl is professor of macroeconomics at the Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nürnberg and research professor at the Institute for Employment Research. From 2007 to 2010 he was assistant professor at the Christian Albrechts University, Kiel, and the head of the research group Monetary Policy at the Kiel Institute for the World Economy. He obtained his PhD from the University of Kiel in May 2007. He joined IZA as a Research Fellow in September 2007. Christian Merkl's research interests include labor economics, macroeconomics and the intersection of the two fields.

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IZA Publications

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4403

They Are Even Larger! More (on) Puzzling Labor Market Volatilities

Hermann Gartner, Christian Merkl, Thomas Rothe

revised version published as 'Sclerosis and Large Volatilities: Two Sides of the Same Coin' in: Economics Letters, 2012, 117 (1), 106–109

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4322

Labor Turnover Costs, Workers' Heterogeneity, and Optimal Monetary Policy

Ester Faia, Wolfgang Lechthaler, Christian Merkl

revised version published as 'Labor Selection, Turnover Costs and Optimal Monetary Policy' in: Journal of Money, Credit, and Banking, 2014, 46 (1), 115–144

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4145

An Incentive Theory of Matching

Alessio J. G. Brown, Christian Merkl, Dennis J. Snower

published in: Macroeconomic Dynamics, 2015, 19 (3), 643-668

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3681

Escaping the Unemployment Trap: The Case of East Germany

Christian Merkl, Dennis J. Snower

published in: Journal of Comparative Economics, 2008, 36 (4), 542-556

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3513

Monetary Persistence and the Labor Market: A New Perspective

Wolfgang Lechthaler, Christian Merkl, Dennis J. Snower

substantially revised version published in: Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, 2010, 34 (5), 968-983