Dr. Jürgen Antony

Phone: +31 (0)70 3383-451

Email: juergen.antony@wiwi.uni-augsburg.de

Publications

Growth and productivity

Firm Heterogeneity, Credit Constraints, and Endogenous Growth (with Torben Klarl and Alfred Maußner). Journal of Economics, accepted for publication.
Technology Flows between Sectors and their Impact on Large-Scale Firms (with Thomas Grebel). Applied Economics, forthcoming.
A Note on an Extension of a Class of Solutions to Dynamic Programming Problems arising in Economic Growth (with Alfred Maußner). Macroeconomic Dynamics, forthcoming.
Non-Renewable Resources, Endogenous Technical Change, and Sustainable Growth. International Journal of Sustainable Economy, 2, 2010, 365-381.
Scale Effects and Labor Productivity. Dissertation, University of Augsburg, 2006 (pdf).

Production theory

A Normalized Spence-Dixit-Stiglitz Index. Applied Economics Research Bulletin,, forthcoming.
A Class of Changing Elasticity of Substitution Production Functions. Journal of Economics, 100, 2010, 165-183.
Capital/Labor Substitution, Capital Deepening, and FDI. Journal of Macroeconomics, 31, 2009, 699-707.
A Dual Elasticity of Substitution Production Function with an Application to Cross Country Inequality. Economics Letters, 102, 2009, 10-12.
Comment on James Smith: That Elusive Elasicity and the Ubiquitous Bias: Is Panel Data a Panacea? Journal of Macroeconomics, 30, 2008, 780-782.

Miscellaneous

Zur Gültigkeit der Abschreckung im Sinne der ökonomischen Theorie der Kriminalität: Grundzüge einer Meta-Studie (with Horst Entorf), in: H.-J. Albrecht und H. Entorf (eds): Kriminalität, Ökonomie und Europäischer Sozialstaat. Physica, Heidelberg, 2003.

Conference contributions

Directed Sector and Skill-Specific Technological Change: The Development of Wages for the High and Low Skilled. EEA 2003 Stockholm, 20.-24. August 2002.
Scale Effects, Inequality, and Unemployment in a Growth Model. Economic Growth and Distribution: On the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, Lucca 16.-18.6.2004 and Workshop of the Herbert Giersch Stiftung, Magdeburg 27.-29.10.2004
Weak Scale Effects in Growth Models. EEA 2005, 24.-27.8.2005 Amsterdam, and anual meeting of the Verein für Socialpolitik (German Economic Association), 27.-30.9.2005 Bonn.
Diffusion of Scale Effects between European and US Regions. EEA 2006, 24.-28.8.2006 Wien, and 2nd German Macro Workshop, 21./22.7.2006 Frankfurt/Main.
Comment on "The Elusive Elasticity and the ubiquitous Bias: Is Panal Data a Panacea?" by James Smith. CES Conference, 20.-22.10.2006 Eltville.
New Combinations and Growth. EEA 2007, 27.-31.8.2007 Budapest, and anual meeting of the Verein für Socialpolitik (German Economic Association, 9.-12.10.2007 München.
Technology Flows between Sectors and their Impact on Large-Scale Firms (mit T. Grebel). EARIE, 4.-6.9.2008 Toulouse, und EEA, 27.-31.8.2008 Mailand.
Capital/Labor Substitution, Capital Deepening, and FDI. Jahrestagung des Verein für Socialpolitik,23.-26.9.2008 Graz.
A Class of Changing Elasticity of Substitution Production Functions. Jahrestagung des Verein für Socialpolitik, 8.-11.9.2009 Magdeburg.
Firm Heterogeneity, Credit Constraints, and Endogenous Growth (with Torben Klarl and Alfred Maußner). DEGIT XV, 3.-4.9.2010 Frankfurt/Main.

Research interests

Substitutability of Capital and Labor
Production Theory
Endogenous Growth
Financial Markets
Wages and technical Change

curriculum vitae

1993 - 1995 Deutsche Bank AG Augsburg
1995 - 2000 Student of Economics at the Universities of Regensburg and Maastricht
2001 - 2002 Reasearch assistant at Darmstadt University of Technology - Chair of Prof. Dr. Horst Entorf
2002 - 2006 Research assistant - Chair of Prof. Dr. Alfred Maußner
August 2006: Dissertation in economics (Dr. rer. pol., comparable to Ph.D. in economics). Thesis on "Scale Effects and Labor Productivity".
2006 - 2008 Post-doc - Chair of Prof. Dr. Alfred Maußner
since 2008 CPB Netherlands Bureau for Economic Policy Analysis